Social Science category: 175800 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
TThis book illustrates recent advances in applications of partial order theory and Hasse diagram techniques to data analysis, mainly in the socio-economic and environmental sciences. For years, partial order theory has been considered a fundamental branch of mathematics of only theoretical interest....
The Politics of Knowledge in Central Asia
Science between Marx and the Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Through careful historical and ethnographic research and extensive use of local scholarly works, this book provides a persuasive and careful analysis of the production of knowledge in Central Asia. The author demonstrates that classical theories of science and society are inadequate for understanding...
by Tom B. Bottomore
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
First published in 1975, this collection of essays embodies a conception of sociological thought as a critical analysis of social theories and doctrines, of social institutions and political regimes, of recent social movements. They deal, in particular, with some conservative versions of sociology...
Social Welfare Policy for a Sustainable Future
The U.S. in Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Unique in its use of a sustainability framework, Social Welfare Policy for a Sustainable Future by Katherine S. van Wormer and Rosemary J. Link goes beyond U.S. borders to examine U.S. government policies—including child welfare, social services, health care, and criminal justice—within a global...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
This unique volume seeks both to historicize and to deconstruct the pervasive, almost ritualistic, association of Africa with forms of terrorism as well as extreme violence, the latter bordering on and including genocide.
Africa is tendentiously associated with violence in the popular and academic...
Civil Society and Political Representation in Latin America (2010-2015)
Towards a Divorce Between Social Movements and Political Parties?
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This book presents in-depth analyses of the wave of political protest and unrest that spread throughout Latin America between 2010 and 2015 in order to answer a question that has been challenging social scientists all over the region: why some countries have faced a divorce between their social movements...
by Kathrin Horschelmann, Lorraine van Blerk
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. Here, Horschelmann and van Blerk provide a vivid picture of children and youths in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions.
Considering the...
Citizenship and Social Movements
Perspectives from the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on North America and western Europe, often neglecting the significance of collective action in the global South. Citizenship and Social Movements seeks to partially redress this imbalance with case studies from Brazil, India, Bangladesh,...
Sustainable Development and Green Communication
African and Asian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Offering a comprehensive overview of contemporary theoretical and programmatic issues in the fields of sustainability, culture, communication, development and social change, this book explores the relationship between communication and sustainability from a social change perspective.
Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond
At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
With discourses of ’crisis’ and ’disaster’ featuring strongly in contemporary discourses on contemporary society, this book brings together critical perspectives from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the idea of ’crisis’ as inherently related to power dynamics and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This book presents ground-breaking theoretical, and empirical knowledge to produce a fine-grained and encompassing understanding of the costs and benefits that different groups of Asian migrants, moving between different countries in Asia and in the West, experience. The contributors—all specialist...
Territories of Difference
Place, Movements, Life, Redes
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement...
Inequality and Prosperity
Social Europe vs. Liberal America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What are the relative merits of the American and European socioeconomic systems? Long-standing debates have heated up in recent years with the expansion of the European Union and increasingly sharp political and cultural differences between the United States and Europe. In Inequality and Prosperity,...
by Meredith W Watts Jr
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Here is an important book for social scientists interested in the influence of gender on certain types of behavior. Several perspectives are presented on the general topic of biopolitics and gender, including the points of view of brain science, endocrinology, ethology, psychophysiology, and such...