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The World of Goods

The World of Goods

It is well-understood that the consumption of goods plays an important symbolic role in the way human beings communicate create identity and establish relationships. What is less well-known is that the pattern of their flow shapes society in fundamental ways. In this book the renowned anthropologist Mary Douglas and economist Baron Isherwood overturn arguments about consumption that rely on received economic and psychological explanations. They ask new questions about why people save why they spend what they buy and why they sometimes-but not always-make fine distinctions about quality. Instead of regarding consumption as a private means of satisfying one’s preferences they show how goods are a vital information system used by human beings to fulfill their intentions towards one another. They also consider the implications of the social role of goods for a new vision for social policy arguing that poverty is caused as much by the erosion of local communities and networks as it is by lack of possessions and contrast small-scale with large-scale consumption in the household. A radical rethinking of consumerism inequality and social capital The World of Goods is a classic of economic anthropology whose insights remain compelling and urgent. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Richard Wilk. Forget that commodities are good for eating clothing and shelter; forget their usefulness and try instead the idea that commodities are good for thinking. – Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood

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Revival: Metropolitan Income Growth and Convergence (2001)

Revival: Metropolitan Income Growth and Convergence (2001)

This title was first published in 2001. What determines urban growth? Much has been written on particular causes and incidents which can explain the rise of one metropolis and the fall of another but these do not illustrate general tendencies. This volume asks whether theories used to explain economic growth of nations or regions can be employed to find characteristics which encourage the growth of cities. Cavazos tests two principal theoretical approaches in this way. The first the endogenous growth theory predicts that incomes will diverge and sees technological innovations as the engine of economic growth. The second the neoclassical growth theory predicts conditional convergence and rates capital accumulation as the key to economic growth. He uses the two models to study US metropolitan income growth between 1970 and 1990 and compares their performance to determine which provides more insightful explanations of metropolitan growth. | Revival: Metropolitan Income Growth and Convergence (2001)

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Use Your Words Discussing Articulation

Use Your Words Discussing Articulation

To get the complete Idioms for Inclusivity experience this book can be purchased alongside four others as a set Idioms for Inclusivity: Fostering Belonging with Language 978-1-032-28635-8. Informed by sociolinguistic research yet written accessibly Use Your Words challenges readers to investigate the concept of articulation as it relates to both language-use and inclusivity. This engaging and delightfully illustrated book invites students to engage with concepts such as: the cultural meaning of the idiom use your words Linguistic Relativity a framework linguists use to research and understand how thought and language influence one another why being told to use your words can make someone feel excluded and how understanding the way language works can help us learn to be more inclusive Featuring practical inclusivity tips related to integrating learning into daily conversations this enriching curriculum supplement can be used in a Language Arts setting to learn about figurative language; in a Social Studies setting to discuss diversity equity inclusion and belonging; or as an introduction to linguistics for students ages 7-14. | Use Your Words Discussing Articulation

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Cool to be Kind How to Negotiate the World of Friendships and Relationships

Cool to be Kind How to Negotiate the World of Friendships and Relationships

For effective use this book should be purchased alongside the professional guidebook. Both books can be purchased together as a set Negotiating the World of Friendships and Relationships: A ‘Cool to be Kind’ Storybook and Practical Resource [9780367537807] This illustrated storybook introduces Coco Otto Ollie and Ling as they negotiate the sometimes tricky world of friendships and relationships observing the unkindness of some and using their superpower – kindness – to change the lives of others. Explore with them what it means to be unkind why that choice is sometimes made and how usually there is another choice – to be kind. This storybook will: Help facilitate discussions with children about values morals and empathy Support children to see that kindness can be a cool choice to make Help you to introduce children to the notion that kindness and unkindness are choices This storybook is available to purchase as part of a two-component set Negotiating the World of Friendships and Relationships: A ‘Cool to be Kind’ Storybook and Practical Resource. It can be used by teachers and support staff to teach and promote kindness to children at primary age and beyond. | Cool to be Kind How to Negotiate the World of Friendships and Relationships

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Self and Identity The Basics

Self and Identity The Basics

Self and Identity: The Basics is a jargon-free and accessible introduction that draws on key theories and ideas in Social Psychology to explore the ways that other people affect our thoughts feelings and behaviours. Highlighting selfhood as a function of identity the book shows that it is our relationships with others in our social world that largely determine who we are. Who am I? It’s a question that most all humans have grappled with at some point or another. This book seeks to answer this question through relatable examples that show how psychological theory can be applied to our own lives. It considers the philosophical and psychological context in which ideas about selfhood have developed and reviews the ways that the people around us and the groups that we belong to affect who we are. Finally these ideas are considered in the context of real-world phenomena and behaviours; for instance how we use language conflict between groups and social influence. With a glossary of key terms suggestions for further reading and chapter summaries this book is an ideal introduction for students of social psychology and related fields. It will be of interest to anyone who wants to gain social psychological insight into who they are and how others got them there. | Self and Identity The Basics

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Lollipop Logic Critical Thinking Activities (Book 3 Grades K-2)

Lollipop Logic Critical Thinking Activities (Book 3 Grades K-2)

Lollipop Logic employs visual and pictorial clues to introduce and reinforce high-powered thinking for pre-readers. Seven different thinking skills—sequences relationships analogies deduction pattern decoding inference and critical analysis—are presented in a format designed to appeal to gifted young learners. This straightforward one-of-a-kind tool gives wings to pre-readers and non-readers who are ready for a challenge but don’t yet have the reading skills for more traditional critical thinking activities. Now with full-color illustrations this beloved classic has been fully updated with refreshed activities images and text to help young learners continue to soar into the stratosphere of thinking skills far beyond their reading levels. | Lollipop Logic Critical Thinking Activities (Book 3 Grades K-2)

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Lollipop Logic Critical Thinking Activities (Book 1 Grades K-2)

Lollipop Logic Critical Thinking Activities (Book 1 Grades K-2)

Lollipop Logic employs visual and pictorial clues to introduce and reinforce high-powered thinking for pre-readers. Seven different thinking skills—relationships analogies sequences deduction inference pattern decoding and critical analysis—are presented in a format designed to appeal to gifted young learners. This straightforward one-of-a-kind tool gives wings to pre-readers and non-readers who are ready for a challenge but don’t yet have the reading skills for more traditional critical thinking activities. Now with full-color illustrations this beloved classic has been fully updated with refreshed activities images and text to help young learners continue to soar into the stratosphere of thinking skills far beyond their reading levels. | Lollipop Logic Critical Thinking Activities (Book 1 Grades K-2)

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Thinking to Some Purpose

Thinking to Some Purpose

I am convinced of the urgent need for a democratic people to think clearly without the distortions due to unconscious bias and unrecognized ignorance. Our failures in thinking are in part due to faults which we could to some extent overcome were we to see clearly how these faults arise. It is the aim of this book to make a small effort in this direction. Susan Stebbing from the Preface Despite huge advances in education knowledge and communication it can often seem we are neither well-trained nor well practised in the art of clear thinking. Our powers of reasoning and argument are less confident that they should be we frequently ignore evidence and we are all too often swayed by rhetoric rather than reason. But what can you do to think and argue better? First published in 1939 but unavailable for many years Susan Stebbing's Thinking to Some Purpose is a classic first-aid manual of how to think clearly and remains astonishingly fresh and insightful. Written against a background of the rise of dictatorships and the collapse of democracy in Europe it is packed with useful tips and insights. Stebbing offers shrewd advice on how to think critically and clearly how to spot illogical statements and slipshod thinking and how to rely on reason rather than emotion. At a time when we are again faced with serious threats to democracy and freedom of thought Stebbing’s advice remains as urgent and important as ever. This Routledge edition of Thinking to Some Purpose includes a new Foreword by Nigel Warburton and a helpful Introduction by Peter West who places Susan Stebbing’s classic book in historical and philosophical context.

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The Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642

The Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642

Dividing the nation and causing massive political change the English Civil War remains one of the most decisive and dramatic conflicts of English history. Lawrence Stone's account of the factors leading up to the deposition of Charles I in 1642 is widely regarded as a classic in the field. Brilliantly synthesising the historical political and sociological interpretations of the seventeeth century Stone explores theories of revolution and traces the social and economic change that led to this period of instability. The picture that emerges is one where historical interpretation is enriched but not determined by grand theories in the social sciences and as Stone elegantly argues one where the upheavals of the seventeenth century are central to the very story of modernity. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Clare Jackson Trinity Hall Cambridge. | The Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642

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Sondheim and Lapine's Into the Woods

Sondheim and Lapine's Into the Woods

‘The Woods are just Trees. The Trees are just Wood. ’ – All together In 1987 Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine combined several classic fairy tales including Little Red Riding Hood Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk to create Into the Woods. Funny and heartfelt this musical explores what it might mean to act responsibly in society both as a parent and as a child. Situating the work within Sondheim’s oeuvre and the Broadway canon Olaf Jubin first offers a detailed reading of the show itself before discussing key productions in New York and London and 2014’s Oscar-nominated screen adaptation. The radically different approaches to staging Into the Woods are testament to how open the musical is to re-interpretation for new audiences. A combination of critical explication with performance and film analysis as well as an overview of popular and critical reception this book is meant for anyone who has enjoyed Into the Woods be it as a musical theatre fan an enchanted audience member a student or a dedicated theatre professional. | Sondheim and Lapine's Into the Woods

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Stone Age Economics

Stone Age Economics

Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively Sahlins radically revises traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies revealing them to be the original affluent society. Sahlins examines notions of production distribution and exchange in early communities and examines the link between economics and cultural and social factors. A radical study of tribal economies domestic production for livelihood and of the submission of domestic production to the material and political demands of society at large Stone Age Economics regards the economy as a category of culture rather than behaviour in a class with politics and religion rather than rationality or prudence. Sahlins concludes controversially that the experiences of those living in subsistence economies may actually have been better healthier and more fulfilled than the millions enjoying the affluence and luxury afforded by the economics of modern industrialisation and agriculture. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by David Graeber London School of Economics.

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Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Volume 2 Durkheim Pareto Weber

Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Volume 2 Durkheim Pareto Weber

This is the second of Raymond Aron's classic two-volume survey of the sociological tradition – arguably the definitive work of its kind. Aron explores the work of three figures who profoundly shaped sociology as it entered the twentieth century: Émile Durkheim who continued Auguste Comte's quest for a science of society and a scientific validation of morality; Vilfredo Pareto the Italian neo-Machiavellian who emphasized the oligarchic or elitist character of all societies; and the German sociologist Max Weber who reflected critically on the prospects for human freedom in an age marked by bureaucratization and rationalization. Aron presents rich portraits of these three thinkers drawing out the enduring insights that remain in their work. At the same time he reflects critically on Durkheim's project for a science of society Pareto's critique of humanitarianism and Weber's tragic pessimism. Above all the book is remarkable for demonstrating Aron’s lifelong indebtedness to and divergence from the thought of Max Weber the sociologist par excellence in Aron's view. This Routledge Classics edition includes an introduction by Daniel J. Mahoney and Brian C. Anderson. | Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Volume 2 Durkheim Pareto Weber

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The Ecological Self

The Ecological Self

Environmental disasters from wildfires and vanishing species to flooding and drought have increased dramatically in recent years and debates about the environment are rarely far from the headlines. There is growing awareness that these disasters are connected – indeed that in the fabric of nature everything is interconnected. However until the publication of Freya Mathews' The Ecological Self there had been remarkably few attempts to provide a conceptual foundation for such interconnectedness that brought together philosophy and science. In this acclaimed book Mathews skilfully weaves together a thought-provoking metaphysics of the environment. She connects the ideas of the seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza with twentieth-century systems theory and Einstein’s physics to argue that the atomistic cosmology inherited from Newton gave credence to a picture of the universe as fragmented rather than as whole. Furthermore it is such faulty thinking that presents human beings as similarly disconnected and individualistic with the dire consequence that they regard nature as of purely instrumental rather than intrinsic value. She concludes by arguing for an ethics of ecological interdependence and for a basic egalitarianism among living species. A compelling and fascinating account of how we must change our thinking about the environment The Ecological Self is a classic of ecological and environmental thinking. This Routledge Classics edition includes a substantial new Introduction by the author.

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