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Author : Albion W. Small
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Meaning of Social Science written by Albion W. Small and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John A Perry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317328973
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Society written by John A Perry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 to an industrial order in an earlier era. Within this framework, we can observe the increasing fragmentation of the social order today, which tends to lead people away from community and a common purpose, more often bringing conflict and disunity. Still, countervailing social forces are also at work, providing some stability--some shelter in a sea of change. Ever more, societies are faced with the rapid and transformative power of information technology, which helps propel separate groups of people into a global entity.This introduction to the social sciences shows what the authors have learned from such disciplines as anthropology, geography, history, sociology, psychology, political science, and economics--and how to apply social science approaches to an ever-faster tempo of change. The authors cover family life, interaction with others, racial and ethnic diversity, education, religion, population, environment, and many other topics analyzed in a student-friendly approach. New to this Edition The integration and flow of the text has been improved for better student comprehension. Expanded selection of Web Links to many more sites for student research, many relevant to their interests and entertainment choices Enriched focus on applying social science knowledge to current events (transcending a complete reliance on assumptions from the media) New/expanded coverage on topics throughout the book, including New findings from global warming research and its implications for social life and policy New developments in race relations in an integrated approach throughout many chapters Deepening inequality and the implications that threaten family, education, and student futures—nationally and globally Gender, including new developments in legal gay marriage and transgender Expanded coverage of genetics and the medical potential of human genome sequencing New developments in astrophysics and their potential implications for society Updated Statistics throughout
Author : Kundu
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131729205
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (292 download)
Download or read book The Social Sciences: Methodology And Perspectives written by Kundu and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alice O'Connor
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610444302
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Social Science for What? written by Alice O'Connor and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2007-04-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much like today, the early twentieth century was a period of rising economic inequality and political polarization in America. But it was also an era of progressive reform—a time when the Russell Sage Foundation and other philanthropic organizations were established to promote social science as a way to solve the crises of industrial capitalism. In Social Science for What? Alice O’Connor relates the history of philanthropic social science, exploring its successes and challenges over the years, and asking how these foundations might continue to promote progressive social change in our own politically divided era. The philanthropic foundations established in the early 1900s focused on research which, while intended to be objective, was also politically engaged. In addition to funding social science research, in its early years the Russell Sage Foundation also supported social work and advocated reforms on issues from child welfare to predatory lending. This reformist agenda shaped the foundation’s research priorities and methods. The Foundation’s landmark Pittsburgh Survey of wage labor, conducted in 1907-1908, involved not only social scientists but leaders of charities, social workers, and progressive activists, and was designed not simply to answer empirical questions, but to reframe the public discourse about industrial labor. After World War II, many philanthropic foundations disengaged from political struggles and shifted their funding toward more value-neutral, academic social inquiry, in the belief that disinterested research would yield more effective public policies. Consequently, these foundations were caught off guard in the 1970s and 1980s by the emergence of a network of right-wing foundations, which was successful in promoting an openly ideological agenda. In order to counter the political in-roads made by conservative organizations, O’Connor argues that progressive philanthropic research foundations should look to the example of their founders. While continuing to support the social science research that has contributed so much to American society over the past 100 years, they should be more direct about the values that motivate their research. In this way, they will help foster a more democratic dialogue on important social issues by using empirical knowledge to engage fundamentally ethical concerns about rising inequality. O’Connor’s message is timely: public-interest social science faces unprecedented challenges in this era of cultural warfare, as both liberalism and science itself have come under assault. Social Science for What? is a thought-provoking critique of the role of social science in improving society and an indispensable guide to how progressives can reassert their voice in the national political debate. A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation's Centennial Series
Author : Mark Solovey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262358751
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Social Science for What? written by Mark Solovey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the NSF became an important yet controversial patron for the social sciences, influencing debates over their scientific status and social relevance. In the early Cold War years, the U.S. government established the National Science Foundation (NSF), a civilian agency that soon became widely known for its dedication to supporting first-rate science. The agency's 1950 enabling legislation made no mention of the social sciences, although it included a vague reference to "other sciences." Nevertheless, as Mark Solovey shows in this book, the NSF also soon became a major--albeit controversial--source of public funding for them.
Author : Adam Kuper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415207942
Total Pages : 923 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Social Science Encyclopedia written by Adam Kuper and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 923 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of The Social Science Encyclopedia first published in 1985, has been updated and recast. Ninety per cent of the entries are either new to this edition, entirely rewritten or substantially revised. The new entries cover developments in traditional fields over the last decade, newly vital areas of study in the late 90s such as environmental economics and cross-disciplinary pursuits such as women's studies and cultural studies. Theoretical movements such as post-modernism which were only beginning to be discussed in 1985 are now given prominent coverage.
Author : National Science Board (U.S.). Special Commission on the Social Sciences
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Knowledge Into Action: Improving the Nation's Use of the Social Sciences written by National Science Board (U.S.). Special Commission on the Social Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Lance Shotland
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Social Science and Social Policy written by R. Lance Shotland and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1985-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of the social sciences in shaping and evaluating social policy. It considers the past, present and potential role of the social sciences in policy creation, implementation, and evaluation processes. The authors present a considerable range of opinions about the ability of the social sciences to provide useful information is presented. The common view is that the social sciences can contribute to policy-making processes to a modest extent.
Author : Lee McIntyre
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315410079
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science written by Lee McIntyre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is an outstanding guide to the major themes, movements, debates, and topics in the philosophy of social science. It includes thirty-seven newly written chapters, by many of the leading scholars in the field, as well as a comprehensive introduction by the editors. Insofar as possible, the material in this volume is presented in accessible language, with an eye toward undergraduate and graduate students who may be coming to some of this material for the first time. Scholars too will appreciate this clarity, along with the chance to read about the latest advances in the discipline. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is broken up into four parts. Historical and Philosophical Context Concepts Debates Individual Sciences Edited by two of the leading scholars in the discipline, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of social science, and its many areas of connection and overlap with key debates in the philosophy of science.
Author : Scott Gordon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415096706
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (967 download)
Download or read book The History and Philosophy of Social Science written by Scott Gordon and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 1991 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : David C. Colander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317344154
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Social Science written by David C. Colander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Science, 15/e, approaches social science from a common-sense perspective, rather than from a conventional social science angle. Readers will see how seemingly diverse disciplines intermingle – anthropology and economics, for example. In the end, students will be able to approach social issues with unbiased problem-solving skills.
Author : Bent Flyvbjerg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521775687
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (756 download)
Download or read book Making Social Science Matter written by Bent Flyvbjerg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New approach demonstrating how social science can be successful, focusing on context, values, and power.
Author : T. R. Young
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000315908
Total Pages : 1482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary Of Critical Social Sciences written by T. R. Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 1482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a teaching dictionary with the goal of de-mystifying current social science theory in a comprehensive, accessible format. It focuses on important terminology in progressive, radical, critical Marxist, feminist, left-liberal, postmodern, and semiotic contexts.
Author : Rickard Danell
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9187351048
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Social Science in Context written by Rickard Danell and published by Nordic Academic Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Science in Context is one of the first ventures to explore the relationship between social science and society in historical, sociological and global perspective. What impact has the research in these areas had on society? How are research fields established and to what ends? Social Science in Context is a compilation of articles by an international and multidisciplinary group of scholars. The authors analyse the practical making and discursive aspects of social scientific knowledge and examples are drawn from a broad range of disciplines such as sociology, psychology, economics, and gender studies. The overall aim of the book is to encourage a contextual and reflexive understanding of the complex relationship between the social sciences and society. The bonds of the past and today are made up by reciprocity and involve key elements such as gender and power, science and politics, academic boundaries and global power relations. The book should be of interest to researchers, graduate students or anyone else interested in understanding and reflecting upon the uses, roles and functions of social science in today's globalised world. Book jacket.
Author : Neil J. Smelser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520273567
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Usable Social Science written by Neil J. Smelser and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Usable Social Science represents a remarkable collaboration between Neil J. Smelser, one of America’s most distinguished sociologists, and John Reed, a highly successful member of corporate America. Together, they accomplish an even more remarkable feat of making accumulated social science knowledge accessible to non-academics while, at the same time, making an academic contribution to the social sciences by reviewing the history, accumulated findings, and conceptual approaches in key areas of specialization in sociology and elsewhere in the social sciences."—Jonathan H. Turner, University Professor & Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Riverside. “This book is an ambitious project to provide the public with a review of the available and practicable knowledge for decision-making people (and who is not that today?) that the social sciences have produced over the last 250 years or so. Typically, such efforts are bound to fail. But this project is a full success, keeping its promise to present knowledge in an understandable and exciting way. The language is charming and the elegant prose is the product of a fluent, transparent style. In short: a must read!”—Hans-Peter Mueller, Professor of sociology, Humboldt-University of Berlin.
Author : Gary Goertz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691124116
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Social Science Concepts written by Gary Goertz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To develop theories and research designs requires concepts. Gary Goertz provides advice on the construction and use of social science concepts and their use in case selection and theories. He also cites examples from political science and sociology to illustrate the theoretical and practical issues of concept construction and use.
Author : Jonathan Michie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135932263
Total Pages : 2165 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences written by Jonathan Michie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 2165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2-volume work includes approximately 1,200 entries in A-Z order, critically reviewing the literature on specific topics from abortion to world systems theory. In addition, nine major entries cover each of the major disciplines (political economy; management and business; human geography; politics; sociology; law; psychology; organizational behavior) and the history and development of the social sciences in a broader sense.
