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  • Withstanding Vulnerability throughout Adult Life

    Dynamics of Stressors, Resources, and Reserves

    Edited by Dario Spini, Eric Widmer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access interdisciplinary book integrates the major findings and theoretical advances of a 12-year research program run by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES research program hosted by the universities of Lausanne and Geneva, within a single comprehensive and coherent publication on vulnerability across adulthood. The book is based on the idea that vulnerability is ... Read more

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  • Aging in Canada

    by Neena L. Chappell, Marcus J. Hollander ...
    Canada, like other countries, is aging. The media has reported on a "grey tsunami," a demographic change reflecting longer life expectancy and the retirement of the so-called baby boomer generation. The numbers and percentages of older adults within our population continue to increase. In 2010, 15.3 percent of Canada's population was over 65; in 2030, it will be 24.1 percent. Many commentators ... Read more

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  • Researching Resilience

    Edited by Linda Liebenberg, Michael Ungar ...
    While categorization has always been one of the primary focuses of the social sciences, recent trends within these disciplines have tended to categorize various behaviours as disorders. Researching Resilience challenges this tendency to pathologize, and marks a profound shift in research methods from the study of disorder to the study of well-being.This collection assembles qualitative and ... Read more

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  • Population-Based Survey Experiments

    by Diana C. Mutz ...
    Population-based survey experiments have become an invaluable tool for social scientists struggling to generalize laboratory-based results, and for survey researchers besieged by uncertainties about causality. Thanks to technological advances in recent years, experiments can now be administered to random samples of the population to which a theory applies. Yet until now, there was no self ... Read more

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  • Empirical Legal Research

    A Guidance Book for Lawyers, Legislators and Regulators

    by Frans L. Leeuw ...
    In 1788 John Adams created a sublime ambition for all nations - 'a government of laws and not of men'. In the intervening years we have come to learn that legislation itself works through the interpretations of the many men and women who work on the inside and the outside of the law. Effective regulation thus depends not only on scrupulous legal analysis, with its appeal to precedent, conceptual ... Read more

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  • Agent-Based Computational Sociology

    by Flaminio Squazzoni ...
    Most of the intriguing social phenomena of our time, such as international terrorism, social inequality, and urban ethnic segregation, are consequences of complex forms of agent interaction that are difficult to observe methodically and experimentally. This book looks at a new research stream that makes use of advanced computer simulation modelling techniques to spotlight agent interaction that ... Read more

    $74.00 USD

  • Evaluating the Complex

    Attribution, Contribution and Beyond

    by Mita Marra ...
    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    In the economic atmosphere following the crisis of 2008, not only have governments reacted by creating more complex policy initiatives, but they have also promised that all of these initiatives will be evaluated. Due to the complexity of many of the initiatives, the ways of evaluating are becoming equally complex.The book begins with a theoretical and conceptual explanation of the process and ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Perspectives on Ageism

    Edited by Liat Ayalon, Clemens Tesch-Römer ...
    Series Book 19 - International Perspectives on Aging
    This open access book provides a comprehensive perspective on the concept of ageism, its origins, the manifestation and consequences of ageism, as well as ways to respond to and research ageism. The book represents a collaborative effort of researchers from over 20 countries and a variety of disciplines, including, psychology, sociology, gerontology, geriatrics, pharmacology, law, geography, ... Read more

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  • Constructions of Neuroscience in Early Childhood Education

    by Michel Vandenbroeck, Jan De Vos, Wim Fias, Liselott Mariett Olsson, Helen Penn, Dave Wastell, Sue White ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    This book explores and critiques topical debates in educational sciences, philosophy, social work and cognitive neuroscience. It examines constructions of children, parents and the welfare state in relation to neurosciences and its vocabulary of brain architecture, critical periods and toxic stress.The authors provide insight into the historical roots of the relationship between early childhood ... Read more

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  • The Practice of Social influence in Multiple Cultures

    Edited by Wilhelmina Wosinska, Robert B. Cialdini, Daniel W. Barrett, Janusz Reykowski ...
    Series series Applied Social Research Series
    This book provides a diverse collection of studies reporting the effects of social influence processes in multiple cultures at both the universal and culture-specific levels. The book is characterized by three distinct features. First, the social influence process is considered as a ubiquitous and pervasive feature of human interaction. Second, the book represents a multicultural approach which ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Social Conflict within and between Groups

    Edited by Carsten K. W. De Dreu ...
    Series series Current Issues in Social Psychology
    Intergroup competition and conflict create pervasive problems in human society, giving rise to such phenomena as prejudice, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and interstate war. Citizens, policy makers, social workers, schoolteachers, and politicians wrestle with these problems, and with difficult questions these issues pose:What causes conflict to escalate?How should we manage conflict within ... Read more

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  • Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons

    Edited by Aart C. Liefbroer, Mioara Zoutewelle-Terovan ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes. This book in particular focuses on testing whether the consequences of childhood social disadvantage for adult outcomes differ across societies, and whether these differences are shaped by the “context of opportunities” that societies ... Read more

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