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Social Synthesis
Finding Dynamic Patterns in Complex Social Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
How is it possible to understand society and the problems it faces? What sense can be made of the behaviour of markets and government interventions? How can citizens understand the course that their lives take and the opportunities available to them?
There has been much debate surrounding what...
Handbook on Evolution and Society
Toward an Evolutionary Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
"Handbook on Evolution and Society" brings together original chapters by prominent scholars who have been instrumental in the revival of evolutionary theorizing and research in the social sciences over the last twenty-five years. Previously unpublished essays provide up-to-date, critical surveys of...
by Andres F. Rengifo
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 criminology 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 Joop de Wit
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book explores the informal (political) patronage relations between the urban poor and service delivery organisations in Mumbai, India. It examines the conditions of people in the slums and traces the extent to which they are subject to social and political exclusion. Delving into the roles of...
by Dalia M. Gouda
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
From the 1980s onward, billions of dollars were poured into irrigation improvement programs in Egypt. These aimed at improving local Nile water management through the introduction of more water-efficient technology and by placing management of the improved systems in the hands of local water user...
Climate Change and Social Inequality
The Health and Social Costs of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
The year 2016 was the hottest year on record and the third consecutive record-breaking year in planet temperatures. The following year was the hottest in a non-El Nino year. Of the seventeen hottest years ever recorded, sixteen have occurred since 2000, indicating the trend in climate change is toward...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The rate of social change has speeded up in the last three decades, but how do we explain this? This volume ventures what the generative mechanism is that produces such rapid change and discusses how this differs from late Modernity. Contributors examine if an intensification of morphogenesis (positive...
The Rise and Fall of Elites
Application of Theoretical Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Combining a thorough introduction to the work of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Italian social theorist Vilfredo Pareto with a highly readable English translation of Pareto's last monograph "Generalizations," originally published in 1920, this work illustrates how and why democratic...
Critical Political Ecology
The Politics of Environmental Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Critical Political Ecology brings political debate to the science of ecology. As political controversies multiply over the science underlying environmental debates, there is an increasing need to understand the relationship between environmental science and politics. In this timely and wide-ranging...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Social movements have attracted much attention in recent years, both from scholars and among the wider public. This book examines the consequences of social movements, covering such issues as the impact of social movements on the life course of participants and the population in general, on political...
Non-State Social Protection Actors and Services in Africa
Governance Below the State
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
For millions of Africans, the social situation is dire. Over half of the population of Sub-Sahara Africa do not have access to improved sanitation facilities, and about a quarter are undernourished. If factors such as armed conflicts in the region, the impact of climate change, or the widespread presence...
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Future of ASEAN (ICoFA) 2017 – Volume 2
Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book examines how business, the social sciences, science and technology will impact the future of ASEAN. Following the ASEAN VISION 2020, it analyses the issues faced by ASEAN countries, which are diverse, while also positioning ASEAN as a competitive entity through partnerships. On the 30th...
The Politics of Social Exclusion in India
Democracy at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Social exclusion and inclusion remain issues of fundamental importance to democracy. Both exclusion and inclusion relate to the access to participation in the public realm, public goods and services for certain groups of people who are minorities, marginalized and deprived. Democratization has led...
Evaluation and Social Justice in Complex Sociopolitical Contexts
New Directions for Evaluation, Number 146
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
This volume is devoted to the theme of social responsibility, social justice, and evaluation. It examines the evaluation–social justice interface and:
shares a variety of options and examples from different settings,
gives voice to populations whose voices are rarely heard, and
contributes...