Social Science category: 175800 books
The Concept of Community
Readings with Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
"Community" is a basic concept, perhaps the basic concept, in social science and in social philosophy. Its meanings are many and varied, yet it is pre-eminent in discussions of man and his world. The editors of this book have selected material from many sources in an attempt to explore the...
Interviewing in Social Science Research
A Relational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
What is interviewing and when is this method useful? What does it mean to select rather than sample interviewees? Once the researcher has found people to interview, how does she build a working relationship with her interviewees? What should the dynamics of talking and listening in interviews be?...
Politics in Time
History, Institutions, and Social Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matters." Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a "snapshot" view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events...
Social Science and Policy-Making
A Search for Relevance in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
This collection of essays examines how the social sciences in America were developed as a means of social reform and later, especially after World War II, as a tool in federal policymaking and policy analysis. It also uses arenas of policymaking, such as early childhood education and welfare and its...
by Mario Bunge
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Most social scientists and philosophers claim that sociology and philosophy are disjoint fields of inquiry. Some have wondered how to trace the precise boundary between them. Mario Bunge argues that the two fields are so entangled with one another that no demarcation is possible or, indeed, desirable....
The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview
Volume 1: Illustrations and Philosophical Preliminaries
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these...
Reframing Visual Social Science
Towards a More Visual Sociology and Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The burgeoning field of 'visual social science' is rooted in the idea that valid scientific insight into culture and society can be acquired by observing, analyzing and theorizing its visual manifestations: visible behavior of people and material products of culture. Reframing Visual Social Science...
by Dirk Helbing
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The rapidly progressing digital revolution is now touching the foundations of the governance of societal structures. Humans are on the verge of evolving from consumers to prosumers, and old, entrenched theories – in particular sociological and economic ones – are falling prey to these rapid developments....
Theorising Modernity
Reflexivity, Environment & Identity in Giddens' Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
What is modernity? Do we all experience modernity in the same way? How should we understand contemporary social change? This volume explores questions of modernity through critical engagements with the work of Anthony Giddens, focusing in particular on the relationships between his social theory and...
Introduction to Computational Social Science
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
This reader-friendly textbook is the first work of its kind to provide a unified Introduction to Computational Social Science (CSS). Four distinct methodological approaches are examined in detail, namely automated social information extraction, social network analysis, social complexity theory and...
Social Science and Modern Man
Alan B. Plaunt Memorial Lectures 1969
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
The main theme of these lectures is man's struggle to understand himself as a social being. The author argues that the chief inspiration for this effort, insofar as it has been successful, has been the rationalist philosophy of physical science, and that constructive social science has been based...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Social science, history, and philosophy have often been neglect in thinking through their fundamentally intertwined relationship. The result is often an inattention to philosophy where social science and history is concerned, or a neglect of historicity and social analysis where philosophy is concerned....
Science and Social Work
A Critical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2002
Science and Social Work is a critical appraisal of the strategies and methods that have been used to develop knowledge for social work practice. It identifies the major ways in which social workers have drawn upon scientific knowledge and techniques, placing each one in historical perspective by explaining...
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?
Thinking from Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Sandra Harding here develops further the themes first addressed in her widely influential book, The Science Question in Feminism, and conducts a compelling analysis of feminist theories on the philosophical problem of how we know what we know.
Following a strong narrative line, Harding sets...