Social Science category: 175800 books
Psychotherapy As Religion
The Civil Divine In America
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
***A provocative look at America on the couch.***In Psychotherapy as Religion, William Epstein sets out to debunk claims that psychotherapy provides successful clinical treatment for a wide range of personal and social problems. He argues that the practice is not a science at all but rather the civil...
Childhood, Science Fiction, and Pedagogy
Children Ex Machina
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
This book invites readers to both reassess and reconceptualize definitions of childhood and pedagogy by imagining the possibilities - past, present, and future - provided by the aesthetic turn to science fiction. It explores constructions of children, childhood, and pedagogy through the multiple lenses...
World Ordering
A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach, this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative theory of change and stability of international social orders. It argues that practices and their background knowledge...
Lie Detection and the Law
Torture, Technology and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This book develops a sociological account of lie detection practices and uses this to think about lying more generally. Bringing together insights from sociology, social history, socio-legal studies and science and technology studies (STS), it explores how torture and technology have been used to...
Social Inequalities in Health in Nonhuman Primates
The Biology of the Gradient
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive look at nonhuman primate social inequalities as models for health differences associated with socioeconomic status in humans. The benefit of the socially-housed monkey model is that it provides the complexity of hierarchical structure and rank affiliation, i.e....
Youth Gangs in International Perspective
Results from the Eurogang Program of Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
As a steady source of juvenile delinquents and an incubator for future adult offenders, the youth gang has long been a focus of attention, from their origins and prevalence to intervention and prevention strategies. But while delinquent youth form gangs worldwide, youth gang research has generally...
by Bentham Science Publishers
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Based on six years of extended ethnography in multiple agricultural areas of the Eastern United States, Down Country Lanes, Behind Abandoned Houses is a monograph which explores the lives of migrant and seasonal farm workers. The six-year study secured multi-setting field data in primary, secondary...
by David Chan
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
It is clear that public trust plays a critical role in developing a vibrant economy and a strong society. A reasonably high level of public trust will enable the public, the Government, and the various organisations and groups in the different sectors in Singapore to work together to build a cohesive...
by Shaul R. Shenhav
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Interpreting human stories, whether those told by individuals, groups, organizations, nations, or even civilizations, opens a wide scope of research options for understanding how people construct, shape, and reshape their perceptions, identities, and beliefs. Such narrative research is a rapidly growing...
Performing Action
Artistry in Human Behavior and Social Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In recent years the social sciences and the humanities have drawn closer to each other in thought and method. This rapprochement has led to new perceptions of human behavior by sociologists, as well as new methodological orientations. Sociologist Joseph R. Gusfield draws upon drama and fiction to...
Closed Systems and Open Minds
The Limits of Naivety in Social Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Social anthropology, defined operationally in terms of what social anthropologists have done in the last fifty years, is the study and comparison of tribal societies and of small fields of social life with emphasis on the role of custom. When a social anthropologist's research leads him into any field,...
German Identity and Patriotism
Healing the Wounds, Integrating the Shadow
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Adrian Wagner interviewed by Psychiatrist Dr Nicholas Beecroft. Adrian is an emerging German leader. Aged 26, from the Millennial Generation “X,” he writes on social transformation and integral consciousness. In this interview, he discusses German Identity and Patriotism; the state of German consciousness,...
The Urban Garden City
Shaping the City with Gardens Through History
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of the role of gardens in cities throughout different historical periods. It shows that, thanks to various forms of spatial and social organisation, gardens are part of the material urban landscape, biodiversity, symbolic and social shape, and assets...
by Janet A. Kourany
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
In this monograph Janet A. Kourany argues for a philosophy of science more socially engaged and socially responsible than the philosophy of science we have now. The central questions feminist scientists, philosophers, and historians have been raising about science during the last three decades form...