Social category: 205239 books
A MORTE DO HOMO SAPIENS
A AÇÃO IRRACIONAL COMO VALOR SOCIAL
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 16, 2014
“A sociedade pós-moderna, no alvorecer do século XXI, idolatra e se orgulha das máquinas que pensam. E, numa outra via paradoxal, suspeita e não vê com bons olhos os homens que, negando se tornarem meros apêndices delas, ainda ousam querer pensar.” (autor desconhecido)
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SABER É PODER
O BÁSICO QUE VOCÊ PRECISA SABER PARA NÃO SER UM ALIENADO
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 13, 2015
(A5, 215 PÁGINAS) - Não resta-nos dúvidas de que “Saber é Poder”, frase esta proferida por Francis Bacon (1561-1626), um dos fundadores do chamado método indutivo de investigação científica. No mundo em que se vive, todavia, marcado este pela exclusão social, pela ideologia, pelo individualismo,...
by Greg Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This book offers a new and fresh approach to understanding social movements. It provides interdisciplinary perspectives on social and cultural protest and contentious politics. It considers major theories and concepts, which are presented in an accessible and engaging format. Historical and contemporary...
Social Network Analysis
Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 1994
Social network analysis is used widely in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as in economics, marketing, and industrial engineering. The social network perspective focuses on relationships among social entities and is an important addition to standard social and behavioral research, which...
by Robin Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Social Work and Integrated Care draws on the latest research, practice and theory to explore integration within both child and adult services. Although all the home nations in the UK view integrated care as a top priority within health and social care policy, many people continue to experience fragmented...
Social Solutions for Climate Change
How to inspire action through social media
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Do you have an important message to communicate with the world, but don’t know how? Are you a researcher, scientist, or environmentalist who has real solutions to affect global change and potentially turn things around? Have you developed an online forum to share that knowledge? Publishing your...
by Malcolm Payne, Robert Adams, Lena Dominelli
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
In this clear and insightful book, best selling author Malcolm Payne analyses the major elements of social care practice, explaining how caring and social work skills and values are crucial to effective social care.
Through theory, research evidence and skill development, Payne identifies...
Identity and Cultural Diversity
What social psychology can teach us
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Identity and Cultural Diversity examines immigration and its effect on diversity from a social psychological perspective. Immigration increases cultural diversity and raises difficult questions of belonging, adaptation, and the unity of societies: questions of identity may be felt by people struggling...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Mechanisms are very much a part of social life. For example, we can see that inequality has tended to increase over time, and that cities can become segregated. But how do such mechanisms work? Analytical sociology is an influential approach to sociology which holds that explanations of social phenomena...
Social Research Methods by Example
Applications in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Social Research Methods by Example shows students how researchers carry out work on the cutting edge of social science. The authors illustrate every point through engaging, thought-provoking examples from real research. The language is jargon-free, making research methods less intimidating and more...
by James W. Drisko, Melissa D. Grady
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2019
The second edition of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Social Work continues to bridge the gap between social work research and clinical practice, presenting EBP as both an effective approach to social work and a broader social movement. Building on the models and insights outlined in the first...
Social Integration and Intermarriage in Europe
Islam, Partner-Choices and Parental Influence
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Intergroup friendships and marriages are regarded as the most important indicators of immigrants’ social integration, as they represent the most intimate ties that can exist between minority and majority group members. Drawing on unique, large-scale, cross-national survey data, encompassing natives...
International Handbook of Migration, Minorities and Education
Understanding Cultural and Social Differences in Processes of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Migrants and minorities are always at risk of being caught in essentialized cultural definitions and being denied the right to express their cultural preferences because they are perceived as threats to social cohesion. Migrants and minorities respond to these difficulties in multiple ways — as...
Social Learning and Innovation in Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers
Evolutionary and Ethnographic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
This is the first book to examine social learning and innovation in hunter–gatherers from around the world. More is known about social learning in chimpanzees and nonhuman primates than is known about social learning in hunter–gatherers, a way of life that characterized most of human history....