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Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling
12th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2019, Washington, DC, USA, July 9–12, 2019, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2019
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, SBP-BRiMS 2019, held in Washington, DC, USA, in July 2019.
The total of 28 papers presented in this volume was carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The...
Setting Nutritional Standards
Theory, Policies, Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Suzanne Junod's essay "Proscribing Deception": The Gould Net Weight Amendment and the Origins of Mandatory Nutrition Labeling" is the winner of the 2017 Charles Thomson Prize of the Society for the History of the Federal Government. In the second half of the nineteenth century, ways...
Enlightenment Now
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR
"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier...
Denialism
How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
In this provocative and headline-making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet.
In Denialism, New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution...
Robert K. Merton
Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century, producing clear theories and innovative research that continue to shape multiple disciplines. Merton's reach can be felt in the study of social structure, social psychology, deviance, professions, organizations,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
The triangular relationship between the social, the political and the cultural has opened up social and political theory to new challenges. The social can no longer be reduced to the category of society, and the political extends beyond the traditional concerns of the nature of the state and political...
War in Social Thought
Hobbes to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
This book, the first of its kind, provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Hobbes to the present. Distinguished social theorists Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl present both a broad intellectual history and an original argument as they trace the development of...
by A. D. Thibeault
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A full executive summary of Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread--The Lessons from a New Science by Alex Pentland. This is not a chapter-by-chapter summary. Rather, the author takes an holistic approach, reorganizing and breaking down the content for easier understanding where necessary, and cutting...
Interpretation and Social Knowledge
On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
For the past fifty years anxiety over naturalism has driven debates in social theory. One side sees social science as another kind of natural science, while the other rejects the possibility of objective and explanatory knowledge. Interpretation and Social Knowledge suggests a different route, offering...
by Michael Novak, Paul Adams
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
What is social justice? For Friedrich Hayek, it was a mirage-a meaningless, ideological, incoherent, vacuous cliché. He believed the term should be avoided, abandoned, and allowed to die a natural death. For its proponents, social justice is a catchall term that can be used to justify any progressive-sounding...
by Peter Winch
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
In the fiftieth anniversary of this book‘s first release, Winch‘s argument remains as crucial as ever. Originally published in 1958, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy was a landmark exploration of the social sciences, written at a time when that field was still young and had not yet joined the Humanities and the Natural Sc
Arendt Contra Sociology
Theory, Society and its Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Hannah Arendt is today widely regarded today as a political theorist, who sought to rescue politics from society, and political theory from the social sciences. But this view has had the effect of distracting attention from many of Arendt's most important insights concerning the constitution of society,...
Digital Methods for Social Science
An Interdisciplinary Guide to Research Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This timely book inspires researchers to deploy relevant, effective, innovative digital methods. It explores the relationship of such methods to 'mainstream' social science; interdisciplinarity; innovations in digital research tools; the opportunities (and challenges) of digital methods in researching social life; and digital research ethics.
Understanding the Social Economy
A Canadian Perspective, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Suitable for courses addressing community economic development, non-profit organizations, co-operatives and the social economy more broadly, the second edition of Understanding the Social Economy expands on the authors’ ground-breaking examination of organizations founded on a social mission –...