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Energy and Society
A Critical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Energy and Society is the first major text to provide an extensive critical treatment of energy issues informed by recent research on energy in the social sciences. Written in an engaging and accessible style it draws new thinking on uneven development, consumption, vulnerability and transition together...
by Andrew J. Knight
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
For decades, experts and the public have been at odds over the nature and magnitude of risks and how they should be mitigated through policy. Experts argue that the fears of the public are irrational, and that public policy should be based on sound science. The public, on the other hand, is skeptical...
Social Welfare for a Global Era
International Perspectives on Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Written by internationally renowned author and scholar James Midgley, Social Welfare for a Global Era provides a comprehensive framework for examining social welfare from a global perspective. Drawing on a large body of literature and his own extensive knowledge of the field, Dr. Midgley offers students,...
by Little Green Apples Publishing, LLC ™
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Sociology is the scientific study of social behavior and human groups. This Sociology Study Brief provides a concise, conceptual overview of the subject, including its history and methods of research. This compact guide is the ideal orientation for a student enrolled in an introductory Sociology course....
by Aaron Wildavsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Aaron Wildavsky, along with Mary Douglas, identified what they called grid-group theory. Wildavsky began calling this "cultural theory," and applied it to an astounding array of subjects. The essays in this volume exemplify the theory's potential contributions to three seemingly disparate,...
Social happiness
Theory into policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
The development of happiness as an explicit theme in social research and policy worldwide has been rapid and remarkable, posing fundamental questions about our personal and collective motives and purposes. This book examines the achievements and potential of applied happiness scholarship in diverse...
by Kevin Grove
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Is resilience simply a fad, or is it a new way of thinking about human–environment relations, and the governance of these relations, that has real staying power? Is resilience a dangerous, depoliticizing concept that neuters incipient political activity, or the key to more empowering, emancipatory,...
by Brian Skyrms
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Brian Skyrms presents eighteen essays which apply adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory. Altruism, spite, fairness, trust, division of labor, and signaling are treated from this perspective. Correlation is seen to be of fundamental importance. Interactions...
Social policy in times of austerity
Global economic crisis and the new politics of welfare
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The 2008 global economic crisis was unprecedented in living memory and its impact on economic and social life immense. Large-scale social policy interventions played a crucial role in helping to mediate the crisis, and yet the welfare state continues to come under attack. A new age of austerity, based...
Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism
A Chance to Reclaim, Self, Society and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the crisis help us to find ways forward or simply reconfigure risk in another guise? This volume...
Social Sequence Analysis
Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Social sequence analysis includes a diverse and rapidly growing body of methods that social scientists have developed to help study complex ordered social processes, including chains of transitions, trajectories and other ordered phenomena. Social sequence analysis is not limited by content or time...
Statistical Modelling for Social Researchers
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
This book explains the principles and theory of statistical modelling in an intelligible way for the non-mathematical social scientist looking to apply statistical modelling techniques in research. The book also serves as an introduction for those wishing to develop more detailed knowledge and skills...
Great American City
Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories place us at the mercy of global forces beyond our control....
Understanding Social Networks
Theories, Concepts, and Findings
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Despite the swift spread of social network concepts and their applications and the rising use of network analysis in social science, there is no book that provides a thorough general introduction for the serious reader. Understanding Social Networks fills that gap by explaining the big ideas that...