Human Institutions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Institutions write by Jonathan H. Turner. This book was released on 2003. Human Institutions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years 'the New Institutionalism' has focused more on organizations in their social and cultural environments than on societal-level institutional systems. Thus, missing from these studies has been a larger sociological analysis of institutions, per se. In his newest book, leading social theorist Jonathan H. Turner offers a creative, richly grounded reinterpretation of social evolution. He ressurrects a level of analysis undertaken by earlier functionalist theorists, but with a new-found emphasis--that of discovering the larger forces driving the formation of human institutional systems. Only by exploring the larger macro-dynamics can the institutions of economy, kinship, religion, polity, law, and education be fully understood, as Turner persuasively shows in this magesterial explication of twenty millenia of human social life.
Social Institutions and International Human Rights Law
Social Institutions and International Human Rights Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Institutions and International Human Rights Law write by Julie Fraser. This book was released on 2020-08-06. Social Institutions and International Human Rights Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Critiquing the State-centric and legalistic approach to implementing human rights, this book illustrates the efficacy of relying upon social institutions.
Post-Human Institutions and Organizations
Post-Human Institutions and Organizations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Human Institutions and Organizations write by Ismael Al-Amoudi. This book was released on 2019-11-11. Post-Human Institutions and Organizations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the Matrix trilogy was published in the mid-1980s, it introduced to mass culture a number of post-human tropes about the conscious machines that have haunted our collective imaginaries ever since. This volume explores the social representations and significance of technological developments – especially AI and human enhancement – that have started to transform our human agency. It uses these developments to revisit theories of the human mind and its essential characteristics: a first-person perspective, concerns and reflexivity. It looks at how the smart machines are used as agents of change in the basic institutions and organisations that hold contemporary societies together, for example in the family and the household, in commercial corporations, in health institutions or in the military. Its main purpose is to enrich the ongoing public discussion of the social and political implications of the smart machines by looking at the extent to which they further digitalise and bureaucratise the world, in particular by asking whether they are used to develop techno-totalitarian societies that corrode normativity and solidarity.
National Human Rights Institutions in the Asia Pacific Region
National Human Rights Institutions in the Asia Pacific Region - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook National Human Rights Institutions in the Asia Pacific Region write by Brian Burdekin. This book was released on 2007. National Human Rights Institutions in the Asia Pacific Region available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The purpose of this book is to provide a consolidated collection of materials to facilitate comparison of the various national human rights institutions (NHRIs) already established in the Asia-Pacific region, against a background of selected international materials and with the assistance of several comparative tables. The latter are not intended to be exhaustive, but are designed to assist in identifying and considering the strengths and weaknesses inherent in the legislative mandates of each national institution. While the collection is primarily intended for teaching purposes, it should also be useful to countries considering establishing a national human rights commission or, for those which have already done so, strengthening its mandate. For this reason several sections have been included outlining the relationship which should exist between NHRIs, the Executive, the Legislature, the Judiciary and other related institutions and a short section on the importance of the process which should precede their establishment.
Human Development and Global Institutions
Human Development and Global Institutions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Development and Global Institutions write by Richard Ponzio. This book was released on 2016-02-05. Human Development and Global Institutions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a timely and accessible introduction to the foundational ideas associated with the human development school of thought. It examines its conceptual evolution during the post-colonial era, and discusses how various institutions of the UN system have tried to engage with this issue, both in terms of intellectual and technical advance, and operationally. Showing that human development has had a profound impact on shaping the policy agenda and programming priorities of global institutions, it argues that human development has helped to preserve the continued vitality of major multilateral development programs, funds, and agencies. It also details how human development faces new risks and threats, caused by political, economic, social, and environmental forces which are highlighted in a series of engaging case studies on trade, water, energy, the environment, democracy, human rights, and peacebuilding. The book also makes the case for why human development remains relevant in an increasingly globalized world, while asking whether global institutions will be able to sustain political and moral support from their member states and powerful non-state actors. It argues that fresh new perspectives on human development are now urgently needed to fill critical gaps across borders and entire regions. A positive, forward-looking agenda for the future of global governance would have to engage with new issues such as the Sustainable Development Goals, energy transitions, resource scarcity, and expansion of democratic governance within and between nations. Redefining the overall nature and specific characteristics of what constitutes human progress in an increasingly integrated and interdependent world, this book serves as a primer for scholars and graduate students of international relations and development. It is also relevant to scholars of economics, political science, history, sociology, and women’s studies.
