Social Science category: 175800 books
Unfinished Business
Social Policy for Social Care Students in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
With social and community services coming under increasing pressure as austerity continues, Unfinished Business examines how social policy has operated in Ireland and how it has been affected by consistent government cutbacks. It examines a wide range of issues important to social care students, such...
Public Sociology
From Social Facts to Literary Acts
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Public Sociology, 2nd edition offers a fundamental enriching of method far beyond the scope of research methodology textbooks. It looks at sociology as a social act-as writing-in arguing for a public sociology that can more fully embrace and address crucial public issues. Building on the philosophy...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
This title is the second Chandos Learning and Teaching Series book that explores themes surrounding enhancing learning and teaching through student feedback. It expands on topics covered in the previous publication, and focuses on social science disciplines. The editors previously addressed this gap...
Climate Change and Society
Sociological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Climate change is one of the most critical issues of the twenty-first century, presenting a major intellectual challenge to both the natural and social sciences. While there has been significant progress in natural science understanding of climate change, social science analyses have not been as fully...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
This book presents a novel and accessible way to learn about designing and conducting social research. Unlike traditional social research methods books, it provides a ‘real world’ account of social researchers’ experiences and learning achieved through conducting research in a variety of fields.
It...
by Randal Montgomery PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
2014 EDITION - REVISED AND EXPANDED
The author has a degree in psychology, has worked in mental hospitals, has a PhD in sociology with academic credentials (teaching, publishing papers in peer reviewed journals, conducting research using various methods, e.g. administering psychological tests,...
by Inga Rupprecht
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2006
Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Sociology - Individual, Groups, Society, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Lincoln (ESSD Division), course: Social Theory, 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The question as to how far biological factors, or more specifically genes, influence...
The Causes of Human Behavior
Implications for Theory and Method in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Acknowledging that though the disciplines are supposed to be cumulative, there is little in the way of accumulated, general theory, this work opens a dialogue about the appropriate means and ends of social research based in analysis of fundamental issues.
This book examines two root issues...
Social Science in America
The First Two Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
This outstanding symposium concerns the development of the social sciences in the United States over its first two hundred years and was brought together by the editors of Social Science Quarterly as the journal's contribution to the nation's Bicentennial celebration. Six prominent scholars representing...
Agile Actors on Complex Terrains
Transformative Realism and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
This book assesses the value and relevance of the literature on complex systems to policy-making, contributing to both social theory and policy analysis. For this purpose it develops two key ideas: agile action and transformative realism. The book takes some major themes from complexity science, presents...
Theorizing in Social Science
The Context of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
All social scientists learn the celebrated theories and frameworks of their predecessors, using them to inform their own research and observations. But before there can be theory, there must be theorizing. Theorizing in Social Science introduces the reader to the next generation of theory construction...
Real Social Science
Applied Phronesis
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Real Social Science presents a new, hands-on approach to social inquiry. The theoretical and methodological ideas behind the book, inspired by Aristotelian phronesis, represent an original perspective within the social sciences, and this volume gives readers for the first time a set of studies exemplifying...
Social Science and Historical Perspectives
Society, Science, and Ways of Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This accessible book introduces the story of ‘social science’, with coverage of history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and geography.
Key questions include:
How and why did the social sciences originate and differentiate?
How are they related to older...
Contemporary Society
An Introduction to Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This best-selling text emphasizes why social and cultural changes are the pervasive realities of our time. A key theme of Contemporary Society is that the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial order in today’s world is fraught with difficulties, as was the transition from an agricultural...