Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Discovering Reality
Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Are Western epistemology, metaphysics, methodology and the philosophy of science grounded only in men's distinctive understandings of themselves, others, and nature? Does this less than human understanding distort our models of reason and of scientific inquiry? In different ways, the papers in this...
by Robert Rushton
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Absolute Truth - Abstraction - Adler - Aenesidemus - Agnosticism - Agnostics Agricola through Tacitus - An Hypothesis is a Wild Ass Guess Anaximander - Apologist Philosophers and Theologians Apriorism’ of Kant - Aristotle Subjective Idealist - Avenarius Subjective Idealist Anaximenes - Ayn Rand...
Balancing between Trade and Risk
Integrating Legal and Social Science Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The trade aspects of risk and the risk aspects of trade deserve more systematic and genuine interdisciplinary attention if we are to really understand the global, international and supranational dimensions of risk regulation. This book brings together legal and social science research on risk regulation...
Social Physics
How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
From one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour of the new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence
If the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it is MIT’s Alex “Sandy” Pentland....
Children's Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development
Primary and Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
The second edition of this popular text has been revised and updated to include the new Professional Standards needed to achieve Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). Tackling these elusive but fundamental aspects of children's development, this text places the importance of spiritual, moral, social and...
Higher Education in the High North
Academic Exchanges between Norway and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
This book focuses on how the Northern futures are transformed through regional cooperation in the Barents eduscape: a study of the social, cultural and political aspects of higher education and the exchanges of learning and people in the Euro-Arctic Barents region, especially between Norway and Russia.
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The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media
A Critical History of Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of social media, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of...
Social Networking and Community Behavior Modeling
Qualitative and Quantitative Measures
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
Social networks have emerged as a major trend in computing and social paradigms in the past few years. The social network model helps to inform the study of community behavior, allowing qualitative and quantitative assessments of how people communicate and the rules that govern communication. Social...
Nyansapo (The Wisdom Knot)
Toward an African Philosophy of Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This study examines the issues of indigenous philosophies, which are embedded in different aspects of socialization process among the Akan of Ghana. The research explores the possibility of forging a new future that builds on the positive aspects of their past and present and on carefully chosen ideas, methods and technology from abroad.
by H. Wagenvoort
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Science and the Creative Spirit
Essays on Humanistic Aspects of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1958
In the world of today, men on both sides of the science-humanities barrier feel an urgent need for mutual understanding. This symposium sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, stressed that it is only in a spirit of disinterested yet sincere evaluation that science and humanism can...
Youth Culture and Net Culture
Online Social Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
The globalization of our society has changed the social culture of young people forever. In this day and age, this online social culture is growing in size, shape, and complexity and the need for further study is imperative. Youth Culture and Net Culture: Online Social Practices aims to engage the complex...
Handbook of Social Influences in School Contexts
Social-Emotional, Motivation, and Cognitive Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
The Handbook of Social Influences in School Contexts draws from a growing body of research on how and why various aspects of social relationships and contexts contribute to children’s social and academic functioning within school settings. Comprised of the latest studies in developmental and educational...
Globalization, Technology Diffusion and Gender Disparity
Social Impacts of ICTs
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
In an era characterized by data globalization, there is, paradoxically, a shortage of literature on the social impact of globalization, technology diffusion, and gender disparity. The new information and knowledge society may, in fact, aggravate the development and poverty gap instead of closing it....