Social Science category: 175800 books
Technology for Facilitating Humanity and Combating Social Deviations
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Technology has been used to perpetrate crimes against humans, animals, and the environment, which include racism, cyber-bulling, illegal pornography, torture, illegal trade of exotic species, irresponsible waste disposal, and other harmful aberrations of human behavior. Technology for Facilitating Humanity...
Church, state and social science in Ireland
Knowledge institutions and the rebalancing of power, 1937–73
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The immense power the Catholic Church once wielded in Ireland has considerably diminished over the last fifty years. During the same period the Irish state has pursued new economic and social development goals by wooing foreign investors and throwing the state's lot in with an ever-widening European...
by Andrew Holden
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Based upon a social science approach to understanding the significance of tourism in contemporary society, Andrew Holden’s fascinating book highlights tourism as a multidisciplinary area of study with rich and varied theoretical underpinnings.
Here, Holden introduces social science disciplines...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Network science is the key to managing social communities, designing the structure of efficient organizations and planning for sustainable development. This book applies network science to contemporary social policy problems. In the first part, tools of diffusion and team design are deployed to challenges...
Understanding social security 3e
Issues for policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
The political and economic landscape of UK social security provision has changed significantly since the 2008 financial crisis. This fully revised, restructured and updated 3rd edition of a go-to text book covers all the key policy changes and their implications since the elections of 2010 and 2015....
Australian Attitudes
Social and political analyses from the National Social Science Survey
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1989
Australian Attitudes presents a set of analyses from the National Social Science Survey which explore a wide range of interesting questions about the attitudes, values and behaviour of the Australian public. The authors combine academic rigour with easy-to-read prose to produce a book which will be...
The Secret Life of Cities
Social reproduction of everyday life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Contemporary urbanisation has two faces: global flows of people, money and information, and that of localised social and economic disparities. Recent research has focused on the headlines of global cities as control centres of the world economy, and social and economic shock waves that have raged...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Making research in all fields of study readily available is imperative in order to circulate new information and upcoming trends. This is possible through the efficient utilization of collections of information. Maximizing Social Science Research Through Publicly Accessible Data Sets is an essential...
by Professor Vernon Gayle, Paul Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Across the social sciences, there is widespread agreement that quantitative longitudinal research designs offer analysts powerful scientific data resources. But, to date, many texts on analysing longitudinal social analysis surveys have been written from a statistical, rather than a social science...
Gerontology
Perspectives and Issues, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
This newest edition of a core graduate level textbook has added six new chapters to further enrich the ìgerontological imagination,î and encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of aging. Academically rigorous yet clear and accessible, the text provides the most current findings from...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Many issues such as access for the disabled, childcare facilities, environmental matters, and ethnic minority issues are excluded from town planning considerations by planning authorities. This book introduces the concept of `social town planning' to integrate planning policy and practices with the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Although social marketing is generally associated with communication activities and mass media, there exists a broader scope of social marketing that utilizes a systematic approach to defining concepts, behaviors, and products for promotion and distribution. Dynamics of Competitive Advantage and Consumer...
Managing Applied Social Research
Tools, Strategies, and Insights
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Essential management guidance for real-world applied research projects
Managing Applied Social Research equips you with the skills, strategies, and knowledge you need to effectively manage research projects. Written by a team of nationally-known researchers, this book covers the systematic...
Network-Oriented Modeling
Addressing Complexity of Cognitive, Affective and Social Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
This book presents a new approach that can be applied to complex, integrated individual and social human processes. It provides an alternative means of addressing complexity, better suited for its purpose than and effectively complementing traditional strategies involving isolation and separation...