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Portuguese Sociology

A History

By: Filipe Carreira da Silva

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Sociology in Portugal provides the first English-language account of the history of sociology in Portugal from 1945 to the present day. Banned by the fascist regime until 1974, the institutionalization of sociology as an academic discipline came relatively late. Understanding academic disciplines as institutionalized struggles over meaning, Filipe Carreira da Silva gives a genealogy of sociology in Portugal from its origins in the political-administrative interstices of a dictatorship, through the 'cyclopean moment' of the political revolution of April 1974, which brought about its swift institutionalization and subsequent consolidation in the new democratic regime, to the challenges posed by internationalization since the 1990s. Attempts to define Portugal itself, he demonstrates, have been at the heart of these struggles. Analyzing agents, institutions, contexts, instruments and ideas, Carreira da Silva shows in fascinating detail how the sociological understanding of Portugal evolved from that of a developing society in the 1960s, to that of a modernizing European social formation in the 1980s, to the post-colonial or post-imperial Portugal of today.

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1137495510

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Mead and Modernity

Science, Selfhood, and Democratic Politics

By: Filipe Carreira da Silva

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Mead and Modernity

Science, Selfhood, and Democratic Politics

By: Filipe Carreira da Silva

Filipe Carreira da Silva addresses the basic questions 'How should we read Mead?' and 'Why should we read Mead today' by showing that the history of ideas and theory-building are closely-related endeavors. Following a contextualist approach in exploring the meaning of Mead's writings, Carreira da Silva reads the entire corpus of Mead's published and unpublished writings in light of the context in which they were originally produced, from concrete events like the American involvement in World War I to more general debates like that of the nature of modernity. Mead and Modernity attests to the relevance of Mead's ideas by assessing the relative merits of his responses to three fundamental modern problematics: science, selfhood, and democratic politics. The outcome is an innovative intellectual portrait of Mead as a seminal thinker whose contributions extend beyond his well-known social theory of the self and include important insights into the philosophy of science and radical democratic theory.

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Lexington Books

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0739150057

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The Politics of the Book

A Study on the Materiality of Ideas

By: Filipe Carreira da Silva,Monica Brito Vieira

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The Politics of the Book

A Study on the Materiality of Ideas

By: Filipe Carreira da Silva,Monica Brito Vieira

It is impossible to separate the content of a book from its form. In this study, Filipe Carreira da Silva and Mónica Brito Vieira expand our understanding of the history of social and political scholarship by examining how the entirety of a book mediates and constitutes meaning in ways that affect its substance, appropriation, and reception over time. Examining the evolving form of classic works of social and political thought, including W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk, G. H. Mead’s Mind, Self, and Society, and Karl Marx’s 1844 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, Carreira da Silva and Brito Vieira show that making these books involved many hands. They explore what publishers, editors, translators, and commentators accomplish by offering the reading public new versions of the works under consideration, examine debates about the intended meaning of the works and discussions over their present relevance, and elucidate the various ways in which content and material form are interwoven. In doing so, Carreira da Silva and Brito Vieira characterize the editorial process as a meaning-producing action involving both collaboration and an ongoing battle for the importance of the book form to a work’s disciplinary belonging, ideological positioning, and political significance. Theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly researched, The Politics of the Book radically changes our understanding of what doing social and political theory—and its history—implies. It will be welcomed by scholars of book history, the history of social and political thought, and social and political theory.

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Penn State Press

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0271083891

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G.H. Mead

A Critical Introduction

By: Filipe Carreira da Silva

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G.H. Mead

A Critical Introduction

By: Filipe Carreira da Silva

G. H. Mead is rightly considered to be one of sociology's founding fathers, yet to date there have been surprisingly few books devoted to his life and work. This book fills the gap by introducing Mead's ideas to a younger generation of social scientists. Beginning with a biographical account of the main events in Mead's career, Filipe Carreira da Silva provides a thorough examination of Mead's social theory of the self, the reception of his ideas into sociology, and the relevance of his work to the contemporary social sciences. He focuses in detail on the core ideas associated with Mead's work, including gesture and the significant symbol, the I-me distinction and the 'generalized other', as well as exploring less well-known aspects of his writing. This comprehensive introduction to Mead's thinking will appeal to students across the social sciences, providing a refreshing perspective on the social nature of the individual self.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745657834

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9780745657837

Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

By: Patrick Baert,Filipe Carreira da Silva

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Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

By: Patrick Baert,Filipe Carreira da Silva

This second edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century has been brought right up-to-date to offer an easy-to-read but provocative account of the key figures and classic schools central to the development of social theory, up to the cutting-edge developments in social theory today.

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Polity

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074563981X

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Portuguese Sociology

A History

By: Filipe Carreira da Silva

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A History

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The Politics of the Book

A Study on the Materiality of Ideas

By: Filipe Carreira da Silva,Monica Brito Vieira

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The Pepper Wreck

A Portuguese Indiaman at the Mouth of the Tagus River

By: Filipe Vieira de Castro

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The Pepper Wreck

A Portuguese Indiaman at the Mouth of the Tagus River

By: Filipe Vieira de Castro

In 1606, a Portuguese ship, Nossa Senhora dos Mártires, put into Lisbon laden with peppercorns, porcelain, and other products from Cochin. A large vessel for the time, the merchantman displaced twelve hundred tons and carried three to four masts. The ship foundered during a storm in a northern channel of the Tagus River. Within hours the currents and the storm had torn it asunder and spread its precious cargo along the shores of the estuary. The Pepper Wreck tells the story of the ship’s excavation by crews working in cold water and fast currents between 1997 and 2000, four centuries after Nossa Senhora dos Mártires went down. Author Filipe Vieira de Castro discusses the nautical history of Iberia, with special attention to shipbuilding and the development of the nau, a type of round ship used by the Portuguese on routes to the East. He also considers life aboard the ships, describing a typical menu, musing on the incidence of disease, and distinguishing the privileges of the different social classes and the perquisites the more privileged enjoyed. Turning to the excavation of the ship, Castro describes the site, the shifting laws governing archaeology in the region, and the fast currents that limited divers to working during ebb tides. The objects found with the wreck, from pottery to astrolabes, contribute substantially to knowledge of early modern shipbuilding techniques. Valuable to historians of seafaring and of Iberia and to those interested in Portuguese trade with the East Indies, this carefully wrought and generously illustrated volume is a veritable treasure trove for archaeologists.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1585443905

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Mead and Modernity

Science, Selfhood, and Democratic Politics

By: Filipe Carreira da Silva

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Science, Selfhood, and Democratic Politics

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Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

By: Patrick Baert,Filipe Carreira da Silva

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Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

By: Patrick Baert,Filipe Carreira da Silva

This second edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century has been brought right up-to-date with cutting-edge developments in social theory today. It offers an easy-to-read but provocative account of the development of social theory, covering a range of key figures and classic schools of thought. The authors also bridge the gap between philosophy and social theory, locating the theoretical views of individuals such as Giddens, Foucault and Habermas within wider historical traditions.

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G.H. Mead

A Critical Introduction

By: Filipe Carreira da Silva

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A Critical Introduction

By: Filipe Carreira da Silva

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Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

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