Social Science category: 175800 books
by Martin Packer
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
This book is a unique examination of qualitative research in the social sciences, raising and answering the question of why we do this kind of investigation. Rather than offering advice on how to conduct qualitative research, it explores the multiple roots of qualitative research – including phenomenology,...
by Tim May, Malcolm Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
This is an accessible introduction to the philosophy of social research which relates philosophical ideas to actual research practice. The book makes effective use of illustrations from the UK, US and Europe to examine specific problems and broader issues. The book is intended for undergraduate and...
Social and Political Science
An Introductory Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Psychological cognition; The social question; The social question and theosophy; Memoranda of 1917; The metamorphosis of intelligence; Culture, law and economy; Central Europe between East and West.
by Talcott Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
During the years between the publication of the first of his two major works, The Structure of Social Action (1937), and the writing of his second, The Social System (1951), Talcott Parsons was primarily engaged in political activity through the Office of Strategic Services in its efforts to bring...
Yes We Can?
White Racial Framing and the Obama Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The first edition of this book offered one of the first social science analyses of Barack Obama’s historic electoral campaigns and early presidency. In this second edition the authors extend that analysis to Obama’s service in the presidency and to his second campaign to hold that presidency....
Peak Oil
Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
In recent years, the concept of “peak oil”—the moment when global oil production peaks and a train of economic, social, and political catastrophes accompany its subsequent decline—has captured the imagination of a surprisingly large number of Americans, ordinary citizens as well as scholars,...
Voodoo Science:The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2000
In a time of dazzling scientific progress, how are we to separate genuine breakthroughs from the noisy gaggle of false claims? Touching on everything from Deepak Chopra's "quantum alternative to growing old," and "free energy" machines, to unwarranted hype surrounding the International...
Six Community Psychologists Tell Their Stories
History, Contexts, and Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Six Community Psychologists Tell Their Stories: History, Contexts, and Narrative presents the unique opportunity to examine how culture and social norms have combined with chance, coincidence, and serendipity to form the professional identities of men and women who were among the first generation...
Community Practice
Theories and Skills for Social Workers
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
For almost two decades, Community Practice has been a definitive text for social workers, community practitioners, and students eager to help individuals contribute to and use community resources or work to change oppressive community structures. In this third edition, a wealth of new charts and cases...
by Brij Mohan
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
The author explores a nexus of varied abstract issues and protean realities that relates to social justice, its complex manifestations and inordinate conundrums. Its counter-factual to think of a world without a social problem. The author, based on his half-a-century of experience, deep insight, and...
Social Policy
Theories, Concepts and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2005
The Third Edition of this widely adopted textbook has been thoroughly revised and offers an authoritative and up-to-date coverage of the key theories, concepts and issues in social policy. The lively and readable text has been designed to provide students with the essential tools to gain a clear understanding...
Alva and Gunnar Myrdal
Social Engineering in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
As two of the leading social scientists of the twentieth century, Alva and Gunnar Myrdal tried to establish a harmonious, “organic” Gemeinschaft [community] in order to fight an assumed disintegration of modern society. By means of functionalist architecture and by educating “sensible” citizens,...
by Hugh Mackay, Wendy Maples, Paul Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This lively and engaging text introduces students to the major debates and data on the information society, and at the same time teaches them how to research it. It gives an overview of:
* theorists of the information society, particularly Manuel Castells and Daniel Bell
* social research methodologies,...
Social Media, Politics and the State
Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in the Age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and counter-power, hacktivism,...