Social Science category: 175800 books
The Limits of Social Science
Causal Explanation and Value Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
What forms of knowledge can social science claim to produce? Does it employ causal analysis, and if so what does this entail? What role should values play in the work of social scientists?
These are the questions addressed in this book. They are closely interrelated, and the answers offered...
Globalization and Social Change
People and Places in a Divided World
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Globalization and Social Change takes a refreshing new perspective on globalization and widening social and spatial inequalities. Diane Perrons draws on ideas about the new economy, risk society, welfare regimes and political economy to explain the growing social and spatial divisions characteristic...
by Ruth Chadwick
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
The Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Second Edition addresses both the physiological and the psychological aspects of human behavior. Carefully crafted, well written, and thoroughly indexed, the encyclopedia helps users - whether they are students just beginning formal study of the broad field or...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Over the last decade or so, the field of science and technology studies (STS) has become an intellectually dynamic interdisciplinary arena. Concepts, methods, and theoretical perspectives are being drawn both from long-established and relatively young disciplines. From its origins in philosophical...
Reverse Engineering Social Media
Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Robert Gehl's timely critique, Reverse Engineering Social Media, rigorously analyzes the ideas of social media and software engineers, using these ideas to find contradictions and fissures beneath the surfaces of glossy sites such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter.
Gehl adeptly uses...
Social-Ecological Transformation
Reconnecting Society and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This book advances a social-ecological theory to reconnect nature and society through sustainable transformation of interacting social and ecological systems. Social ecology develops as an interdisciplinary science by using knowledge from the social sciences, especially sociology and economics, and...
Science vs. Religion
What Scientists Really Think
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
That the longstanding antagonism between science and religion is irreconcilable has been taken for granted. And in the wake of recent controversies over teaching intelligent design and the ethics of stem-cell research, the divide seems as unbridgeable as ever. In Science vs. Religion, Elaine Howard...
by Terri Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
If your child is struggling with social science, then this book is for you; the short book includes over 50 quiz style questions.
This subject comes from the book “Second Grade Social Science (For Homeschool or Extra Practice)”; it more thoroughly...
by Terri Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
If your child is struggling with social science, then this book is for you; the short book includes over 50 quiz style questions.
This subject comes from the book “Third Grade Social Science (For Homeschool or Extra Practice)”; it more thoroughly covers more Third...
by Barbara Czarniawska
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Narratives in Social Science Research introduces students to the use of narrative methodology as a research tool. It offers a rigorous framework for the application of these devices within qualitative research. The book provides:
An historical overview of the development of the narrative approach...
Why Things Matter to People
Social Science, Values and Ethical Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially...
Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940
The Politics of Method
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 examines how, between 1940 and 1970 British society was marked by the imprint of the academic social sciences in profound ways which have an enduring legacy on how we see ourselves. It focuses on how interview methods and sample surveys eclipsed literature...
Creating Scientific Controversies
Uncertainty and Bias in Science and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
For decades, cigarette companies helped to promote the impression that there was no scientific consensus concerning the safety of their product. The appearance of controversy, however, was misleading, designed to confuse the public and to protect industry interests. Created scientific controversies...
Same-Sex Marriage and Children
A Tale of History, Social Science, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Same-Sex Marriage and Children is the first book to bring together historical, social science, and legal considerations to comprehensively respond to the objections to same-sex marriage that are based on the need to promote so-called "responsible procreation" and child welfare. Carlos A....