Social Science category: 175800 books
HIV/AIDS and the Social Consequences of Untamed Biomedicine
Anthropological Complicities
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Drawing on the case of HIV/AIDS in Thailand, this book examines how anthropological and other interpretative social science research has been utilized in modeling the AIDS epidemic, and in the design and implementation of interventions. It argues that much social science research has been complicit...
Religious Perspectives on Social Responsibility in Health
Towards a Dialogical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
This book discuss the meaning and implications of the social and ethical implications of the notion of social responsibility in healthcare in six major world religions — Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, & Judaism. This collection of papers is based on a four-day workshop...
Policy change, public attitudes and social citizenship
Does neoliberalism matter?
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Neoliberal reforms have seen a radical shift in government thinking about social citizenship rights around the world. But have they had a similarly significant impact on public support for these rights? This unique book traces public views on social citizenship across three decades through attitudinal...
Race and Social Problems
Restructuring Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
As much as Americans believe in the promise of an egalitarian, color-blind society, the reality is far from that ideal. People of color consistently lag behind their white counterparts in key quality-of-life areas. Despite many significant gains, widespread structural inequalities continue to exist...
Toward a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices
Between Existential Analytic and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Recent methodological debates have shown that practice theory can either be developed by combining and slightly extending established theoretical concepts of inter-subjectivity, social normativity, collective behavior, interaction between agents and environment, habits, learning, collective intentionality,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Much of a society’s resources are devoted to dealing with, or preparing for the possibility of, crime. The dominance of concerns about crime also hint at the broader implications that offending has for many different facets of society. They suggest that rather than being an outlawed subset of social...
Reforming food in post-Famine Ireland
Medicine, science and improvement, 1845–1922
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Reforming food in post-famine Ireland: Medicine, science and improvement, 1845–1922 is the first dedicated study of how and why Irish eating habits dramatically transformed between the famine and independence. It also investigates the simultaneous reshaping of Irish food production after the famine....
A Realist Metaphysics of Race
A Context-Sensitive, Short-Term Retentionist, Long-Term Revisionist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
A Realist Metaphysics of Race: A Context-Sensitive, Short-Term Retentionist, Long-Term Revisionist Approach, Jeremy Pierce defends a social kind view of racial categories. On this view, the biological features we use to classify people racially do not make races natural kinds. Rather, races exist...
Policing and Social Media
Social Control in an Era of New Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
This book investigates various public aspects of the management, use, and control of social media by police agencies in Canada. This book aims to illustrate the process by which new information technology—namely, social media—and related changes in communication formats have affected the public...
Engaging with Social Work
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Contemporary global challenges require practitioners to confidently analyse the dominant discourses and develop frameworks and strategies for future change. Engaging with Social Work equips students with a critical perspective and develops their understanding of social work and human services practice,...
The Path to Gay Rights
How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
An innovative, data-driven explanation of how public opinion shifted on LGBTQ rights
The Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved its most unexpected victory---transforming gay people from a despised group of social deviants into a minority...
Boundaries of Competence
Knowing the Social with Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The term ""social science"" promises more than its practitioners can deliver: it promises knowledge. This knowledge is to consist of statements of empirical regularities of such quality as will enhance predictive power and inform public and private policy. Boundaries of Competence...
Studying Arctic Fields
Cultures, Practices, and Environmental Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
In recent years the circumpolar region has emerged as the key to understanding global climate change. The plight of the polar bear, resource extraction debates, indigenous self-determination, and competing definitions of sovereignty among Arctic nation-states have brought the northernmost part of...
The End of Animal Farming
How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A bold yet realistic vision of how technology and social change are creating a food system in which we no longer use animals to produce meat, dairy, or eggs.
Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals brought widespread attention to the disturbing...