Social Science category: 175800 books
Social Geography
Progress and Prospect
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The examination of social questions is a relatively new development in goegraphy, but social geography has now blossomed into a fully fledged sub-discipline which has in fact influenced significantly all other areas of geography. This book, first published in 1987, presents an overview of recent developments...
Gender and Social Security Reform
What's Fair for Women?
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Aging populations are creating tremendous pressures on social security systems throughout the world, lifting the need for reform to the top of policy agendas. Proposed reforms often have different implications for men and women. At the same time, traditional family and gender roles are changing with...
Redistributing Happiness: How Social Policies Shape Life Satisfaction
How Social Policies Shape Life Satisfaction
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
The conventional recipe for happiness has long included money, marriage, and parenthood as basic ingredients. What research is telling us, however, is that these elements don't relate to happiness in quite the way we might expect them to. Redistributing Happiness: How Social Policies Shape Life Satisfaction...
by Jonny Stryder
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Bitcoin arrived in 2009. From nothing, cryptocurrency exploded to almost a trillion dollars market value in nine short years. Now Initial Coin Offerings clamor for attention and support. Demand for computer processors and electricity to run them soars. New Crypto millionaires reshape the economy. ...
by Petros Iosifidis, Mark Wheeler
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Social media is said to radically change the way in which public communication takes place: information diffuses faster and can reach a large number of people, but what makes the process so novel is that online networks can empower people to compete with traditional broadcasters or public figures....
Effective Communication During Disasters
Making Use of Technology, Media, and Human Resources
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.
In today’s world, there are new opportunities for disaster communications through modern technology and social media. Social network applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram can connect friends, family, first responders, and...
by F. Ellen Netting
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...
Science Communication
Culture, Identity and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
This book describes current practices in science communication, from citizen science to Twitter storms, and celebrates this diversity through case studies and examples. However, the authors also reflect on how scholars and practitioners can gain better insight into science communication through new...
Reframing global social policy
Social investment for sustainable and inclusive growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Christopher Deeming and Paul Smyth together with internationally renowned contributors propose that the merging of the ‘social investment’ and ‘inclusive growth and development’ agendas is forging an unprecedented global social policy framework. The book shows how these key ideas together...
Geographical Sociology
Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Applications in the Sociology of Location
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
The discipline of Sociology has a rich history of including spatial context in the analysis of social issues. Much of this history has revolved around the development and application of spatial theory aimed at understanding the geographic distribution of social problems, the organization of communities,...
Himalayan Quality of Life
A Study of Aizawl City
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
The book is a study of intra-urban inequality in quality of life (QOL) in Aizawl city. The main objectives of the study include analysis of processes and patterns of social differentiation along the three-dimensional space of Aizawl city as well as analysis of spatial inequality in QOL at the lowest...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"Does knowledge matter to politics?" is the main question the book tries to answer. The analysis is interdisciplinary and covers a wide range of topics: a social epistemology assessment of the efficacy of political institutions in promoting the generation and the diffusion of science and...
by Lida Fan
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
This book explores the interactions between social policy and migration in China. Using a theoretical framework of institutional economics, Lida Fan’s discussion examines migration regulations, household registration, social welfare and insurance, employment, education, housing, medical care and...
by John Mirowsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Education forms a unique dimension of social status, with qualities that make it especially important to health. It influences health in ways that are varied, present at all stages of adult life, cumulative, self-amplifying, and uniformly positive. Educational attainment marks social status at the...