Títulos em Sociologia

What if your therapist’s business model depends on you never getting better? In this hard-hitting exposé, Dr. Hugh Brisbane pulls back the curtain on the mental health industry and reveals how compassion itself has been commodified. From Freud’s “talking cure” to TikTok therapists, the empathy economy has grown into a billion-dollar machine where the incentives reward endless sessions, quick prescriptions, and patient dependence—not healing.

In the early twenty-first century, environmental risks such as climate change, biodiversity loss, resource scarcity, large-scale migrations, and conflicts over critical resources have become our lived reality in a world where nearly 8 billion people struggle to thrive. These crises have proven impossible to address without fundamental transformations of our economic institutions—exactly as predicted in this groundbreaking work. First published in 1994, Taming the Dragon offers a careful investigation of the processes that have led to global environmental change.

The words “Black Hebrew Israelites” have become synonymous with hate, antisemitism, and violence, but how much of it is true, and how much of it is propaganda?

From Reconstruction to redemption, civil rights to the Southern strategy, the multiracial protests of 2020 for social justice to the swift elimination of policies etching out a more inclusive, equitable society, Americans regularly experience periods of racial reckoning followed by walloping retrenchment. This pattern is a result of an American pastime: creating and implementing tactics to deny Black truth.

This is a documentary of an open letter to a Black Son from the pain and frustration of being a single black mother. The author is a born witness to their tears of joy and pain, their cries of frustration and discovery, and the difficulties that they have encountered growing up black and male. This is her love for them poured out onto the pages, a document that traces her unspoken words on the journey to try and raise happy and healthy black son in America.

Not Just for the Boys looks back at how society has historically excluded women from the scientific sphere and discourse, what progress has been made, and how more is still needed. Athene Donald, herself a distinguished physicist, explores societal expectations during both childhood and working life using evidence of the systemic disadvantages women operate under, from the developing science of how our brains are and more importantly aren't gendered, to social science evidence around attitudes towards girls and women doing science.

En abril de 2023, Byung-Chul Han viajó por primera vez a Portugal e impartió unas conferencias en Oporto y Lisboa. Días después ofreció, también por primera vez, una conferencia musical en Leipzig. La tonalidad del pensamiento nace de estas conferencias. La conferencia musical de Leipzig, «La tonalidad del pensamiento», que contó con la interpretación al piano de las piezas favoritas del autor, da título a esta obra y en ella Han expone los tonos y temas que atraviesan su filosofía y repasa la importancia de la música en su obra.

¿Qué tienen ellas para dar de comer de su mano a auténticas fieras humanas? ¿Con qué poderosa luz los deslumbran hasta hacerles olvidarse de sí mismos? ¿Cómo esos dragones son sometidos por las que parecen llevarlos atados con un lazo de sutileza? Estas páginas buscan acercarse a ese secreto, conmovedor o perturbador, aunque para ello debamos primero descubrir las condiciones que producen unos monstruos con rostro humano, mezcla de terror y poesía, lo mejor y lo peor de la civilización.

From the myths told about Africa’s past to the erasure of Black contributions, The Miseducation of the Black Diaspora uncovers how colonial narratives continue to shape the identity and history of Africa's diaspora worldwide. Drawing on the author's personal experience and global events, the book challenges distorted truths and urges its listeners to reclaim and embrace their heritage as a way of resisting mental colonisation. The Miseducation of the Black Diaspora by Tawanda Bwerudza exposes racism’s roots, and empowers identity and pride.

Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States and is now legally available to one in five Americans. This growing social and political movement heralds the possibility of a new era of choice in dying. Yet very little is publicly known about how medical aid-in-dying laws affect ordinary citizens once they are put into practice.

Nesta nova temporada, Apartheid Tropical narra como, diante do fracasso das promessas constitucionais, a população negra precisou se reorganizar e reinventar a resistência.

Race isn’t real. But it changed the world. This book is the full history of how, and why, we made it up. From ancient tribal instincts to Enlightenment pseudoscience, from slavery and empire to redlining and algorithmic bias, Black and White walks through the invention of race as a system: where it started, how it spread, and why it still shapes everything. Biology didn’t create race. Power did. And the only way to dismantle the system is to understand how it was built. Brutal, clear, and global in scope, Black and White is a bullet through the myth and a blueprint for seeing through the lie.

For centuries, people have argued about whether humans are moral animals—good or bad, cooperative or competitive, altruistic or selfish. The debates continue today, dressed up in the language of modern science. In this book, Jonathan R. Goodman makes the case for synthesizing the two sides. Drawing on insights from anthropology, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, he argues that rather than being fundamentally cooperative or competitive, we are capable of being both—and of exploiting each other when there is an opportunity to do so.

Our society is constantly made to serve the needs of two systems: technology and capitalism. Neither exists outside humans, but both are treated as above and beyond us. The Mechanic and the Luddite offers the critical tools needed to deconstruct these systems—how they work, whom they work for, and what work they do in our lives. With signature style and energy, Jathan Sadowski presents a provocative one-stop shop for understanding the political economy of technology and capitalism.

Die Jahre zwischen den großen Kriegen gelten bis heute als die wichtigste Epoche der modernen deutschen Geistesgeschichte, und an keinem Ort verdichtet sich die geistige Produktivität dieser Zeit auf so einzigartige Weise wie in der Universitätsstadt Marburg.

Leben in einer männergemachten Welt schlaucht: angefangen bei ungleichen Job- und Gehaltsaussichten über fragwürdige Sprach- und Schönheitsnormen bis hin zu gravierenden Ungerechtigkeiten in Medizin oder Sexualität. Fundiert und unterhaltsam zeigt Evelyn Höllrigl Tschaikner, was kleine Gesten, alltägliche Handlungen und leicht umsetzbare Strategien bewirken. Eine Form der Revolution im Kleinen, die zeigt: so nicht.

Angry: One Black Woman’s Playbook for Surviving Stereotypes and Saving Her Sanity is not a rage-fueled manifesto—it’s a revelation. With her signature blend of humor, honesty, and holy side-eye, author India Trotter dismantles the “angry Black woman” stereotype and exposes what’s really beneath it: exhaustion, boundary violations, microaggressions, and the constant demand to be “strong” even when breaking.

Aquí, Adrián Chávez pone su experiencia en la lingüística y en la divulgación al servicio de desenmarañar el entramado de fake news, teorías conspirativas y pseudociencias que pueblan el entorno digital, donde las certezas se multiplican como cabezas de Hidra. Estas páginas —más que un dedo acusatorio— son la pausa antes de dar clic en un titular: una exploración de qué se dice y cómo, de quién enuncia y con qué fin, de la diferencia entre malinformar y desinformar, y de cómo la posverdad se delata con la lengua.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Denial of Death explores how people and cultures around the world have reacted to the concept of death from celebrated cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life’s work, The Denial of Death is...

BLACK MAN CAN’T DO is a bold, unfiltered journey into the life of a Black man navigating the raw, demanding world of heavy equipment operations—an industry built on muscle, precision, and an unspoken racial divide. James A Rietz exposes the truth behind the construction fences, where bulldozers, cranes, and excavators roar—and so do centuries-old stereotypes. As the only Black face on many job sites, James didn’t just learn how to move earth—he learned how to move mountains of doubt, prejudice, and exclusion.