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Field Experiments in Political Science and Public Policy
Practical Lessons in Design and Delivery
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Field experiments -- randomized controlled trials -- have become ever more popular in political science, as well as in other disciplines, such as economics, social policy and development. Policy-makers have also increasingly used randomization to evaluate public policies, designing trials of tax reminders,...
Industrial Society and the Science Fiction Blockbuster
Social Critique in Films of Lucas, Scott and Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Can blockbuster films be socially relevant or are they just escapist diversions to entertain the masses and enrich the studios? Not every successful film contains thoughtful commentary, but some that are marketed as pure entertainment do seriously engage social issues. Popular science fiction films...
Colonial Urban Development
Culture, Social Power and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Study focuses on the social and, more especially, the cultural processes governing colonial urban development and develops a theory and methodology to do this.
The author demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements characterizing urban development are unique products of a particular...
Social Zooarchaeology
Humans and Animals in Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subsistence economy. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This is the third in an essential series of Springer handbooks that explore key aspects of the nexus between demography and social science. With an inclusive international perspective, and founded on the principles of social demography, this handbook shows how the rural population, which recently...
Research Ethics and Integrity for Social Scientists
Beyond Regulatory Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Ethics and integrity in researchare increasingly important for social scientists around the world. We are tackling more complex problems in the face of expanding and not always sympathetic regulation. This book surveys the recent developments and debates around researching ethically and with integrity...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The Oxford Handbook of Energy and Society presents an overview of this expanding area that has evolved dramatically over the past decade, away from one largely dominated by structural, political economic treatments on the one hand, and social-psychological studies of individual-level attitudes and...
The Natural Law Foundations of Modern Social Theory
A Quest for Universalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
After several decades in which it became a prime target for critique, universalism remains one of the most important issues in social and political thought. Daniel Chernilo reassesses social theory's universalistic orientation and explains its origins in natural law theory, using an impressive array...
Conceptualising the Social World
Principles of Sociological Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
This comprehensive and authoritative statement of fundamental principles of sociological analysis integrates approaches that are often seen as mutually exclusive. John Scott argues that theorising in sociology and other social sciences is characterised by the application of eight key principles of...
by John Kenneth Rhoads
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1991
Critical Issues in Social Theory is an analytical survey of persistent controversies that have shaped the field of sociology. It defines, clarifies, and proposes solutions to these "critical issues" through commentary on the writings of such influential social theorists as Hobbes, Marx,...
by Anthony Giddens
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The studies which comprise this book are essentially organized around a critical encounter with European social theory in its 'classical period' – i.e. from the middle years of the nineteenth century until the First World War – and have the aim of working out some of the implications of that encounter...
by James B. Wilbur
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
The annual Conferences on Value Inquiry bring together philosophers, scientists and humanists to discuss the many facets of the problem of value in the experience of the individual and in contemporary society. One of the criteria in choosing papers for the Conference is the ability to stimulate discussion...
Global Social Policy
Themes, Issues and Actors
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Social policy is a subject that helps develop our understanding of the meaning of human wellbeing, and of the systems by which wellbeing must be promoted. As a discipline, social policy has traditionally been blunted by a focus on the nation state; however, in this age of globalisation the most pressing...
Global Powers
Michael Mann's Anatomy of the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Michael Mann is a central figure in contemporary sociology. His analysis of how the four sources of social power - ideological, economic, military and political - have shaped world history is a major contribution to social science. In this volume, distinguished scholars assess Mann's work, focusing...