Social Science category: 175800 books
Beyond Technocracy
Science, Politics and Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
"Will the ordinary man become a scientist?...Bucchi exposes the inadequacy of the ‘technochratic model’ but also the weaknesses of contemporary bioethics when facing the increasing dilemmas posed by science and technology to contemporary society."
-Il Corriere della Sera [Italian...
Training and supporting the care force
- that's nearly all of us
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
‘I expect that’s common sense, isn’t it?' This innocent comment on my job as a social care teacher always makes me smile. 'Training and supporting the care force’ is not common sense – it’s not rocket science either. Social carers generally are undervalued by society, so often undervalue...
Social Movements in Iran
Environmentalism and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Despite the growing significance of social movements worldwide, scholarship on the subject remains largely Western in nature, with studies written primarily by Western scholars and based on the experiences of Western cultures and societies. This book makes an important contribution to the study of...
by Nathan Emmerich
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
This collection focuses on virtue theory and the ethics of social science research. A moral philosophy that has been relatively neglected in the domain of research ethics, virtue ethics has much to offer those who wish to go beyond the difficulties generated by the biomedical model of research ethics...
People and Societies
Rom Harré and Designing the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Rom Harré has pushed the boundaries of our thinking about people and societies and has challenged the orthodox philosophy of science and social psychology. His countless books and articles have inspired generations of scholars in philosophy, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science and social theory....
Science and Democracy
Making Knowledge and Making Power in the Biosciences and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
In the life sciences and beyond, new developments in science and technology and the creation of new social orders go hand in hand. In short, science and society are simultaneously and reciprocally coproduced and changed. Scientific research not only produces new knowledge and technological systems...
by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: April 15, 2014
(FORMATO A5, 320 PÁGINAS)
(...)[1] “Para que o homem possa ser capaz de transformar (a sociedade ou a sua condição sócio-existencial) é preciso, antes, que ele seja capaz de transformar-se”.
Nesse sentido, para poder transformar-se é preciso também poder pensar e, sendo...
SABER É PODER
O BÁSICO QUE VOCÊ PRECISA SABER PARA NÃO SER UM ALIENADO
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 13, 2015
(A5, 215 PÁGINAS) - Não resta-nos dúvidas de que “Saber é Poder”, frase esta proferida por Francis Bacon (1561-1626), um dos fundadores do chamado método indutivo de investigação científica. No mundo em que se vive, todavia, marcado este pela exclusão social, pela ideologia, pelo individualismo,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Social epistemology is a broad set of approaches to the study of knowledge and to gain information about the social dimensions. This intellectual movement of wide crossdisciplinary sources reconstructs the problems of epistemology when knowledge is considered to be intrinsically social. In the first...
Mathematical Modeling of Social Relationships
What Mathematics Can Tell Us About People
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
This edited volume presents examples of social science research projects that employ new methods of quantitative analysis and mathematical modeling of social processes. This book presents the fascinating areas of empirical and theoretical investigations that use formal mathematics in a way that is...
by John Greve
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This is the first work that systematically applies the comparative method to the study of social policy and administration. After a full discussion of this approach in the introduction, the book offers three authoritative national studies--France, Norway, Canada--each giving a rounded picture of social...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Bourdieusian Prospects considers the ongoing relevance of Bourdieu's social theory for contemporary social science. Breaking with the tendency to reflect on Bourdieu's legacies, it brings established and emergent scholars together to debate the futures of a specifically Bourdieusian sociology. Driven...
Toward a General Theory of Action
Theoretical Foundations for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This new edition introduces the social science audiences of a new century to one of the classic highlights of the mid-twentieth century. This is the most general statement of the general theory of action as it was developed by its principle exponent, Talcott Parsons, and his close collaborators who...
We Live in Social Space
A Window to a New Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
This is how the book starts: “Does the fetus know it is in its mother’s womb? Probably not. Certainly not in any conscious way. Yet it is there, in the womb, asserting its existence. In that prepartum existence, the fetus is coping on its path to becoming a viable human being. “Do we, postpartum...