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This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a
concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining
multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around
aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and
partisanship, culture, economics, and communications. Critical
perspectives are presented as definitions for reader understanding,
with links to concepts of identity, knowledge construction, social
networks, social movements, and inequalities. With today's
intensifying concentration of wealth and corporatization, precarity
is the fate for growing numbers of the world's population.
Intersectionality as an analytic concept offers a new appreciation
of how social advantage and disadvantage accumulate, and how
constructions of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender
influence aging. The book's entries offer a bibliographic
compendium, crediting the salience of early pioneering theorists
and locating these within the cutting-edge of research (social,
behavioral, policy, and gene-environment sciences) that currently
advances our understandings of human development, trauma, and
resilience. Accompanying these foundations are theories of
resistance for advancing human rights and the dignity of
marginalized populations.
This work features an in-depth quantitative and qualitative set of
studies on family issues in early adulthood among young adults born
in Sweden of Swedish, Polish, and Turkish origins. The results are
analyzed to explore the educational attainment of Swedish young
adults of different origins, their transitions to marriage and
cohabitation, inter-ethnic partnering, and the balance between work
and family. The quantitative analyses are further enhanced by
anthropologists' examinations of transitions to adulthood by young
men and women. These analyses add depth to the survey findings, and
are the basis for creating a new understanding of the diversity
among these communities in Sweden. This integrated volume
represents the work of an interdisciplinary team of demographers,
sociologists, and anthropologists whose findings are compared to
immigration and family transitions in Sweden, Norway, and other
similar communities throughout Europe.
Why do so many Turkish migrants choose to make their fortune in
America when the proximity of Europe makes it a less costly risk?
Here Lisa DiCarlo offers us new insights into the study of identity
and migration. She draws on research and the history of the Black
Sea region going back to the early years of the modern Turkish
Republic, to explain current Turkish labor migration trends.
The forced ethnic migration between Greece and Turkey at the end
of the Ottoman Empire stripped the Black Sea region of its artisans
and merchants, weakening the economy and resulting in a trend of
migration from this area. Through extensive field research Lisa
DiCarlo reveals the kinship between Greeks and Turks originally
from the Black Sea region. She argues current transnational chain
migration from this area is led by regional identity over
ethnicity. This strong regional bond leads Turkish migrants from
the Black Sea region to follow Greek Black Sea migrants across the
Atlantic to America, rather than their Turkish compatriots to
Europe.
Unlike any other time in history, we are inundated with information
from many sources of media, and depending on one's ideology, the
results can be fractious. Everyone's racing to catch up to what is
reliable, dependable, and true - all the while, feeling deep,
emotional, attachments to our personal understanding of important
issues. It has unfortunately become fashionable to claim that what
people feel about issues should be taken as seriously as the facts
about those issues. Emotional attachment to specific viewpoints and
the facts about the world are often two completely different
things, and we need to keep them distinct. The skill set of
Critical Thinking allows us to better separate facts from feelings
and acknowledges that there is value to our beliefs, our ideas, and
our opinions and that some are simply better than others. But what
makes these objects of the mind and influences of behavior good,
bad, better, or worse? Luckily, much of the hard work has already
been done. Philosophers, mathematicians, logicians, scientists,
writers, and many others have developed the Critical Thinking tools
that require all of us to make such valued distinctions. Here,
DiCarlo has taken six of the most important tools and distilled
them into a skill set that is easy to remember and practical to
apply in everyday life. This skill set provides anyone with the
capacity to be mature, diplomatic, and fair, and to disagree in a
civil manner. For the majority of us, developing such skills will
not happen overnight ... or in a week, or a month. It is something
that is ongoing and requires continuous practice, development, and
use. And in today's age of immediacy, with information and opinion
just a click away, there seems to be less and less time in which to
practice such skills. Perhaps this is one of the reasons so many
people are feeling their way through issues rather than thinking
critically about them. With a better understanding of the tenets of
critical thinking, though, readers will come away from this book
with a renewed sense of engagement with thoughts, opinions,
feelings, and facts.
10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION In this witty, incisive guide to
critical thinking the author provides you with the tools to allow
you to question beliefs and assumptions held by those who claim to
know what they're talking about. These days there are many people
whom we need to question: politicians, lawyers, doctors, teachers,
clergy members, bankers, car salesmen, and your boss. This book
will empower you with the ability to spot faulty reasoning and, by
asking the right sorts of questions, hold people accountable not
only for what they believe but how they behave. By using this book
you'll learn to analyze your own thoughts, ideas, and beliefs, and
why you act on them (or don't). This, in turn, will help you to
understand why others might hold opposing views. And the best way
to change our own or others' behavior or attitudes is to gain
greater clarity about underlying motives and thought processes. In
a media-driven world of talking heads, gurus, urban legends, and
hype, learning to think more clearly and critically, and helping
others to do the same, is one of the most important things you can
do.
This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a
concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining
multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around
aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and
partisanship, culture, economics, and communications. Critical
perspectives are presented as definitions for reader understanding,
with links to concepts of identity, knowledge construction, social
networks, social movements, and inequalities. With today's
intensifying concentration of wealth and corporatization, precarity
is the fate for growing numbers of the world's population.
Intersectionality as an analytic concept offers a new appreciation
of how social advantage and disadvantage accumulate, and how
constructions of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender
influence aging. The book's entries offer a bibliographic
compendium, crediting the salience of early pioneering theorists
and locating these within the cutting-edge of research (social,
behavioral, policy, and gene-environment sciences) that currently
advances our understandings of human development, trauma, and
resilience. Accompanying these foundations are theories of
resistance for advancing human rights and the dignity of
marginalized populations.
This practical resource explains brain development from prenatal to
age 8 with suggestions for activities educators and caregivers can
use to foster children's cognitive growth. The authors begin with
the basics of brain development, and the issues that affect it, and
then provide information specific to infant, toddler, preschool,
and kindergarten to primary age levels. Educational activities are
described as they relate to physical, language, social, emotional,
cognitive, and academic progress relevant to brain development at
each age level. Modifications of activities for young children with
disabilities are included. The authors also discuss contemporary
issues related to the future education of young children, including
how technology-augmented experiences may positively and negatively
affect children's development. Book Features: Explains brain
development concepts for practitioners and students. Recommends
brain-enhancing experiences related to age-level brain development.
Includes modified activities for children with special needs.
Provides vignettes for context and to illustrate concepts. Includes
questions to promote discussion and a deeper understanding of the
content.
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Yuni (Paperback)
Stephanie Dicarlo; Stephanie Dicarlo
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R296
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Broken (Paperback)
Sydney Remington Dicarlo
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R513
Discovery Miles 5 130
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If you woke up in a hospital with two years of your memory missing,
who would you believe? When seventeen-year-old Claire wakes up, a
man named Collin tells her she has been a spy for the government
for the past two years. He says that in order to help her family
she must go back under cover. Claire trusts him, which might cost
her her life. Claire learns many things that help her uncover the
lies that Collin is feeding her.
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