Catálogo de libros: Sociología

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  • Bartered bridegrooms
    Suriyah Bi
    This book explores the experiences of Muslim men born and raised in Pakistan and Kashmir who migrate after marrying British Pakistani nationals. The book particular focuses on the impact of migration and marriage on their masculinity. ...
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    157,58 €

  • Correcting the Record
    Herbert S. Lewis
    The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who 'extracted' information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. Herbert S. Lewis recovers the reality of the first century of American anthropology as a vital scholarly discipline that rejected established ideas of race, insist...
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    163,70 €

  • Understanding Business Offenders
    Christopher Hamerton / Petter Gottschalk
    Focusing on understanding business offenders through an exploration of workplace deviance and crime, this book closely examines a number of illustrative contemporary case studies and underpins the analysis of original comparative fieldwork, with an interdisciplinary approach, which informs, develops, and augments the existing literature on white-collar criminology. The book con...
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    184,35 €

  • Haunting Futures
    Marek Pawlak
    The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Haunting Futures explores how the complex relationships of this unstable past and the anticipatory modes of the ongoing present keep Icelanders and the Polish migrant community in their midst alert to looming futures in crisis. It offers i...
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    184,62 €

  • Family Beyond Family
    Arguably all humans invent or accept forms of family beyond those that are close biological kin. These fictive forms of kinship may vary across diverse cultures and serve different purposes. This book explores a wide variety of such kinship-forming, from expedient daylong pseudo-marriages to notions of deities as everlasting parents for humankind and life on earth. These range ...
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    184,14 €

  • Statistical Significance and the PHC Curve
    Hideki Toyoda
    This book explains the importance of using the probability that the hypothesis is correct (PHC), an intuitive measure that anyone can understand, as an alternative to the p-value. In order to overcome the 'reproducibility crisis' caused by the misuse of significance tests, this book provides a detailed explanation of the mechanism of p-hacking using significance tests, and conc...
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    167,72 €

  • Lives in Motion
    Francesca Decimo
    This book focuses on global mobility and the worldwide articulation of family life, understood as dimensions of social change that come off from the private sphere of individuals and reverberate to the point of transforming the composition of national populations. Delving into the interrelation of migration and life courses, the volume investigates how individual mobility paths...
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    47,26 €

  • The Three Pillars of Scientific Research Methodology
    Alaze Gabriel Do Brevirio
    This paper takes a qualitative approach to the three pillars of scientific research methodology: epistemological, logical and technical. It carries out a comprehensive, but not exhaustive, review of the critical literature and other documents on the subject, seeking to clarify its correct understanding and appropriate use. It discusses the obstacles to scientific progress, the ...
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    92,58 €

  • High-quality and Timely Statistics
    This book addresses a wide range of recent methodological aspects, applications and best practices of statistics production. It comprises a selection of peer-reviewed contributions of methodological and applied interest presented at the 4th Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders, CESS 2022, held in Rome, Italy, on October 20-21, 2022. The first part discusses statistica...
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    287,05 €

  • Entrepreneurial and Demographic Challenges in Economic Development of EU Candidate Countries
    Milan B. Vemić
    The economic development of EU candidate countries is shaped by entrepreneurial and demographic challenges that significantly influence their integration into the European Union. As these nations aim for growth and stability, they face various obstacles characterized by shifting demographic profiles, including aging populations and human migration. Fostering an effective entrep...
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    387,09 €

  • Entrepreneurial and Demographic Challenges in Economic Development of EU Candidate Countries
    Milan B. Vemić
    The economic development of EU candidate countries is shaped by entrepreneurial and demographic challenges that significantly influence their integration into the European Union. As these nations aim for growth and stability, they face various obstacles characterized by shifting demographic profiles, including aging populations and human migration. Fostering an effective entrep...
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    295,11 €

  • Dependent Data in Social Sciences Research
    This book covers the following subjects: growth curve modeling, directional dependence, dyadic data modeling, item response modeling (IRT), and other methods for the analysis of dependent data (e.g., approaches for modeling cross-section dependence, multidimensional scaling techniques, and mixed models). It presents contributions on handling data in which the postulate of indep...
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    210,41 €

  • Swipe, Click, Love
    Reese D. Gallagher
    Discover the New Dimensions of LoveIn a world where a swipe could lead to your soulmate, how does one navigate the labyrinth of modern romance effectively? Swipe, Click, Love: The New Art of Dating offers a comprehensive guide through the digital era of love, where technology serves both as a cupid and a conundrum. This transformative book unveils not only the possibilities wit...
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    14,46 €

  • Socially Just Research with Young People
    Alison Baker
    This book bridges the fields of critical youth studies, community psychology, and sociology to offer a transdisciplinary analysis of youth voice, participation, and activism, as well as of creative and inclusive knowledge-making practices. Presented in three parts, the book traces our journey of praxis as we documented the narratives and testimonies of young people and then mob...
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    182,60 €

  • Rebuilding Family Relations for Children and Youth Separated from Family
    This edited volume explores a range of causes for separation of children and young people from family, the impact of these causes, and methods that both professionals and families may employ to build or rebuild these relations. In particular, contributions focus on six high priority crises through which children and young people become either permanently or temporarily separate...
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    205,38 €

  • The Tavistock institute for human relations
    John Coleman
    The Tavistock Institute for Human Relations has had a profound effect on the moral, spiritual, cultural, political and economic policies of the United States of America and Great Britain. It has been at the forefront of the attack on the American Constitution. No group produced more propaganda to encourage the United States to participate in the First World War at a time when t...
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    25,22 €

  • Musical Mothering
    Sally Savage
    This book examines how gender and class discourses shape ’musical mothering’ by incorporating knowledges from sociology, psychology, cultural studies, and education. Chapters detail the fundamental and functional role that mothers play in children’s musical development alongside children’s agency in influencing familial experiences. Music plays an essential role in the lives of...
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    154,00 €

  • Self Help for American Billionaires A Parody
    Esme Mees
    Imagine a world where the absurdity of wealth hoarding meets sharp wit and unapologetic satire. Self-Help for American Billionaires A Parody is your one-way ticket to that world. With biting commentary and brilliant black-and-white woodblock print illustrations that evoke the stark truths of history, Esme Mees pulls no punches. This is not a guide to becoming a better billionai...
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    12,73 €

  • Middle Class India
    Manisha Pande
    The middle class in India constitutes 31 per cent of the population and is expected to hit the 60 per cent mark by 2047. Witha population of over 1.4 billion, India is the most populated country in the world. It is the world’s largest democracy and thefifth-largest economy. One of the factors behind India’s increasing influence globally has been its middle class, which has seen...
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    37,86 €

  • Constructing Grounded Theory (Third Edition)
    Kathy Charmaz
    Driven by both theory and practice, this accessible book will help you get to grips with understanding and doing grounded theory from a constructivist perspective. ...
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    203,11 €

  • Constructing Grounded Theory (Third Edition)
    Kathy Charmaz
    Driven by both theory and practice, this accessible book will help you get to grips with understanding and doing grounded theory from a constructivist perspective. ...
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    172,18 €

  • Research Methods Made Simple
    Catherine Dawson
    A practical toolkit for students needing an alternative introduction to doing research methods. Imaginative pedagogy and visual prompts support those students often neglected by more traditional textbooks. ...
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    171,29 €

  • The Psychological Impact of Watching Violent Films
    Chamundeshwari C. / Vishwanatha H. M.
    The Book aims to explore the psychological impact of watching violent films among female college students in Hassan District, Karnataka, India. With the proliferation of media content, particularly violent films, there is growing concern about their potential effects on viewers, particularly vulnerable populations such as young women. This research aims to understand how exposu...
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    75,64 €

  • Toward a New Art of Border Crossing
    The new art of border-crossing is inspired by a new politics, art, and a spirituality of shared sovereignties and non-sovereignties. This border-crossing challenges us to do creative, aesthetic, ethical, political and spiritual work in the fields of not only physical borders and bounded territories but also cultural, social, intellectual and civilizational borders. ...
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    157,99 €

  • Eldercare Labor Demand in China and Coping Strategies
    Yali Zhu
    This book employs Markov models and propensity score matching methods to analyze the demand for elderly care labor, utilizing data from the China Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) and World Population Prospects 2022 (United Nations, 2022). The model predicts the health transferring scenario among the aging population firstly, and then the demand for elderly care lab...
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    143,07 €

  • New Interdisciplinary Research Methods for the 21st Century
    Lounis Oukaci
    At the dawn of the 21st century, scientific research is undergoing a major transformation thanks to the rise of digital technologies and artificial intelligence. This technological revolution is redefining traditional methodologies and opening up new prospects for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease, particularly in the medical field. The book examines how these ...
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    106,60 €

  • Research Design Simplified
    Rafiq Muhammad
    Are you overwhelmed by the complexities of research design? Struggling to choose between qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods?This book provides a practical, step-by-step guide to help you navigate the research process, empowering you to design and implement effective studies with ease.With practical tips, real-world examples, and helpful checklists, this book is your ul...
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    43,89 €

  • Police Brutality
    Steve Martinot
    This book is about the culture of the US police, and what it is that allows them to be as violent as they are. It approaches the elements of police culture by analyzing how they respond to incidents called by people who need help (calls to 911) and that contain no danger, and no urgency. Such situations begin peacefully, with no need for law enforcement. Yet someone gets shot a...
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    28,93 €

  • Research Methods Made Simple
    Catherine Dawson
    A practical toolkit for students needing an alternative introduction to doing research methods. Imaginative pedagogy and visual prompts support those students often neglected by more traditional textbooks. ...
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    147,28 €

  • Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo (Fourth Edition)
    Jenine Beekhuyzen / Pat Bazeley
    Straightforward and insightful, this is the go-to book for any qualitative researcher who wants to use NVivo to conduct robust data analysis.  ...
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    175,42 €


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