Social Science category: 175800 books
Undone Science
Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
A theoretical integration of science and technology studies and social movement studies that finds both common ground and “undone” research.
As the fields of social movement studies (SMS) and science and technology studies (STS) have diversified in topical focus, they have moved closer...
Playing with Purpose
Adventures in Performative Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Distilling decades of work spanning their prestigious careers, Mary M. and Kenneth J. Gergen make a strong case for enriching the social sciences through performative work. They present a unique exploration of the origins of performative social science and provide an intellectually rich overview of...
The Misinformation Age
How False Beliefs Spread
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
The social dynamics of “alternative facts”: why what you believe depends on who you know
Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O'Connor and...
Routledge Handbook of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Perspectives from Social Science and Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The provision and use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been growing globally over the last 40 years. As CAM develops alongside - and sometimes integrates with - conventional medicine, this handbook provides the first major overview of its regulation and professionalization...
Science In Society
An Introduction to Social Studies of Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
The world around us is continually being shaped by science, and by society’s relationship to it. In recent years sociologists have been increasingly preoccupied with the latter, and now in this fascinating book, Massimiano Bucchi provides a brief introduction to this topical issue.
Bucchi...
by Finn Aaserud
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
How and why do complex scientific disciplines such as physics change emphasis from one sub-discipline to another? Do such transitions stem entirely from developments within the discipline itself or also from external factors?
This book addresses these questions by examining the transition from...
A Social History of Truth
Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another?
In A Social History of Truth, Shapin engages these universal questions through an elegant recreation of a crucial...
Methods That Matter
Integrating Mixed Methods for More Effective Social Science Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
To do research that really makes a difference—the authors of this book argue—social scientists need questions and methods that reflect the complexity of the world. Bringing together a consortium of voices across a variety of fields, Methods that Matter offers compelling and successful examples...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern. Poverty is present in some form in every society in the world, and has serious implications for everything from health and well-being to identity...
Aspects Of Enlightenment
Social Theory And The Ethics Of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
This is an introductory account of social theory and the central role of enlightenment within it. Tom Osborne argues that: contemporary social theory can only fail when viewed as a "science of society", and rather than focusing upon the question of society or even "modernity" should...
by John D. Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
The "science wars" have been raging for decades, raising many questions about the power of science. Some critics claim that science, including social science, is "merely a social construction" that fallible humans have created with words and other symbols. If this is true, is science...
Social Theory after the Internet
Media, Technology, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world. Nor has this understanding been helped by disciplinary specialization and a continual focus on the latest innovations....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume grew out of a discussion between the editors at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology meeting in Nashville in 1981. For many years the Society has played a leading role in encouraging rigorous and sophisticated research. Yet, our discussion that day was occupied with what seemed...
by Cindy Kam, Robert J Franzese
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Social scientists study complex phenomena about which they often propose intricate hypotheses tested with linear-interactive or multiplicative terms. While interaction terms are hardly new to social science research, researchers have yet to develop a common methodology for using and interpreting them....