Social Science category: 175800 books
Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences
Creativity, Poetics and Rhetoric in Social Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences develops, expands and challenges conventional social scientific methodology and language by way of literary, poetic and other alternative sources of inspiration, as sociologists, social workers, anthropologists, criminologists and psychologists all...
by David Baronov
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
One of the common frustrations for students trying to make sense of the various debates and concepts that inform contemporary educational and social science research methods such as structuralism, postpositivism, hermeneutics, and postmodernism is that most books introducing these topics are written...
Trust beyond Borders
Immigration, the Welfare State, and Identity in Modern Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Will immigration undermine the welfare state? Trust beyond Borders draws on public opinion data and case studies of Germany, Sweden, and the United States to document the influence of immigration and diversity on trust, reciprocity, and public support for welfare programs. Markus M. L. Crepaz demonstrates...
The Altruistic Imagination
A History of Social Work and Social Policy in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Social work and social policy in the United States have always had a complex and troubled relationship. In The Altruistic Imagination, John H. Ehrenreich offers a critical interpretation of their intertwined histories, seeking to understand the problems that face these two vital institutions in American...
Technically Together
Reconstructing Community in a Networked World
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Why we should not accept “networked individualism” as the inevitable future of community.
If social interaction by social media has become “the modern front porch” (as one sociologist argues), offering richer and more various contexts for community and personal connection, why do we...
Managing Democracy in the Digital Age
Internet Regulation, Social Media Use, and Online Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
In light of the increased utilization of information technologies, such as social media and the ‘Internet of Things,’ this book investigates how this digital transformation process creates new challenges and opportunities for political participation, political election campaigns and political...
by Sally Holland, Jonathan Scourfield
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Social workers spend their time trying to ease social suffering. They encounter the extreme casualties of social inequality: the victims of poverty, illness, addiction, and abuse; they work with abusers and offenders; and operate in the space between the State and the poor or marginalized. Social...
Social Work Intervention in an Economic Crisis
The River Communities Project
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
With the collapse of the steel industry in the 1980s, economic devastation hit the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, region. Social Work Intervention in an Economic Crisis strives to deepen understanding of the impact of the economic tragedy in the Pittsburgh region and to present social workers’efforts...
Confronting Equality
Gender, Knowledge and Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge? In this new book, Raewyn Connell combines vivid research with theoretical insight and radical politics to address this question. The focus moves across gender equality struggles, family change, class...
Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change
Experiences from Rural Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change presents examples from Paraguay, Brazil, and Colombia, examining what is necessary for smallholder agricultural cooperatives to support holistic community-based development in peasant communities. Reporting on successes and failures of these...
by Dr Anthony Hall, James O. Midgley
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
'Strong social policy is essential for sustainable growth. This book is an extremely useful overview of social policy issue for policy makers and anyone who wants to understand the true roots of successful sustainable development' -Ian Johnson, Vice President for Sustainable Development, The World...
Socialism and Social Science (Routledge Revivals)
Selected Writings of Ervin Szabó (1877-1918)
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The essays and letters of Ervin Szabó (1877-1918) present proof of his critical insight into Marxist theory and of his perceptive analysis of socialism around the turn of the century. His ideals of an engaged social science and an enlightened socialism, his preoccupation with the socialist future,...
The Genealogical Science
The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The Genealogical Science analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. A biological discipline that relies on genetic data in order to reconstruct the geographic origins of contemporary populations—their histories of migration and genealogical...
Sport and Social Movements
From the Local to the Global
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
From neighborhood coalitions organizing against the building of a sport facility for professional sports teams subsidized by public funds, to global campaigns for equity for women in sport, to worldwide bans of apartheid regimes, sites and levels of protest, resistance and activism have been present...