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What's Left of Human Nature?
A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept
ISBN: 9780262038416
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 16, 2018
A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges.
Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community
Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community
ISBN: 9780262036214
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 14, 2017
How countercultural communities have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of digital technology use.
Boundary Objects and Beyond
Working with Leigh Star
ISBN: 9780262528085
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 26, 2016
The multifaceted work of the late Susan Leigh Star is explored through a selection of her writings and essays by friends and colleagues.
Situated Intervention
Sociological Experiments in Health Care
ISBN: 9780262029384
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 7, 2015
An exploration of sociological research that is neither “detached” nor “engaged”; a new approach to sociological knowledge production, with examples from health care.
On Super-Diversity
ISBN: 9781934105771
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: September 2, 2011
One of the greatest challenges for art and culture, sounded by intellectuals and also by funding bodies, is to represent diversity. But what precisely does this term mean and why does it so often placate...
Honest Signals
How They Shape Our World
ISBN: 9780262515122
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 24, 2010
How understanding the signaling within social networks can change the way we make decisions, work with others, and manage organizations.
Looking Within
A Sociocultural Examination of Fetoscopy
ISBN: 9780262527866
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 3, 2007
An ethnographic study of fetoscopy that considers both the broader cultural context of this high-risk obstetrical procedure and the patient's individual experience.
Allies Divided
Transatlantic Policies for the Greater Middle East
ISBN: 9780262522441
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 2, 1997
The shifting global security and defense landscape of the post-Cold War era has led the West to reexamine regional priorities and existing international institutions. Many scholars have written on how...
From Genesis to Genocide
The Meaning of Human Nature and the Power of Behavior Control
ISBN: 9780262530392
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 16, 1980
From Genesis to Genocide makes striking observations about past and present developments in such controversial areas as I.Q. testing, violence, crime, juvenile delinquency, mental illness, psychosurgery, racial strife, sex discrimination, drug addiction, and law enforcement
Abstracts of Theses 1966-1967
ISBN: 9780262630313
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 15, 1970
Each academic year the Massachusetts Institute of Technology grants approximately three hundred and fifty doctoral degrees, which are the result of many years of study and research on the part of the...
What's Left of Human Nature?
A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept
ISBN: 9780262038416
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 16, 2018
A philosophical account of human nature that defends the concept against dehumanization, Darwinian, and developmentalist challenges.
Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community
Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community
ISBN: 9780262036214
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 14, 2017
How countercultural communities have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of digital technology use.
Boundary Objects and Beyond
Working with Leigh Star
ISBN: 9780262528085
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 26, 2016
The multifaceted work of the late Susan Leigh Star is explored through a selection of her writings and essays by friends and colleagues.
Situated Intervention
Sociological Experiments in Health Care
ISBN: 9780262029384
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 7, 2015
An exploration of sociological research that is neither “detached” nor “engaged”; a new approach to sociological knowledge production, with examples from health care.
On Super-Diversity
ISBN: 9781934105771
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: September 2, 2011
One of the greatest challenges for art and culture, sounded by intellectuals and also by funding bodies, is to represent diversity. But what precisely does this term mean and why does it so often placate...
Honest Signals
How They Shape Our World
ISBN: 9780262515122
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 24, 2010
How understanding the signaling within social networks can change the way we make decisions, work with others, and manage organizations.
Looking Within
A Sociocultural Examination of Fetoscopy
ISBN: 9780262527866
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 3, 2007
An ethnographic study of fetoscopy that considers both the broader cultural context of this high-risk obstetrical procedure and the patient's individual experience.
Allies Divided
Transatlantic Policies for the Greater Middle East
ISBN: 9780262522441
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 2, 1997
The shifting global security and defense landscape of the post-Cold War era has led the West to reexamine regional priorities and existing international institutions. Many scholars have written on how...
From Genesis to Genocide
The Meaning of Human Nature and the Power of Behavior Control
ISBN: 9780262530392
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 16, 1980
From Genesis to Genocide makes striking observations about past and present developments in such controversial areas as I.Q. testing, violence, crime, juvenile delinquency, mental illness, psychosurgery, racial strife, sex discrimination, drug addiction, and law enforcement
Abstracts of Theses 1966-1967
ISBN: 9780262630313
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 15, 1970
Each academic year the Massachusetts Institute of Technology grants approximately three hundred and fifty doctoral degrees, which are the result of many years of study and research on the part of the...