Social Science category: 175800 books
Ordering Lives
Family, Work and Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Taking as its focus three familiar and profoundly influential social institutions, the family, work and welfare, this accessible and exciting text looks at their role in maintaining social order and promoting social change in Britain from the 1950's to the beginning of the twenty first century. It...
Governing under Stress
Middle Powers and the Challenge of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This volume is the first work to emerge from a major international comparative research project exploring the political economy of globalization. This inter-disciplinary team of scholars is focusing on the semi-periphery of world power. Whether defined in social, cultural, economic or simply spatial...
The Fiscalization of Social Policy
How Taxpayers Trumped Children in the Fight Against Child Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
In 1970, a single mother with two children working full-time at the federal minimum wage in the US received no direct cash benefits from the federal government. Today, after a period of austerity, that same mother would receive $7,572 in federal cash benefits. This money does not come from social...
by Dr. William E. Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
Using IBM SPSS for Social Statistics and Research Methods supports the use of SPSS for social statistics and research methods classes and is an excellent companion to any undergraduate statistics or research methods textbook. The book covers a wide range of data analysis topics to help students working...
Explaining Creativity
The Science of Human Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
Explaining Creativity is an accessible introduction to the latest scientific research on creativity. In the last 50 yearss, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists have increasingly studied creativity, and we now know more about creativity that at any point in history. Explaining Creativity...
Guidance Note
Poverty and Social Dimensions in Urban Projects
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Urbanization will become one of the defining trends of Asia's transformation in the coming decades. Investments in urban areas have a strong potential to contribute to inclusive growth, reduce urban poverty, and strengthen social resilience. The Guidance Note on Poverty and Social Dimensions in Urban...
by Ken Cole
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
As we approach the end of the second millennium, we find ourselves in times of radical social change. Orthodox explanations of the economy, the environment and the development process are unable to provide coherent policies for such issues as employment creation, environmental degradation and social...
The Social in Question
New Bearings
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
With postmodernism has come the questioning of the very idea of 'the social'. Thinkers form across the social sciences and humanities now agree that this one foundational concept can no longer be taken for granted as an objective or real characteristic of the world. However, their uncertainty has...
Sociology Faces Pessimism
A Study of European Sociological Thought Amidst a Fading Optimism
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
My initial interest in sociology stemmed from the desire to see specific social change in certain areas of my native United States of America. My rather naive assumption at that time was that if the truth is known about social phenomena and presented to rational and educated persons, public opinion...
The Internet As A Diverse Community
Cultural, Organizational, and Political Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
In this volume, author Urs Gattiker offers a broad overview of Internet and technology-related theory. He examines Internet and multimedia issues from an international perspective, outlining issues of international sovereignty and the potential impact of national interests on global technology policy....
Unemployment Dynamics in the United States and West Germany
Economic Restructuring, Institutions and Labor Market Processes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In writing this book, I increasingly became aware of the extent to which much of the finest social science research has been devoted to the issue of unemployment. Unemployment rightly is a key issue in the social sciences for search of social and political answers to the economic, social and psychological...
Market Society
Markets and Modern Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Market Society provides an original and accessible review of changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought. The book considers markets as social institutions rather than simply formal models, arguing that modern ideas of the market are based on critical notions of social order, social...
by Dylan Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This bookcontends that the impasse of the Left today is in part, a result of an anarchist ‘common sense’ among activists. The author argues that the vital dynamics of anarchism and social movements need to be combined with a reappraisal of the Communist party and state. While cynicism towards...
by John J. Rodger, Jo Campling
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2000
The welfare state is being subjected to fundamental reappraisal. It is now
commonly argued that modern Western societies require a new 'moral economy', whether one of rediscovered charity and family values and increased welfare pluralism, or of rebuilt communities and a welfare system which provides...