Social Science category: 175800 books
by Neil Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Modern society is beset by a vast range of problems – such as poverty, homelessness and terrorism – that cause immense suffering for a significant number of people. These social problems both reflect and contribute to wider inequalities; consequently, in order to develop a true understanding of...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Social justice and social policy in Scotland offers a critical engagement with the state of social policy in one of the devolved nations of the UK, a decade after the introduction of devolution. Promoting greater social justice has been held up as a key vision of successive Scottish administrations...
by Olaf Kühne
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This book examines the power definiteness of landscape from a social constructivist perspective with a particular focus on the importance of aesthetic concepts of landscape in development. It seeks to answer the question of how societal notions of landscape emerge, how they are individually updated...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner’s seminal Social Theory Today. Sociologists in the twenty-first century desperately need a new agenda centered around central questions of social theory. In...
Knowledge Mobilisation and Social Sciences
Research Impact and Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
The essays presented in this volume examine knowledge mobilisation and its relation to research impact and engagement. The social sciences matter because they can help us to understand and address the complex challenges confronting society. This is particularly true in an era of significant downward...
Rethinking Thin
The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
In this eye-opening book, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with dieting and weight loss is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals.
Rethinking Thin is at once an account of the place of diets...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Looking at a television franchise like Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is no longer news within the discipline of International Relations. A growing number of scholars in and out of IR are studying the importance of cultural artifacts – popular or otherwise – for the phenomena that make up the core...
Social Geographies
Space and Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Most social geography undergraduate textbooks are structured around different social categories, splintering the discussion of gender, class, race and increasingly now sexuality and disability, into separate chapters. This has the effect, firstly, of making social relations rather than space (the...
Social Networks and the Life Course
Integrating the Development of Human Lives and Social Relational Networks
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This volume engages the interface between the development of human lives and social relational networks. It focuses on the integration of two subfields of sociology/social science--the life course and social networks. Research practitioners studying social networks typically focus on social structure...
Divided Spaces
Discourse on Social Exclusion and Women in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
About the Book Social exclusion has become one of the important themes in contemporary social policy debates in both the developed and developing countries. It has become central to policy and academic discourse in Western Europe, and increasingly in other parts of the globe. In India, the exclusion...
Social Predation
How Group Living Benefits Predators and Prey
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
The classic literature on predation dealt almost exclusively with solitary predators and their prey. Going back to Lotka-Volterra and optimal foraging theory, the theory about predation, including predator-prey population dynamics, was developed for solitary species. Various consequences of sociality...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
This book examines social and natural environmental changes in present-day Laos and presents a new research framework for environmental studies from an interdisciplinary point of view. In Laos, after the Lao version of perestroika, Chintanakaan Mai, in 1986, for better or worse, rural development...
Democratization and Social Movements in South Korea
Defiant Institutionalization
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
South Korea provides an intellectual challenge in the fields of social movements and democracy in that intense mobilization and the strong influence of social movements have accompanied steady democratization for more than two decades, despite major theories having predicted otherwise.
This...
Social Sciences
The Big Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The social sciences are about people and the relationships between individuals and the social and material world we live in. They are about the social structures which shape – and are shaped by – social forces such as ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality and age and the bodies we inhabit. How are...