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Money Machines
Electronic Financial Technologies, Distancing, and Responsibility in Global Finance
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
While we have become increasingly vulnerable to the ebb and flow of global finance, most of us know very little about it. This book focuses on the role of technology in global finance and reflects on the ethical and societal meaning and impact of financial information and communication technologies...
Agent-Based Modeling of Social Conflict
From Mechanisms to Complex Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This Brief revisits and extends Epstein’s classical agent-based model of civil violence by considering important mechanisms suggested by social conflict theories. Among them are: relative deprivation as generator of hardship, generalized vanishing of the risk perception (‘massive fear loss’)...
Measurement for the Social Sciences
The C-OAR-SE Method and Why It Must Replace Psychometrics
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
This book proposes a revolutionary new theory of construct measurement – called C-OAR-SE – for the social sciences. The acronym is derived from the following key elements: construct definition; object representation; attribute classification; rater entity identification; selection of item type;...
by Matthias Kowald, Kay W. Axhausen
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In aiming to understand and model peoples’ out-of-home movements, the academic field of transport planning is confronted with two major challenges. Firstly, leisure travel is increasing in importance and is more complex and variable than work-related travel, being less rigid in temporal and spatial...
Positive Leisure Science
From Subjective Experience to Social Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
This book extends positive psychology by embedding leisure into the positive science field, following a new paradigm and aggregating various domains and fields. Positive science can be applied to the field of leisure and, in turn, leisure can serve as an arena to study some of the most important optimal...
Simulating Societies
The Computer Simulation of Social Phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The most exciting and productive areas of academic inquiry are often where the interests of two disciplines meet. This is certainly the case for the subject of this book, originally published in 1994, which explores the contribution that computer-based modelling and artificial intelligence can make...
Using Geodata and Geolocation in the Social Sciences
Mapping our Connected World
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
"Abernathy provides a truly accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to geodata and geolocation covering both the conceptual and the practical. It is a must read for students or researchers looking to make the most of the spatial elements of their data" - Luke Sloan, Senior Lecturer in Quantitative...
by Karl-Dieter Opp
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This is the first book to present a synthesis of rational choice theory and sociological perspectives for the analysis of social institutions.The origin of social institutions is an old concern in social theory. Currently it has re-emerged as one of the most intensely debated issues in social science....
by Dr. Muhammad Hussein Noure Elahi
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
THIS work is the outcome of a demand for a short text-book that would contain in essence a clear and concise statement of the field of political science and political sociology, its scientific basis and its principles as far as these are at present known, and its purposes.In the preparation of this...
Police Science
Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Violent behavior is an unavoidable aspect of human nature, and as such, it has become deeply integrated into modern society. In order to protect and defend citizens, the foundational concepts of fairness and equality must be adhered to within any criminal justice system. As such, examining police...
Empowerment and Control in the Australian Welfare State
A Critical Analysis of Australian Social Policy Since 1972
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
This book explores the tensions between the competing social rights and social control functions of the modern Australian welfare state. By critically examining the history and rhetoric of the Australian welfare state from 1972 to the present day, and using the author’s long-standing research on...
Ethics and Experiments
Problems and Solutions for Social Scientists and Policy Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
For most of political science's history, discussions about professional ethics had nothing to do with human subjects. Professional ethics involved integrity in the classroom, fair tenure and promotion rule, and the careful avoidance of plagiarism. As most research was observational, there was little...
Japanese Women in Science and Engineering
History and Policy Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The gender gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) varies greatly from country to country, and the number of Japanese women in these fields remains relatively few. This prompts us to ask why the proportion of female scientists in Japan is still remarkably low and what measures...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
This volume is an interdisciplinary mix of perspectives and studies on social issues in fisheries from a diverse range of case studies and research disciplines. The case is made regarding the dearth of attention to socio-cultural considerations which to date have been largely treated as an externality...