Social Science category: 175800 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
This book explores the view that normative behaviour is part of a complex of social mechanisms, processes and narratives that are constantly shifting. From this perspective, norms are not a kind of self-contained social object or fact, but rather an interplay of many things that we label as norms...
by Anamaria Berea
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
This book integrates current advances in biology, economics of information and linguistics research through applications using agent-based modeling and social network analysis to develop scenarios of communication and language emergence in the social aspects of biological communications. The book...
Communicating Genetics
Visualizations and Representations
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book examines the visual representations used in the popular communication of genetics. Drawing upon public science communication theories, information design theories, and social semiotics, the book offers both in-depth analyses and high-level synthesis of how genetics is visualized for the...
Mind the Gap
Perspectives on Policy Evaluation and the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Over the past twenty to thirty years, evaluation has become increasingly important to the field of public policy. The number of people involved and specializing in evaluation has also increased markedly. Evidence of this trend can be found in the International Atlas of Evaluation, the establishment...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book introduces and reviews recent advances in the field in a comprehensive and non-technical way by focusing on the potential of emerging citizen-science and social-computation frameworks, coupled with the latest theoretical and modeling tools developed by physicists, mathematicians, computer...
Handbook of Politics
State and Society in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2009
Political sociology is the interdisciplinary study of power and the intersection of personality, society and politics. The field also examines how the political process is affected by major social trends as well as exploring how social policies are altered by various social forces.
Political...
Statistics for Social Understanding
With Stata and SPSS
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Statistics for Social Understanding: With Stata and SPSS introduces students to the way statistics is used in the social sciences--as a tool for advancing understanding of the social world. Written in an engaging and clear voice and based on the latest research on the teaching and learning of quantitative...
Refuge and Resilience
Promoting Resilience and Mental Health among Resettled Refugees and Forced Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Taking an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on the social and psychological resources that promote resilience among forced migrants, this book presents theory and evidence about what keeps refugees healthy during resettlement. The book draws on contributions from cultural psychiatry, anthropology,...
Grounding Global Climate Change
Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This book traces the evolution of climate change research, which, long dominated by the natural sciences, now sees greater involvement with disciplines studying the socio-cultural implications of change. In their introduction, the editors chart the changing role of the social and cultural sciences,...
Environmentalism and Cultural Theory
Exploring the Role of Anthropology in Environmental Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement, in the wider community, of the role of social science in the public debate on sustainability. At the same time, the concept of `culture', once the property...
Remaking Reality
Nature at the Millenium
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
This book rejects apocalyptic pronouncements that the end of the millenium represents the 'end' of nature as well. Remaking Reality brings together contributors from across the human sciences who argue that a notion of 'social nature' provides great hope for the future. Applying a variety of theoretical...
Biotechnology
Between Commerce and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
"While other books have addressed isolated aspects of recent developments in the biomedical sciences, Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society is the first book tgo engage with the full range of biotechnology's implications for social science and for society at large." -Professor...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
A unique and comprehensive study on social science research, this book highlights the status, issues, roadblocks and challenges of the field in India and certain select nations of the world. It conducts key cross-comparisons with existing literature in the area, and discusses aid policies and decisions,...
Social Geographies
From Difference to Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
How do we describe ourselves?
Where have we, do we, will we, live our lives?
Why are the differences between people a source of tension?
How can social change occur?
Social geography can assist in addressing these questions. It provides ways of understanding and living...