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Peoplehood in the Nordic World (Nordic World)
by Ove Korsgaard"The people" can mean many things: it can be a political unit (demos), a cultural entity (ethnos), and a social multitude (pléthos). Modern historian Ove Korsgaard focuses on the crucial struggles over who has (or has not) belonged to the people in the past 175 years and looks at its implications for state- and nation-building in Denmark and other Nordic countries.
Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England
by Gloria L. MainIn this book about families--those of the various native peoples of southern New England and those of the English settlers and their descendants--Gloria Main compares the ways in which the two cultures went about solving common human problems. Using original sources--diaries, inventories, wills, court records--as well as the findings of demographers, ethnologists, and cultural anthropologists, she compares the family life of the English colonists with the lives of comparable groups remaining in England and of native Americans. She looks at social organization, patterns of work, gender relations, sexual practices, childbearing and childrearing, demographic changes, and ways of dealing with sickness and death. Main finds that the transplanted English family system produced descendants who were unusually healthy for the times and spectacularly fecund. Large families and steady population growth led to the creation of new towns and the enlargement of old ones with inevitably adverse consequences for the native Americans in the area. Main follows the two cultures into the eighteenth century and makes clear how the promise of perpetual accessions of new land eventually extended Puritan family culture across much of the North American continent.
Peoplewatching: The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language
by Desmond MorrisPeoplewatching is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks. Desmond Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and innermost feelings with their bodies and actions, often more powerfully than with their words.
People’s Response to Disasters in the Philippines: Vulnerability, Capacities, and Resilience (Disaster Studies)
by Jc GaillardThis book provides a critical perspective on people's response to disasters in the Philippines. It draws upon an array of case studies to discuss people's vulnerability, capacities and resilience in facing a wide range of different hazards.
Pequenos hábitos
by BJ FoggO reconhecido guru do hábito mostra como pode ter uma vida mais feliz e saudável, começando por pequenas mudanças. Melhorar a sua vida é muito mais fácil do que pensa. Seja para perder peso, dormir mais ou restaurar o equilíbrio entre trabalho e vida pessoal, o segredo é começar pelos pequenos hábitos. BJ FOGG está aqui para mudar a sua vida e revolucionar a maneira como avalia o comportamento humano. Com base em vinte anos de pesquisa e na experiência do autor a treinar milhares de pessoas, este livro revela o código da criação de hábitos. Com descobertas inovadoras em todos os capítulos, aprenderá as formas mais simples e comprovadas de transformar a sua vida. Pequenos Hábitos mostra como regozijar-se com os seus sucessos, em vez de se recriminar pelos seus fracassos. Concentre-se no que é fácil de mudar, não no que é difícil; concentre-se no que quer fazer, não no que deve fazer. No centro de tudo isto, está uma verdade surpreendente - criar vidas mais felizes e saudáveis pode ser fácil e muito divertido. Os elogios da crítica: «Para além de BJ Fogg, não há ninguém ao cimo da Terra capaz de escrever um livro mais informativo e respeitado sobre o tema do design comportamental.»Robert Cialdini, autor de Persuasion «Este livro é um diamante raro num mercado vasto: um livro de auto-ajuda que realmente ajuda.»Rory Sutherland, autor de Alquimia «BJ Fogg é uma lenda de Stanford e de Silicon Valley. Pequenos Hábitos disponibiliza o seu segredo,de forma simples, para todos.»Robert Sutton, autor de The Asshole Survival Guide «Fruto de intensa pesquisa e altamente prático, este livro será um recurso valioso para qualquer pessoa interessada em mudar o seu comportamento(ou seja, para todos nós).»Gretchen Rubin, autora de Projeto Felicidade «As ideias de BJ Fogg sobre mudança pessoal são muito relevantes, acessíveis e poderosas. Não me canso de recomendar este livro.»Ramit Sethi, autor de I will teach you to be rich «O trabalho de BJ Fogg é transformador... Nas clínicas Amen, recorremos aos pequenos hábitos com os nossos pacientes, estudantes online e leitores. É simples, fácil de implementar e funciona.»Daniel G. Amen, MD, autor de Change Your Brain, Change Your Life «Pequenos Hábitos desmistifica os comportamentos que se somam ao que, na essência, é a nossa identidade. Entender esses microcomportamentos é fundamental se deseja obter grandes resultados, como perder peso ou criar uma empresa.»Tony Fadell, inventor do iPod e co-inventor do iPhone
Perceiving Others: The Psychology of Interpersonal Perception (Psychology Revivals)
by Mark CookOriginally published in 1979, Perceiving Others is an excellent, short introduction to the area of social psychology known as ‘person perception’, ‘social perception’ or ‘impression formation’ – how people interpret each others’ moods, predict each others’ behaviour and sum up each others’ characters. The way people see each other determines the way they behave towards each other making the study of ‘person perception’ essential to the understanding of social behaviour. Mark Cook poses three questions about how people form opinions of others: what are the processes involved, what information is used and how, and how accurate are they? He provides an answer to these questions in the three main sections of the book, giving a comprehensive survey of the theory and research arising from the issues involved. The topics covered include the meaning of trait descriptions, intuition, social skill and non-verbal communication, the impression formation paradigm, stereotypes, implicit personality theories, attribution theory, Cronbach’s components and psychiatric diagnosis. By drawing many of his illustrations from everyday encounters, the author effectively bridges the gap between theory and reality to create a thoroughly readable and comprehensible study.
Perceiving the Future through New Communication Technologies: Robots, AI and Everyday Life
by Juliet Floyd James Katz Katie SchiepersThe volume offers multiple perspectives on the way in which people encounter and think about the future. Drawing on the perspectives of history, literature, philosophy and communication studies, an international ensemble of experts offer a kaleidoscope of topics to provoke and enlighten the reader. The authors seek to understand the daily lived experience of ordinary people as they encounter new technology as well as the way people reflect on the significance and meaning of those technologies. The approach of the volume stresses the quotidian quality of reality and ordinary understandings of reality as understood by people from all walks of life. Providing expert analysis and sophisticated understanding, the focus of attention gravitates toward how people make meaning out of change, particularly when the change occurs at the level of social technologies- the devices that modify and amplify our modes of communication with others. The volume is organised into three main sections: The phenomena of new communication technology in people's lives from a contemporary viewpoint; the meaning of robots and AI as they play an increasing role in people's experience and; broader issues concerning the operational, sociological and philosophical implications of people as they address a technology driven future.
Perception and Misperception in International Politics
by Robert JervisWith a new preface by the authorSince its original publication in 1976, Perception and Misperception in International Politics has become a landmark book in its field, hailed by the New York Times as "the seminal statement of principles underlying political psychology." This new edition includes an extensive preface by the author reflecting on the book's lasting impact and legacy, particularly in the application of cognitive psychology to political decision making, and brings that analysis up to date by discussing the relevant psychological research over the past forty years. Jervis describes the process of perception (for example, how decision makers learn from history) and then explores common forms of misperception (such as overestimating one's influence). He then tests his ideas through a number of important events in international relations from nineteenth- and twentieth-century European history. Perception and Misperception in International Politics is essential for understanding international relations today.
Perception of Family and Work in Low-Fertility East Asia (SpringerBriefs in Population Studies)
by Junji Kageyama Eriko TeramuraThis book is the first of its kind to incorporate subjective well-being (SWB) data to comprehensively explore perceptional factors that relate to fertility behavior in East Asia. The advantage of SWB data lies in the accessibility to rich information regarding perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors. With this advantage, the book inquires into the perceptions toward family and work and explores the attitudes that lead to low fertility in the region.To this end, first a comparative analysis with international cross-sectional data is performed and the East Asian characteristics of family and work perceptions are documented. Then, three democracies in the region are focused on—Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—to investigate the relationships between cultural orientations, work–life balance, and fertility outcomes with panel data. In addition, East Asian results are compared with those in India, which has also been experiencing a rapid transition from a traditional society to an industrial one. The results support the idea that the friction between persistent gender-based role divisions and socioeconomic transformation in East Asia makes it difficult for women to balance family and work, prompting fertility decline to the lowest-low level in the region.
Perception, Design and Ecology of the Built Environment: A Focus on the Global South (Springer Geography)
by Mainak GhoshThis edited volume is a compilation of the ‘built environment’ in response to many investigations, analyses and sometimes mere observations of the various dialogues and interactions of the built, in context to its ecology, perception and design. The chapters concentrate on various independent issues, integrated as a holistic approach, both in terms of theoretical perspectives and practical approaches, predominantly focusing on the Global South. The book builds fabric knitting into the generic understanding of environment, perception and design encompassing ‘different’ attitudes and inspirations. This book is an important reference to topics concerning urbanism, urban developments and physical growth, and highlights new methodologies and practices. The book presumes an understanding unearthed from various dimensions and again woven back to a common theme, which emerges as the reader reads through.Various international experts of the respective fields working on the Global South contributed their latest research and insights to the different parts of the book. This trans-disciplinary volume appeals to scientists, students and professionals in the fields of architecture, geography, planning, environmental sciences and many more.
Perceptions of East Asian and Asian North American Athletics (East Asian Popular Culture)
by Cynthia Wang Steve Bien-AiméThis book highlights inconsistencies within the field of sports scholarship and provides an opportunity to open up and extend conversations about the intersection of sports media and race — particularly surrounding athletes of East Asian descent. Despite the growing influence of East Asian and Asian American/Canadian athletes, they are still underrepresented in Western media and in scholarship. This anthology adds much-needed literature to sports, popular culture, East Asian, and Asian American studies. The prominence of sports in global popular culture makes the intersections explored in this collection a crucial addition to existing conversations about both sports and East Asian/Asian American/Canadian studies.
Perceptions of Female Offenders
by Brenda RussellFemale offenders are often perceived as victims who commit crimes as a self-defense mechanism or as criminal deviants whose actions strayed from typical 'womanly' behavior. Such cultural norms for violence exist in our gendered society and there has been scholarly debate about how male and female offenders are perceived and how this perception leads to differential treatment in the criminal justice system. This debate is primarily based upon theories associated with stereotypes and social norms and how these prescriptive norms can influence both public and criminal justice response. Scholars in psychology, sociology, and criminology have found that female offenders are perceived differently than male offenders and this ultimately leads to differential treatment in the criminal justice system. This interdisciplinary book provides an evidence based approach of how female offenders are perceived in society and how this translates to differential treatment within the criminal justice system and explores the ramifications of such differences. Quite often perceptions of female offenders are at odds with research findings. This book will provide a comprehensive evidence-based review of the research that is valuable to laypersons, researchers, practitioners, advocates, treatment providers, lawyers, judges, and anyone interested in equality in the criminal justice system.
Perceptions of Female Offenders, Vol. 1: How Stereotypes and Social Norms Affect Criminal Justice Responses
by Brenda Russell Celia TorresThis first volume of the second edition builds on the many developments made to the study of female offenders, compiling new insights and evidence-based research. With new cases such as Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, it further explores topics including the role of social media in how female offenders are portrayed, juvenile offenders, female aggression in young adults, female perpetrators of domestic violence and more. This book begins with new research on gender stereotypes, disruptive behavior, female aggression, the impact of American media and culture, and gender stereotypes and how they relate to female offending. It examines more diverse topics to include greater intersectionality of female perpetrators in terms of age, race, ethnicity, and sexual identity, and country. Additionally, it provides a comprehensive evidence-based review of the research that is valuable to researchers, practitioners, and advocates interested in equality in the criminal justice system.
Perceptions of Female Offenders, Vol. 2: How Stereotypes and Social Norms Affect Criminal Justice Responses
by Brenda Russell Celia TorresThis new edition is a nuanced exploration of female involvement in various crimes—from delinquency, domestic violence, sexual assault and homicide—that resonates with the pulse of contemporary society. In an age where many events are tweeted and debated online, this book delves into the intricate ways social media portrays female offenders and how this can distort public perceptions and effect legal outcomes. Volume two includes recent research and theory examining how female perpetration is intricately related to gender roles that persist within the criminal justice system and often lead to gender disparities in treatment, criminal justice response, and sentencing and calls into question long-held beliefs and systems that might not be as impartial as they appear. The compelling nature of this volume addresses the complex relationship between trauma and offending and examines crucial subjects like partner violence homicide and the unique challenges faced by trans-women within the criminal justice system, and examines the myths associated with female offending and how that bleeds into criminal justice response. It addresses theories that provide insight into female offending and sentencing and offers ways to generate gender inclusiveness. This volume invites researchers, practitioners, and advocates for justice to join a vital conversation and develop a more informed and equitable criminal justice response.
Perceptions of Marginality: Theoretical Issues and Regional Perceptions of Marginality in Geographical Space (Routledge Revivals)
by Walter Leimgruber Heikki Jussila Roser MajoralFirst published in 1998, this volume takes an international approach theoretical and regional perceptions and experiences of marginality along with some key case studies in Arctic North America, Greenland, Aboriginal Australia and the Republic of Ireland. Its contributors are geographers from all over the world. It is part of a series which aims to publish new scientific work on the dynamism of the marginal and critical regions of the world and concentrates on understanding marginality and its processes, the human process and its agents, comparative approaches and different policy responses to economic, social and environmental problems along with studying the human response to global change and its implications for marginalization.
Perceptions of Self, Power, & Gender Among Muslim Women: Narratives from a Rural Community in Bangladesh
by Sarwar AlamThis book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh. Rural women’s limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender. However, many Muslim women have their own alternative discourses surrounding power and agency. Sarwar Alam intertwines an exploration of these power dynamics with reading of the Qur’an and Hadith, and analyzes how Muslim women’s perception of power and gender are linked to their relationship with religion.
Perché i grandi manager hanno successo
by Gary RandolphSi dice che un lavoratore felice sia un lavoratore produttivo, e un buon manager può rendere felice un lavoratore che a sua volta lo renderà un lavoratore produttivo. Se vuoi massimizzare i risultati della tua azienda od organizzazione, devi possedere le qualità della leadership. Una delle responsabilità di un manager competente è aiutare il tuo team a rimanere produttivo e organizzato. Questo ebook è una guida dettagliata per migliorare le capacità manageriali che aumenteranno il rendimento della tua organizzazione. Questo ebook ti insegnerà: A formare i tuoi colleghi A motivare e organizzare la tua squadra A migliorare le capacità di comunicazione Ti darà dei suggerimenti per diventare un buon manager A riscattarti A risolvere i problemi che devono affrontare i manager
Perezhivanie, Emotions and Subjectivity
by Marilyn Fleer Fernando González Rey Nikolai VeresovThis book draws upon Vygotsky's idea of perezhivanie, emotions and imagination, and introduces the concepts of subjective sense and subjective configuration. These concepts are crucial for explaining and understanding children's development from a cultural-historical perspective. A book which theorises the relations between the social and the individual through a study of a child's perezhivanie, which analyses emotions more holistically, and advances the concepts of subjective sense and subjective configuration, is much needed. This book examines the complexity of human development through a comprehensive elaboration of these concepts, allowing for new insights to be put forward. It doesn't always follow the chronological order of Vygotsky's publications, as many of his works remained in the family archives until the 1980s, when his Selected Works were first published in Russian. There has long been a need for a contemporary book on the scholarly treatment of perezhevanie, emotions, and subjectivity, and as such this book revisits dominant representations of these concepts and then puts forward new ways of conceptualising and using them in empirical research. The chapters cover a broad range of case studies where the concepts of perezhivanie, emotions and imagination and subjective sense and subjective configuration are used to give new empirical and theoretical insights into the study of human development.
Perfect Phrases for Building Strong Teams: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Fostering Collaboration, Encouraging Communication and Growing a Winning Team
by Linda Eve DiamondThis quick-reference guide addresses all the issues you could possibly encounter working with a team-offering hundreds of ready-to-use phrases for every situation. From managing interpersonal conflicts to motivating an entire company, you'll find the exact words you need to: Get people to work with, not against each other; use positive feedback to promote and reward teamwork; inspire communication at every level of the team; and build a winning team mindset.
Perfect Wives, Other Women: Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain
by Georgina Dopico BlackIn Perfect Wives, Other Women Georgina Dopico Black examines the role played by women's bodies--specifically the bodies of wives--in Spain and Spanish America during the Inquisition. In her quest to show how both the body and soul of the married woman became the site of anxious inquiry, Dopico Black mines a variety of Golden Age texts for instances in which the era's persistent preoccupation with racial, religious, and cultural otherness was reflected in the depiction of women. Subject to the scrutiny of a remarkable array of gazes--inquisitors, theologians, religious reformers, confessors, poets, playwrights, and, not least among them, husbands--the bodies of perfect and imperfect wives elicited diverse readings. Dopico Black reveals how imperialism, the Inquisition, inflation, and economic decline each contributed to a correspondence between the meanings of these human bodies and "other" bodies, such as those of the Jew, the Moor, the Lutheran, the degenerate, and whoever else departed from a recognized norm. The body of the wife, in other words, became associated with categories separate from anatomy, reflecting the particular hermeneutics employed during the Inquisition regarding the surveillance of otherness. Dopico Black's compelling argument will engage students of Spanish and Spanish American history and literature, gender studies, women's studies, social psychology and cultural studies.
Perfectly Confident: How to Calibrate Your Decisions Wisely
by Don A MooreAn expert on the psychology of decision making at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business helps readers calibrate their confidence, arguing that some confidence is good, but overconfidence can hinder growth.A surge of confidence can feel fantastic—offering a rush of energy, even a dazzling vision of the future. It can give us courage and bolster our determination when facing adversity. But if that self-assurance leads us to pursue impossible goals, it can waste time, money, and energy. Self-help books and motivational speakers tell us that the more confident we are, the better. But this way of thinking can lead to enormous trouble.Decades of research demonstrates that we often have an over-inflated sense of self and are rarely as good as we believe. Perfectly Confident is the first book to bring together the best psychological and economic studies to explain exactly what confidence is, when it can be helpful, and when it can be destructive in our lives. Confidence is an attitude that takes into account both personal feelings and the facts. Don Moore identifies the ways confidence behaves in real life and raises thought-provoking questions. How optimistic should you be about an uncertain future? What justifies your confidence in something amorphous and subjective like your attractiveness or sense of humor? Moore reminds us that the key to success is to avoid being both over- and under-confident. In this essential guide, he shows how to become perfectly confident—how to strive for and maintain the well-calibrated, adaptive confidence that can elevate all areas of our lives.
Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval
by Merry I. WhiteCombines ethnographic, analytic, and personal insights to debunk the idealized image of the Japanese family held by many Americans and promoted as the official image by the Japanese state.
Perfektionierung (Zürcher Begegnungen)
by Christoph Henning Veronika Magyar-Haas Catrin HeiteZiel des Bandes ist es, den Begriff der Perfektionierung aus jeweils eigenen disziplinären Perspektiven auf seine Aktualität und sein analytisches Gewicht zu prüfen. Der Begriff „Perfektionierung“ gehört nicht genuin zum Vokabular der Erziehungswissenschaft, sondern wurde primär in der neueren philosophischen und soziologischen Diskussion entwickelt. Zugleich lässt sich das Konzept der „perfektibilité“ als pädagogisches ausweisen, mit dem es auch um Bildung als Selbstvervollkommnung, um Streben nach Vollkommenheit geht – stets im Spannungsfeld zwischen Ideal und Überschreitung, zwischen Selbstgestaltung und Selbstzurichtung.
Performance Action: The Politics of Art Activism (Routledge Studies in Political Sociology)
by Paula SerafiniPerformance Action looks to advance the understanding of how art activism works in practice, by unpacking the relationship between the processes and politics that lie at its heart. Focusing on the UK but situating its analysis in a global context of art activism, the book presents a range of different cases of performance-based art activism, including the anti-oil sponsorship performances of groups like Shell Out Sounds and BP or not BP?, the radical pedagogy project Shake!, the psychogeographic practice of Loiterers Resistance Movement, and the queer performances of the artist network Left Front Art. Based on participatory, ethnographic research, Performance Action brings together a wealth of first-hand accounts and interviews followed by in-depth analysis of the processes and politics of art activist practice. The book is unique in that it adopts an interdisciplinary approach that borrows concepts and theories from the fields of art history, aesthetics, anthropology, sociology and performance studies, and proposes a new framework for a better understanding of how art activism works, focusing on processes. The book argues that art activism is defined by its dual nature as aesthetic-political practice, and that this duality and the way it is manifested in different processes, from the building of a shared collective identity to the politics of participation, is key towards fully understanding what sets apart art activism from other forms of artistic and political practice. The book is aimed at both specialist and non-specialist audiences, offering an accessible and engaging way into new theoretical contributions in the field of art activism, as well as on wider subjects such as participation, collective identity, prefiguration and institutional critique.
Performance And The Global City
by Kim Solga D. J. HopkinsFollowing the ground-breaking Performance and the City, this volume, now available in paperback, explores what it means to create and experience urban performance - as both an aesthetic and a political practice - in the burgeoning world cities built by globalization and neoliberal capital. Featuring work by artists as well as scholars, written from multiple disciplinary perspectives, and including dozens of photographs as well as a photo essay by Nicholas Whybrow, Performance and the Global City will appeal to readers interested in urban studies, theatre and performance, geography, sociology, and globalization studies.