Social Science category: 175800 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
This book is a collection of essays covering a range of issues related to socioeconomic inequalities and diversities. The authors, leading social scientists of diverse nationalities, represent varied perspectives. The book has essays on multiculturalism, social inclusion and exclusion of minorities...
Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures
Contemporary International Cases
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries. However, the push to address the tensions stemming from this rapid growth also allow the suburbs to be a major...
Human Sciences and Human Interests
Integrating the Social, Economic, and Evolutionary Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Within the disciplines of social, economic, and evolutionary science, a proud ignorance can often be found of the other areas’ approaches. This text provides a novel intellectual basis for breaking this trend. Certainly, Human Sciences and Human Interests aspires to open a broad debate about what...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
The book presents an in-depth and theoretically-grounded analysis of urban gardening practices (re)emerging worldwide as new forms of bottom-up socio-political participation. By complementing the scholarly perspectives through posing real cases, it focuses on how these practices are able to address...
Social experiences of breastfeeding
Building bridges between research, policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
This book brings together international academics, policy makers and practitioners to build bridges between the real-world and scholarship on breastfeeding. It asks the question: How can the latest social science research into breastfeeding be used to improve support at both policy and practice level,...
Ethnocentrism
Integrated Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Ethnocentrism works to reinvigorate the study of ethnocentrism by reconceptualising ethnocentrism as a social, psychological, and attitudinal construct.
Using a broad, multidisciplinary approach to ethnocentrism, the book integrates literature from disciplines such as psychology, political...
Making Magic
Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Higher education and research are now at the centre of economic and social policy in advanced information societies. Global networks of researchers, finance, students and policymakers invoke collaborative sociological perspectives. What it means to be an academic and to work in a technologically advanced...
by Violeta Núñez Pérez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
El propósito más general, que nos ha impulsado a redactar y presentar este material, es el de contribuir a formular preguntas que, siendo aparentemente simples, sirven de guía en la acción social educativa: ¿qué es un modelo de acción socioeducativa?; ¿por qué es importante reflexionar acerca...
by Segundo Moyano Mangas, Jordi Planella Ribera
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Es el fruto de un trabajo propuesto a treinta y cinco profesionales vinculados a la educación social, la mayoría educadores sociales en activo, con el doble propósito de, por un lado, promover un ejercicio de análisis y reflexión alrededor de conceptos, ideas y palabras vinculadas al campo social...
Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason
Text and Documents
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason is a series of fascinating essays on the study of social phenomena. How to best and most accurately study social interactions has long been debated intensely, and there are two main approaches: the positivists, who ignore intent and belief and draw on methods...
Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks
Theory, Methods, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are increasingly applied to observed network data and are central to understanding social structure and network processes. The chapters in this edited volume provide a self-contained, exhaustive account of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of...
Friends, Followers and the Future
How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
There’s a revolution going on, as ever-accelerating developments in digital information technologies change nearly every aspect of how we live, work, play, do business, and engage in politics. Share and share alike-the numbers say it all as billions of people worldwide flock to online media and...
Land Use Competition
Ecological, Economic and Social Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This book contributes to broadening the interdisciplinary knowledge basis for the description, analysis and assessment of land use practices. It presents conceptual advances grounded in empirical case studies on four main themes: distal drivers, competing demands on different scales, changing food...