5 Politics, Sociology eBooks

From Self to Social Relationships: An Essentially Relational Perspective on Social Motivation (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) by Martijn van Zomeren
Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce by Susan Bisom-Rapp and Malcolm Sargeant
Agents of Neoliberal Globalization: Corporate Networks, State Structures, and Trade Policy by Michael C. Dreiling and Derek Y. Darves
Exploring Complicity : Concept, Cases and Critique
Media Law and Policy in the Internet Age

*From Self to Social Relationships: An Essentially Relational Perspective on Social Motivation (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) by Martijn van Zomeren

English | 2016 | ISBN: 1107093791 | 206 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB
What is it that moves and motivates us in our lives? Martijn van Zomeren proposes social relationships are at the essence of this key question and, in a fascinating investigation into human motivation, he develops a novel and integrative psychological theory termed 'selvations theory'. The theory suggests that we are essentially relational beings that seek to regulate relationships in response to felt changes in our network of relationships (selvations). However, we need to do this in culturally appropriate ways and this is where our culturally construed self comes to be of use. From Self to Social Relationships constitutes a powerful argument about human essence, integrating major theories in and around psychology, which has strong implications for the study and practice of social motivation.

*Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce by Susan Bisom-Rapp and Malcolm Sargeant

English | 2016 | ISBN: 1107123534 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce fills a gap in the literature on discrimination and disadvantage suffered by women at work by focusing on the inadequacies of the current law and the need for a new holistic approach. Each stage of the working life cycle for women is examined with a critical consideration of how the law attempts to address the problems that inhibit women's labour force participation. By using their model of lifetime disadvantage, the authors show how the law adopts an incremental and disjointed approach to resolving the challenges, and argue that a more holistic orientation towards eliminating women's discrimination and disadvantage is required before true gender equality can be achieved. Using the concept of resilience from vulnerability theory, the authors advocate a reconfigured workplace that acknowledges yet transcends gender.

*Agents of Neoliberal Globalization: Corporate Networks, State Structures, and Trade Policy by Michael C. Dreiling and Derek Y. Darves

English | 2016 | ISBN: 1107133963 | 296 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Depictions of globalization commonly recite a story of a market unleashed, bringing Big Macs and iPhones to all corners of the world. Human society appears as a passive observer to a busy revolution of an invisible global market, paradoxically unfolding by its own energy. Sometimes, this market is thought to be unleashed by politicians working on the surface of an autonomous state. This book rejects both perspectives and provides an analytically rich alternative to conventional approaches to globalization. By the 1980s, an enduring corporate coalition advanced in nearly synonymous terms free trade, tax cuts, and deregulation. Highly networked corporate leaders and state officials worked in concert to produce the trade policy framework for neoliberal globalization. Marshalling original network data and a historical narrative, this book shows that the globalizing corporate titans of the late 1960s aligned with economic conservatives to set into motion this vision of a global free market.

*Exploring Complicity : Concept, Cases and Critique

English | 2017 | ISBN: 1786600625 | 242 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
Questions of complicity emerge within a range of academic disciplines and everyday practices. Using a wide range of case studies, this book explores the concept of and cases of complicity in an interdisciplinary context. It expands orthodox understandings of the concept by including the notion of structural complicity, revealing seemingly inconsequential, everyday forms of complicity; examining different kinds and degrees of individual and collective complicity; and introducing complicity as a lens through which to analyse and critically reflect upon social structures and relations. It also explores complicity through a series of cases emerging from a variety of academic disciplines and professional practices. Its various chapters reflect on, amongst other things, the complicity of politicians, self-proclaimed feminists, health care workers, fictional characters, social movement activists and academic defenders of torture.

*Media Law and Policy in the Internet Age

English | 2017 | ISBN: 1782257403 | 275 Pages | PDF | 1.9 MB
The Internet brings opportunity and peril for media freedom and freedom of expression. It enables new forms of publication and extends the reach of traditional publishers, but its power increases the potential damage of harmful speech and invites state regulation and censorship as well as manipulation by private and commercial interests.
In jurisdictions around the world, courts, lawmakers and regulators grapple with these contradictions and challenges in different ways with different goals in mind. The media law reforms they are adopting or considering contain crucial lessons for those forming their own responses or who seek to understand how technology is driving such rapid change in how information and opinion are distributed or restricted.
In this book, many of the world's leading authorities examine the emerging landscape of reform in nations with variable political and legal contexts. They analyse developments particularly through the prisms of defamation and media regulation, but also explore the impact of technology on privacy law and national security.
Whether as jurists, lawmakers, legal practitioners or scholars, they are at the front lines of a story of epic change in how and why the Internet is changing the nature and raising the stakes of 21st century communication and expression.