Social Science category: 175800 books
Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries Vol 1
A Critical Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries: A Critical Annotated Bibliography, is comprised of critical essays accompanied by annotated bibliographies on a host of programs, models, strategies and concerns visàvis teaching and learning about social issues facing society. The primary...
Excel 2013 for Social Sciences Statistics
A Guide to Solving Practical Problems
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
This is the first book to show the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach social science statistics effectively. It is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical social science problems. If understanding statistics isn’t your...
Social Science Quotations
Who Said What, When, and Where
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Social Science Quotations has been prepared to meet an evident, unmet need in the literature of the social sciences. Writings on the lives and theories of individual social scientists abound, but there has been no fully documented collection of memorable quotations from the social sciences as a whole....
Empirical Foundations of the Common Good
What Theology Can Learn from Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The idea of the common good was borrowed by the Fathers of the early Catholic Church from the rich philosophical traditions of ancient Greece and Rome. It has been a fundamental part of Catholic thinking about social, political, and economic life throughout the Catholic intellectual tradition, from...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Computational Social Science is an interdisciplinary field where social science questions are investigated with modern computational tools. The book provides insight into different social problems and calls for new practices offered by computational social science, discussing methods for efficient...
Regional Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences (RCSTSS 2014)
Business and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This book features more than 95 papers that were presented at the bi-annual Regional Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences, RCSTSS 2014, which was organized by Universiti Teknologi MARA Pahang. It covers topics ranging from communications studies, politics, psychology, education, religious...
Societal Dynamics
Understanding Social Knowledge and Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
At both a micro-information level and a macro-societal level, the concepts of “knowledge” and “wisdom” are complementary – in both decisions and in social structures and institutions. At the decision level, knowledge is concerned with how to make a proper choice of means, where “best”...
Handbook of Social Resource Theory
Theoretical Extensions, Empirical Insights, and Social Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Our lives as human beings are characterized by production and use of social resources, material (e.g., money and physical possessions) as well as immaterial (such as love, knowledge, and power). Distribution and exchange of these resources are central to individuals’ physical and mental health and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
This book is the first compilation of its kind that brings together discussions of the evolution of scholarship in different branches of the Social Sciences. It presents a comprehensive multi-disciplinary text exploring the changing dynamics of the Social Sciences in Ghana, offering a broader perspective...
Social Science in Context
Historical, Sociological, and Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
One of the very first books to explore the role of the social sciences in historical, sociological, and global perspectives, it does so by analyzing the practical making and discursive aspects of social scientific disciplines, including sociology, economics, psychology, business and administration...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Social Ecology is an emerging concept situated in the field of critical social theory and new integrative sciences that addresses the complex and interrelated relationship between nature and society, offering a perspective on how environmental issues are embedded in a social context. Border landscapes...
by Tiago Moreira
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Ageing is widely recognised as one of the social and economic challenges in the contemporary, globalised world, for which scientific, technological and medical solutions are continuously sought. This book proposes that science and technology also played a crucial role in the creation and transformation...
by James T. Tedeschi
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The nature of social power, the ability of individuals to affect the behavior and belief of others, is central to any understanding of the dynamics of change in our society. It is therefore surprising that social scientists, and especially social psychologists, have devoted relatively little attention...
The Social Leap
The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
In the compelling popular science tradition of Sapiens and Guns, Germs, and Steel, a groundbreaking and eye-opening exploration that applies evolutionary science to provide a new perspective on human psychology, revealing how major challenges from our past have shaped some of the most fundamental...