Social Science category: 175800 books
Professing Sociology
Studies in the Life Cycle of Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Professing Sociology was originally published at a time when sociology commanded widespread interest and public funding. Written by one of the leaders of "the new sociology" of the late sixties, this volume captures the nature and intensity of the field's intellectual foundations and scope....
Persuasions and Prejudices
An Informal Compendium of Modern Social Science, 1953-1988
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Review essays and statements written for special occasions may reveal as much about the writer as those written about; this is the presumption undergirding this collection of thirty-five years of criticism and commentary by Irving Louis Horowitz. For this volume, he selected his comments on famous,...
by Professor Chris Shilling
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
'Once in a while a manuscript stops you in your tracks... What we are offered here is no recovering of old ground but a step change in perspectives on "body matters" that is both innovative and of fundamental importance to anyone working on this sociological terrain...This text is groundbreaking...
Hidden in Plain Sight
The Social Structure of Irrelevance
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Many of us take for granted that what we perceive is a completely accurate representation of the world around us. Yet we have all had the experience of suddenly realizing that the keys or glasses that we had been looking for in vain were right in front of us the whole time. The capacity of our sense...
Social Capital Construction and Governance in Central Asia
Communities and NGOs in post-Soviet Uzbekistan
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This cutting edge collection focuses on the nature of civil society and its role in facilitating governance in Central Asia, considering local implications related to the concept of social capital and civil society in the Uzbek context. It discusses the complexity of the notion of social capital in...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
This collection provides an overview of China’s rural politics, bringing scholarship on agrarian politics from various social science disciplines together in one place. The twelve contributions, spanning history, anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, political science, and geography, address...
Social Policy Reform in Hong Kong and Shanghai: A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
As the richest cities in the world's most populous nation, Hong Kong and Shanghai have recently experienced dynamic growth spurred by more and better-managed capital. These cities also have social problems whose solutions will cost money. Their urban populations are aging. Health finance at the level...
Science and the Creative Spirit
Essays on Humanistic Aspects of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1958
In the world of today, men on both sides of the science-humanities barrier feel an urgent need for mutual understanding. This symposium sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, stressed that it is only in a spirit of disinterested yet sincere evaluation that science and humanism can...
Networks of Echoes
Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Networks of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders is a mathematically rigorous and data rich book on a fascinating area of the science and engineering of social webs. There are hundreds of complex network phenomena whose statistical properties are described by inverse power laws. The...
by The Chicago Social Brain Network
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Can religion and science co-exist? Do they? Is religion hardwired in humans? The book, from the Chicago Social Brain Network, is the result of an extraordinary ongoing conversation among a group of highly respected scientists, physicians, philosophers, and theologians. Together, they share profound...
Knowledge and Politics (RLE Social Theory)
The Sociology of Knowledge Dispute
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Karl Mannheim’s Ideology and Utopia has been a profoundly provocative book. The debate about politics and social knowledge that was spawned by its original publication in 1929 attracted the most promising younger scholars, some of whom shaped the thought of several generations. The book became a...
Schools of Thought
The Development of Linguistics from Bopp to Saussure
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is based on the assumption that the development of science has to be understood both as a social and as an intellectual process. The division between internal and external history, between history of ideas and sociology of science, has been harmful not only to our understanding of scientific...
Black flags and social movements
A sociological analysis of movement anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
Anarchism may be the most misunderstood political ideology of the modern era, and one of the least studied social movements by English-speaking scholars. Black flags and social movements addresses this deficit with an in-depth analysis of contemporary anarchist movements as interpreted by social movement...
Mentoring, Methods, and Movements
Colloquium in Honor of Terence K. Hopkins by His Former Students and the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Terence Kilbourne Hopkins (1929-1997) was a hidden gem of the field of world-systems studies who contributed indispensably to its foundation amid a lifelong collaboration and friendship with Immanuel Wallerstein. His pedagogical humanism, methodological rigor, and scientific commitment to social change,...