The Human Meaning of the Social Sciences
Author : Daniel Lerner
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
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Author : Daniel Lerner
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
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Author : Daniel Lerner
Publisher :
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 14,16 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Social sciences
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Author : Angus and Converse, Philip E. Campbell
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 1972-03-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781610441025
This book is a companion piece to Sheldon and Moore's Indicators of Social Change. Whereas Indicators of Social Change was concerned with various kinds of "hard" data, typically sociostructural, this book is devoted chiefly to so-called "softer" data of a more social-psychological sort: the attitudes, expectations, aspirations, and values of the American population. The book deals with the meaning of change from two points of view. First, it is interested in the human meaning which people attribute to the complex social environment in which they find themselves; their understanding of group relations, the political process, and the consumer economy in which they participate. Secondly, it discusses the impact that the various alternatives offered by the environment have on the nature of their lives and the fulfillment of those lives. The twelve essays which make up the volume deal successively with the major domains of life. Each author sets forth an inclusive statement of the most significant dimensions of psychological change in a specific area of life, to review the state of present information, and to project the measurements needed to improve understanding of these changes in the future.
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Page : 317 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Albion W. Small
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Social Science
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Page : 317 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Social sciences
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Author : Craig Calhoun
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199771200
Featuring over 1,800 concise definitions of key terms, the Dictionary of the Social Sciences is the most comprehensive, authoritative single-volume work of its kind. With coverage on the vocabularies of anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, human geography, cultural studies, and Marxism, the Dictionary is an integrated, easy-to-use, A-to-Z reference tool. Designed for students and non-specialists, it examines classic and contemporary scholarship including basic terms, concepts, theories, schools of thought, methodologies, issues, and controversies. As a true dictionary, it also contains concise, jargon-free definitions that explain the rich, sometimes complex language of these increasingly visible fields.
Author : Daniel Lerner
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Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 1959
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Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415302968
This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts drawn from within a given society to its understanding, and the relation of theory to time.
Author : Mark Solovey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262358751
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.