Social Science category: 175800 books
Global Phenomena and Social Sciences
An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book offers new perspectives on global phenomena that play a major role in today’s society and deeply shape the actions of individuals, organizations and nations. In a complex and rapidly changing environment, decision-makers need to gain a better understanding of global phenomena to adapt...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
As governments, citizens and organizations have moved online there is an increasing need for academic enquiry to adapt to this new context for communication and political action. This adaptation is crucially dependent on researchers being equipped with the necessary methodological tools to extract,...
Feast, Famine or Fighting?
Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
The advent of social complexity has been a longstanding debate among social scientists. Existing theories and approaches involving the origins of social complexity include environmental circumscription, population growth, technology transfers, prestige-based and interpersonal-group competition,...
People's Science
Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates devolve to simple judgments—good or bad, life-saving medicine or bioethical nightmare, symbol of human ingenuity or our fall from grace—ignoring the...
by Thomas A. Heberlein
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
The environment, and how humans affect it, is more of a concern now than ever. We are constantly told that halting climate change requires raising awareness, changing attitudes, and finally altering behaviors among the general public-and fast. New information, attitudes, and actions, it is conventionally...
Making Security Social
Disability, Insurance, and the Birth of the Social Entitlement State in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
While welfare has been subject to pronounced criticism throughout the twentieth century, social insurance has consistently enjoyed the overwhelming support of European policy makers and citizens. This volume argues that the emergence of social insurance represents a paradigmatic shift in modern understandings...
Progressive Justice in an Age of Repression
Strategies for Challenging the Rise of the Right
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Progressive Justice in an Age of Repression provides a much-needed engagement with questions of justice and reform within the current phase of global capitalism, one that is marked not only by significant social inequality, but also political bifurcation. It offers guidance on progressive strategies...
by Bernice Neugarten
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Social Status in the City presents a scientific method for measuring social status in urban settings - the Index of Urban Status (IUS). The authors show how the index and the concepts of status on which it is based were derived by describing the procedures used in studying the social structure...
The Health of People
How the social sciences can improve population health
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
As Britain ages amid austerity, more and more people will suffer from long-term health conditions. Obesity and diabetes are on the rise. Mental health problems are widespread. Tobacco and addictions are well-known killers. Each condition brings high costs, both financial and social. Meanwhile,...
by Rachel Pain, Jamie Gough, Graham Mowl
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
`Introducing Social Geographies' is a major new text offering a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this important area of human geography. It presents a broad overview of social geography, clearly outlining the key theoretical and political positions, and making extensive use of examples...
by Peter Taylor-Gooby
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Throughout the world, governments are restructuring social and welfare provision to give a stronger role to opportunity, aspiration and individual responsibility, and to competition, markets and consumer choice. This approach centres on a logic of individual rational action: people are the best judges...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
An Introduction to Social Policy explores essential welfare topics, themes and issues for students studying social policy or related disciplines such as sociology, social work, or nursing and social care.
- Part One examines key concepts including welfare, social justice, diversity and health...
Simulating Social Complexity
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This volume examines all aspects of using agent or individual-based simulation. This approach represents systems as individual elements having their own set of differing states and internal processes. The interactions between elements in the simulation represent interactions in the target systems....
Protest, Movements, and Dissent in the Social Sciences
A multidisciplinary perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Drawing on a wide range of social science disciplines and approaches, each chapter in this book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protest, political dissent and collective action. The distinguished scholars contributing to the book discuss some of the key theoretical and methodological issues...