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Perspectives in Social Research Methods and Analysis

Author : Howard Lune
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412967392
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives in Social Research Methods and Analysis written by Howard Lune and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows students the steps involved in the research process, the various strategies for conducting a valid social inquiry, and most importantly, the persuasiveness and elegance of reliable social research. It highlights the link between academic research and the real world. Included are carefully chosen examples of each of the major methodological techniques-survey, interviews, fieldwork observations, experiments, content analysis, secondary analysis and program evaluation. Also included are selections on sampling strategies, research ethics and both qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives

Author : Paul Joseph
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483359883
Total Pages : 2099 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives written by Paul Joseph and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 2099 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional explorations of war look through the lens of history and military science, focusing on big events, big battles, and big generals. By contrast, The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspective views war through the lens of the social sciences, looking at the causes, processes and effects of war and drawing from a vast group of fields such as communication and mass media, economics, political science and law, psychology and sociology. Key features include: More than 650 entries organized in an A-to-Z format, authored and signed by key academics in the field Entries conclude with cross-references and further readings, aiding the researcher further in their research journeys An alternative Reader’s Guide table of contents groups articles by disciplinary areas and by broad themes A helpful Resource Guide directing researchers to classic books, journals and electronic resources for more in-depth study This important and distinctive work will be a key reference for all researchers in the fields of political science, international relations and sociology.

Social Science and Historical Perspectives

Author : Jack David Eller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317198255
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Social Science and Historical Perspectives written by Jack David Eller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 traditions that have defined Western civilization? What is the unique perspective or ‘way of knowing’ of each social science? What are the challenges—and alternatives—to the social sciences as they stand in the twenty-first century? Eller explains the origin, evolution, methods, and the main figures, literature, concepts, and theories in each discipline. The chapters also feature a range of contemporary examples, with consideration given to how the disciplines address present-day issues.

Why the Social Sciences Matter

Author : Jonathan Michie
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137269911
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (699 download)

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Download or read book Why the Social Sciences Matter written by Jonathan Michie and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published with the support of the Academy for Social Sciences, this volume provides an illuminating look at topics of concern to everyone at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Leading social scientists tackle complex questions such as immigration, unemployment, climate change, war, banks in trouble, and an ageing population.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Social Sciences

Author : Georgeta Raţă
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144385767X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Social Sciences by : Georgeta Raţă

Download or read book Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Social Sciences written by Georgeta Raţă and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Social Sciences is a collection of essays on educational issues confronting educators and researchers from three continents (Africa, Asia, and Europe). The essays are grouped into three sections. The first, “Human Resources Management”, discusses issues such as consumer innovativeness, employee expectations, enterprise competitiveness, the global economy, human resources, internet advertising, job performance, the labour market, privatisation policies, profitability, transformational leadership, and work behaviour. The second part, “International Relations”, encompasses topics such as administrative reforms, elections, EU enlargement, mass media, migration, nationalism, and totalitarian thought, while the third, “Sociology”, looks at divorce, everyday life practices, the family structure, feminism, gender issues, the legalisation of prostitution, and women’s rights. The book will appeal to educators, researchers, and students involved in social sciences.

The Foundations of Social Research

Author : Michael Crotty
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446283135
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of Social Research written by Michael Crotty and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-08-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choosing a research method can be bewildering. How can you be sure which methodology is appropriate, or whether your chosen combination of methods is consistent with the theoretical perspective you want to take? This book links methodology and theory with great clarity and precision, showing students and researchers how to navigate the maze of conflicting terminology. The major epistemological stances and theoretical perspectives that colour and shape current social research are detailed and the author reveals the philosophical origins of these schools of inquiry and shows how various disciplines contribute to the practice of social research as it is known today.

The Philosophy of Social Science

Author : Garry Potter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317331842
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Social Science written by Garry Potter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, this comprehensive textbook offers an exceptionally accessible yet in-depth introduction to the philosophy of social science. Students with no previous knowledge will find themselves taken on an engaging philosophical journey: the book’s unique dialogue format anticipates their most frequently asked questions and provides clear explanations of specialised terminology and essential contextualisation of contemporary debates. Encompassing both traditional and contemporary perspectives, the book explores the questions and debates raised by all the major theoretical positions in the philosophy of social science, including positivism, empiricism, rationalism, hermeneutics, feminist epistemology, postmodernism and critical realism. The first edition of this book had a Eurocentric bias, as does virtually all other textbooks covering this subject matter. This has been corrected in the second edition and includes a new chapter on the contributions of Islam to philosophy, natural science social science including sociology. The second edition also has a newly written chapter on pragmaticism and neo-pragmaticism, as well as strengthened coverage of hermeneutics, postmodernism and critical realism. The book‘s rich pedagogic support includes: point-by-point summaries introducing the scope of every chapter; discussion questions; further reading lists; and a glossary of key terminology. This excellent textbook is designed to provide every student with a clear understanding of important and complex issues. It is essential reading for all students of philosophy of social science, whether at undergraduate or Masters level and regardless of their disciplinary background.

Introduction to Gender

Author : Jennifer Marchbank
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317752929
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Gender written by Jennifer Marchbank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly updated in this second edition, Introduction to Gender offers an interdisciplinary approach to the main themes and debates in gender studies. This comprehensive and contemporary text explores the idea of gender from the perspectives of history, sociology, social policy, anthropology, psychology, politics, pedagogy and geography and considers issues such as health and illness, work, family, crime and violence, and culture and media. Throughout the text, studies on masculinity are highlighted alongside essential feminist work, producing an integrated investigation of the field. Key features: A thematic structure provides a clear exploration of each debate without losing sight of the interconnections between disciplines. World in focus boxes and international case studies offer a broad global perspective on gender studies. In-text features and student exercises, including Controversy, A critical look and Stop and think boxes, allow the reader to engage in the debates and revise the material covered. Hotlinks throughout the text make connections between chapters, allowing the reader to follow the path of particular issues and debates between topics and disciplines. New to the second edition: A new chapter explores gender through the discipline of philosophy. A new section on international relations brings this relevant topic into focus. Current discussion on the language of gender across Europe is brought in to Chapter 1. A focus on Europe and Scandinavia as well as the UK gives the text a broader scope. Examples are updated throughout to ensure the text is cutting-edge and relevant. Introduction to Gender, second edition is highly relevant to today’s students across the social sciences and is an essential introduction for students of sociology, women’s studies and men’s studies.

Perspectives on Imitation, Volume 1

Author : Susan Hurley
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262582506
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Imitation, Volume 1 written by Susan Hurley and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005-02-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the-art view of imitation from leading researchers in neuroscience and brain imaging, animal and developmental psychology, primatology, ethology, philosophy, anthropology, media studies, economics, sociology, education, and law. Leading researchers across a range of disciplines provide a state-of-the-art view of imitation, integrating the latest findings and theories with reviews of seminal work, and revealing why imitation is a topic of such intense current scientific interest.

Critical Race Theory Perspectives on the Social Studies

Author : Gloria Ladson-Billings
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607525100
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Critical Race Theory Perspectives on the Social Studies written by Gloria Ladson-Billings and published by IAP. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Terrorism

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309086124
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Terrorism written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-12-20 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events and aftermath of September 11, 2001, profoundly changed the course of history of the nation. They also brought the phenomenon known as terrorism to the forefront of the nation's consciousness. As it became thus focused, the limits of scientific understanding of terrorism and the capacity to develop policies to deal with it became even more evident. The objective of this report is to bring behavioral and social science perspectives to bear on the nature, determinants, and domestic responses to contemporary terrorism as a way of making theoretical and practical knowledge more adequate to the task. It also identifies areas of research priorities for the behavioral and social sciences.

Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics

Author : G. Weisz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792305668
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (56 download)

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Book Synopsis Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics by : G. Weisz

Download or read book Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics written by G. Weisz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1989-12-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical or hio- ethics has in recent years been a growth industry. Journals, Centers and Associations devoted to the subject proliferate. Medical schools seem increasingly to be filling rare positions in the humanities and social sciences with ethicists. Hardly a day passes without some media scrutiny of one or another ethical dilemma resulting from our new-found ability to transform the natural conditions of life. Although bioethics is a self-consciously interdisciplinary field, it has not attracted the collaboration of many social scientists. In fact, social scientists who specialize in the study of medicine have in many cases watched its development with a certain ambivalence. No one disputes the significance and often the painfulness of the issues and choices being addressed. But there is something about the way these issues are usually handled which seems somehow inappropri ate if not wrong-headed to one trained in a discipline like sociology or history. In their analyses of complex situations, ethicists often appear grandly oblivious to the social and cultural context in which these occur, and indeed to empirical referents of any sort. Nor do they seem very conscious of the cultural specificity of many of the values and procedures they utilize when making ethical judg ments. The unease felt by many in the social sciences was given articulate expression in a paper by Renee Fox and Judith Swazey which appeared in 1984.

Perspectives on Imitation: Imitation, human development, and culture

Author : Susan L. Hurley
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262582513
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Imitation: Imitation, human development, and culture written by Susan L. Hurley and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A state-of-the-art view of imitation from leading researchers in neuroscience and brain imaging, animal and developmental psychology, primatology, ethology, philosophy, anthropology, media studies, economics, sociology, education, and law.

Another Voice

Author : Marcia Millman
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Another Voice written by Marcia Millman and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday. This book was released on 1975 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health

Author : Ichiro Kawachi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461474647
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health written by Ichiro Kawachi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a follow up to Social Capital and Health (2008), edited by Kawachi, Subramanian & Kim. Global Perspectives on Social Capital and Health provides a timely update on emerging topics in a fast-growing field, and features contributions from an outstanding international team of scholars, selected from a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds including: social epidemiology, medical geography, social psychology, social welfare and gerontology, pediatrics, political science, economics, and medical sociology. The book is organized in three parts: Part 1. Emerging directions in social capital research. This section highlights novel directions in social capital research. These include: a) novel settings for conducting research on social capital (workplaces, schools), b) new approaches for causal inference in social capital (instrumental variable analysis, twin fixed effects designs); c) cutting-edge directions for social capital research, including studies of the origins of community social capital, the use of social network analysis to investigate social capital, and novel methods for investigating the link between social capital and crime. Part 2. Social capital and health policy. The three chapters in this section highlight implications of social capital for interventions and health policy. Part 3. Social capital and health in global perspective The four chapters in this section look at research on social capital and health from a global perspective. The authors summarize the empirical studies on social capital and health conducted in each country/region, or each population group; discuss how the concept of social capital “translates” across different cultures; and identify challenges and future directions for research.

The Making of Finance

Author : Isabelle Chambost
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351016091
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Finance written by Isabelle Chambost and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a variety of theoretical frameworks drawn from the social sciences, the contributions in this edited collection offer a critical perspective on the dominant paradigms used in contemporary financial activities. Through a detailed study of the organisation and functioning of financial intermediaries and institutions, the contributors to this volume analyse ‘finance in the making’, by shedding light on the structuring of banking and financial systems, on their capacity to prescribe action and control, on their modes of regulation and, more generally, on the process of financialisation. Contributions presented in this volume have been written by authors working within the ‘social studies of finance’ tradition, a research programme that emerged twenty years ago, with the aim of addressing a diversity of financial fieldworks and related theoretical questions. This book, therefore, sheds light on different areas that are representative of contemporary financial realities. Specifically, it first studies the work of financial employees: traders, salespeople, investment managers, financial analysts, investment consultants, etc. but also provides an analysis of a range of financial instruments: financial schemes and contracts, financial derivatives, socially responsible investment funds, as well as market rules and regulations. Finally, it puts into perspective the organisations contributing to this financial reality: those developing and selling financial services (retail banks, brokerage houses, asset management firms, private equity firms, etc.), and also those contributing to the regulation of such activities (banking regulators, financial market authorities, credit rating agencies, the State, to name a few). Each text can be read without any specific knowledge of finance; the book is thus addressed to anyone willing to better understand the intricacies of contemporary financial realities.

Perspectives on Waste from the Social Sciences and Humanities

Author : Richard Ek
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781527546745
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Waste from the Social Sciences and Humanities written by Richard Ek and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waste is something we encounter on an everyday basis. Today, the waste-mountain is increasing despite ambitious measures being taken to decrease it. Consequently, increased scholarly interest is being devoted to waste, but primarily from a technocratic and scientific point of view. This compilation offers different perspectives on waste, its characteristics, and its presence in the world from social scientist and humanist standpoints. Waste is the constant companion to the human, and is thus inherent in modern society. Therefore, waste needs to be further approached and understood from a plethora of scholarly perspectives and disciplines, and further investigated through a multitude of methodologies and data collection techniques. The imagination of a future where waste-preventive actions and circular economies permeate society can only be a reality if technocratic and scientific accounts of what is to be done, when, and how, are complemented by social scientific and humanist concepts of the nature and constitution of waste. Such a perspective offers the possibility to understand how waste is constituted through relationships, language, materials, politics, practices and structures. This book shows that philosophers, historians, cultural theorists and economists have much to offer on the topic of waste as a part of everyday modern life.