Social Science category: 175800 books
Patrick Geddes
Social Evolutionist and City Planner
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
One of the great social thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) enjoyed a career of astonishing diversity. This new analysis of his life and work reviews his ideas and philosophy of planning, providing a scholarly yet accessible account for those...
Anarchists in the Boardroom
How social media and social movements can help your organisation to be more like people
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Change how we organise. Change the world.
There are lessons emerging all around us, in the new social movements that have swept the globe, and in the organising patterns found on social media.
Could Twitter and Occupy help our NGOs, charities, trade unions and voluntary organisations...
Reds, Whites, and Blues
Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Music, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuable tool for movements reconfiguring the social landscape. Reds, Whites, and Blues examines the political force of folk music, not through the...
The Only Woman in the Room
Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computer science
In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set...
by Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Julie Beicken
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Mandatory sterilization laws enacted in dozens of states coast-to-coast and approved by the U.S. Supreme Court formed the initial pillar for what became the Final Solution. Following WWII, there was renewed interest in a more inclusive view of social worth and the autonomy of the individual. Social...
Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance
The Power of Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Why do revolutions happen? Decades of social science research have brought us little closer to understanding where, when and amongst whom they occur. In this groundbreaking book, Eric Selbin argues that we need to look beyond the economic, political and social structural conditions to the thoughts...
Palaces for the People
How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
“A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forward.”—Jon Stewart
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • “Engaging.”—Mayor Pete Buttigieg, The New York Times Book...
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences
Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2005
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often declared obsolete, positivism is alive and well in a number of the fields; in others, its influence is...
Max Weber
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
A founder of contemporary social science, Max Weber was born in Germany in 1864. At his death 56 years later, he was nationally known for his scholarly and political writings, but it was the international reception of his oeuvre over the last forty years that has made him world-famous. "The Protestant...
by Gerard Bouchard, Les Editions du Boreal
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Myths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies. But even in our post-industrial, technologically driven world, myths – Western or Eastern, ancient or modern, religious or scientific – are...
Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice
From Loncheras to Lobsta Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability.
The food truck on the corner could be a brightly painted old-style lonchera offering tacos or an upscale mobile vendor serving...
by Kevin C Dunn, Iver B Neumann
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Kevin C. Dunn and Iver B. Neumann offer a concise, accessible introduction to discourse analysis in the social sciences. A vital resource for students and scholars alike, Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research combines a theoretical and conceptual review with a “how-to” guide for using...
Women in Science
A Social and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The first book of its kind to provide a full and comprehensive historical grounding of the contemporary issues of gender and women in science.
Women in Science includes a detailed survey of the history behind the popular subject and engages the reader with a theoretical and informed understanding...
by David Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
David Harvey is one of most famous Marxist intellectuals in the past half century, as well as one of the world's most cited social scientists. Beginning in the early 1970s with his trenchant and still-relevant book Social Justice and the City and through this day, Harvey has written numerous books...