Social Science category: 175800 books
NGOization
Complicity, Contradictions and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The growth and spread of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at local and international levels has attracted considerable interest and attention from policy-makers, development practitioners, academics and activists around the world. But how has this phenomenon impacted on struggles for social and...
Forensic Science
A sociological introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
This book addresses a significant gap in the literature and provides a comprehensive overview of the sociology of forensic science. Drawing on a wealth of international research and case studies, this book explores the intersection of science, technology, law and society and examines the production...
by David Abshire
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This absorbing intellectual history vividly recreates the unique social, political, and philosophical milieu in which the extraordinary promise of Einstein and scientific contemporaries took root and flourished into greatness. Feuer shows us that no scientific breakthrough really happens by chance;...
by J.C. Harsanyi
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
When John Harsanyi came to Stanford University as a candidate for the Ph.D., I asked him why he was bothering, since it was most un likely that he had anything to learn from us. He was already a known scho lar; in addition to some papers in economics, the first two papers in this vol ume had...
Broadening Horizons
International Exchanges in Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
While the remit of social work professionals is, in general, locality-based, social work has a long tradition of concern about international issues. Broadening Horizons provides an engaging and original contribution to the debate on how to tackle social work problems on a global scale. Filling both...
Democratic Culture and Moral Character
A Study in Culture and Personality
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
This book returns critical theory to its roots in both psychology and the social sciences. It shows some of the relationships between equality in a political and social sense and personal identity that either relates well to such equality, or rebels against it. All this reflects processes of social...
by Helen Jarvis, Jonathan Cloke, Paula Kantor
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Men and women experience the city differently: in relation to housing assets, use of transport, relative mobility, spheres of employment and a host of domestic and caring responsibilities. An analysis of urban and gender studies, as co-constitutive subjects, is long overdue.
Cities and Gender...
Online Collective Action
Dynamics of the Crowd in Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This work addresses the gap in the current collective action literature exposed by the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) landscape by bringing together qualitative and quantitative studies from computational and social sciences. The book offers a rigorous and systematic investigation...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science brings together original essays by both feminist and mainstream philosophers of science that examine issues at the intersections of feminism, science, and the philosophy of science. Contributors explore parallels and tensions between feminist approaches...
The Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science
Comparative Issues and Examples
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Biographical research methods have become a useful and popular tool for contemporary social scientists. This book combines an exploration of the historical and philosophical origins of this important field of qualitative research with comparative examples of the different ways that biographical methods...
Recognizing The Latino Resurgence In U.s. Religion
The Emmaus Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This book delivers a knockout blow to the old notion that Latinos and Latinas are just another immigrant group waiting to be assimilated. Taking as analogy the scriptural episode of Emmaus in which Jesus walked unrecognized alongside his disciples, the authors detail how after nearly a century of...
Challenges in Human Rights
A Social Work Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
By using human rights as a guidepost, social workers can help create social welfare policies that better serve societal needs. However, in applying human rights to contemporary situations, social workers often encounter challenges that require thinking outside the box. Bringing together provocative...
Medical Imperialism in French North Africa
Regenerating the Jewish Community of Colonial Tunis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
French-colonial Tunisia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed shifting concepts of identity, including varying theories of ethnic essentialism, a drive toward “modernization,” and imperialist interpretations of science and medicine. As French colonizers worked to realize ideas...
The State in India after Liberalization
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of government and relations between state and society. It is clear that liberalization as state policy has complex forms of regulation and deregulation inbuilt, and these policies have resulted in dramatic increases in productivity and economic...