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  • The Qualitative-Quantitative Distinction in the Social Sciences

    Edited by B. Glassner, J.D. Moreno ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Without of course adopting a Platonic metaphysics, the eighteenth-century philosophes were Grecophiles who regarded the Athenian philosophers as their intellectual forbearers and mentors. So powerful was their identification with c1assification that ancient ideas were taken as keys to the design of the modem world, but usually the ideas were taken separately and as divided from their systematic ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    Julius Caesar

    Two Complete Full Cast Performances of Original Shakespeare Text & Modern English

    Series series No Fear Shakespeare Audio Recordings

    Unabridged

    5 hours 19 min

    SparkNotes Audio presents … No Fear Shakespeare audio recordings! Listen to full cast performances of Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means!Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare. These audiobook editions make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable.Each No Fear Shakespeare audio recording audio edition features:The complete original text performed by a ... Read more

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    Hamlet

    Two Complete Full Cast Performances of Original Shakespeare Text & Modern English

    Series series No Fear Shakespeare Audio Recordings

    Unabridged

    8 hours 3 min

    SparkNotes Audio presents … No Fear Shakespeare audio recordings! Listen to full cast performances of Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means!Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare. These audiobook editions make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable.Each No Fear Shakespeare audio recording audio edition features:The complete original text performed by a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Counterfactuals and Causal Inference

    Methods and Principles for Social Research

    Series series Analytical Methods for Social Research
    Did mandatory busing programs in the 1970s increase the school achievement of disadvantaged minority youth? Does obtaining a college degree increase an individual's labor market earnings? Did the use of the butterfly ballot in some Florida counties in the 2000 presidential election cost Al Gore votes? If so, was the number of miscast votes sufficiently large to have altered the election outcome? ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Utopia as Method

    The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society

    by R. Levitas ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the process produces the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, a provisional, reflexive and dialogic method for exploring alternative possible futures. ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Experts and Consensus in Social Science

    Edited by Carlo Martini, Marcel Boumans ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book brings together the research of philosophers, sociologists, and social scientists. It examines those areas of scientific practice where reliance on the subjective judgment of experts and practitioners is the main source of useful knowledge to address and possibly, bring solutions to social problems. A common phenomenon in applications of science is that objective evidence does not point ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • International Handbook of Interpretation in Educational Research

    Series series Education (R0)
    This handbook focuses on the often neglected dimension of interpretation in educational research. It argues that all educational research is in some sense ‘interpretive’, and that understanding this issue belies some usual dualisms of thought and practice, such as the sharp dichotomy between ‘qualitative’ and ‘quantitative’ research. Interpretation extends from the very framing of the research ... Read more

    $485.09 USD

  • Making the Moral Case for Social Sciences

    Stemming the Tide

    by K. Spracklen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The social sciences have a legitimacy problem in the modern world. The natural sciences are viewed as 'proper science' by journalists and policy-makers because they discover 'truths', make money, and help governments solve problems. In turn, defenders of the social sciences borrow the language of instrumentality, profit and policy impact. Karl Spracklen, by contrast, makes the moral case for the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Emerging Consensus in Social Systems Theory

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In The Emerging Consensus of Social Systems Theory Bausch summarizes the works of over 30 major systemic theorists. He then goes on to show the converging areas of consensus among these out-standing thinkers.Bausch categorizes the social aspects of current systemic thinking as falling into five broadly thematic areas: designing social systems, the structure of the social world, communication, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Collected Papers V. Phenomenology and the Social Sciences

    by Alfred Schutz ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book shows how phenomenology of the social sciences differs from positivistic approaches, and presents Schutz's theory of relevances--a key feature of his own phenomenology of the social world. It begins with Schutz's appraisal of how Husserl influenced him, and continues with exchanges between Schutz and Eric Voegelin, Felix Kaufmann, Aron Gurwitsch, and Talcott Parsons. This book presents, ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Philosophico-Methodological Analysis of Prediction and its Role in Economics

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book develops a philosophico-methodological analysis of prediction and its role in economics. Prediction plays a key role in economics in various ways. It can be seen as a basic science, as an applied science and in the application of this science. First, it is used by economic theory in order to test the available knowledge. In this regard, prediction has been presented as the scientific ... Read more

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  • Uncertainty and Quality in Science for Policy

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    60 -I 137.0~29 ERROR BARS • tONE (1" \ \ \ 4\0 \ \ E \ a. a. \ Z30 \ 137.0388 \ 0 137.0377 \ ~ \ ~20 \ \ 0 to 0 '50 Fig.1. Successive recommended values of the fine-structure constand IX-I (B. N. Taylor et 01., 1969,7) reminder that the value is not fully accepted by colleagues, since they will expect it to jump about for a while longer. Our next example is taken from a recent study in the social ... Read more

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