Social Science category: 175800 books
by R. Sassower
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
This books examines the conditions under which scientists compromised the ideals of science, and elucidates these with reference to the challenges of profit motives and national security concerns. The book also offers suggestions for changing the political and economic conditions under which the integrity of science and its ethos can be practiced.
by Simone Weil
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Este ensayo redactado por una jovencísima Simone Weil en 1934, no vio la luz hasta que Albert Camus lo incluyó como pieza fundamental en la antología Oppression et liberté de 1955.
Reflexiones sobre las causas de la libertad y de la opresión social constituyen una síntesis del pensamiento de...
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can...
The Moral Landscape
How Science Can Determine Human Values
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Sam Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people—from religious fundamentalists to nonbelieving scientists—agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values....
Using R for Data Analysis in Social Sciences
A Research Project-Oriented Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Statistical analysis is common in the social sciences, and among the more popular programs is R. This book provides a foundation for undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences on how to use R to manage, visualize, and analyze data. The focus is on how to address substantive questions...
Making Sense of Science
Separating Substance from Spin
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Cornelia Dean draws on her 30 years as a science journalist with the New York Times to expose the flawed reasoning and knowledge gaps that handicap readers when they try to make sense of science. She calls attention to conflicts of interest in research and the price society pays when science journalism declines and funding dries up.
Youth Policy and Social Inclusion
Critical Debates with Young People
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2004
Taking a holistic and multidisciplinary approach this book identifies and analyzes the factors which promote or discourage social inclusion of young people in today’s society. It critically examines the discriminatory attitudes towards young people, and focuses on the 'problem' of adults rather...
A World of Three Zeros
The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet
Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating...
Social Theory
Twenty Introductory Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Social theory is the theoretical core of the social sciences, clearly distinguishable from political theory and cultural analysis. This book offers a unique overview of the development of social theory from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the present day. Spanning the literature in English,...
The Reinvention of Politics
Rethinking Modernity in the Global Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Those who advocate ideas about "postmodernity" and "post-industrialism" offer radical critiques of existing social and political institutions. But they provide very little in place of those institutions. It is all very well to criticize the limitations of social democracy, the...
by Axel Kaehne
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
This is the first comprehensive study of Russian political and social thought in the post-Communist era. The book portrays and critically examines the conceptual and theoretical attempts by Russian scholars and political thinkers to make sense of the challenges of post-communism and the trials of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 1985
Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Indeed, the term 'state' was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly views the state as an agent which, although influenced...
An Archaeology of Social Space
Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamaica’s Blue Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
James Delle has solved a number of problems in Caribbean archaeology with An Archaeology of Social Space. He deals with most of the problems by using historical archaeology, and clearly implicates Ameri canist prehistorians. Although this book is about coffee plantations in the Blue Mountains area...
The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia
The inalienable gift of territory
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Land reform has been an indisputable part of Indonesian revolution. The consequent execution of development programmes for nation-building have provoked intense hostility over territorial rights. Global market forces in Indonesia have seen increasing flows of transnational investments, technology...