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Social Capital and Peace-Building
Creating and Resolving Conflict with Trust and Social Networks
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
This new edited collection illustrates the paradoxical power of social capital in creating and resolving conflict.
This is the first book to bring the two faces of social capital together in a single volume, and includes previously unpublished case studies, statistical analyses, and theoretical...
Status, Power and Ritual Interaction
A Relational Reading of Durkheim, Goffman and Collins
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Sociologists Émile Durkheim, Erving Goffman and Randall Collins broadly suppose that ritual is foundational for social life. By contrast, this book argues that ritual is merely surface, beneath which lie status and power, the behavioral dimensions that drive all social interaction. Status, Power...
Analyzing Social Policy
Multiple Perspectives for Critically Understanding and Evaluating Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
From formulation to implementation, an approach to the analysis of social policy through the lens of research
Analyzing Social Policy prepares professionals and students to make better informed decisions related to identifying and understanding the intricacies and potential impact of social...
Explaining Social Behavior
More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
In this new edition of his critically acclaimed book, Jon Elster examines the nature of social behavior, proposing choice as the central concept of the social sciences. Extensively revised throughout, the book offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms, drawing on many case studies and experiments...
by Nicky Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This textbook brings social psychology up to date, including material on social networking, gaming and other aspects of modern living, as well as covering established theories, debates and research. The book explores a number of fascinating topics, including:
Both traditional and contemporary...
Social Psychology
The Basics
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Social psychology explores some of the most important questions we face as people: how do we create and understand the social self? How does our 'social mind' influence the volition and content of thoughts and behaviour? How do we relate to other individuals and groups and the myriad forms and processes...
Elementary Forms of Social Relations
Status, power and reference groups
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Elementary Forms of Social Relations introduces the reader to social life as a perpetual quest by individuals to gain attention, respect and regard (status) accompanied by an effort to marshal defensive and offensive means (power) to overcome the reluctance of others to grant status. This work is...
Wrestling with the Angel
Experiments in Symbolic Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Wrestling with the Angel is a meditation on contemporary political, legal, and social theory from a psychoanalytic perspective. It argues for the enabling function of formal and symbolic constraints in sustaining desire as a source of creativity, innovation, and social change.
The book begins...
Black flags and social movements
A sociological analysis of movement anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
Anarchism may be the most misunderstood political ideology of the modern era, and one of the least studied social movements by English-speaking scholars. Black flags and social movements addresses this deficit with an in-depth analysis of contemporary anarchist movements as interpreted by social movement...
by Alexa Hepburn
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2002
'this book provides an excellent introduction to contemporary Critical Social Psychology, which anyone exploring the field would do well to read.'
- Psychology in Society
'a very accessible introduction... lively and engaging.... Discussion questions are uncharacteristicaly thought-provoking,...
by Razie Mah
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
How do humans process “what is before us”?The answer is construction. Those familiar with Kenneth Gergen’s interpretive psychology are acquainted with one type of construction: social construction. But what contrasts with social construction? The answer is: sensible construction.Pascal Boyer’s...
by David Howe
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
This textbook offers the perfect introduction to the complex world of social work theory, giving a concise yet comprehensive overview of how practice is influenced by each theoretical approach described. The book begins by outlining the origins and historical context of social work, which allows the...
Using Narrative in Social Research
Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
'Jane Elliott's examination of the use of "narrative" within the broad context of social science inquiry is a must-read for both qualitative and quantitative researchers, novice and expert alike' - Journal of Advanced Nursing
`This important book does an impressive job of synthesising...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Since the early 1970s, social psychology has been in crisis. At the time Reconstructing Social Psychology (Armistead) provided a critical review of theories and assumptions in the discipline. Originally published in 1990, this title not only updates that review but illustrates the ways in which assumptions...