Social Science category: 175800 books
Intervention Research
Design and Development for Human Service
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
This interdisciplinary book presents a comprehensive conceptual and methodological treatment of intervention research, a developing area of empirical inquiry that aims to make research more directly relevant and applicable to practice. Intervention Research contains original chapters by the most highly...
Objects and Materials
A Routledge Companion
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to practice, to object-mediated relations, to non-human agency and to the affective dimensions of human sociality. This Companion focuses on the objects and...
Governing the Present
Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The literature on governmentality has had a major impact across the social sciences over the past decade, and much of this has drawn upon the pioneering work by Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose. This volume will bring together key papers from their work for the first time, including those that set out...
Media in the Ubiquitous Era
Ambient, Social and Gaming Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Media in the ubiquitous area is undergoing a tremendous change. Social media and Web 2.0 are applied in ever more diverse practices both in private and public communities and digital games and play are currently undergoing many transformations. Traditional communication and expression modalities are...
by Alex Broom
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
An inevitable and universal experience, dying is experienced by individuals in different ways, often related to the character of our relationships, family structures, gender identities, cultural backgrounds, and economic means. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork with patients, carers and health...
Spaces of Contention
Spatialities and Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
As social movements have become more complex, geographers are increasingly studying the spatial dynamics of collective resistance and sociologists and political scientists increasingly analyzing the role of space, place and scale in contentious political activity. Occupying a position at the intersection...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the Global South, the conceptual tools used to study cities are distilled disproportionately from research on the highly developed cities of the Global North. With urban inequality widely recognized...
Music, Health and Wellbeing
Exploring Music for Health Equity and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book explores the power music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and wellbeing. It examines music participation as a determinant of wellbeing and as a transformative tool to impact on wider social, cultural and environmental conditions. Uniquely, in this...
Museums and Social Activism
Engaged Protest
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Museums and Social Activism is the first study to bring together historical accounts of the African American and later American Indian civil rights-related social and reform movements that took place on the Smithsonian Mall through the 1960s and 1970s in Washington DC with the significant but unknown...
Race Decoded
The Genomic Fight for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
In 2000, with the success of the Human Genome Project, scientists declared the death of race in biology and medicine. But within five years, many of these same scientists had reversed course and embarked upon a new hunt for the biological meaning of race. Drawing on personal interviews and life stories,...
At Risk
Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2009
In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned...
Information Communication Technology and Social Transformation
A Social and Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book argues that information communication technologies are not creating new forms of social structure, but rather altering long-standing institutions and amplifying existing trends of social change that have their origins in ancient times. Using a comparative historical perspective, it analyzes...
by Eva Bretones Peregrina, Neus Alberich González, Pep Ros Nicolau
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2015
La idea de escribir un libro sobre cómo podemos utilizar y aplicar las historias de vida en la educación social se sustenta en la visión que los autores tenemos de esta técnica. Una visión que hunde sus raíces en nuestra formación antropológica y en nuestra experiencia práctica en contextos...
Social, Casual and Mobile Games
The Changing Gaming Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Social, casual and mobile games, played on devices such as smartphones, tablets, or PCs and accessed through online social networks, have become extremely popular, and are changing the ways in which games are designed, understood, and played. These games have sparked a revolution as more people from...