Social category: 205239 books
Deconstructing Ethnography
Towards a Social Methodology for Ubiquitous Computing and Interactive Systems Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This book aims to deconstruct ethnography to alert systems designers, and other stakeholders, to the issues presented by new approaches that move beyond the studies of ‘work’ and ‘work practice’ within the social sciences (in particular anthropology and sociology). The theoretical and methodological...
Becoming a Social Worker
A Guide for Students
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
This book explores the journey of becoming a social worker. It is based upon the experiences of social work students themselves and therefore provides a unique 'inside-out' perspective. By showing that personal, professional and political elements are interwoven in students' journeys, the author demonstrates...
Social Groups in Action and Interaction
2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Social Groups in Action and Interaction reviews and analyzes the human group as it operates to create both social good and, potentially, social harm. It summarizes current knowledge and contemporary research, with real-world examples in succinct yet engaging chapters, to help students understand and...
Investigating the Social World
The Process and Practice of Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
In this Ninth Edition, award-winning author Russell K. Schutt continues to make the field come alive with current, compelling examples of high quality research and the latest innovations in research methodology, along with a clear and comprehensive introduction to the logic and techniques of social...
Constructing Social Research
The Unity and Diversity of Method
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Constructing Social Research answers the question: What is social science? Updated throughout with new references and examples, the Third Edition of this innovative text by Charles C. Ragin and Lisa M. Amoroso shows the unity within the diversity of activities called social research to help students...
by Leonard Cargan
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
Doing Social Research is an easy-to-understand guidebook for readers who have little or no knowledge of the social research process. Written in a clear, straightforward style, this book presents the various topics of social research in the outline form of all sociological research articles: starting...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
While the concept of integration or an interdisciplinary curriculum has been around for decades, the purposeful practice of integration is a relatively new educational endeavor. Though classroom teachers often say they “integrate,” there generally seems to be a lack of understanding of what this...
Social Suffering and Political Confession
Suku in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
This book closely examines one relatively small but significant political phenomenon — Suku in Revolutionary China through a matrix of western social theory: Freud, Marcuse, Arendt, and Ricoeur. Suku is the practice of confessing individual suffering in a political context and in a collective public...
by John Graham
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...
by Anthony Elliott, Bryan S. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
‘Society' is one of the most frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences. In our own time, however, the idea has never been so much in dispute and so little understood. For some critics, society is simply too consensual for a world of intensive discord....
Twilight of the Social
Resurgent Politics in an Age of Disposability
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
In The Twilight of the Social, Henry A. Giroux looks at the decline of social spaces which enable grievances to be dealt with and considers new ways in which citizens can create social spaces today. After decades of neoliberalism, today's young people lack a voice and are saddled with economic, political,...
Social Criticism
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Stephen Leacock, long celebrated as Canada's foremost humorist and social satirist, has received little recognition for his considerable accomplishments as a serious thinker and social critic. In fact, Leacock was a professor of political economy, and more than half of his writings addressed the pressing...
Averting the Apocalypse
Social Movements in India Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 1990
There are two Indias: the caste and class elite who hold all power and make up 10 to 15 percent of the population, and everyone else. Averting the Apocalypse is about everyone else. Arthur Bonner, a former New York Times reporter with long experience as a foreign correspondent in Asia, conducted interviews...
United in Diversity?
Comparing Social Models in Europe and America
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
Since the advent of the European Union, politicians have increasingly emphasized the notion of a European social model as an alternative to the American form of market capitalism, which is seen as promoting economic growth without regard for solidarity and social progress. As this political discourse...