Social Science category: 175800 books
Weber and Durkheim
A Methodological Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Weber and Durkheim: A methodological comparison is a systematic, comparative analysis of the methodologies of Max Weber and Émile Durkheim. Jensen shows how Weber and Durkheim analyse Protestants and Catholics in practice in The Protestant Ethic and Suicide, respectively. The very different ways...
Homo Cinematicus
Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
In the early decades of the twentieth century, two intertwined changes began to shape the direction of German society. The baptism of the German film industry took place amid post-World War I conditions of political and social breakdown, and the cultural vacuum left by collapsing institutions was...
The Social Dog
Behavior and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Dogs have become the subject of increasing scientific study over the past two decades, chiefly due to their development of specialized social skills, seemingly a result of selection pressures during domestication to help them adapt to the human environment. The Social Dog: Behaviour and Cognition...
Migration, Women and Social Development
Key Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
This book presents a selection of major research texts by Prof. Dr. Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser, a Mexican Pioneer in Anthropology. A global intellectual leader on culture, social development, sustainability, women's studies and indigenous groups, her texts provide both an outlook on the evolution of...
Black and Green
Afro-Colombians, Development, and Nature in the Pacific Lowlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
In Black and Green, Kiran Asher provides a powerful framework for reconceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, Asher argues that development processes...
by Tuukka Kaidesoja
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This important book provides detailed critiques of the method of transcendental argumentation and the transcendental realist account of the concept of causal power that are among the core tenets of the bhaskarian version of critical realism. Kaidesoja also assesses the notions of human agency, social...
The Universe of Experience
A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Modern experience forces philosophy and social thought to confront the basic problems of value. Is this life worth caring about? How can we find a way between the deceit of fanatical belief and despair? In the view of Lancelot Law Whyte, the essential challenge to mankind today is an underlying nihilism...
The War of the Jesus and Darwin Fishes
Religion and Science in the Postmodern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This volume's title stems from an observable and seemingly amusing phenomenon--the placement of fish symbols on the rear of automobiles. There are two kinds: one a fish outline with a cross, exhibited by Christians; the other a fish outline filled with the word "evolution," with little legs...
by Antony Flew
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
In little more than a hundred years the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin has conquered the thinking world. No other body of ideas has enjoyed such unrivaled success. But precisely because of its scientific status, Darwinism has sometimes been invoked to sustain other ideas and beliefs with a...
Portrait of a Lady
Women in Science: Participation Issues and Perspectives in a Globalized Research System
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Which factors prevent a larger female participation in the scientific and research careers? This book analyzes recent data and figures about women researchers in R&D and Higher Education institutions, their motivations, the reasons and causes determining the still persisting gender gap. The various...
Video in Social Science Research
Functions and Forms
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
In this digital age the use of video in social science research has become commonplace. As sophistication has increased along with usability, as spiralling staff costs push out direct observation, the researchers training today are grasping video as a means of coming to terms with the continued pressure...
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This volume is a unique contribution to the philosophy of the social sciences, presenting the results of cutting-edge philosophers' research alongside critical discussions by practicing social scientists. The book is motivated by the view that the philosophy of the social sciences cannot ignore the...
Scientists, Democracy and Society
A Community of Inquirers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This monograph examines the relationship between science and democracy. The author argues that there is no clear-cut division between science and the rest of society. Rather, scientists and laypeople form a single community of inquiry, which aims at the truth.
To defend his theory, the author...
Confronting the Veil
Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2003
In this book, Jonathan Holloway explores the early lives and careers of economist Abram Harris Jr., sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, and political scientist Ralph Bunche--three black scholars who taught at Howard University during the New Deal and, together, formed the leading edge of American social...