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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with business and politics as well as...
Blueprint
The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Bruni, New York Times), Blueprint shows how and why evolution has placed us on a humane path -- and how we are united by our common humanity.
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Common Purpose
Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
In her previous book, Within Our Reach, renowned Harvard social analyst Lisbeth Schorr examined pilot social programs that were successful in helping disadvantaged youth and families. But as those cutting-edge programs were expanded, the very qualities that had made them initially successful were...
Welfare for the Wealthy
Parties, Social Spending, and Inequality in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
How does political party control determine changes to social policy, and by extension, influence inequality in America? Conventional theories show that Democratic control of the federal government produces more social expenditures and less inequality. Welfare for the Wealthy re-examines this relationship...
Social policy in a cold climate
Policies and their consequences since the crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Social Policy in a Cold Climate offers a data-rich, evidence-based analysis of the impact Labour and coalition government policies have had on inequality and on the delivery of services such as health, education, adult social care, housing and employment in the wake of the greatest recession of our...
Housing politics in the United Kingdom
Power, planning and protest
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
With rapid population growth, a long-term dearth in new housing construction, the emergence of ‘generation rent’ and rising homelessness, the issue of housing in the UK is considered complex, open-ended and intractable. Using insights from public choice theory, the new institutionalism and social...
Analyzing Quantitative Data
From Description to Explanation
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2003
What basic knowledge and skills do novice researchers in social science require? How can students be helped to over-come `symbol phobia' or `figure blindness'?
This generous and constantly insightful book is designed for social researchers who need to know what procedures to use under what...
Ageing, Health and Pensions in Europe
An Economic and Social Policy Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Providing an overview of the future research challenges for economists and social scientists concerning population ageing, pensions, health and social care in Europe, this book examines how scientific research can provide cutting-edge evidence on income security and well-being of the elderly, and labour markets and older workers.
by Susan P. Kemp
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...
A sharing economy
How social wealth funds can reduce inequality and help balance the books
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Britain is a society increasingly divided between the super-affluent and the impoverished. A Sharing Economy proposes radical new ways to close the growing income gap and spread social opportunities. Drawing on overseas examples, Stewart Lansley argues that mobilising the huge financial potential...
by Lingxin Hao, Daniel Q. Naiman
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2007
Quantile Regression, the first book of Hao and Naiman's two-book series, establishes the seldom recognized link between inequality studies and quantile regression models. Though separate methodological literature exists for each subject, the authors seek to explore the natural connections between...
Dream and Legacy
Dr. Martin Luther King in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Contributions by Rosa M. Banda, Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey, Donathan L. Brown, Michael L. Clemons, William H. L. Dorsey, Hannah Firdyiwek, Alonzo M. Flowers III, Helen Taylor Greene, William G. Jones, Athena M. King, Taj'ullah Sky Lark, Jamela M. Martin, Marcus L. Martin, Byron D'Andra Orey, Amardo...
by Matthew O. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely to...
Econodynamics
The Theory of Social Production
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In this book the theory of social production is systematically formulated in terms and concepts of classical political economy and neo-classical economics. In this way the subject becomes accessible not only to professional researchers in areas of the theory of production and economic growth, but...