Social Science category: 175800 books
Public Sociology Capstones
Non-Neoliberal Alternatives to Internships
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Social science departments, both nationally and internationally, market boundless career destinations for their graduates but fail to identify the pathways to these lucrative destinations, and appear oblivious to the social forces that threaten their existence, such as the discerning parent’s investment...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Small in number but great in influence, mobile elites have shaped the contours of global capitalism. Today these elites continue to flourish globally but in a changing landscape. The current economic crisis—and rising concerns about the moral legitimacy of extreme wealth—coincides with stern warnings...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Since the 1950s sociology has experienced a decline in prestige when compared with the other social sciences. In some highly publicized cases some universities have retrenched their sociology departments, others are contemplating either retrenchment or downsizing of their departments. Although there...
Civic Ecology
Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Stories of environmental stewardship in communities from New Orleans to Soweto accompany an interdisciplinary framework for understanding civic ecology as a global phenomenon.
In communities across the country and around the world, people are coming together to rebuild and restore local environments...
Mary Douglas
Understanding Social Thought and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Mary Douglas’s innovative explanations for styles of human thought and for the dynamics of institutional change have furnished a distinctive and powerful theory of how conflicts are managed, yet her work remains astonishingly poorly appreciated in social science disciplines. This volume introduces...
Health Policy
A Critical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
This textbook provides a critical assessment of developments in health and healthcare policy within the UK and Europe. Each chapter integrates conceptual themes drawn from the fields of sociology and political science to offer a unique combination of theory, historical detail and wider social commentary.
The...
International Social Work
Issues, Strategies, and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
International Social Work: Issues, Strategies, and Programs, Second Edition draws together the practice wisdom emerging within the broad scope of international social work practice and its role in contributing to the international community's efforts in combating the major global social problems of...
Identity Process Theory
Identity, Social Action and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
We live in an ever-changing social world, which constantly demands adjustment to our identities and actions. Advances in science, technology and medicine, political upheaval, and economic development are just some examples of social change that can impact upon how we live our lives, how we view ourselves...
Phenomenology and the Social World
The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and its Relation to the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The term ‘phenomenology’ has become almost as over-used and emptied of meaning as that other word from Continental Philosophy, namely ‘existentialism’. Yet Husserl, who first put forward the phenomenological method, considered it a rigorous alternative to positivism, and in the hands of Merleau-Ponty,...
by Tessa Muncey
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Creating Autoethnographies is an introduction to autoethnography, a form of autobiographical personal narrative that explores the writer's experience of life. The first ever practical text on this increasingly popular research method, it provides a background and considers some of the criticisms of...
by Lynne M. Healy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
The Predictive Postcode
The Geodemographic Classification of British Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
It is not lost on commercial organisations that where we live colours how we view ourselves and others. That is why so many now place us into social groups on the basis of the type of postcode in which we live. Social scientists call this practice “commercial sociology”.
Richard Webber...
English Urban Life
1776-1851
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The years between 1776 and 1851 are of profound importance for the social and urban historian. English town dwellers of the period experienced some fundamental changes in their way of life: rapid population growth; and an unprecedented rate of social change resulting from this. These ever-increasing...
Democracy & Social Ethics
Conception of the Moral Significance of Diversity From a Feminist Perspective Including an Essay Belated Industry and a Speech Why Women Should Vote
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "Democracy & Social Ethics" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that "Ethics" is but another word for "righteousness," that for which...