Resurgence of Deprived Society: Reinvention and Resilience

The reinvention of religion

In 1991 Richard Tarnas ended his The Passion of the Western Mind with an essentially hopeful assessment of the point that humanity had reached after an extraordinary wandering during three millennia of culture. In the Epilogue, he recalled how the three successive revolutions of Copernicus, Descartes and Kant had left us with the knowledge that “there are no perspective‐ independent facts” and ...

analysis of power in the network society

اندیشمندان و صاحب نظران علوم اجتماعی بر این باورند که مرحله تازه ای در تاریخ جوامع بشری اغاز شده است. ویژگیهای این جامعه نو را می توان پدیده هایی از جمله اقتصاد اطلاعاتی جهانی ، هندسه متغیر شبکه ای، فرهنگ مجاز واقعی ، توسعه حیرت انگیز فناوری های دیجیتال، خدمات پیوسته و نیز فشردگی زمان و مکان برشمرد. از سوی دیگر قدرت به عنوان موضوع اصلی علم سیاست جایگاه مهمی در روابط انسانی دارد، قدرت و بازتولید...

Reinvention for sustainability

Reinvention of forgotten technologies has a role to play in the introduction of new technologies, as around 1% of reported inventions are reinventions. At the current time the process by which reinvention occurs is random, relying on erendipity rather than through directed activities. Earlier work with a proprietary research archive demonstrates that reinventions can be successfully and efficie...

Resilience and Pluralism Ecosystems and Society in a Great Transition

Deprived areas: deprived of training?

Health inequalities are a UK-wide health priority, but previous studies prior to expansion in GP training showed a deficit in training numbers in deprived areas. This study set out to examine whether this is still the case, using 2009 training practice data and the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. Training practices were found to be significantly less deprived and significantly larger wh...