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• Author(s): Otger Autrata • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer vs • BISAC: Social WorkFrom the Back CoverSocial Widerspiegelung is a central area of human life, however, it has been little researched for the theorization of social...

• Author(s): M. Hewitt • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyThe subject of human nature has recently returned to the centre of welfare debate in Britain, with prime ministers, politic...

• Author(s): Anna Almakaeva • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book presents a cross-cultural investigation into the interplay between social capital and subjective well-being. ...

• Author(s): M. Nissen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Social WorkWhat is a 'we' a collective and how can we use such communal self-knowledge to help people? This book is about collectivity, participation, a...

• Author(s): Deborah Chambers • Publisher: Macmillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage & FamilyDeborah Chambers draws on the metaphor of friendship as a strategy for exploring c...

• Author(s): G. Crow • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryThis book is concerned with the significance of time in work and everyday life. The contributors are among the foremost authoriti...

• Author(s): Knut Tielking | Manfred Rabes • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Social Work

• Author(s): Jalal Kawash • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: StatisticsFrom the Back CoverThis edited volume addresses the vast challenges of adapting Online Social Media (OSM) to developing research methods and applicat...

• Author(s): Michael Ungar • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Social WorkFrom the Back CoverIn a time of increasing exposure to personal psychological stress, as well as war, natural disasters, and economic upheaval, pos...

• Author(s): Bill Jordan • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyFrom the Back CoverThis book considers the role of social value in the making and implementation of public policy, taking...

• Author(s): Paolo Mariani • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: StatisticsChapter 1 - Digital methods and the evolution of the epistemology of social sciences (Enrica Amaturo, Biagio Aragona)Chapter 2 - Restricted Cumulati...

• Author(s): Amy Shields Dobson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Media StudiesFrom the Back CoverThis book explores emergent intimate practices in social media cultures. It examines new digital intimacies as ...

• Author(s): J. Girling • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryThe central concern of this ambitious study is to understand the impact of social change on people's lives - in the vital area...

• Author(s): N. Stephenson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralCould researching experience contribute to creating socio-political change or does it simply open new avenues for post-Fordist se...

• Author(s): John Eatwell • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis is an excerpt from the 4-volume dictionary of economics, a reference book which aims to define the subject o...

• Author(s): Nebojsa Nakicenovic • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralWee felt it before in sense; but now wee know it by science. Edward Misselden (1623) The collective effort reported in this volume is the outcome...

• Author(s): Howard M. Rebach • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralClinical sociology is an action-oriented field that seeks to prevent, reduce, or resolve the seemingly overwhelming number of social pro...

• Author(s): Florian G. Hartmann • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Media StudiesSociology as an empirical science of experience deals with the description of the social world...

• Author(s): Alfred Schutz • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Movements - Phenomenology

• Author(s): David R. Brake • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Media StudiesWhy do we share so much about our lives on social media when we often have little idea who might be reading or viewing? David R. Brake...

• Author(s): Marian T. Adolf • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis unique volume brings together a selection of the most important texts of Nico Stehr for the first time and puts t...

• Author(s): Thomas J. Quirk • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: StatisticsFrom the Back CoverThis text is a step-by-step, exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical s...

• Author(s): Aart C. Liefbroer • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: DemographyFrom the Back CoverThis open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later...

• Author(s): D. Jung • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: GlobalizationExamining modern Muslim identity constructions, the authors introduce a novel analytical framework to Islamic Studies, drawing on theories of...

• Author(s): Berch Berberoglu • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis handbook on social movements, revolution, and social transformation analyzes people's struggles to bri...

• Author(s): Ruth Sanz Sabido • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Media StudiesFrom the Back CoverThis edited collection offers the latest research into the reproduction of 'hegemonic' discourse and the ways in ...

• Author(s): J. Domingues • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryThe axis of this book is the articulation between the concept of collective subjectivity with the themes of social evolution...

• Author(s): Ashley Ward • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - Ethology (Animal Behavior)From the Back CoverThe last decade has seen a surge of interest among biologists in a range of social animal...

• Author(s): José J. Pazos Arias • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe recommendation of products, content and services cannot be considered newly born, although its w...

• Author(s): S. Feinman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Clinical PsychologyIntegrating the perspectives of a number of disciplines, this work examines social referencing in infants within the broader contexts of cogni...

• Author(s): Katy Day • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: PersonalityFrom the Back CoverThis book argues for the importance of considering social class in critical psychological enquiry. It provides a historical overview ...

• Author(s): V. Higgins • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralExamining the increasingly powerful role of standards in the governing of economic, political and social life, this book draws upon ...

• Author(s): Lisa Hill • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverAdam Ferguson (1723-1816) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment whose thought was, in many respects, original and...

• Author(s): Ian Gillespie Cook • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book provides a critical understanding of contemporary issues within a global society and how these relate to ...

• Author(s): Joan E. Grusec • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Child & AdolescentFor many years students who took courses in social development had no text available for their use. Those of us who ins...

• Author(s): Huijiong Wang • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: World - AsianFrom the Back CoverThis book is more or less a companion volume of the author's book Introduction to Social Systems Engineering published by Spri...