Social Science category: 175800 books
by Eileen Munro
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2006
`Although primarily aimed at social workers, the content of this work is very relevant for other professionals who work with and for children, including trainee lawyers as an introduction to social work practice and the principles of child care law and practice upon which it is based. The book also...
by David L. Altheide
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
This thoughtful text demonstrates how the mass media constructs a politics of fear in the United States. Using a social interactionist perspective, the chapters examines such issues as the expansion of surveillance on the Internet, the construction of a terrorism-fighting hero to promote patriotism,...
by Ronald Kuykendall
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
This alternative perspective on the problem of American race relations takes sharp aim at the issues of status, power, and political class. Arguing that the racial problem is a political class conflict that must be resolved through revolutionary struggle, this insightful exploration adeptly unravels...
by Glasby, Jon
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
This is the concise, accessible guide for students and practitioners who want a comprehensive introduction to health and social care. Engaging practical features, such as user-focused case studies and reflective exercises, promote understanding of theoretical and conceptual knowledge. In turn, clear...
Scientific Irrationalism
Origins of a Postmodern Cult
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Little known outside his native Australia, David Stove was one of the most illuminating and brilliant philosophical essayists of his era. A fearless attacker of intellectual and cultural orthodoxies, Stove left powerful critiques of scientific irrationalism, Darwinian theories of human behavior, and...
by Ian Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, scholars...
Islamic Economy and Social Mobility
Cultural and Religious Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In an era of globalization and cross-cultural awareness, an interest in the relationship between economics and religion, politics, and social behavior is alive and well. In particular, the Islamic economy has become a focal point of interest for economists and government leaders around the world interested...
Taking Sides
Ethics, Politics, and Fieldwork in Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Concerns with research ethics have intensified over recent years, in large part as a symptom of "audit cultures" (M. Strathern) but also as a serious matter of engagement with the ethical complexities in contemporary research fields. This volume, written by a new generation of scholars engaged...
Kinship and Beyond
The Genealogical Model Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
The genealogical model has a long-standing history in Western thought. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which assumptions about the genealogical model—in particular, ideas concerning sequence, essence, and transmission—structure other modes of practice and knowledge-making...
The Science of Heroes
The Real-Life Possibilities Behind the Hit TV Show
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
A fun, fact-filled examination of the science (or lack thereof) behind the hit television series Heroes.
Ordinary people with extraordinary powers populate the world of the hit television show Heroes, where characters exhibit such abilities as flight, telepathy, tissue regeneration, prognostication,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
The inclusion of qualitative social data into global environmental and economic input-output (IO) models remained illusive for many years. It was not until around 2013 that researchers found ways to include data, for example, on poverty, inequality, and worker safety, into IO models capable of tracing...
The Social Lives of Forests
Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face—including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation—are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question, revealing forests’ past, present, and future conditions to be the joint...
Food in Society
Economy, Culture, Geography
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Who can deny the significance of food? It has a central role in our health and pleasure as well as in our economy, politics and culture. Food in Society provides a social science perspective on food systems and demonstrates the rich variety of disciplinary and theoretical contexts of food studies.
While...
Social Neuroscience and Public Health
Foundations for the Science of Chronic Disease Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013
The field of public health is primarily concerned with understanding and improving physical health from a large group perspective (i.e., communities and whole populations). The field of social neuroscience, on the other hand, is primarily concerned with examining brain-behavior relationships that...