Social Science category: 175800 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
This book revisits many aspects of current social science theories, such as actor-network theory and the French school of science and technology studies, to test how the theories apply in a specific situation, in this case after 1991 in the city of Cherepovets in Russia, home of Russia’s second...
The Power of Place (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)
Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Reflecting the revival of interest in a social theory that takes place and space seriously, this book focuses on geographical place in the practice of social science and history. There is significant interest among scholars from a range of disciplines in bringing together the geographical and sociological...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Forensic science has become increasingly important within contemporary criminal justice, from criminal investigation through to courtroom deliberations, and an increasing number of agencies and individuals are having to engage with its contribution to contemporary justice.
This Handbook aims...
Filling the Void
Social Media and The Continuation of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Filling The Void is a book about how the cultures and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern...
Beyond Prejudice
Extending the Social Psychology of Conflict, Inequality and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
The concept of prejudice has profoundly influenced how we have investigated, explained and tried to change intergroup relations of discrimination and inequality. But what has this concept contributed to our knowledge of relations between groups and what has it obscured or misrepresented? How has it...
by Sean F. Everton
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Disrupting Dark Networks focuses on how social network analysis can be used to craft strategies to track, destabilize and disrupt covert and illegal networks. The book begins with an overview of the key terms and assumptions of social network analysis and various counterinsurgency strategies. The...
Social Development
Relationships in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
This authoritative, engaging work examines the key role of relationships in child and adolescent development, from the earliest infant-caregiver transactions to peer interactions, friendships, and romantic partnerships. Sections cover foundational developmental science, the self and relationships,...
Queer Theory and Communication
From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s)
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Get a queer perspective on communication theory!
Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s) is a conversation starter, sparking smart talk about sexuality in the communication discipline and beyond. Edited by members of The San Francisco Radical...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
The SAGE Handbook of Social Research Methods is a must for every social-science researcher. It charts the new and evolving terrain of social research methodology, covering qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods in one volume.
The Handbook includes chapters on each phase of the research...
Making Sense of the Social World
Methods of Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Congratulations to Daniel F. Chambliss, winner of the ASA Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Prize for 2018.
The new Sixth Edition of Making Sense of the Social World continues to be an unusually accessible and student-friendly introduction to the variety of social research methods, guiding...
by Michael Saini
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...
What's Normal?
Reconciling Biology and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Since the emergence of Western philosophy and science among the classical Greeks, debates have raged over the relative significance of biology and culture on an individual's behavior. Today, recent advances in genetics and biological science have pushed most scholars past the tired nature vs. nurture...
by Katherine van Wormer
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...
Consumer Choice
Social Welfare and Health Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The United States health care system is unique among those of other developed economies--most significantly because health care is not a legal right in the United States. Instead, it is considered an employee benefit and a privilege, unless one is over age 65 or of low income. The United States...