Social Science category: 175800 books
Social Media in the Marketing Context
A State of the Art Analysis and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Social media has provided endless opportunities for marketers, fuelling their desire to learn more about their consumers through this dynamic online environment. Yet many organisations are finding it difficult to create effective marketing strategies, making decisions that are based on research that...
Gay Ethics
Controversies in Outing, Civil Rights, and Sexual Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Gay Ethics is an anthology that addresses ethical questions involving key moral issues of today--sexual morality, outing, gay and lesbian marriages, military service, anti-discrimination laws, affirmative action policies, the moral significance of sexual orientation research, and the legacy of homophobia...
Man, Woman, and Marriage
Small Group Processes in the Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
In "Man, Woman and Marriage", noted experts discuss such subjects as the ways in which people choose their mates, how the family social system can entrap its members in neurotic "games," and the complex nature of marital love. Each of the essays has been significant in major controversies...
Future Science
Essays from the Leading Edge
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
In this fascinating collection of writings that introduce the very latest theories and discoveries in science, editor Max Brockman presents the work of some of today’s brightest and most innovative young researchers.
Future Science features eighteen young scientists, most of whom are presenting...
by Clifford T. Brown, Larry S. Liebovitch
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
A specialized presentation of fractal analysis oriented to the social sciences
This primer uses straightforward language to give the reader step-by-step instructions for identifying and analyzing fractal patterns and the social process that create them. By making fractals accessible to the...
Social Research
Theory, Methods and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
`This is an impressively detailed, clearly written book.... It is a book that I would like students to read' - Clive Seale, Goldsmiths College, London
Social Research: Theory, Methods and Techniques presents an understanding of social research practice through appreciation of its foundations...
Race, Gender, and Identity
A Social Science Comparative Analysis of Africana Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume examines race, gender, and identity in African American culture. As with previous volumes in the series, these collected essays provide a social science and interdisciplinary framework for the exploration of Africana cultural and social phenomena. The contributors have adopted mixed methods...
Complex Adaptive Systems
An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2009
This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges...
by Frederick Douglass Alcorn
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
This book is a culturally situated study of the experiences and perspective garnered from of a group of post-secondary Black African American, bi-multi-racial male students aged 19-37. The undergirding interest was to see if there was an awareness of the group's manly inclinations, tendencies and...
by Richard Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Social Identity explains how identification, seen as a social process, works: individually, interactionally and institutionally. Building on the international success of previous editions, this fourth edition offers a concise, comprehensive and readable critical introduction to social science theories...
Troublesome Science
The Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understanding Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
It is well established that all humans today, wherever they live, belong to one single species. Yet even many people who claim to abhor racism take for granted that human “races” have a biological reality. In Troublesome Science, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall provide a lucid and forceful critique...
by Andrew Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
For the past twenty years, noted sociologist Andrew Abbott has been developing what he calls a processual ontology for social life. In this view, the social world is constantly changing—making, remaking, and unmaking itself, instant by instant. He argues that even the units of the social world—both...
Tricks of the Trade
How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of the Trade will help students learn how to think about research projects. Assisted by Becker's sage advice, students...
by John F. Dovidio, Jane Allyn Piliavin, David A. Schroeder
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Written by four leading researchers in the study of prosocial behavior, this book introduces a new perspective on prosocial behavior for the 21st century. Building on the bystander intervention work that has defined this area since the 1960s, The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior examines prosocial...