Social Science category: 175800 books
Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution
Solutions to Dilemmas in Cultural and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2010
Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology - from systematics and principles of evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and cooperation, as well as niche construction, complexity, eco-evo-devo, and the role of the individual in evolutionary...
by Jonny Bell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Social Psychology: A Practical Guide to the Human Mind
Understanding why people do what they do is an essential skills to have. When you understand why the people around you do what they do, you are able to avoid a lot of drama and conflict.
Throughout history society has had a profound...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
In this handbook social science researchers who focus on sustainability present and discuss their findings, including empirical work, case studies, teaching and learning innovations, and applied projects. As such, the book offers a basis for the dissemination of information, ideas and experiences...
The Social Citizen
Peer Networks and Political Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Human beings are social animals. Yet despite vast amounts of research into political decision making, very little attention has been devoted to its social dimensions. In political science, social relationships are generally thought of as mere sources of information, rather than active influences on...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
This book of proceedings collects fifty-one papers presented at the inaugural Colloquium of Administrative Science and Technology (CoAST 2013) event, held at Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. It has been reviewed by 750 experts world-wide and covers three main areas – Administrative Science and Technology,...
Queer Methods and Methodologies (Open Access)
Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Queer Methods and Methodologies provides the first systematic consideration of the implications of a queer perspective in the pursuit of social scientific research. This volume grapples with key contemporary questions regarding the methodological implications for social science research undertaken...
Octavia's Brood
Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty of them together in the first anthology...
by Terri Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
If your child is struggling with social science, then this book is for you; the short book includes over 20 social science activities.
This subject comes from the book “Second Grade Social Science (For Homeschool or Extra Practice)”; it more thoroughly...
Introduction to Computational Social Science
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This textbook provides a comprehensive and reader-friendly introduction to the field of computational social science (CSS). Presenting a unified treatment, the text examines in detail the four key methodological approaches of automated social information extraction, social network analysis, social...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Evolution, biology, and society is a catch-all phrase encompassing any scholarly work that utilizes evolutionary theory and/or biological or behavioral genetic methods in the study of the human social group, and The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society contains an much needed overview...
Elucidating Social Science Concepts
An Interpretivist Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Concepts have always been foundational to the social science enterprise. This book is a guide to working with them. Against the positivist project of concept "reconstruction"—the formulation of a technical, purportedly neutral vocabulary for measuring, comparing, and generalizing—Schaffer adopts...
Globalizations and Social Movements
Culture, Power, and the Transnational Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Globalization is a set of processes that are weakening national boundaries. Both transnational and local social movements develop to resist the processes of globalization--migration, economic interdependence, global media coverage of events and issues, and intergovernmental relations. Globalization...
Sciences from Below
Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around...
by Joseph A. Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Social Sciences in Sport presents discipline-specific knowledge in the social sciences, which aids in understanding the problems and potential of contemporary sport practices and experiences. This interdisciplinary reference provides in-depth coverage of sport studies and 14 social sciences, drawing...