Social Science category: 175800 books
by Ski Hunter
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...
Pathways to Prohibition
Radicals, Moderates, and Social Movement Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2003
Strategies for gradually effecting social change are often dismissed as too accommodating of the status quo. Ann-Marie E. Szymanski challenges this assumption, arguing that moderation is sometimes the most effective way to achieve change. Pathways to Prohibition examines the strategic choices of social...
Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways
From Words to Housing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
On any given night, there are over 643,000 homeless people residing in shelters and on the streets across America. What can we do to help?
"Levy crafts stories of characters who sear the memory: Old Man Ray, the World War II veteran who resents the VA system and regards himself as the de facto...
Conflict and Multimodal Communication
Social Research and Machine Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
This book explores the use of technology to detect, predict and understand social cues, in order to analyze and prevent conflict. Traditional human sciences approaches are enriched with the latest developments in Social Signal Processing aimed at an automatic understanding of conflict and negotiation....
by Elizabeth B Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
This forward-looking volume examines the role of social influence--including social media--in creating and fostering sustainable consumer behavior. Using the concepts behind social influence theory as a launching point, it describes humans' need for social networks and identifies the core components...
by Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, Matthew O. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
How can economists define social preferences and interactions?
Culture, familial beliefs, religion, and other sources contain the origins of social preferences. Those preferences--the desire for social status, for instance, or the disinclination to receive financial support--often accompany...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The volume delivers a wealth of effective methods to deal with various types of uncertainty inherently existing in human-centric decision problems. It elaborates on comprehensive decision frameworks to handle different decision scenarios, which help use effectively the explicit and tacit knowledge...
Complex Networks VIII
Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Complex Networks CompleNet 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book collects the works presented at the 8th International Conference on Complex Networks (CompleNet) 2017 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on March 21-24, 2017. CompleNet aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working in areas related to complex networks. The past two decades has witnessed...
by Frederic G. Reamer
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...
Visualizing Social Science Research
Maps, Methods, & Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
This introductory text presents basic principles of social science research through maps, graphs, and diagrams. The authors show how concept maps and mind maps can be used in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research, using student-friendly examples and classroom-based activities. Integrating...
Narrative Productions of Meanings
Exploring the Work of Stories in Social Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
In Narrative Productions of Meanings: Exploring the Work of Stories in Social Life, Donileen R. Loseke examines the importance of stories in an anti-science, anti-fact era where a multitude of personal, social, and political problems surround meaning. This book’s basic argument is that, within such...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Julian Simon was known for his methodical, and often controversial, writings challenging conventional beliefs about overpopulation, pollution, disappearing farmland, and the scarcity of energy sources and raw materials. But throughout his works is a common theme: that responsible, unbiased research...
Social Capital and Institutional Constraints
A Comparative Analysis of China, Taiwan and the US
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The sociological concept of social capital has grown in popularity in recent years and research programs in North America, Europe, and East Asia have demonstrated how social capital has a significant impact on occupational mobility, community building, social movement, and economic development.
This...
U.S. Social Welfare Reform
Policy Transitions from 1981 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
U. S. Social Welfare Reform examines pivotal changes in social welfare for low-income families in the United States between 1981, the advent of the Reagan administration, and 2008, the end of the G.W. Bush administration. It focuses on the change from the Federal-state open entitlement Aid to Families...