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Weaponizing Anthropology

Social Science in Service of the Militarized State

by David H. Price
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011

The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counterinsurgency in the United States. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

Just what is the “participatory condition”? It is the situation in which taking part in something with others has become both environmental and normative. The fact that we have always participated does not mean we have always lived under the participatory condition. What is distinctive about the...
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I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did

Social Networks and the Death of Privacy

by Lori Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012

Hailed as “stunning” (New York Post), “authoritative” (Kirkus Reviews), and “comprehensively researched” (Shelf Awareness), a shocking exposé of the widespread abuses of our personal online data by a leading specialist on Web privacy. Social networks, the defining cultural movement...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

The urban world is an exciting terrain for investigating the central institutions, structures and problems of the social world and how they have transformed through the last 200 years. This Reader comprises sections on urban social theory, racial and social difference in the city, culture in everyday...
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Social Science and Government

Policies and problems

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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...
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The Qualified Self

Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life

by Lee Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018

How sharing the mundane details of daily life did not start with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube but with pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books. Social critiques argue that social media have made us narcissistic, that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are all vehicles for me-promotion....
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Irish social policy (second edition)

A critical introduction

by Dukelow, Fiona, Considine
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017

This 2nd edition of a highly respected textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to Irish social policy. It provides an accessible, critical overview taking account of significant changes over recent years. The book is organised across four key sections: 1: Traces the emergence and development...
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by David Howe
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014

The role of the social worker is to be found lying interestingly between society and the individuals they work with. As a result, social workers often feel pulled between the demands and challenges that each presents. The Compleat Social Worker explores the many debates the profession enjoys, including...
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Tourism Geography

Critical Understandings of Place, Space and Experience

by Stephen Williams, Alan A. Lew
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014

For human geographers, a central theme within the discipline is interpreting and understanding our changing world – a world in which geographic patterns are constantly being reworked by powerful forces of change. These forces include population shifts, new patterns of economic production and consumption,...
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Brazil Emerging

Inequality and Emancipation

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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014

This volume is a critical inquiry into the social project and socioeconomic realities of emerging Brazil, a country that faces profound changes. A team of acknowledged specialists on Brazil’s complex configuration addresses state policies, social dynamics and economic constraints and opportunities...
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by Patricia Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013

Key Themes in Social Policy provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to the key concepts used in social policy, from autonomy to wellbeing. With over 100 ideas discussed, this is a comprehensive student guide and is designed to help readers to gain a deeper understanding of major...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014

The present volume provides a comprehensive resource for practitioners and researchers alike-both those new to the field as well as those who already have some experience. The work covers Social Network Analysis theory and methods with a focus on current applications and case studies applied in various...
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by Scott M. Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013

This book covers applied statistics for the social sciences with upper-level undergraduate students in mind. The chapters are based on lecture notes from an introductory statistics course the author has taught for a number of years. The book integrates statistics into the research process, with early...
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Knowledge Creation in Community Development

Institutional Change in Southeast Asia and Japan

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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017

This book explores how public organizations and not-for-profit organizations (NPO) can be more collaborative, innovative and effective in solving social issues in both developing and developed countries. “Social innovation,” led by social entrepreneurs and/or social enterprises, emerged in the...
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