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Social Science - HOME Social Science Origins of American Social Science by Dorothy Ross, X Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity. Under the influence of this national self-conception, Americans believed that their history was set on a ...
Social Science - HOME Social Science Origins of American Social Science by Dorothy Ross, X Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity. Under the influence of this national self-conception, Americans believed that their history was set on a ...
Social Science - HOME Social Science Origins of American Social Science by Dorothy Ross, X Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity. Under the influence of this national self-conception, Americans believed that their history was set on a ...
Social Science - HOME Social Science Origins of American Social Science by Dorothy Ross, X Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government and wide economic opportunity. Under the influence of this national self-conception, Americans believed that their history was set on a ...
Sport Science Researchers - HOME Sport Science Researchers Taking Sport Seriously by Lincoln Allison, The Chelsea School Research Centre Edition originated in the advanced scholarship and research undertaken in CSRC as it consolidated and developed its national and international research networks. It brings together state-of-the art scholarship and research in sport sociology, sport sciences, leisure studies and physical education. This inter-disciplinary collection of essays seeks to define the achievement of the academic study of sport as it has developed over the past ten to twenty years. Essay-titles included are: -- "Sport and Civil Society," "Sport and History" -- "The ...
Science World - HOME Science World In Search of Divine Reality: Science As a Source of Inspiration by Lothar Schager, X In This Remarkable Treatise, Professor Schafer shares his conclusions from a lifelong search for evidence -- from quantum science -- of the existence of a transcendent part of physical reality. With a view as wide as the cosmos and as infinitesimal as the electron, he combines disciplinary thought from science, philosophy, religion, and ethics to address the educated generalist and layman with a profound look at existence. When modern science adopted objectivity and experimental testing as operational ...
Science World - HOME Science World In Search of Divine Reality: Science As a Source of Inspiration by Lothar Schager, X In This Remarkable Treatise, Professor Schafer shares his conclusions from a lifelong search for evidence -- from quantum science -- of the existence of a transcendent part of physical reality. With a view as wide as the cosmos and as infinitesimal as the electron, he combines disciplinary thought from science, philosophy, religion, and ethics to address the educated generalist and layman with a profound look at existence. When modern science adopted objectivity and experimental testing as operational ...
Application Economics Elements Science Social Statistics - HOME Application Economics Elements Science Social Statistics Expert Systems and Probabilistic Network Models by Enrique del Castillo, Expert systems and uncertainty in artificial intelligence have seen a great surge of research activity during the last decade. This book provides a clear and up-to-date account of the research progress in these areas. The authors begin with a survey of rule-based expert systems, which are mainly applicable to deterministic situations. Since most practical applications involve some degree of uncertainty, the authors then introduce probabilistic expert systems to deal with this element of ...
Book Publication Science Science Shopping Social - HOME Book Publication Science Science Shopping Social Sheila's Shop: Working-Class African American Women Talk about Life, Love, Race, and Hair Sheila's Shop invites us into a Southern beauty parlor to meet working-class African American women. Kimberly Battle-Walters spent over sixteen months interviewing and listening to women at Sheila's Shop while researching this valuable ethnographic work. Literature and the media tend to report either on the lives of upwardly mobile, middle-class African Americans or on the poor, ignoring working-class women. Sheila's Shop focuses on these ...
Field Science Social - HOME Field Science Social Looking Backward and Looking Forward: Perspectives on Social Science History Asserting the need for social science historians to examine their own field, this wide-ranging volume offers an intellectual history and critical evaluation of interdisciplinary social science and social science historiography. The editors present a creative, experimental mix of topics and genres spanning a range of contemporary thought in the field--exploring the past, present, and future of social science history. This book comes at a time when there is great academic interest in the future of the disciplines ...
Book Publication Science Science Shopping Social - HOME Book Publication Science Science Shopping Social Sheila's Shop: Working-Class African American Women Talk about Life, Love, Race, and Hair Sheila's Shop invites us into a Southern beauty parlor to meet working-class African American women. Kimberly Battle-Walters spent over sixteen months interviewing and listening to women at Sheila's Shop while researching this valuable ethnographic work. Literature and the media tend to report either on the lives of upwardly mobile, middle-class African Americans or on the poor, ignoring working-class women. Sheila's Shop focuses on these ...
Book Publication Science Science Shopping Social - HOME Book Publication Science Science Shopping Social Sheila's Shop: Working-Class African American Women Talk about Life, Love, Race, and Hair Sheila's Shop invites us into a Southern beauty parlor to meet working-class African American women. Kimberly Battle-Walters spent over sixteen months interviewing and listening to women at Sheila's Shop while researching this valuable ethnographic work. Literature and the media tend to report either on the lives of upwardly mobile, middle-class African Americans or on the poor, ignoring working-class women. Sheila's Shop focuses on these ...
Book Publication Science Science Shopping Social - HOME Book Publication Science Science Shopping Social Sheila's Shop: Working-Class African American Women Talk about Life, Love, Race, and Hair Sheila's Shop invites us into a Southern beauty parlor to meet working-class African American women. Kimberly Battle-Walters spent over sixteen months interviewing and listening to women at Sheila's Shop while researching this valuable ethnographic work. Literature and the media tend to report either on the lives of upwardly mobile, middle-class African Americans or on the poor, ignoring working-class women. Sheila's Shop focuses on these ...
Book Publication Science Science Shopping Social - HOME Book Publication Science Science Shopping Social Sheila's Shop: Working-Class African American Women Talk about Life, Love, Race, and Hair Sheila's Shop invites us into a Southern beauty parlor to meet working-class African American women. Kimberly Battle-Walters spent over sixteen months interviewing and listening to women at Sheila's Shop while researching this valuable ethnographic work. Literature and the media tend to report either on the lives of upwardly mobile, middle-class African Americans or on the poor, ignoring working-class women. Sheila's Shop focuses on these ...
Book Publication Science Science Shopping Social - HOME Book Publication Science Science Shopping Social Sheila's Shop: Working-Class African American Women Talk about Life, Love, Race, and Hair Sheila's Shop invites us into a Southern beauty parlor to meet working-class African American women. Kimberly Battle-Walters spent over sixteen months interviewing and listening to women at Sheila's Shop while researching this valuable ethnographic work. Literature and the media tend to report either on the lives of upwardly mobile, middle-class African Americans or on the poor, ignoring working-class women. Sheila's Shop focuses on these ...
Social Exchange Theory - HOME Social Exchange Theory A Theory of Personality Development by Luciano L'Abate, With characteristic humility Luciano L'Abate has entitled this groundbreaking volume simply A Theory of Personality Development. But the theories put forth in these pages are anything but humble, representing, as they do, a radical departure from tradition. Unlike traditional theories of personality which have tended to be somewhat metaphysical, seeking to understand personality in a vacuum, Dr. L'Abate's theory is firmly rooted in the social and existential exigencies of everyday life as experienced within the five fundamental contexts of home, work, leisure, the marketplace (grocery shopping, barbershops, malls, etc.), and in transit. At the heart of the theory is the conviction that the ability to love and to negotiate are ...
Medicine Science Social - HOME Medicine Science Social Site of the Social: A Philosophical Account of the Constitution of Social Life and Change by Theodore R. Schatzki, Inspired by Heidegger's concept of the clearing of being and by Wittgenstein's ideas on human practice, Theodore Schatzki offers a novel approach to understanding the constitution and transformation of social life. Key to the account he develops here is the context in which social life unfolds--the "site of the social"--as a contingent and constantly metamorphosing mesh of practices and material orders. Schatzki's analysis reveals the ...
Clinical Habit Introduction Mind Philosophy - ... a complex field that is often studied in a piecemeal way. Most books on the subject simply enumerate the many roles of the clinical psychologist, such as the most commonly used approaches to assessment and treatment. This book, however, provides a central, coherent theme -- the philosophy of science-- around which to study the subject matter. This book serves as an excellent reference to introductory clinical psychology. It is "accessible" to the reader with little background in clinical psychology, and it integrates the material around a central theme, the philosophy of science. Within this theme, the author integrates theoretical and applied materials, chronicles the historical development of the field, and presents empirical evidence. The book also address practical matters like therapy techniques and the training and employment of clinical psychologists. Topics include the history of clinical psychology, ...
Social Philosophy - HOME Social Philosophy Alasdair Macintyre by Mark C. Murphy, Alasdair MacIntyre's writings on ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of the social sciences and the history of philosophy have established him as one of the philosophical giants of the last fifty years. His best-known book, After Virtue (1981), spurred the profound revival of virtue ethics. Moreover, MacIntyre, unlike so many of his contemporaries, has exerted a deep influence beyond the bounds of academic philosophy. This volume focuses on the major themes of MacIntyre's work with critical expositions of MacIntyre' ...
Journal Medicine Science Social - HOME Journal Medicine Science Social Research Fraud in the Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences by David J. Miller, While there is currently no official consensus as to the extent of fraud or misrepresentation in the sciences, recent estimates suggest that they may occur in as much as 12% of all scientific research conducted in North America. In an age dominated philosophically by the overarching ideal of scientific truth, and in which science plays a central role in virtually every aspect of life, research fraud, in even the minutest degree, can have only dire and ...
Academic Journal Medical Science Social - HOME Academic Journal Medical Science Social The Death of Innocents: A True Story of Murder, Medicine, and High-Stakes Science by Richard Firstman, Unraveling a twenty-five-year tale of multiple murder and medical deception, "The Death of Innocents is a work of first-rate journalism told with the compelling narrative drive of a mystery novel. More than just a true-crime story, it is the stunning expose of spurious science that sent medical researchers in the wrong direction--and nearly allowed a murderer to go unpunished. On July 28, 1971, a two- ...
Biological Perspective Psychology - HOME Biological Perspective Psychology Psychology in Perspective by Carol Tavris, Carol Tavris and Carole Wade once again set a new standard with this exciting alternative to traditional treatment of psychology. Psychology in Perspective, 3/e, responds to the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Project 2061, which calls upon all scientists to teach for depth of understanding rather than breadth of coverage. The authors have reorganized the traditional material according to the five major perspectives in the field and offer an unbiased presentation of each perspective's strengths, limitations, and misuses. The ... of the Asian Psychology. Philippine Psychology is now being studied in some universities as part of their Psychology courses. Theoretical psychology - Theoretical psychology is concerned with theoretical and philosophical aspects of the discipline of psychology. It is an interdisciplinary field involving psychologists specialising in, amongst others, cognitive, social, developmental, personality, clinical, perceptual, neurological, biological, evolutionary, historical, political and critical psychology. Health psychology - Health psychology is the “…use of psychological principles to promote health and to prevent illness (Taylor, 1990).” Health psychology considers the biological, cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social, psychosomatic and ...
Cultural Encounter Field in Open Science - HOME Cultural Encounter Field in Open Science 95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and Method by Anne Norton, When Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses on the church door at Wittenberg, he offered a challenge to the dominant establishment of which he was a member. In this provocative book, political scientist Anne Norton proposes 95 theses that launch a brilliant, witty polemic against the reigning orthodoxies in her own field. Rejecting the antiquated and stultifying models encountered in textbooks and in courses on methodology and championed by the self-appointed gatekeepers of a narrow and parochial political science, Norton opens the gates to new practices, new principles, new questions, more methods, and more demanding ethical and scientific criteria. Practice, she argues, has outstripped old models and conventional standards. Drawing on the most daring and rigorous work in structuralism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, cultural studies, literary ...
Science Science - HOME Science Science Gender and Science Reader by Muriel Lederman, The Gender and Science Reader brings together key writings by leading scholars to provide a comprehensive feminist analysis of the nature and practice of science. Challenging the self-proclaimed objectivity of scientific practice, the contributors uncover the gender, class and racial prejudices of modern science. The Reader draws from a range of media, including feminist criticism, scientific literature, writings about scientific education, and the popular press. Articles are grouped into six thematic sections which address: -- Women in Science -- women's access to study ...
Standard Social Science Model - HOME Standard Social Science Model Statistical Models for Causal Analysis by Robert D. Retherford, Free of unwieldy mathematics, Statistical Models for Causal Analysis provides a lucid introduction to statistical models used in the social and biomedical sciences, particularly those models used in the causal analysis of nonexperimental data. Featuring an approach that focuses on model specification and interpretation, this innovative work-designed specifically for students and professionals in need of a working knowledge of the subject - is a practice-oriented guide to learning how to use these models in analytical work. Based on ...
Audio Book Reference Science Social Travel - HOME Audio Book Reference Science Social Travel Latin American Studies: An Annotated Biliography of Core Works by Ana Maria Cobos, The Latin American studies collections at many community, junior and four year colleges, and large public libraries often contain materials that are too specialized, uneven, outdated, incomplete, or written in Spanish or Portuguese--thus rendering them essentially useless to English-reading patrons. Better materials are out there, but librarians simply have not had, until now, a good resource guide to help in locating them. This work, designed as an acquisitions tool for colleges ...
Medicine Science - HOME Medicine Science Medicine, Science, and Merck P. Roy Vagelos grew up during the Depression as a wise-cracking son of Greek immigrants. He left his family's small restaurant to become a doctor and went on to master three professions and become the Chief Executive Officer of the multinational pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co. Medicine, Science, and Merck follows Vangelos' life from childhood to retirement, from his academic years at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University's Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital through his professional career at the National Institute of Health, ...
Behavioral in Medicine Science - HOME Behavioral in Medicine Science Research Fraud in the Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences by David J. Miller, While there is currently no official consensus as to the extent of fraud or misrepresentation in the sciences, recent estimates suggest that they may occur in as much as 12% of all scientific research conducted in North America. In an age dominated philosophically by the overarching ideal of scientific truth, and in which science plays a central role in virtually every aspect of life, research fraud, in even the minutest degree, can have only dire and ...
Audio Book Reference Science Social Travel - HOME Audio Book Reference Science Social Travel Latin American Studies: An Annotated Biliography of Core Works by Ana Maria Cobos, The Latin American studies collections at many community, junior and four year colleges, and large public libraries often contain materials that are too specialized, uneven, outdated, incomplete, or written in Spanish or Portuguese--thus rendering them essentially useless to English-reading patrons. Better materials are out there, but librarians simply have not had, until now, a good resource guide to help in locating them. This work, designed as an acquisitions tool for colleges ...
Audio Book Reference Science Social Travel - HOME Audio Book Reference Science Social Travel Latin American Studies: An Annotated Biliography of Core Works by Ana Maria Cobos, The Latin American studies collections at many community, junior and four year colleges, and large public libraries often contain materials that are too specialized, uneven, outdated, incomplete, or written in Spanish or Portuguese--thus rendering them essentially useless to English-reading patrons. Better materials are out there, but librarians simply have not had, until now, a good resource guide to help in locating them. This work, designed as an acquisitions tool for colleges ...
Mean Necessarily Social - HOME Mean Necessarily Social Human Behavior in the Social Environment: An Ecological View by Carel Bailey Germain, THE SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE of human behavior and development maintains a multidimensional focus on diverse persons in diverse environments. Carel B. Germain and Martin Bloom succinctly present this ecological view on the observation that human beings and their social environments always form a unified -- though not necessarily harmonious -- configuration; this configuration is the basic unit of analysis for understanding the factual material encountered in social work. Employing the person-and-environment approach to examine all aspects ...
Audio Book Reference Science Social Travel - HOME Audio Book Reference Science Social Travel Latin American Studies: An Annotated Biliography of Core Works by Ana Maria Cobos, The Latin American studies collections at many community, junior and four year colleges, and large public libraries often contain materials that are too specialized, uneven, outdated, incomplete, or written in Spanish or Portuguese--thus rendering them essentially useless to English-reading patrons. Better materials are out there, but librarians simply have not had, until now, a good resource guide to help in locating them. This work, designed as an acquisitions tool for colleges ...
Social Entrepreneur - HOME Social Entrepreneur Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs: Enhancing the Performance of Your Enterprising Nonprofit by J. Gregory Dees, The idea of social entrepreneurship is becoming increasingly popular as nonprofit leaders search for new ways to serve their missions and generate funds for their organizations. In their book Enterprising Nonprofits, the authors offered new ways to apply the lessons of business entrepreneurship to social enterprises. This book enriches the toolkit offered in the first book by providing additional tools for thinking strategically about value creation, income generation, and growth. Strategic Tools for Social ...
Audio Book Reference Science Social Travel - HOME Audio Book Reference Science Social Travel Latin American Studies: An Annotated Biliography of Core Works by Ana Maria Cobos, The Latin American studies collections at many community, junior and four year colleges, and large public libraries often contain materials that are too specialized, uneven, outdated, incomplete, or written in Spanish or Portuguese--thus rendering them essentially useless to English-reading patrons. Better materials are out there, but librarians simply have not had, until now, a good resource guide to help in locating them. This work, designed as an acquisitions tool for colleges ...
Audio Book Reference Science Social Travel - HOME Audio Book Reference Science Social Travel Latin American Studies: An Annotated Biliography of Core Works by Ana Maria Cobos, The Latin American studies collections at many community, junior and four year colleges, and large public libraries often contain materials that are too specialized, uneven, outdated, incomplete, or written in Spanish or Portuguese--thus rendering them essentially useless to English-reading patrons. Better materials are out there, but librarians simply have not had, until now, a good resource guide to help in locating them. This work, designed as an acquisitions tool for colleges ...
Mean Necessarily Social - HOME Mean Necessarily Social Human Behavior in the Social Environment: An Ecological View by Carel Bailey Germain, THE SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE of human behavior and development maintains a multidimensional focus on diverse persons in diverse environments. Carel B. Germain and Martin Bloom succinctly present this ecological view on the observation that human beings and their social environments always form a unified -- though not necessarily harmonious -- configuration; this configuration is the basic unit of analysis for understanding the factual material encountered in social work. Employing the person-and-environment approach to examine all aspects ...
Audio Book Reference Science Social Travel - HOME Audio Book Reference Science Social Travel Latin American Studies: An Annotated Biliography of Core Works by Ana Maria Cobos, The Latin American studies collections at many community, junior and four year colleges, and large public libraries often contain materials that are too specialized, uneven, outdated, incomplete, or written in Spanish or Portuguese--thus rendering them essentially useless to English-reading patrons. Better materials are out there, but librarians simply have not had, until now, a good resource guide to help in locating them. This work, designed as an acquisitions tool for colleges ...
Audio Book Reference Science Social Travel - HOME Audio Book Reference Science Social Travel Latin American Studies: An Annotated Biliography of Core Works by Ana Maria Cobos, The Latin American studies collections at many community, junior and four year colleges, and large public libraries often contain materials that are too specialized, uneven, outdated, incomplete, or written in Spanish or Portuguese--thus rendering them essentially useless to English-reading patrons. Better materials are out there, but librarians simply have not had, until now, a good resource guide to help in locating them. This work, designed as an acquisitions tool for colleges ...
Social Theory - HOME Social Theory Theories of Social Order by Michael Hechter, This collection of readings provides a compelling exploration of what arguably remains the single most important problem in sociological theory: the problem of social order. Contending that the purpose of theory in the social sciences lies in its ability to explain real-world phenomena, Theories of Social Order departs from the standard theory reader by presenting classical texts alongside contemporary theoretical extensions and recent empirical applications to explore this substantive theme. Its unique approach--focusing on theories rather than theorists and on one ...
Life Science Research - HOME Life Science Research Advances in Quality-Of-Life Theory and Research Advances in Quality-of-Life Theory and Research is relevant to quality-of-life researchers working in the areas of Social Medicine, Sustainable Development, Social Indicators Research and Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine. This volume contains 14 chapters that represent a culmination of programmatic research in the science of quality of life (QOL). Each chapter offers interesting findings in different areas of QOL research and, together, the chapters reflect the very basic premise that QOL research is a broad interdisciplinary topic explored ...
Toward A General Theory Of Action: Theoretical Foundations For The Social Sciences (Social Science Classics Series) (Paperback) : Author: Parsons, Talcott/ Shils, Edward Albert/ Smelser, Neil J. (INT)/ Smelser, Neil J. Number of Pages: 28...
The Basics Of Sociology (Basics Of The Social Sciences) (Hardcover) : Author: Stolley, Kathy Shepherd. Number of Pages: 302. Published On: 2005/03/30. Language: ENGLISH
Dictionary Of The Social Sciences (Hardcover) : Defines key terms in such areas as anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, human geography, c...
Sociology: A Guide To Reference And Information Sources (Reference Sources In The Social Sciences) (Hardcover) : Author: Aby, Stephen H. / Nalen, James/ Fielding, Lori. Number of Pages: 273. Published On: 2005/04/30. Lang...
Exploratory Social Network Analysis With Pajek (Structural Analysis In The Social Sciences) (Paperback) : Author: Nooy, Wouter De/ Mrvar, Andrej/ Batagelj, Vladimir/ De Nooy, Wouter. Number of Pages: 334. Published...
The New Political Sociology Of Science: Institutions, Networks, And Power (Science & Technology In Societ) (Hardcover) : Author: Frickel, Scott (EDT)/ Moore, Kelly (EDT). Number of Pages: 487. Published On: 2006/02/14. Language: ...
Linking Activism: Ecology, Social Justice, And Education For Social Change (New Approaches In Sociology: Studies In Social Inequality, Social Change, And Social : Author: Gardner, Morgan. Number of Pages: 286. Published On: 2005/08/23. Language: ENGLISH
Taking Sides: Clashing Views In Science, Technology, And Society (Taking Sides: Clashing Views On Controversial Issues In Science, Technology And Society) (Pape : Author: Easton, Thomas A. (EDT). Number of Pages: 387. Published On: 2005/10/14. Language: ENGLISH
Science, Culture, And Society: Understanding Science In The Twenty-First Centruy (Paperback) : Author: Erickson, Mark. Number of Pages: 241. Published On: 2005/08/23. Language: ENGLISH
The Theory Toolbox: Critical Concepts For The Humanities, Arts, And Social Sciences (Culture And Politics Series) (Paperback) : Author: Nealon, Jeffrey T. / Giroux, Susan Searls. Published On: 2003/09/01. Language: ENGLISH