Three Worlds of Collective Human Experience: Individual Life, Social Change, and Human Evolution - Hardcover

Shaw, Victor N.

 
9783319981949: Three Worlds of Collective Human Experience: Individual Life, Social Change, and Human Evolution
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3319981943 ISBN 13: 9783319981949
Verlag: Springer, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

This book explores three worlds shared by the humans in their collective experiences. It identifies and explores the world of commonsense, the world of religion, and the world of science as three essential dimensions of human experience. The book helps understand that humans can gain comfort and pleasure in commonsense, achieve meaning and purpose from religion, and attain truth and rationality through science. It actively applies theories to and develops theoretical explanations from different domains or situations of human existence. This book is of interest to theorists, researchers, instructors, and students across major academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

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Victor N. Shaw, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology, criminology, and justice studies at California State University-Northridge. Dr. Shaw is interested in the study of crime, deviance, social control, organizational behavior, higher education, and public policy, and has published widely in those areas. 
Among the books by Dr. Shaw, Substance Use and Abuse: Sociological Perspectives (2002) appeared in “Outstanding Academic Titles, 2003,” CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, the Association of College and Academic Libraries. Career-Making in Postmodern Academia: Process, Structure, and Consequence (2004) topped the list of books to read for graduates and postgraduate professionals by some academic advisors. Conspicuous and Inconspicuous Discriminations in Everyday Life (2013, 2015) is the 80th title in Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought.

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This book explores three worlds shared by the humans in their collective experiences. It identifies and explores the world of commonsense, the world of religion, and the world of science as three essential dimensions of human experience. The book helps understand that humans can gain comfort and pleasure in commonsense, achieve meaning and purpose from religion, and attain truth and rationality through science. It actively applies theories to and develops theoretical explanations from different domains or situations of human existence. This book is of interest to theorists, researchers, instructors, and students across major academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

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Verlag
Springer
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3319981943
ISBN 13 
9783319981949
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
232
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