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Poorly Understood
Work hard to get ahead; the poor are mostly minorities in inner cities living lazily off of welfare fraud; the government spends more on welfare than anywhere else in the world; America is a land of equal opportunity with easy social mobility for all. These are but a handful of the many myths about poverty in America, some of which have persisted for decades, with significant and harmful consequences on our social policy, our social compacts, and ourselves.Poorly Understood seeks to challenge and debunk these myths, along the way asking tough questions about how and why they have persisted and what it would take to replace them with true stories.
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2019, held in Poznan, Poland, in June 2019. The 22 revised full and 31 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: deep learning; simulation; knowledge representation; probabilistic models; behavior monitoring; clustering, natural language processing, and decision support; feature selection; image processing; general machine learning; and unsupervised learning.
Liminal Minorities
Liminal Minorities addresses the question of why some religious minorities provoke the ire of majoritarian groups and become targets of organized violence, even though they lack significant power and pose no political threat. Güneş Murat Tezcür argues that these faith groups are stigmatized across generations, as they lack theological recognition and social acceptance from the dominant religious group. Religious justifications of violence have a strong mobilization power when directed against liminal minorities, which makes these groups particularly vulnerable to mass violence during periods of political change. Offering the first comparative-historical study of mass atrocities against re...
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles in Latin America
This book highlights the sustainable aspects of fashion and textiles in Latin America and discusses how the manufacturing and consumption of textile products and fashion are significant sources of environmental damage. It addresses important issues of water and energy consumption in the textile and fashion industry and using case studies presents how social responsibilities in consumer behavior can help in minimizing these environmental issues for a better future.
Radicalisation
A comparative, multidisciplinary interrogation of how people across the world become extremists of all kinds, and how different scholarly fields study and theorize this process.
Politics of Economic Inequality in China
This book applies a novel theory of ‘unbalanced responsiveness’ to the issue of economic inequality in China to better understand the relationship between authoritarian regimes and their citizens. The book highlights how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has responded to dissatisfaction over inequality, with both propaganda and policy, revealing how the responsiveness in these two arenas is unbalanced. Arguing that while CCP propaganda claims to reduce inequality, its welfare programs have been stratified, unfair, and regressive, aggravating instead of alleviating inequalities. By utilizing data from multiple national surveys, the book reveals that the discrepancy between propaganda and policy ultimately generates further dissatisfaction and strong demands for redistribution. The findings of this study indicate how unmitigated and prolonged economic inequality could be a real threat to the sustained rule of the CCP regime. Providing a new theory, applicable to authoritarian and especially communist regimes, demonstrated through the lens of China, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Chinese studies, political science, and public policy.
El conflicto humano
La inmensa complejidad de nuestro sistema social, la inigualable capacidad simbólica del ser humano y sus motivaciones más básicas de reconocimiento, control o pertenencia favorecen innegablemente la aparición de tensiones y conflictos. Los conflictos no son, por lo tanto, anómalos ni innaturales, sino inherentes a la naturaleza humana y, en cierta medida, inevitables. Surgen constantemente, a veces con nosotros mismos, con otras personas o entre grupos sociales. En esta obra abordaremos específicamente el conflicto que surge cuando distintitos grupos o sus miembros (p.e., naciones, grupos ideológicos, étnicos, religiosos) perciben que sus posiciones resultan incompatibles con las de...
Diplomacy, Communication, and Peace
This book is composed of interconnected essays which reflect on challenging new issues related to diplomacy, communication, and peace. This book begins by drawing out some of the challenges for diplomacy that arise from modern theories of semantics and of strategic communication, as well as those posed by the need for secrecy, and by the activities of agents of influence. It then proceeds to examine important issues in contemporary diplomacy, including refugee diplomacy, humanitarian diplomacy, sovereignty, norms, and consular activities. It concludes with an exploration of dilemmas that confront attempts to promote peace through multilateral means, such as the limitations of peacemaking dip...
America Latina desigual
En ciencias sociales la desigualdad no es una mera subárea temática. Antes bien, resulta un gesto epistemológico constituyente de las disciplinas, un modo de preguntarse sobre la realidad y abordar problemas de investigación, así como un resultado de la propia reproducción de la vida social. En este marco, el presente libro se propone brindar un panorama de las indagaciones y miradas que han acompañado al renovado interés por la desigualdad en América Latina desde principios de siglo. Un primer conjunto de capítulos pone el foco en las características distintivas y en las transformaciones históricas y recientes de las estructuras sociales de América Latina. Un segundo bloque se ...
