Methodology category: 1297 books

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In My Ever After

Immortality and Its Critics

by Robert Geis
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010

In My Ever After is not a mass media style 'general readership' book on immortality; rather, it is an argument against a current school —- neurophilosophy's virtual equation of consciousness and the world. Without exposing the equation's weaknesses, the question of immortality, Geis argues, is moot....
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by Hao Wang
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016

First published in 1974. Despite the tendency of contemporary analytic philosophy to put logic and mathematics at a central position, the author argues it failed to appreciate or account for their rich content. Through discussions of such mathematical concepts as number, the continuum, set, proof...
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Living Beyond the Nation

European Transnational Social Fields and Identifications

by Tea Golob
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016

The book provides key insights in experiencing lives and attitudes of the increasing number of people who reside beyond national boundaries and strategically create their life-paths. It is a brief but comprehensive introduction to the latest theoretical developments combining issues of reflexivity...
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by Ken Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

It has been said, that the wealth a person accumulates is proportional to the number of people that are served. Thomas Edison, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are examples. Past problems confronted from local communities to individual governments and even the interactions between national governments. Today,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017

Rapid detection and indication of the microbiological quality of liquids is an emerging topic that has high potential for numerous applications in the fields of environmental monitoring, industrial process control and medical surveillance. Latest technologies allow online and near-real-time quantitative...
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Mentoring, Methods, and Movements

Colloquium in Honor of Terence K. Hopkins by His Former Students and the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations

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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017

Terence Kilbourne Hopkins (1929-1997) was a hidden gem of the field of world-systems studies who contributed indispensably to its foundation amid a lifelong collaboration and friendship with Immanuel Wallerstein. His pedagogical humanism, methodological rigor, and scientific commitment to social change,...
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Archaeological Thinking

How to Make Sense of the Past

by Charles E. Orser Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014

How do archaeologists think? How do they use the scattered and often-fragmentary remains from the past—both historical and excavated—to create meaningful, sensible interpretations of human history? In Archaeological Thinking, Charles E. Orser, Jr., provides a commonsense guide to applying critical...
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Incarceration Nation

Investigative Prison Poems of Hope and Terror

by Stephen John Hartnett
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003

Stephen Hartnett merges the evocative power of poetry with scholarly research to produce both a genre-bending critique of the prison industrial complex and an innovative new method of qualitative research. Based on ten years of teaching in, writing about, and protesting at prisons across America,...
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Quand le social vient au sens

Philosophie des sciences historiques et sociales

by Johann Michel
Language: French
Release Date: July 24, 2015

Quand le social vient au sens ouvre un dialogue novateur entre philosophie et sciences sociales et historiques, à la croisée de la tradition socio-phénoménologique héritée de l’œuvre pionnière de Schütz et de la tradition herméneutique de Dilthey à Ricœur. Un même fil conducteur parcourt...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013

Without of course adopting a Platonic metaphysics, the eighteenth-century philosophes were Grecophiles who regarded the Athenian philosophers as their intellectual forbearers and mentors. So powerful was their identification with c1assification that ancient ideas were taken as keys to the design of...
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Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate

Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science

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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014

This collection of papers investigates the most recent debates about individualism and holism in the philosophy of social science. The debates revolve mainly around two issues: firstly, whether social phenomena exist sui generis and how they relate to individuals. This is the focus of discussions...
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Bourdieu and Data Analysis

Methodological Principles and Practice

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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014

Uniquely amongst the numerous publications to appear on the work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, this book deals with data analysis, examining a range of techniques and instruments. After an introductory chapter outlining the key principles of Bourdieu’s theory, the book presents...
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Socializing Metaphysics

The Nature of Social Reality

by Frederick Schmitt
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004

Human life is conducted within a network of social relations, social groups, and societies. Grasping the implications of that fact starts with understanding social metaphysics. Social metaphysics provides a foundation for social theory, as well as for social epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy...
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by B. Milner, V. Rapoport, L. Yevenko
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

This book is the result of extensive studies by the authors in the fields of research in. and analysis and design of. the system of management of production organizations under a socialist econ­ omy. The management of the national economy in the USSR is developed on a planned basis. This work is...
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