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  • System-Theoretical Urban Development

    The Potsdam Lodestar Approach

    by Manfred Rolfes, Jan Lorenz Wilhelm ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In their book, the authors introduce the topic of urban development from a systems (theoretical) perspective and provide explanatory approaches, tips and methodological instructions for dealing with urban complexity. Knowing full well that this sometimes amounts to squaring the circle, the authors draw on applied systemic approaches and systematically couple these with epistemological currents ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Social Cohesion in the Western World

    What Holds Societies Together: Insights from the Social Cohesion Radar

    by Klaus Boehnke, Zsófia S. Ignácz, Jan Delhey, Kai Unzicker, Jan Lorenz, Georgi Dragolov ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Many people in the Western world are concerned that the social fabric of societies is fraying. This book constitutes the first-of-its-kind systematic account of social cohesion, from theory through methodology to empirical evidence. Readers are introduced to the academically developed Social Cohesion Radar of Bertelsmann Stiftung, a globally active non-governmental organization. The Social ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization

    Edited by Marijn A. Keijzer, Jan Lorenz, Michał Bojanowski ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is an open access book. What holds societies together—and what drives them apart? As worry over political polarization and social cohesion intensifies across the globe, this volume explores timely and vital questions of social cohesion and polarization through the lens of Computational Social Science. It brings together leading and junior scholars who harness the power of computational ... Read more

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  • Computational Conflict Research

    Edited by Emanuel Deutschmann, Jan Lorenz, Luis G. Nardin, Davide Natalini, Adalbert F. X. Wilhelm ...
    Series series Computational Social Sciences
    This open access book brings together a set of original studies that use cutting-edge computational methods to investigate conflict at various geographic scales and degrees of intensity and violence. Methodologically, this book covers a variety of computational approaches from text mining and machine learning to agent-based modelling and social network analysis.Empirical cases range from migration ... 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

  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks

    Edited by Mark Lubell, Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Alexander H. Montgomery ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Networks are omnipresent in our natural and social world, and they are at the heart of politics. Relationships of many types drive political institutions, processes, and decision-making. Therefore, it is imperative for the study of politics to include network approaches. Already, these approaches have advanced our understanding of critical questions, such as: Why do people vote? How can people ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society

    Edited by Timothy Nyerges, Helen Couclelis, Robert B. McMaster ...
    "The definitive guide to a technology that succeeds or fails depending upon our ability to accommodate societal context and structures. This handbook is lucid, integrative, comprehensive and, above all, prescient in its interpretation of GIS implementation as a societal process."- Paul Longley, University College London**"This is truly a handbook - a book you will want to keep on hand for frequent ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Handling Societal Complexity

    A Study of the Theory of the Methodology of Societal Complexity and the COMPRAM Methodology

    by Dorien DeTombe ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This handbook for the Methodology of Societal Complexity describes the theoretical development of the field and lays the foundation for the application of the Compram Methodology in the context of addressing complex societal problems. As such, it offers a valuable resource for scientists, practitioners, politicians, master and PhD students in the fields of methodology, the social sciences, ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Design Ethnography

    Epistemology and Methodology

    by Francis Müller ...
    Translated by Anna Brailovsky ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities. In research processes, designers acquire project-specific knowledge, which happens mostly intuitively in practice. When this knowledge becomes the subject of ... Read more

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  • Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy

    The Crisis of Information

    by Jutta Haider, Olof Sundin ...
    Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy contributes to ongoing conversations about control of knowledge and different ways of knowing. It does so by analysing why media and information literacy (MIL) is proposed as a solution for addressing the current information crisis.Questioning why MIL is commonly believed to wield such power, the book throws into sharp relief several paradoxes that are ... Read more

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  • Thinking Like a Political Scientist

    A Practical Guide to Research Methods

    by Christopher Howard ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    "A compelling case for transforming how research methods are taught to undergraduate students of political science." — London School of Economics Review of BooksEach year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books ... Read more

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  • Inquiry-Based Learning - Undergraduate Research

    The German Multidisciplinary Experience

    Edited by Harald A. Mieg ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book provides a systematic overview of experiences with Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) and undergraduate research (UR) in German universities, covering both research universities (Universitäten) and universities of applied sciences (Fachhochschulen). Divided into three parts, the book starts with the principles and common practices of IBL/UR at all universities. Part Two discusses ... Read more

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