Social category: 205239 books
The Social in Question
New Bearings
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
With postmodernism has come the questioning of the very idea of 'the social'. Thinkers form across the social sciences and humanities now agree that this one foundational concept can no longer be taken for granted as an objective or real characteristic of the world. However, their uncertainty has...
Sociology Faces Pessimism
A Study of European Sociological Thought Amidst a Fading Optimism
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
My initial interest in sociology stemmed from the desire to see specific social change in certain areas of my native United States of America. My rather naive assumption at that time was that if the truth is known about social phenomena and presented to rational and educated persons, public opinion...
Social Movements and Their Technologies
Wiring Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Now in paperback for the first time, Social Movements and their Technologies explores the interplay between social movements and their 'liberated technologies'. It analyzes the rise of low-power radio stations and radical internet projects ('emancipatory communication practices') as a political subject,...
Capitalist Modernization
LEADISM, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book is the first part of a trilogy in the genres of the Social sciences, management, leadership, education, and inspirational studies, where the author addresses issues in the political economy of capitalism. Set in a historical and developmental context, the work reviews Ashton’s “the industrial...
by Mr Alain Degenne, Michel Forse
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 1999
This first-rate introduction to the study of social networks combines a hands-on manual with an up-to-date review of the latest research and techniques.
The authors provide a thorough grounding in the application of the methods of social network analysis. They offer an understanding of the...
by John J. Rodger, Jo Campling
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2000
The welfare state is being subjected to fundamental reappraisal. It is now
commonly argued that modern Western societies require a new 'moral economy', whether one of rediscovered charity and family values and increased welfare pluralism, or of rebuilt communities and a welfare system which provides...
by Sean Gailmard
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Written specifically for graduate students and practitioners beginning social science research, Statistical Modeling and Inference for Social Science covers the essential statistical tools, models and theories that make up the social scientist's toolkit. Assuming no prior knowledge of statistics,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The Nordic welfare states have found themselves in the firing line of post-industrial developments, resulting in fundamental changes and new social needs to attend to. This book explores responses to changing social risks across areas such as structural unemployment, entrepreneurship, immigration, single parenthood, education and health.
Social Quality Theory
A New Perspective on Social Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Social quality thinking emerged from a critique of one-sided policies by breaking through the limitations previously set by purely economistic paradigms. By tracing its expansion and presenting different aspects of social quality theory, this volume provides an overview of a more nuanced approach, ...
Social and Legal Norms
Towards a Socio-legal Understanding of Normativity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In an era where new areas of life and new problems call for normative solutions while the plurality of values in society challenge the very basis for normative solutions, this book looks at a growing field of research on the relations between social and legal norms. New technologies and social media...
The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
In recent years, major social forces such as: ageing populations, social trends, migration patterns, and the globalization of economies, have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. Multinational corporations, NGOs, and other international organizations have begun to influence...
Social Welfare for a Global Era
International Perspectives on Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Written by internationally renowned author and scholar James Midgley, Social Welfare for a Global Era provides a comprehensive framework for examining social welfare from a global perspective. Drawing on a large body of literature and his own extensive knowledge of the field, Dr. Midgley offers students,...
The Traumatised Society
How to Outlaw Cheating and Save Our Civilisation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The author was the first to forecast (in 1997) the events that ruptured the global economy in 2008 by applying an analysis that exposes the fault lines in the structure of the market economy. Now, he extends his analysis to the future of the West, to evaluate fears from distinguished commentators...
Waste and Consumption
Capitalism, the Environment, and the Life of Things
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book examines the link between waste and consumption through a cultural approach that integrates environmental concerns with reflections on the role that consumption has come to occupy in our contemporary capitalist societies. The mutual relationship between capitalism and consumption is addressed...