Search results for “[subject: social-science]”

• Author(s): Malcolm Williams • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: MethodologyIs social science really a science at all, and if so in what sense? This is the first question that any course on the philosophy of the social...

• Author(s): Donald W. Fiske | Richard a. Shweder • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: MethodologyWhat is the nature of the social sciences? What kinds of knowledge can they--and shoul...

• Author(s): Chayma Hamdani • Publisher: Clanrye International • Publisher Imprint: Clanrye International • BISAC: GeneralSocial science is an academic discipline that is concerned with the study of the society and the different associations and ...

• Author(s): Hammersley • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications • Subject: Writing/Research Methods • BISAC: ResearchAbout the Book What forms of knowledge can social science claim to produce? Does it employ causal a...

• Author(s): Eleonora Montuschi • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralPresents a clear and structured analysis of the Philosophy of Social Science across each of its main disciplines: Anthropo...

• Author(s): Richard Swedberg • Publisher: Stanford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press • BISAC: MethodologyAll social scientists learn the celebrated theories and frameworks of their predecessors, using them to inform...

• Author(s): Elgin Hunt • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge

• Author(s): Ted Benton • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryPhilosophers and social scientists share a common goal: to explore fundamental truths about ourselves and the natu...

• Author(s): Elgin Hunt • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: RoutledgeProvides a strong multidisciplinary approach Social Science, 15/e, approaches social science from a common-sense perspective, rather than from a conventional ...

• Author(s): Pamela Shoemaker • Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications, Inc. • BISAC: MethodologyAs straightforward as its title, How to Build Social Science Theories sidesteps the well-traveled road of theoret...

• Author(s): Jack David Eller • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralThis accessible book introduces the story of 'social science', with coverage of history, politics, economics, sociology, psychology...

• Author(s): Joshua Scott • Publisher: Clanrye International • Publisher Imprint: Clanrye International • BISAC: GeneralSocial science studies the relation between society and individuals. It tries to explain the influence of society on individua...

• Author(s): John A. Hughes | W. W. Sharrock • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis fully revised, updated and extended edition of a successful text, introduces some of the important philosophical i...

• Author(s): James B. Rule • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: ReferenceThis work attacks questions that have long troubled social scientists--questions of the cumulative nature of soci...

• Author(s): John Gerring • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: MethodologyJohn Gerring's exceptional textbook has been thoroughly revised in this second edition. It offers a one-volume i...

• Author(s): Gerard Delanty | Delanty • Publisher: Open University Press • Publisher Imprint: Open University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralWhat is social science? Does social scientific knowledge differ from other kinds of knowledge, such as...

• Author(s): Karter White • Publisher: Larsen and Keller Education • Publisher Imprint: Larsen and Keller Education • BISAC: GeneralThis book elucidates the concepts and innovative models around prospective developments with respect to social sci...

• Author(s): John Gerring • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: MethodologyJohn Gerring's exceptional textbook has been thoroughly revised in this second edition. It offers a one-volume i...

• Author(s): Rajat Acharyya | Nandan Bhattacharya • Publisher: Routledge India • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • BISAC: ResearchResearch Methodology for Social Sciences provides guidelines for designing and conducting evidence-based research...

• Author(s): Ann Oakley • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralExperiments in Knowing explores the history, ideology and implications of different 'ways of knowing'.

• Author(s): Robert Lee Miller • Publisher: Sage Publications UK • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications UK • BISAC: ResearchThis refreshing book on social research methods understands the pressures that modern students face in their work-load and...

• Author(s): John Gerring | Dino Christenson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: MethodologyThis textbook provides a clear, concise, and comprehensive introduction to methodological iss...

• Author(s): Michael H. Lessnoff • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralOriginally published in 1974, this book provided a most useful introductory survey of all the major philosophical issues...

• Author(s): Donatella Della Porta | Michael Keating • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: ResearchA revolutionary textbook introducing masters and doctoral students to the major research...

• Author(s): Michael H. Lessnoff • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralOriginally published in 1974, this book provided a most useful introductory survey of all the major philosophical issues...

• Author(s): John D. Brewer • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: EssaysWhat is the purpose of social science? How can social science make itself relevant to the intractable problems facing...

• Author(s): Helen Newing • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographyConducting Research in Conservation is the first textbook on social science research methods written specifically for use in the ex...

• Author(s): Maurice Duverger | Malcolm Anderson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryProfessor Duverger at last provides the student with an overall view of the methodology of the social science...

• Author(s): John McLevey • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications • Subject: Mathematics and Statistics • BISAC: ResearchComputational approaches offer exciting opportunities for us to do social science differently. ...

• Author(s): Robert Prus • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: MethodologyExamines the theory and methods by which social scientists study the human lived experienced.The ...

• Author(s): Anton Van Harskamp • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThis book argues that conflicts in social science must be worked out at the level of the individual discipline rather than at the level of philo...

• Author(s): Icarbord Tshabangu | Stefano Ba' | Silas Memory Madondo • Publisher: Information Science Reference • Publisher Imprint: Information Science Reference • BISAC: ResearchPresents new research methodologies in the social science field an...

• Author(s): Jude Turner • Publisher: Clanrye International • Publisher Imprint: Clanrye International • BISAC: GeneralSocial science is an umbrella term for a category of academic disciplines. These disciplines are generally concerned with the s...

• Author(s): Michael Hviid Jacobsen • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ResearchImaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences develops, expands and challenges conventional social scientific methodology and...

• Author(s): Rajat Acharyya • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Chapman & Hall • BISAC: ResearchResearch Methodology for Social Sciences provides guidelines for designing and conducting evidence-based research in ...

• Author(s): Donatella Della Porta | Michael Keating • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: ResearchA revolutionary textbook introducing masters and doctoral students to the major research...