Catálogo de libros: Sociología

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  • Social Science Research Ethics for a Globalizing World
    Increasing globalisation within the social sciences and education sector has necessitated greater reflections on the various dimensions of ethics involved in carrying out research in cross-cultural contexts, within and across national boundaries. Within this context, this volume draws on intensive field work to shed light on the ethical issues the contributors encountered in th...
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    254,00 €

  • Deconstructing Ethnography
    Andy Crabtree / Graham Button / Mark Rouncefield
    This book aims to deconstruct ethnography to alert systems designers, and other stakeholders, to the issues presented by new approaches that move beyond the studies of ’work’ and ’work practice’ within the social sciences (in particular anthropology and sociology). The theoretical and methodological apparatus of the social sciences distort the social and cultural world as lived...
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    65,40 €

  • The SAGE Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology
    R. Burke Johnson / W. Paul Vogt
    Written in a clear, readable style with a wide range of explanations and examples, The SAGE Dictionary of Statistics & Methodology, Fifth Edition by W. Paul Vogt and R. Burke Johnson is a must-have dictionary that reflects recent changes in the fields of statistics and methodology. Packed with 500 new definitions, terms, and graphics, the Fifth Edition is an ideal reference for...
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    118,61 €

  • Death at the Ballpark
    David Weeks / Robert M. Gorman
    When we think of baseball, we think of sunny days and leisurely outings at the ballpark--rarely do thoughts of death come to mind. Yet during the game’s history, hundreds of players, coaches and spectators have died while playing or watching the National Pastime. In its second edition, this ground-breaking study provides the known details for 150 years of game-related deat...
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    58,95 €

  • Research Methods for Strategic Management
    This book provides the reader with a broad introduction to the array of qualitative and quantitative research methods required to investigate strategic management. Throughout the book, strong emphasis is placed on practical applications, so that the reader is encouraged to 'learn by doing'; applying the implications of each chapter to their own research. In doing so, this text ...
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    267,33 €

  • Michel Meyer’s Problematology
    Nick Turnbull
    In today’s society, everything is in question. The reflexive questioning of modernity has fundamentally problematized society, including philosophy, which has experienced a crisis of metaphysics. Michel Meyer’s problematology answers this crisis by questioning questioning, unfolding a new way of doing philosophy, with special relevance for the study of society. In this first-ev...
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    64,29 €

  • Life Lines
    John McLeod
    Adoptions that cross the lines of culture, race and nation are a major consequence of conflicts around the globe, yet their histories and representations have rarely been considered. Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption is the first critical study to explore narratives of transcultural adoption from contemporary Britain, Ireland and America: fictions, films and memoirs m...
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    193,45 €

  • Visual Methods with Children and Young People
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    65,42 €

  • Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies
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    65,30 €

  • Digital Methods for Social Science
    This timely book inspires researchers to deploy relevant, effective, innovative digital methods. It explores the relationship of such methods to ’mainstream’ social science; interdisciplinarity; innovations in digital research tools; the opportunities (and challenges) of digital methods in researching social life; and digital research ethics. ...
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    169,63 €

  • Action Research for Democracy
    Contemporary society encounters profound economical, socio-ecological and political crises challenging the democratic foundation of our societies. This book addresses the potentials and challenges for Action Research supporting democratic alternatives. It offers a broad spectrum of examples from Scandinavian Action Research showing different openings towards democratic developm...
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    267,95 €

  • Children’s Spatialities
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    145,32 €

  • The Circulation of European Knowledge
    TBD
    This book studies the circulation of social knowledge by focusing on the reception of Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory in Hispanic America. It shows that theories need active involvement from scholars in the receiving field in order to travel. ...
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    48,56 €

  • German Jews in America
    Gerhard Falk
    Falk focuses on refugees who fled from Nazi tyranny in the 1930s, immigrated to America, and succeeded despite immense obstacles. This book includes a review of the most prominent academics that made major contributions to science, medicine, art, and literature in America. ...
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    55,93 €

  • Statistics without Mathematics
    David J. Bartholomew
    Introducing students to the concepts of statistics, stripping away any technical jargon and mathematical language, this book sets out the tools needed by those doing statistical procedures for the first time, or those in need of a refresher. ...
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    59,09 €

  • A Faithful Presence
    Hillary Russell
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    21,52 €

  • Low and Lower Fertility
    This volume examines two distinct low fertility scenarios that have emerged in economically advanced countries since the turn of the 20th century: one in which fertility is at or near replacement-level and the other where fertility is well below replacement. It explores the way various institutions, histories and cultures influence fertility in a diverse range of countries in A...
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    65,38 €

  • Meta-Analysis with R
    Gerta Rücker / Guido Schwarzer / James R. Carpenter / James RCarpenter
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to performing meta-analysis using the statistical software R. It is intended for quantitative researchers and students in the medical and social sciences who wish to learn how to perform meta-analysis with R. As such, the book introduces the key concepts and models used in meta-analysis. It also includes chapters on the following ...
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    74,70 €

  • The Linear Model and Hypothesis
    George Seber
    This book provides a concise and integrated overview of hypothesis testing in four important subject areas, namely linear and nonlinear models, multivariate analysis, and large sample theory. The approach used is a geometrical one based on the concept of projections and their associated idempotent matrices, thus largely avoiding the need to involvematrix ranks. It is shown that...
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    65,29 €

  • Pedagogical Tact
    Max van Manen
    Internationally known educator Max van Manen provides phenomenological guidance on how teachers, parents, and other child care workers can act pedagogically with sensitivity, tact, respect, and attentiveness, to create a positive influence that is felt throughout the young person’s life and adulthood. ...
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    241,03 €

  • The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy
    Jr John Witte
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    197,75 €

  • Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India
    From computer support and hotel reservations to laboratory results and radiographic interpretations, it seems everything can be ‘outsourced’ in our globalized world. One would not think so with parenthood, however, especially motherhood, as it is a fundamental activity humans have historically preserved as personal and private. In our modern age, however, the advent and accessi...
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    63,74 €

  • Boys, Young Men and Violence
    Ken Harland / Sam McCready
    This book draws upon data collected over an 18 year period with over 1000 boys and young men across Northern Ireland. Providing critical reflections on violence, masculinity and education, it uses the voices and experiences of young men to inform and influence research, practice and policy. ...
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    65,20 €

  • Meta-Analysis with R
    Gerta Rücker / Guido Schwarzer / James R. Carpenter
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to performing meta-analysis using the statistical software R. It is intended for quantitative researchers and students in the medical and social sciences who wish to learn how to perform meta-analysis with R. As such, the book introduces the key concepts and models used in meta-analysis. It also includes chapters on the following ...
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    47,95 €

  • The Linear Model and Hypothesis
    George Seber
    This book provides a concise and integrated overview of hypothesis testing in four important subject areas, namely linear and nonlinear models, multivariate analysis, and large sample theory. The approach used is a geometrical one based on the concept of projections and their associated idempotent matrices, thus largely avoiding the need to involvematrix ranks. It is shown that...
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    48,19 €

  • UnPregnant Pause
    Debbie Slevin
    UnPregnant Pause: Where Are the Babies? is an insightful look at the growing trend of women in their thirties who are not marrying or having children, missing out on their “prime birthing years.” Debbie Slevin masterfully weaves in her personal experiences with an innovative research endeavor that encompasses interviews with fertility experts, psychologists, sociologists, clerg...
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    12,08 €

  • The Dialectics of Inquiry Across the Historical Social Sciences
    David Baronov
    This book turns conventional global-historical analysis on its head, demonstrating, first, that local events cannot be derived - logically or historically - from large-scale, global-historical structures and processes and, second, that it is these structures and processes that, in fact, emerge from our analysis of local events. ...
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    68,80 €

  • Centers and Peripheries in Knowledge Production
    Leandro Rodriguez Medina
    This book examines the circulation of knowledge within globalization, focusing on the differences between centers and peripheries of knowledge production in the social sciences. ...
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    78,59 €

  • Contemporary Parenting
    Through a global, multidisciplinary perspective, this book describes how four factors influence parenting practices: a countries historical and political background, the parent’s educational history, the economy and the parent’s financial standing, and advances in technology. Part 1 reviews each of these factors in detail. Part 2 features cases that illustrate the impact these ...
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    89,61 €

  • Qualitative Networks
    Elisa Bellotti
    Social Network Analysis is a research approach widely used in many disciplines ranging from physics to the social sciences. Qualitative Networks offers an insight on how to mix this perspective with qualitative methods, and in so doing enables us to investigate the forms and meanings of the networks of relationships in which people are embedded. ...
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    66,59 €