Social Science category: 175800 books
The Age of the Social
The Discovery of Society and The Ascendance of a New Episteme
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The concept of society sui generis – society as a level of reality which could be studied scientifically – crystallized in the middle of the nineteenth century in Europe, with the work of Durkheim, Marx and Weber and today, more than at any other period in history, the idea of the social has gained...
by P. F. Selman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Sources and Nature of the Statistics of the United Kingdom, produced under th~ auspices of the Royal Statistical Society and edited by Maurice Kendall, filled a notable gap on the library shelves when it made its appearance in the early post-war years. Through a series of critical reviews by many...
by June Gary Hopps, Tony Lowe, Vanessa Robinson-Dooly
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...
by Lloyd E. Sandelands
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Anthropology--the study of man--is unlike every other study because humans are its subject. And because we are its subject we cannot manage the philosophic and emotional distance necessary to see clearly. Unable to stand apart from ourselves to comprehend our own truth, we are compelled to assume...
by Walter Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The subject of this book is limited to the abstract form or "logic" of science, as applied particularly to scientific sociology. But the discussion presented here goes beyond abstraction and serves a practical role in the sociology and history of science by providing a framework for reducing...
OccupyMedia!
The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
The Occupy movement has emerged in a historical crisis of global capitalism. It struggles for the reappropriation of the commodified commons. Communications are part of the commons of society. Yet contemporary social media are ridden by an antagonism between private corporate control (YouTube, Facebook,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2003
Studies of social movements and of political parties have usually treated them as separate and distinct. In fact they are deeply intertwined. Social movements often shape electoral competition and party policies; they can even give rise to new parties. At the same time, political parties and campaigns...
What's Your Problem?
Making Sense of Social Problems and the Policy Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This lively book provides an essential introduction to the critical analysis of social problems and the policy process. It argues that policy does not just have an impact of people’s lives, but that people can and should have an impact on policy.
Rather than assuming that social policies...
by Charles H. Powers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Making Sense of Social Theory opens by carefully exploring what it means to follow the scientific method in a field like sociology. The book goes on to analyze sociology as a genuine science with a body of explanatory insights. Sociological theory is applied in ways that make its relevance and power...
Big Science Transformed
Science, Politics and Organization in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
This book analyses the emergence of a transformed Big Science in Europe and the United States, using both historical and sociological perspectives. It shows how technology-intensive natural sciences grew to a prominent position in Western societies during the post-World War II era, and how their development...
Thinking Through the Environment
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
This reader brings together material from ecological thought, environmental policy, environmental philosophy, social and political thought, historical sociology and cultural studies. The extracts tell the story of the way the natural environment has been understood in the modern world and how this...
Complexity and Social Movements
Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory to analyze the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalization....
The Political Discourse of Spatial Disparities
Geographical Inequalities Between Science and Propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This work aims to provide unique insights into the multidisciplinary research on spatial disparities from an unconventional point of view. It breaks with the conventional narrative that tends to interpret this theoretical tradition as a series of factual contributions to a better understanding of...
Lost in the Long Transition
Struggles for Social Justice in Neoliberal Chile
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
In Lost in the Long Transition, a group of scholars who conducted fieldwork research in post-dictatorship Chile during the transition to democracy critically examine the effects of the country's adherence to neoliberal economic development and social policies. Shifting government responsibility for...