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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
There is growing recognition that globalization places major pressures on the development of social security schemes. Internationalization of the economy has important consequences for labor markets: employment is becoming less secure and inequality and social exclusion more pronounced in many countries....
Action Research for Sustainability
Social Imagination Between Citizens and Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
How can action research further new research orientations towards sustainability? This book, empirically situated in the field of upstream public engagement, involving local residents, researchers and practitioners in bottom-up processes deliberating on urban sustainability, answers this question...
Social Change and Social Work
The Changing Societal Conditions of Social Work in Time and Place
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Social Change and Social Work discusses and examines how social work is challenged by social, political and economic tendencies going on in current societies. The authors ask how social work as a discipline and practice is encountering global and local transformations. Divided into three parts, topics...
Why Society is a Complex Matter
Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2012
Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents – people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological...
Primate Societies
Group Techniques of Ecological Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In this book, Hans Kummer, one of the world's leading primate ethologists, examines the patterns of social interaction among primates. He examines this social behavior from the fundamentally biological viewpoint of evolutionary adaptation as part of the survival mechanisms for the species. Recognizing...
New Body Politics
Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. How do everyday embodied experiences transform from being anecdotal to...
Navigating Contemporary Iran
Challenging Economic, Social and Political Perceptions
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
This detailed examination of contemporary Iran addresses the most important current social, political, and economic issues facing the nation and the way it is perceived by the outside world. The volume brings together some of the most important scholars and researchers in the field, working in such...
Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research
Perspectives, Methodologies, Examples, and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2007
*"This work's quality, diversity, and breadth of coverage make it a valuable resource for collections concerned with qualitative research in a broad range of disciplines. Highly recommended." —*G.R. Walden, CHOICE
The Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Inquiry: Perspectives, Methodologies,...
by Kish Bhatti-Sinclair, Robert Adams, Lena Dominelli
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Concerns about social justice and equality are woven into the historyof social work and welfare, yet practitioners and service users continueto experience discrimination. While the obstacles to real equality areconstantly changing, the need remains for social work practice that is inclusive,empowering...
God Soul Mind Brain
A Neuroscientist's Reflections on the Spirit World
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
"Essential reading for the devout, the agnostic, and the atheist. In tackling the question of the religious brain, Graziano is respectful, sincere, and scientifically plausible. This might even be an Important Book."-Sam Wang, author of Welcome to Your Brain
"A beautifully crafted,...
Principles of Methodology
Research Design in Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
This book provides a comprehensive, accessible guide to social science methodology. In so doing, it establishes methodology as distinct from both methods and philosophy.
Most existing textbooks deal with methods, or sound ways of collecting and analysing data to generate findings. In...
New Thinking in Complexity for the Social Sciences and Humanities
A Generative, Transdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
The underlying idea and motive for the book is that the notion of complexity may humanize the social sciences, may conceive the complex human being as more human, and turn reality as assumed in our doing social science into a more complex, that is a richer reality for all.
The main focus of this book...
Encyclopedia of Transportation
Social Science and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Viewing transportation through the lens of current social, economic, and policy aspects, this four-volume reference work explores the topic of transportation across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and related areas, including geography, public policy, business, and economics.
The...
Avant-Garde Sociology
An Introduction to Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Avant -Garde Sociology focuses upon building the theoretical position that social reality is defined as seven primary areas that simultaneously work as independent variables and might also be influenced as dependent variables in any social structural relationship or entity. In addition, this book...