Social Science category: 175800 books
Neuroscience and Social Science
The Missing Link
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This book seeks to build bridges between neuroscience and social science empirical researchers and theorists working around the world, integrating perspectives from both fields, separating real from spurious divides between them and delineating new challenges for future investigation. Since its inception...
The Social Life of DNA
Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The unexpected story of how genetic testing is affecting race in America
We know DNA is a master key that unlocks medical and forensic secrets, but its genealogical life is both revelatory and endlessly fascinating. Tracing genealogy is now the second-most popular hobby amongst Americans, as...
Return to Meaning
A Social Science with Something to Say
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but the proliferation of meaningless research, of no value to society, and modest value to its authors - apart from securing employment and promotion. The explosion of published outputs,...
Decoding the Social World
Data Science and the Unintended Consequences of Communication
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
How data science and the analysis of networks help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences.
Social life is full of paradoxes. Our intentional actions often trigger outcomes that we did not intend or even envision. How do we explain those unintended effects and what can we do to regulate...
The Limits of Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences
The Significance of Gödel's Incompleteness Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Current mathematical models are notoriously unreliable in describing the time evolution of unexpected social phenomena, from financial crashes to revolution. Can such events be forecast? Can we compute probabilities about them? Can we model them? This book investigates and attempts to answer these...
by Michael Mulkay
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
How far is scientific knowledge a product of social life? In addressing this question, the major contributors to the sociology of knowledge have agreed that the conclusions of science are dependent on social action only in a very special and limited sense. In Science and the Sociology of Knowledge...
by Sean Gailmard
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Written specifically for graduate students and practitioners beginning social science research, Statistical Modeling and Inference for Social Science covers the essential statistical tools, models and theories that make up the social scientist's toolkit. Assuming no prior knowledge of statistics,...
Social Physics
How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
From one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour of the new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence
If the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it is MIT’s Alex “Sandy” Pentland....
Making Social Science Matter
Why Social Inquiry Fails and How it Can Succeed Again
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
Making Social Science Matter presents an exciting new approach to the social and behavioral sciences including theoretical argument, methodological guidelines, and examples of practical application. Why has social science failed in attempts to emulate natural science and produce normal theory? Bent...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Are human beings less violent than before? Why do we adopt certain moral and political judgements? Why is the gap between rich and poor getting bigger? How do we decide which criminal policies are effective? What is the Population Challenge for the 21st Century? What is social science?
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Social Problems, Social Issues, Social Science
The Society Papers
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Sociology has tackled some of the most formidable problems that confront contemporary society: inequality, homelessness, violence, gender, and many more. Sociologists assert that hypotheses can be formulated and tested against empirical evidence, that faulty viewpoints can be uncovered and discarded,...
by Alexander Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Philosophy of Social Science provides a tightly argued yet accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, including economics, anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, history, and the disciplines emerging at the intersections of these subjects with...
Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences
The state of the art
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
For the past two decades, ‘complexity’ has informed a range of work across the social sciences. There are diverse schools of complexity thinking, and authors have used these ideas in a multiplicity of ways, from health inequalities to the organization of large scale firms. Some understand complexity...
Trends and Issues in Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science
Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science (ICIBSoS 2016), 5-6 November 2016, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Trends and Issues in Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science contains papers presented at the 5th International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science 2016 (ICIBSoS 2016), held 5-6 November 2016 in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. The 24 papers cover every discipline in all fields of...