Social Science category: 175800 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Georges Benko «Societies are much messier than our theories of them» Michael Mann The Sources of Social Power 1 Towards a unified social theory Why are there communication problems between the different disciplines of the social sciences? And why should there be so much misunderstanding? Most probably...
Worlds of ScienceCraft
New Horizons in Sociology, Philosophy, and Science Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy. Beginning with the historical foundations of civilization and progress, assumptions about the categories we use to talk about...
Sixth Grade Social Science
For Homeschool or Extra Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Over 50 discussion questions and activities, and 50 quiz questions, fill this comprehensive social science book. The book covers the following topics:
Paleolithic-Agricultural Revolution, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Kush, Ancient Hebrews, Ancient Greece, Ancient India, Ancient China, and Ancient...
First Grade Social Science
For Homeschool or Extra Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Over 50 discussion questions and activities, and 50 quiz questions, fill this comprehensive social science book. The book covers the following topics:
Basic Economic Concepts, Life and Culture, Geography, Native Americans, Government, and Symbols.
If you are homeschooling (or if you...
Methodological Cognitivism
Vol. 1: Mind, Rationality, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
This book deals with the cognitive foundation of the theory of social action. The social sciences are still guided by models of social action, far from the empirical reality of the psychology of action. While economics seems to have made greater progress in accepting the changes to the theory of...
Social Justice and Library Work
A Guide to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Although they may not have always been explicitly stated, library work has always had normative goals. Until recently, such goals have largely been abstract; they are things like knowledge creation, education, forwarding science, preserving history, supporting democracy, and safeguarding civilization....
Hybrid Geographies
Natures Cultures Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
`Hybrid Geographies is one of the most original and important contributions to our field in the last 30 years. At once immensley provocative and productive, it is written with uncommon clarity and grace, and promises to breathe new life not only into geographical inquiry but into critical practice...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book focuses on social transformations as one of the central topics in the social sciences. The study of European social transformations is very valuable in the context of universal discussions within social sciences: explaining invariable, universal attributes of societies and examining changing...
Ways of Knowing
Competing Methodologies in Social and Political Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
The third edition of this popular, innovative and engaging textbook introduces students to the various methods of modern social science, explaining how these have emerged, their strengths and limitations for understanding the world in which we live, and how it is possible to combine methodological...
Blinded by science
The social implications of epigenetics and neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In recent years, new areas of biology, especially epigenetics and neuroscience, have enthralled the public imagination. They have been used as powerful arguments for developing social policy in a particular direction, from early intervention in the lives of disadvantaged children to seeking 'biomarkers'...
by Jose Armando Boninsegna, Barrie Bonsal, Darrell Corkal
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The drought of 2001-02 was, for example, the most recent large-area,...
Spatial Social Thought
Local Knowledge in Global Science Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This volume presents perspectives on spatially construed knowledge systems and their struggle to interrelate. Western social sciences tend to be wrapped up in very specific, exclusionary discourses, and Northern and Southern knowledge systems are sidelined. Spatial Social Thought reimagines the social sciences as a place of encounter between all spatially bound, parochial knowledge systems.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements is an innovative volume that presents a comprehensive exploration of social movement studies, mapping the field and expanding it to examine the recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. This volume brings...
The Assassination of William McKinley
Anarchism, Insanity, and the Birth of the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This book is an examination of the assassination of President William McKinley by Leon Czolgosz, an American-born purported anarchist. This work offers a new and different way to approach historical crime stories. Rather than accepting the idea that Czolgosz was inherently dangerous because of his...