Social Science category: 175800 books
by Nicholas J. Spykman
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Contemporary sociology increasingly seems to be adopting a perspective similar to that on which Georg Simmel's analysis and interpretations rested. To a significant degree, therefore, sociologists continue to turn to Simmel for a basic understanding of the forms and processes of social life. Nicholas...
Cities and Social Change
Encounters with Contemporary Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
"This textbook of essays by leading critical urbanists is a compelling introduction to an important field of study; it interrogates contemporary conflicts and contradictions inherent in the social experience of living in cities that are undergoing neoliberal restructuring, and grapples with profound...
by Hugo Munsterberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
As one of the most significant figures in the development of the field of applied psychology, German-born Hugo Munsterberg emphasized the importance of bringing psychology out of the laboratory and into the real world. In Psychology and Social Sanity, he addresses a number of pressing social problems...
by Thomas M. Carsey, Jeffrey J. Harden
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Taking the topics of a quantitative methodology course and illustrating them through Monte Carlo simulation, Monte Carlo Simulation and Resampling Methods for Social Science, by Thomas M. Carsey and Jeffrey J. Harden, examines abstract principles, such as bias, efficiency, and measures of uncertainty...
Social Research
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Original, fresh and relevant this is a theoretically-informed practical guide to researching social relations.
The text provides a mixed methods approach that challenges historical divisions between quantitative and qualitative research. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach to social...
Social and Cultural Dynamics
A Study of Change in Major Systems of Art, Truth, Ethics, Law and Social Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This classic work is a revised and abridged version, in a single volume, of the work which more than any other catapulted Pitirim Sorokin into being one of the most famed figures of twentieth-century sociology. Its original publication occurred before World War II. This revised version, written some...
Forbidden Narratives
Critical Autobiography as Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Forbidden Narratives: Critical Autobiography as Social Science explores overlapping layers of voices and stories that convey the social relations of psychiatric survivor participation within a community mental health service system. It is written from the perspective of a woman who, in the course...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
In this clear and insightful book, best selling author Malcolm Payne analyses the major elements of social care practice, explaining how caring and social work skills and values are crucial to effective social care.
Through theory, research evidence and skill development, Payne identifies the...
Lycra
How A Fiber Shaped America
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
"The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science...
Explaining Society
An Introduction to Critical Realism in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
This book will be immensely valuable for students and researchers in social science, sociology and philosophy in that it connects methodology, theory and empirical research. It provides an innovative picture of what society and social science is, along with the methods used to study and explain social phenomena.
by Ira C. Colby
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
All social work practice is regulated by social policies. Professionals, however, cannot arbitrarily select which policy to follow in any circumstance. Knowing what comprises a given policy is essential, but equally important is understanding how to amend a policy by applying unique skills that reflect...
Uprooting Urban America
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race, Class and Gentrification
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Shifts in America’s socioeconomic geography have been documented since the 1960s, demonstrating the reversal of white flight and the reshaping of a nation, evidenced by the growing divide between underprivileged citizens and the wealthy. As state and local governments continue to scale back social...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Given that touch and touching is so central to everyday embodied existence, why has it been largely ignored by social scientists for so long? What is the place of touch in our mixed spaces of sociality, work, domesticity, recreation, creativity or care? What conceptual resources and academic languages...
CyberGenetics
Health genetics and new media
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Online genetic testing services are increasingly being offered to consumers who are becoming exposed to, and knowledgeable about, new kinds of genetic technologies, as the launch of a 23andme genetic testing product in the UK testifies. Genetic research breakthroughs, cheek swabbing forensic pathologists...