Social Science category: 175800 books
Man and the Social Sciences (Routledge Revivals)
Twelve lectures delivered at the London School of Economics and Political Science tracing the development of the social sciences during the present century
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
One of the most significant movements in the world of learning in the twentieth century was the rise and development of the social sciences. However, few attempts have been made to see how far social scientists have travelled on the road to studying and understanding human society. First published...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
A proliferation of press headlines, social science texts and “ethical” concerns about the social implications of recent developments in human genetics and biomedicine have created a sense that, at least in European and American contexts, both the way we treat the human body and our attitudes towards...
Social Protection and Social Development
International Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The Social Protection Floor Initiative promotes universal access to essential social transfers and services. Presently 80% of the global population does not enjoy a set of social guarantees that allows them to deal with life’s risks such as unemployment, ill health, and natural disasters. This book...
Set-Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences
A Guide to Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and other set-theoretic methods distinguish themselves from other approaches to the study of social phenomena by using sets and the search for set relations. In virtually all social science fields, statements about social phenomena can be framed in terms of set...
Empathy And Agency
The Problem Of Understanding In The Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
A crucial debate currently raging in the fields of cognitive and social science centers around general and specific approaches to understanding the actions of others. When we understand the actions of another person, do we do so on the basis of a general theory of psychology, or on the basis of an...
by Brian Douglas Haig, Dr. Colin Evers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Realist Inquiry in Social Science is an invaluable guide to conducting realist research. Written by highly regarded experts in the field, the first part of the book sets out the fundamentals necessary for rigorous realist research, while the second part deals with a number of its most important applications,...
by Lindsay Prior
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2003
Using Documents in Social Research offers a comprehensive, yet concise, introduction to the use of documents as tools within social science research. The books argues that documents stand in a dual-relation to human activity, and therefore by transmitting ideas and influencing the course and nature...
Feminisms in Social Work Research
Promise and possibilities for justice-based knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Social work as a profession and academic discipline has long centered women and issues of concern to women, such as reproductive rights, labor rights, equal rights, violence and poverty. In fact, the social work profession was started by and maintained in large part by women and has been home to several...
States of Knowledge
The Co-Production of Science and the Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production Sheila Jasanoff 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society Sheila Jasanoff 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order Clark A. Miller 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant Charis Thompson 5. Knowledge and...
by Graham MacDonald, Philip Pettit
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Originally published in 1980, this book examines the major issues in the philosophy of social science, paying specific attention to cross-cultural understanding, humanism versus scientism, individualism versus collectivism, and the shaping of theory by evaluative commitment. Arguing for a cross-cultural...
by W. G. Runciman
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
In The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection, W. G. Runciman presents an original and wide-ranging account of the fundamental process by which human cultures and societies come to be of the different kinds that they are. Drawing on and extending recent advances in neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Social rights are a pivotal concern for all of society, including today’s population of children. The study of the rights, or lack thereof, that children have must be undertaken to ensure that future generations are thriving members of their communities. Global Ideologies Surrounding Children's Rights...
Social Death
Questioning the life-death boundary
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Social death occurs when the social existence of a person or group ceases. With an individual, it can occur before or after physical death. Scholars in a wide range of disciplines have applied the concept to very diverse issues – including genocide, slavery, dementia, hospitalisation, and bereavement....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
This thoroughly updated new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary social policy, and addresses its historical, theoretical and contextual foundations. Divided into four sections, it opens with a survey of the socio-economic, political and governmental contexts within which...