Social Science category: 175800 books
by Terri Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
If your child is struggling with social science, then this book is for you; the short book includes over 50 quiz style questions.
This subject comes from the book “Sixth Grade Social Science (For Homeschool or Extra Practice)”; it more thoroughly covers more Sixth...
Ontological Politics in a Disposable World
The New Mastery of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book explores the intertwining of politics and ontology, shedding light on the ways in which, as our ability to investigate, regulate, appropriate, ’enhance’ and destroy material reality have developed, so new social scientific accounts of nature and our relationship with it have emerged,...
Analysing social policy concepts and language
Comparative and Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Social policy scholars and practitioners work with concepts such as “welfare state” and “social security” but where do these concepts come from and how has their meaning changed over time? Which are the dominant social policy concepts and how are they contested? What characterises social policy...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Traditional explorations of war look through the lens of history and military science, focusing on big events, big battles, and big generals. By contrast, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspective*** ***views war through the lens of the social sciences, looking at the causes, processes...
Great Expectations
The Social Sciences in Great Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The social sciences in the United Kingdom are extensive, diverse and influential. At any one time, more than four million students study the social sciences in schools; and about a half million students study social science in universities. Total university income from the social sciences is at the...
Europe’s New Scientific Elite
Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Winner of the Harald Kaufmann Prize for Senior Researchers, 2018
This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Based on a study of the European Research...
Exaggerated Claims?
The ESRC, 50 Years On
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
"David Walker’s analysis is incisive and hard hitting. Anyone who believes in the power of social science to inform better policy making should take his criticisms seriously."
- Sue Duncan, Former Chief Government Social Researcher and Head of the Government Social Research Service
"David...
Making Realism Work
Realist Social Theory and Empirical Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2005
In this innovative book, theorists and researchers from various social science disciplines explore the potential of realist social theory for empirical research. The examples are drawn from a wide range of fields health and medicine, crime, housing, sociolinguistics, development theory and deal with...
Exploring welfare debates
Key concepts and questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Visually and pedagogically rich, this wide-ranging introduction to key concepts and debates in welfare uses an innovative, question-based narrative to highlight the importance of theory to understanding welfare. In particular, it: • Introduces concepts that are core to how policy is formulated and...
by Jamie Gough, Aram Eisenschitz, Andrew McCulloch
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
To varying extents in developed countries a minority of the population suffers from deprivation. Britain’s Labour government in particular has sought to deal with this through the notion of 'social exclusion', and similar ideas have been developed in other countries. This important text explores...
How Social Science Can Help Us Make Better Choices
Optimal Rationality in Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
In a world beset with problems, how can we encourage people to act differently? It seems almost daily that new studies emerge telling us how human action is causing planetary degradation, how changes to our diets could lead to us living longer healthier lives, or that financially we are in danger...
Social Science Goes to War
The Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece was embedded groups of mixed military and civilian personnel, known as Human Terrain Teams (HTTs),...
Modernism and the Social Sciences
Anglo-American Exchanges, c.1918–1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
This wide-ranging and original study reveals how prevalent modernism has become in the social sciences. With contributions from a number of leading international scholars, Modernism and the Social Sciences explores the rise and nature of modernist tropes and approaches within social sciences such...
Explaining Social Behavior
More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
In this new edition of his critically acclaimed book, Jon Elster examines the nature of social behavior, proposing choice as the central concept of the social sciences. Extensively revised throughout, the book offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms, drawing on many case studies and experiments...