Social Science category: 175800 books
Speaking for Ourselves
Environmental Justice in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Environmental justice as a concept has evolved over the past two decades to offer new, challenging directions for social movements, public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now position social equity as a building block for sustainability. Yet the relationship between social equity...
The Unity of Science and Economics
A New Foundation of Economic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This book presents a new economic theory developed from physical and biological principles. It explains how technology, social systems and economic values are intimately related to resources. Many people have recognized that mainstream (neoclassical) economic theories are not consistent with physical...
Is Shame Necessary?
New Uses for an Old Tool
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
An urgent, illuminating exploration of the social nature of shame and of how it might be used to promote large-scale political change and social reform.
In cultures that champion the individual, guilt is advertised as the cornerstone of conscience. But while guilt holds individuals to personal...
Social Science Methodology
A Unified Framework
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
John Gerring's exceptional textbook has been thoroughly revised in this second edition. It offers a one-volume introduction to social science methodology relevant to the disciplines of anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology and sociology. This new edition has been extensively...
Social Development and Social Policy
International Experiences and China's Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Social policy reforms driven by profound social changes have been a popular and pressing topic worldwide in recent years in both policy and academic circles. In this book, prominent social policy scholars from Europe, North America, and Asia discuss the history of social policies, compare different...
Social Policy and Planning for the 21st Century
In Search of the Next Great Social Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The greatest problems facing humanity today are climate change, poverty, and the increasing separation between the rich and poor. The aim of this book is to examine the social constructions that have led to these breakdowns, and provide potential solutions that are based on a fundamental change in...
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....
Re-Thinking Science
Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Re-Thinking Science presents an account of the dynamic relationship between society and science. Despite the mounting evidence of a much closer, interactive relationship between society and science, current debate still seems to turn on the need to maintain a 'line' to demarcate them. The view persists...
The European Social Model Adrift
Europe, Social Cohesion and the Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This volume presents a new perspective for discussing the European social contract and its main challenges, bringing together single-nation and comparative studies from across Europe. Presenting both theoretical discussions and empirical case studies, it explores various aspects of social cohesion,...
Environmental Social Science
Human - Environment interactions and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Environmental Social Science offers a new synthesis of environmental studies, defining the nature of human-environment interactions and providing the foundation for a new cross-disciplinary enterprise that will make critical theories and research methods accessible across the natural and social sciences.
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by Xiaoying Qi
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This book considers the nature and possibilities of conceptual change and transformation under conditions of globalization, especially with regard to Chinese social and cultural concepts. It argues that the influence of globalization promotes the spread of West European and American social science...
Social Insurance and Social Justice
Social Security, Medicare and the Campaign Against Entitlements
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
"[W]e must tell the story of how social insurance programs have assured basic economic and health security for millions of AmericansÖ.This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about these goals."
-From the Foreword by Barbara Kennelly
President and CEO,
National Committee to Preserve...
Simulating Social Complexity
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Social systems are among the most complex known. This poses particular problems for those who wish to understand them. The complexity often makes analytic approaches infeasible and natural language approaches inadequate for relating intricate cause and effect. However, individual- and agent-based...
by Robert R. Prechter
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
What drives our social mood? Our actions? Our motivations? Can we look into the make-up of the universe and apply it to who we are and what we do? The answers to these questions are to be found in the new science of socionomics.
Socionomics evolved from the Wave Principle, a theory of patterns in...