Social Science category: 175800 books
Forms of Life
The Method and Meaning of Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
A concise, accessible, and engaging guide for students and practitioners of sociology.
In Forms of Life, Harry Collins offers an introduction to social science methodology, drawing on his forty-plus years of conducting high-profile sociological research. In this concise, accessible, and engaging...
Faith-Based Social Services
Measures, Assessments, and Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Read the latest studies on the effectiveness of religious-based services—and the problems revealed in the assessment
The Charitable Choice provision and the Bush Administration’s National Faith-Based Initiative have broadened the scope of social services delivered through faith-based organizations....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
The most up-to-date and thorough compendium of scholarship on social movements
This second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements features forty original essays from the field. With contributions from both established and ascendant scholars, the Companion seeks to present...
The World and the Word: Making Sense of Social Science in an Age of Conflict, Opposition, and Grace
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Jesus very presence as the New Testament age unfolded (1st century A.D.), engendered opposition, created confl ict, while ushering in grace. His ideas were considered radical. Why is this so? The NIV Archeological Study Bible (2005), NIV Student Bible, et al. and corroborating Extra-Biblical evidence...
Volatile Social Movements and the Origins of Terrorism
The Radicalization of Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Although many scholars have studied terrorism, few scholars have ever studied terrorism from the aspect of its initial origins in social movements. Not only is research concerning this phenomenon outdated, but there has also been no consensus as to what causes terrorism. Many contemporary terrorist...
Social Sciences and the Military
An Interdisciplinary Overview
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This innovative book presents the reader with a clear international view of interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary approaches to military and conflict-resolution studies. In this first title on its subject, leading expert Giuseppe Caforio offers a thorough analysis of the new aspects and trends of...
Practicing Social Science
Sociologists and their Craft
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
How is the process of globalization effecting changes in the structure of knowledge in sociology? This path-breaking volume looks at the human dimension of developments in the discipline by compiling a set of interviews that exemplify the life and work of a sociologist today. Their ideas and conceptualizations...
by Steven Paul Schinke, James. K Whittaker, Scott Briar
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
"Behavioral Methods in Social Welfare" offers positive proof that behaviorism has come of age in social work. Steven Paul Schinke and the contributors to this volume are social work practitioners who document their attempts to extend the basic tenets of behavioral psychology from the laboratory,...
by Roy Bhaskar
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
A picture has indeed held modern Western philosophy captive, that of the universe as a vast machine whose iron laws are best understood as exceptionless empirical regularities which, as it were, determine the future before it happens. This fantastic conception commands the assent, not just of positivistically-minded...
The Transnationalized Social Question
Migration and the Politics of Social Inequalities in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
The social question is back. Yet today's social question is not primarily between labour and capital, as it was in the nineteenth century and throughout much of the twentieth. The contemporary social question is located at the interstices between the global South and the global North. It finds its...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
In this singular collection, indigenous experts describe the social welfare systems of fifteen East Asian and Pacific Island nations and locales. Vastly understudied, these lands offer key insight into the successes and failures of Western and native approaches to social work, suggesting new directions...
Introducing Social Research Methods
Essentials for Getting the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Introducing Social Research Methods: Essentials for Getting the Edge is a concise and student-friendly introduction to research methods that uses examples from around the world to illustrate the centrality of social science research in our everyday lives.
Explains complex, multi-faceted concepts...
by David Chan, Tharman Shanmugaratnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The social context of Singapore is changing rapidly, and understanding how people think, feel and behave in various situations has become a key driver of effectiveness in addressing social issues. 50 Years of Social Issues in Singapore provides a comprehensive review and examination of various social...
The Cultural Authority of Science
Comparing across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
The cultural authority of science is the authority that is granted to science in any particular context. This authority is as much a matter of image and perceived legitimacy as of statutory guarantee. However, while authority can be charismatic, based on tradition or based on competence, we would...