Social Science category: 175800 books
There is No Such Thing as a Social Science
In Defence of Peter Winch
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
The death of Peter Winch in 1997 sparked a revived interest in his work with this book arguing his work suffered misrepresentation in both recent literature and in contemporary critiques of his writing. Debates in philosophy and sociology about foundational questions of social ontology and methodology...
Experiencing Nature
Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
This volume, honoring the renowned historian of science, Allen G Debus, explores ideas of science - `experiences of nature' - from within a historiographical tradition that Debus has done much to define. As his work shows, the sciences do not develop exclusively as a result of a progressive and inexorable...
Probability and Social Science
Methodological Relationships between the two Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
This work examines in depth the methodological relationships that probability and statistics have maintained with the social sciences from their emergence. It covers both the history of thought and current methods.
First it examines in detail the history of the different paradigms and axioms...
Academic Culture: An Analytical Framework for Understanding Academic Work
A Case Study about the Social Science Academe in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
That we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversity has become common sense. The social sciences gave birth to a new theoretical paradigm, the creation of cultural theories. Since then, social science theorizing applies to any social phenomenon across the world exploring cultural diversities...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
This book analyzes the impact of social media on democracy and politics at the sub-national level in developed and developing countries. Over the last decade or so, social media has transformed politics. Offering political actors opportunities to organize, mobilize, and connect with constituents,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This book is the first to bring together research material from different communities, Computer Science and especially Artificial Intelligence, and Social Sciences, e.g. Anthropology, Social Psychology, Political Science that present ideas and viewpoints, methods and models on inter-cultural collaboration...
by Noel Castree
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
We listen to a cacophony of voices instructing us how to think and feel about nature, including our own bodies. The news media, wildlife documentaries, science magazines, and environmental NGOs are among those clamouring for our attention. But are we empowered by all this knowledge or is our dependence...
Paradigms of Peace
A Pragmatist Introduction to the Contribution to Peace of Paradigms of Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Knowledge can create peaceful realities in addition to serving as an intellectual tool for peace-making. This is why pragmatist assessment of social science should avoid looking exclusively at the instrumental value of different paradigms. This book investigates the realities that positivism, anti-determinism,...
The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview
Volume 2: Towards a Synthesis of Political Economy and Science and Technology Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these...
Peace Ethology
Behavioral Processes and Systems of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A scholarly collection of timely essays on the behavioral science of peace
With contributions from experts representing a wide variety of scholarly fields (behavioral and social sciences, philosophy, environmental science, anthropology and economics), Peace Ethology offers original essays on...
Proceedings of the International Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences (ICSTSS) 2012
Proceedings of the International Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences (ICSTSS) 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
This biannual conference in Pahang, Malaysia, is a clearing house for many of the latest research findings in a highly multidisciplinary field. The contributions span a host of academic disciplines which are themselves rapidly evolving, making this collection of 90 selected papers an invaluable snapshot...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
This volume engages with questions of justice and equality, and how these can be achieved in modern society. It explores how theory and research can inform policy and practice to bring about real change in people’s lives, helping readers understand and interrogate patterns and causes of inequality,...
HIV, AIDS, and the Law
Legal Issues for Social Work Practice and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Although morbidity among HIV/AIDS victims has decreased, the rate of new infections has remained steady for several years, substantially increasing the likelihood that this epidemic will continue and expand as a concern for social workers and their clientele, both of whom will need to be kept informed...
Emotion and Social Structures
The Affective Foundations of Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
The past decades have seen significant advances in the sociological understanding of human emotion. Sociology has shown how culture and society shape our emotions and how emotions contribute to micro- and macro-social processes. At the same time, the behavioral sciences have made progress in understanding...