Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Methodology

Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselves, and who may not even count as anthropologists in terms of the institutional structures of French academia. This applies to figures from Durkheim to Derrida, Mauss to Foucault, though there are partial exceptions, such as Levi-Strauss and Bourdieu. It has led to a contrast being made, especially perhaps in the Anglo-Saxon world, between French theory relying on rational inference, and British empiricism based on induction and...

"This is a worthy, potentially important book, very likely to have a substantial influence in the growing interdisciplinary fields of media studies and media anthropology. It is a well...

Fur Ferdinand Tonnies gilt: Soziologie ist eine -theoretische Wissenschaft-. -Nur der Gedanke- kann die Sozialwelt -erkennen-. Damit aber hat es sein Besonderes. Denn der Gegenstand der Soziologie besteht ebenso aus den diskursiv-rationalen Verhaltnissen der Gesellschaft wie aus den -lebendigen-, geschichtlich gewordenen Verhaltnissen der Gemeinschaft. Der Blick der Soziologie ist immer auch ein Blick in die Sphare jenseits des vernunftbestimmten Zusammenlebens und doch gibt es zur wissenschaftlichen Rationalitat keine Alternative. Das ist der Grundgedanke von Tonnies Theorie...

Gathering together twelve major sociologists, Craig Calhoun launches a thorough reconsideration of...

E-Mental-Health - was ist das, wie funktioniert das? In Deutschland darf eine Psychotherapie bislang nicht nur uber Medien vermittelt erfolgen, sondern es bedarf des personlichen Kontakts. Aber die neuen Medien, wie Webseiten, Chats, E-Mail oder SMS spielen eine zunehmend wichtigere Rolle in den Bereichen Screening, Pravention, Beratung und Nachsorge alle Prozesse der psychosozialen Versorgung finden vermehrt auch unter Nutzung neuer Medien statt. Mit diesem Fachbuch werden das neue Arbeitsfeld und die Moglichkeiten, die es fur die klinische Psychologie, Psychiatrie und allgemein die...

Buchanan and Tullock's seminal work, The Calculus of Consent, linked economic methodology to substantive questions in political science. Among the major contributions of the book is a connection between constitutional decision making and contractarianism, a philosophical tradition that proponents believe can give institutions legitimacy. In other words, a major contribution of their book is a clear connection between empirical decision making and normative principles. This book formalizes and extends this foundational work as it attempts to show how economic and philosophical arguments...

Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda Metraux in this unique study of French culture. The Hoover Institute at Stanford University originally published this volume, which grew out of the Columbia University project on Research of Contemporary Cultures in 1954. It is one of the few works by American social scientists dealing with broad themes of French life.

Mead and Metraux present a vivid picture of the French starting with the organization of the house and its architecture, and drawing original conclusions for the structure of French families and overall...

"Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics and Estimation for Social Scientists" covers the complete process of Bayesian statistical analysis in great detail from the development of a model through the process of making statistical inference. The key feature of this book is that it covers models that are most commonly used in social science research - including the linear regression model, generalized linear models, hierarchical models, and multivariate regression models - and it thoroughly develops each real-data example in painstaking detail.

The first part of the book provides...