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by P. S. Krishnan
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This book draws upon nearly seven decades of first-hand experiences from the ground to understand social exclusion, and movements and efforts for social justice in India. The author, a renowned champion of social justice for deprived social classes, delves into the roots of discrimination in Indian...
Sociology, Science, and the End of Philosophy
How Society Shapes Brains, Gods, Maths, and Logics
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book offers a unique analysis of how ideas about science and technology in the public and scientific imaginations (in particular about maths, logic, the gene, the brain, god, and robots) perpetuate the false reality that values and politics are separate from scientific knowledge and its applications....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
This volume is the result of years of commitment with world-wide sanitation challenges from various research networks linking the editors and authors of this volume to many other sanitation scholars and professionals. Major contributions to this volume are derived from the work done in the PROVIDE...
Competition and Cooperation in Social and Political Sciences
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Social and Political Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The book contains essays on current issues in Social and Political Sciences, such as the issues of governance and social order; social development and community development; global challenges and inequality; civil society and social movement; IT-based community and social transformation; poverty alleviation...
by Finn Collin
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
This book approaches its subject matter in a way that combines a strong analytical and critical perspective with a historical and sociological framework for the understanding of the emergence of Science Studies. This is a novelty, since extant literature on this topic tends either to narrate the history...
How the Social Sciences Think about the World's Social
Outline of a Critique
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
At the beginning of the new millennium, the social sciences took an epochal 'turn' that revolutionized their theory-building. As a response to what they called the globalization of the social, they found the need to globalize their theorizing as well. It is curious that only after two centuries of...
Human Behaviour and World Politics
A Transdisciplinary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2013
The contemporary academic study of world politics is a very diverse one This book is particularly concerned with that considerable part of it which in a loose sense represents the ‘behaviouralist’ school - the fashion of analysis that flowered in the 1950s and 1960s, principally in the United...
by Paul Diesing
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The purpose of this book is to examine how ideology operates--in the sense of influencing the conduct of inquiry--in the policy sciences, defined as economics, political science, and sociology. The author seeks to identify the main ideologies and show how each ideology produces a preference for certain...
Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth
Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development across Greater Seattle
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
This book investigates the new urban geographies of “smart” metropolitan regionalism across the Greater Seattle area and examines the relationship between smart growth planning strategies and spaces of work, home, and mobility. The book specifically explores Seattle within the wider space-economy...
Transnational Social Policy
Social Welfare in a World on the Move
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Transnational Social Policy highlights the changing face of social policy and social work against the background of accelerating transnationalization of economies, labour markets, education, social services, and care. The contributions of this book provide unique case examples on the interplay of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
The ‘Year’ That Changed How We View the North This book is about a new theoretical approach that transformed the field of Arctic social studies and about a program called International Polar Year 2007–2008 (IPY) that altered the position of social research within the broader polar science. The...
The Social Life of Climate Change Models
Anticipating Nature
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which people attempt to predict its local implications, showing how the processes of knowledge making among lay people and experts are not only comparable but...
by Graeme S. Cumming
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Spatial Resilience is a new and exciting area of interdisciplinary research. It focuses on the influence of spatial variation – including such things as spatial location, context, connectivity, and dispersal – on the resilience of complex systems, and on the roles that resilience and self-organization...
by Nico Stehr
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Social surveillance and regulation of knowledge will be one of the most important issues in the near future, one that will give rise to unending controversy. In The Governance of Knowledge, Nico Stehr predicts that such concerns will create a new political field, namely, knowledge policy, which will...