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  • 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

    $152.09 USD

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  • A City in Civil War – Dublin 1921–1924

    The Irish Civil War

    by Padraig Yeates ...
    The long-awaited concluding volume of Pádraig Yeates' 'Dublin at War' trilogyIn A City in Civil War: Dublin 1921–1924, acclaimed historian Pádraig Yeates turns his attention to Ireland's bloody and hard-fought Civil War and its impact on the capital city and its inhabitants.The fascinating A City in Civil War tells the story of Dublin's troubled passage to independence amidst the acrimony and ... Read more

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  • 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

    $89.09 USD

  • International Handbook of Interpretation in Educational Research

    Edited by Paul Smeyers, David Bridges, Nicholas C. Burbules, Morwenna Griffiths ...
    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

    $49.49 USD

  • The Emerging Consensus in Social Systems Theory

    by Kenneth C. Bausch ...
    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

    $188.09 USD

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

    by Wenceslao J. Gonzalez ...
    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

    $89.09 USD

  • Uncertainty and Quality in Science for Policy

    by S.O. Funtowicz, J.R. Ravetz ...
    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

    $143.09 USD

  • Causality in Sociological Research

    by Jakub Karpinski ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The general treatment of problems connected with the causal conditioning of phenomena has traditionally been the domain of philosophy, but when one examines the relationships taking place in the various fields, the study of such conditionings belongs to the empirical sciences. Sociology is no exception in that respect. In that discipline we note a certain paradox. Many problems connected with the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Order Ethics: An Ethical Framework for the Social Market Economy

    Edited by Christoph Luetge, Nikil Mukerji ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book examines the theoretical foundations of order ethics and discusses business ethics problems from an order ethics perspective. Order ethics focuses on the social order and the institutional environment in which individuals interact. It is a well-established paradigm in European business ethics. The book contains articles written by leading experts in the field and provides both a concise ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Sustainable Knowledge

    A Theory of Interdisciplinarity

    by R. Frodeman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Sustainable Knowledge rethinks the nature of interdisciplinary research and the place of philosophy and the humanities in society and offers a new account of what is at stake in talk about 'interdisciplinarity'. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD