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Beyond Social Capital
The Role of Leadership, Trust and Government Policy in Northern Ireland's Victim Support Groups
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Drawing on lessons from civil society in Northern Ireland, Beyond Social Capital examines the limitations of social capital theory in deeply divided societies. It draws on an ethnographic study of victim support groups and evidence from policymakers in Northern Ireland to reconceptualize the traditional...
by Gai Harrison, Rose Melville
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
If we are to fully understand the impact of local concerns on social work, we have to consider these in a global context. Rethinking Social Work in a Global World provides the key to better understanding. It critically examines the relationship between the global and the local in light of a range...
Dementia Studies
A Social Science Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
What is dementia? How should we organize dementia care? This comprehensive book critically examines the main approaches to understanding dementia (bio-medical, social-psychological and socio-gerontological) and the main principles and ideologies of care.
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by James Mark Baldwin, Jaan Valsiner
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
James Mark Baldwin left a legacy that has yet to be fully examined, one with profound implications for science and the humanities. In some sense it paralleled that of his friend Charles Sanders Peirce, whose semiotics became understood only a century later. Baldwin was trying to make sense of complex...
Tributes
Personal Reflections on a Century of Social Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In one of his final works, Stephen Jay Gould spoke of the human race "as a wildly improbable evolutionary event well within the realm of contingency." Drawing on his personal knowledge of fifty figures from the world of twentieth-century social science, Irving Louis Horowitz offers commentaries...
Social and Cultural Perspectives on Health, Technology and Medicine
Old Concepts, New Problems
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Developments in health, science and technology have long provided fertile analytical ground for social science disciplines. This book focuses on the critical and enduring importance of core concepts in anthropology and sociology for interrogating and keeping pace with developments in the life sciences....
China Since Tiananmen: Political, Economic and Social Conflicts - Documents and Analysis
Political, Economic and Social Conflicts - Documents and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This text presents a selection of articles from the Chinese and Hong Kong press. The 109 documents record the deepening social and political changes that have emerged in China since Tiananmen Square. The articles offer contrasting views in politics, economics, society and culture, and science and...
Science at the Cross Roads (Routledge Revivals)
Papers from The Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology 1931
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The papers given by the Soviet Delegation to the Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology in London in 1931, headed by N. I. Bukharin, exerted a profound influence on Western historiography of science. Perhaps the most influential contribution was that of Hessen, who...
Routledge Companion to Contemporary Japanese Social Theory
From Individualization to Globalization in Japan Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Japanese Social Theory breaks new ground in providing a detailed, systematic appraisal of the major traditions of social theory prominent in Japan today – from theories of identity and individualization to globalization studies. The volume introduces readers...
Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching
Contemporary Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Sociology and Catholic Social Teaching: Contemporary Theory and Research contains essays by key scholars in the territory where Catholic social thought and secular sociology meet, and offers a much needed alternative to the relativism and individualism that so often characterize social scientific...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Without of course adopting a Platonic metaphysics, the eighteenth-century philosophes were Grecophiles who regarded the Athenian philosophers as their intellectual forbearers and mentors. So powerful was their identification with c1assification that ancient ideas were taken as keys to the design of...
Relational Sociology
A New Paradigm for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
‘Simultaneous invention’ has become commonplace in the natural sciences, but is still virtually unknown within the sphere of social science. The convergence of two highly compatible versions of Critical Realism from two independent sources is a striking exception. Pierpaolo Donati’s Relational...
by Shaun Best
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
The study of social divisions has dominated research within the social sciences since the nineteenth century. Early stratification categories of class, race, and gender, have in more recent years been joined by issues such as sexuality and disability. Understanding Social Divisions addresses the full...
Generating Images of Stratification
A Formal Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Generating Images of Stratification is a self-contained presentation of a theoretical research program that deals with a significant explanatory problem relating to social inequality and that constructs generative theoretical models in doing so. In more detail:
-Self-contained presentation...