Social Science category: 175800 books
by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
(A5, 112 P.) - Today, at the dawn of the 21st century, according to more recent UN data, over one billion people (in their great majorities in poor and/or underdeveloped countries of Africa, Asia and South America) are affected by states of poverty extreme.
That is, approx. from 15% to 20%...
The Lines that Divide America
Race, Protests, and Police
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
White police officers killing black men, protesters taking over college campuses, streets, and cities claiming injustice and demanding change. It seems unreal that officers are behaving the way the headlines allege, the events make us feel like the civil rights era has returned with social media and...
by James Farney
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
The strength of the Tea Party and Religious Right in the United States, alongside the Harper Conservatives’ stance on same-sex marriage and religious freedom in Canada, has many asking whether social conservatism has come to define the right wing of North American politics.
In this timely...
We Can Do Better
Ideas for Changing Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The view that capitalism is an inherently flawed, exploitative, crisis-prone, oppressive system is not new. But neoliberal capitalism’s flaws are increasingly dangerous in Western countries and globally as corporations exert growing influence on governments, as the endless pursuit of profits pushes...
Complaints, Controversies and Grievances in Medicine
Historical and Social Science Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Recent studies into the experiences and failures of health care services, along with the rapid development of patient advocacy, consumerism and pressure groups have led historians and social scientists to engage with the issue of the medical complaint. As expressions of dissatisfaction, disquiet and...
by Allan E. Barsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids
Teenagers in an Era of Consumerism, Standardized Tests, and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
In Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: Teenagers in an Era of Consumerism, Standardized Tests, and Social Media, Second Edition, award-winning sociologist Murray Milner tries to understand why teenagers behave the way they do. The first edition drew upon two years of intensive fieldwork in one high school...
The Terms of Order
Political Science and the Myth of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion,...
by Joe Painter, Dr Alex Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009
"A very good overview. Covers the key topics well and in an accessible and engaging style."
- Dr Daniel Hammett, Department of Geography, Sheffield University
This is a revised and updated edition of a core undergraduate resource for political geography. Focusing on the social and...
Wiki at War
Conflict in a Socially Networked World
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
In 2011, amid the popular uprising against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the government sought in vain to shut down the Internet-based social networks of its people.
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has been branded “public enemy number one” by some in the United States for posting...
by John W. Traphagan
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This book explores humanity’s thoughts and ideas about extraterrestrial life, paying close attention to the ways science and culture interact with one another to create a context of imagination and discovery related to life on other worlds. Despite the recent explosion in our knowledge of other...
The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy
Anglo-German Relations (1066-1307)
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century political and intellectual boundaries have heavily influenced our views of medieval Germany. Historians have looked back to the Middle Ages for the origins of modern European political crises. They concluded that while England and France built nation-states during...
Surfing and Social Theory
Experience, Embodiment and Narrative of the Dream Glide
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Surfing has emerged from ancient roots to become a twenty-first century phenomenon – an ‘alternative’ sport, lifestyle and art form with a global profile and ever-increasing numbers of participants. Drawing on popular surf culture, academic literature and the analytical tools of social theory,...
Smart Urbanism
Utopian vision or false dawn?
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Smart Urbanism (SU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people – is being represented as a unique emerging ‘solution’ to the majority of problems faced by cities today. SU discourses, enacted...