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Reflexivity – the critical examination of how we see the world – is integral to good research practice. From this state-of-the-art, accessible tour of its history and contemporary relevance, readers……続きを見る

Desde una mirada multidisciplinaria, el autor se propone comprender la relación de los sistemas de representación externos y las prácticas culturales del conocer, pensar y representar el conocimient……続きを見る

El tercer libro de la colección. Las discusiones sobre la filosofía de las ciencias sociales han estado tradicionalmente ligadas a las que se han suscitado en las ciencias naturales y en tiempos más……続きを見る

La investigación en Ciencias Sociales: estrategias de investigación presenta de forma comprensiva las aproximaciones metodológicas más comunes de las que se valen los investigadores de las ciencias ……続きを見る

Este libro le propone al lector un conjunto clave de consideraciones conceptuales, metodológicas y prácticas en torno al uso de métodos experimentales en ciencias sociales. Así mismo, ofrece una ric……続きを見る

SUMÁRIO PREFÁCIO À EDIÇÃO BRASILEIRA Por Alfredo Naffah Neto PREFÁCIO À EDIÇÃO CHILENA Por Lucrecia Rovalleti INTRODUÇÃO PARTE I OS LIMITES DA ABORDAGEM CENTRADA NA PESSOA CAPÍTULO 1 DA TEORIA NÃO-D……続きを見る

Current mathematical models are notoriously unreliable in describing the time evolution of unexpected social phenomena, from financial crashes to revolution. Can such events be forecast? Can we comp……続きを見る

Offering a deep look into the moral uncertainty in the contemporary social sciences and American society, this book explores an in-depth solution. This solution, as articulated by Pitirim A. Sorokin……続きを見る

Teaching the skills necessary to play sport depends partly on transmitting knowledge verbally, yet non-verbal or tacit knowledge also has an important role. A coach may tell a young athlete to 'move……続きを見る

This book provides an overview of qualitative research models and their applications in organization and management studies. Focusing on the philosophical underpinnings and practical implications of……続きを見る

Dans ce livre, nous partageons avec vous la synthèse de notre propre expérience de vingt ans de pratique quotidienne du coaching.  soit cette approche originale du coaching par l’énergie et……続きを見る

In this book, the authors provide a much-needed general theory of interdisciplinarity and relate it to health/wellbeing research and professional practice. In so doing they make it possible for prac……続きを見る

(A5, 228 PÁGINAS) - A obsolescência programada – baluarte da globalização e um dos principais fundamentos do mundo Neoliberal e Pós-moderno capitalista – trouxe para a sociedade planetária problemas……続きを見る

Using theory, research evidence and experiential knowledge is a critical component of good social work. This unique text is designed to help social work students and practitioners to integrate theor……続きを見る

World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach spanning all of the social……続きを見る

The Social Workers' Toolbox aims to bring order to the diversity of tools which are so characteristic of social work: assessment tools, practice tools and outcome-measurement tools. The tools descri……続きを見る

Consulting skills help researchers frame and define research projects, manage the social research process, engage with stakeholders and influence change. This practitioner-oriented text is the first……続きを見る

Winner of the 2019 Society for Anthropological Sciences Book Prize This book engages with the issue of how culture is incorporated into individuals' lives, a question that has long plagued the socia……続きを見る

Ranging from pool hustling to pornography, this book analyzes deviant branches of American life, dispels misconceptions about them, and throws new light on sociological theory and method. Each chapt……続きを見る

A rich source of ideas about sociological research methods to assist the researcher in determining what method will provide the most reliable and useful knowledge, how to choose between different me……続きを見る

The subject of this book is limited to the abstract form or "logic" of science, as applied particularly to scientific sociology. But the discussion presented here goes beyond abstraction and serves ……続きを見る

Everett C. Hughes had a great impact on the field of sociology as a whole and on an entire generation of sociologists. Some of Hughes' former students and colleagues honor him in this book. The essa……続きを見る

From the time of its first publication, 'Tearoom Trade' engendered controversy. It was also accorded an unusual amount of praise for a first book on a marginal, intentionally self-effacing populatio……続きを見る

This is a companion volume to Causal Models in the Social Sciences, the majority of articles concern panel designs involving repeated measurements while a smaller cluster involve discussions of how ……続きを見る

One of the world's most eminent social anthropologists draws upon his many years of study and research in the field of kinship and social organization to review the development of anthropological th……続きを見る

Ithiel de Sola Pool was a distinguished scholar of the political process, and one of the most original thinkers in the development of an integrated social science. This volume focuses upon his contr……続きを見る

Definitions of human beings as "symbolic animals" emphasize our capacity to form theories and general laws that can be applied to common social experience. This is balanced by an equally strong will……続きを見る

"It is much better," observed C. Wright Mills in an essay on intellectual craftsmanship, "to have one account by a working student of how he is going about his work than a dozen 'codifications of pr……続きを見る

This autobiographical analysis of the many difficult issues, dilemmas, choices, and adjustments involved in becoming a social scientist highlights the strengths and limitations of two principal rese……続きを見る

Social anthropology, defined operationally in terms of what social anthropologists have done in the last fifty years, is the study and comparison of tribal societies and of small fields of social li……続きを見る