5 Politics, Sociology eBooks

Suicide: A Study in Sociology by Émile Durkheim, edited by George Simpson, translated by George Simpson, John A. Spaulding
Struggles In (Elderly) Care: A Feminist View by Hanne Marlene Dahl
The Decline of the Individual: Reconciling Autonomy with Community by Mark D. White
Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns, "Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies"
Hermann Weber Sir, Jakov Drabkin, Bernhard H Bayerlein, "Deutschland, Russland, Komintern - Dokumente (1918-1943)"

*Suicide: A Study in Sociology by Émile Durkheim, edited by George Simpson, translated by George Simpson, John A. Spaulding

English | February 1, 1997 | ISBN: 0684836327 | EPUB | 416 pages | 3 MB
A classic book about the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists.
Emile Durkheim’s Suicide addresses the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes. Written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists, this classic argues that suicide primarily results from a lack of integration of the individual into society. Suicide provides readers with an understanding of the impetus for suicide and its psychological impact on the victim, family, and society.

*Struggles In (Elderly) Care: A Feminist View by Hanne Marlene Dahl

English | 15 Oct. 2017 | ISBN: 1137577606 | 188 Pages | PDF | 1.67 MB
This book provides a critical engagement with the intensified struggles to be found within elderly care provision. Various social and political processes, including the forces of globalisation and the de-gendering of care, have changed how we might understand this national and global political concern. Emerging discourses such as neoliberalism have also reframed elderly care to increase existing tensions at the individual, national, and transnational level. Dahl argues that in order to grasp these new realities of care we need a new analytical framework that redirects us to new sites of contestation.
Dahl approaches these issues from a post-structuralist and radical feminist position, while drawing from feminist sociology, feminist political science, nursing philosophy and feminist history. In particular, Struggles In (Elderly) Care highlights how the predominantly feminist theorization of care has been dominated by a sociological bias that could be improved using insights from political science concerning concepts of power and struggle, and the importance of the state and governance.
This book will be of interest to researchers in sociology, gerontology, nursing, and feminist studies.

*The Decline of the Individual: Reconciling Autonomy with Community by Mark D. White

English | 17 Oct. 2017 | ISBN: 3319617494 | 164 Pages | PDF | 1.31 MB
This book explores the steady decline in the status of the individual in recent years and addresses common misunderstandings about the concept of individuality. Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, technology, economics, philosophy, politics, and law, White explains how and why the individual has been devalued in the eyes of scholars, government leaders, and the public. He notes that developments in science have led to doubts about our cognitive competence, while assumptions made in the humanities have led to questions about our moral competence. In this book, White goes on to argue that both of these views are mistaken and that they stem from overly simplistic ideas about how individuals make choices, however imperfectly, in their interests, which are multifaceted and complex. In response, he proposes a new way to look at individuals that preserves their essential autonomy while emphasizing their responsibility to others, inspired by the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant and the legal and political philosophy reflected in the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution. This book explains how individuality combines both rights and responsibilities, reconciles the popular yet false dichotomy between individual and society, and provides the basis for a humane and respectful civil society and government.

*Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns, "Human Rights: Concepts, Contests, Contingencies"

2001 | pages: 134 | ISBN: 0472111922 | PDF | 6,8 mb
Today the language of human rights, if not human rights themselves, is nearly universal. Human Rights brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics and help us rethink some of the basic concepts of human rights. Questions addressed in Human Rights include: Can national self-determination be reconciled with human rights? Can human rights be advanced without thwarting efforts to develop indigenous legal traditions? How are the forces of modernization associated with globalization transforming our understanding of human dignity and personal autonomy? What does it mean to talk about culture and cultural choice? Is the protection of culture and cultural choice an important value in human rights discourse? How do human rights figure in local political contests and how are those contests, in turn, shaped by the spread of capitalism and market values? What contingencies shape the implementation of human rights in societies without a strong tradition of adherence to the rule of law? What are the conditions under which human rights claims are advanced and under which nations respond to their appeal?
Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College. Thomas R. Kearns is William H. Hastie Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College.

*Hermann Weber Sir, Jakov Drabkin, Bernhard H Bayerlein, "Deutschland, Russland, Komintern - Dokumente (1918-1943)"

2014 | pages: 1848 | ISBN: 3110339765 | PDF | 6,9 mb
Dank der Archivrevolution, die diese Edition erst ermoglicht hat, erscheinen die schillernden Beziehungen von Komintern, sowjetischer Fuhrung und KPD in neuem Licht. Unter den 500 Originaldokumenten aus der anfanglich revolutionaren Zeit und der folgenden burokratischen Herrschaft des Stalinismus finden sich spektakulare Erstveroffentlichungen. Die Edition zeigt Bezuge und Perzeptionen der miteinander verbundenen Geschichten Deutschlands und Russlands und spannt einen weiten Bogen von den Zentren der europaischen Revolution in der Ara Lenins bis zum Terrorregime Stalins und seinem Pakt mit Hitler. Das aus der Deutsch-Russischen Geschichtskommission hervorgegangene Projekt leistet damit einen wertvollen Beitrag, den deutschen Kommunismus und das deutsch-sowjetische Verhaltnis systematisch und transnational zu beleuchten.