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Thinking about Social Thinking
ISBN: 9780879759544 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Because we need to know how clearly about our social thinking and how to resist the allure of self-deception, everyone skeptical about or confused by the findings of the social sciences will appreciate Antony Flew's crisp analysis of the methodological flaws and systematic misunderstandings corrupting their content and application. Thinking About Social Thinking seeks to establish what can and cannot be learned from such studies, indicating where good work has been ignored, or much-needed work has yet to be done. Flew's clear and incisive arguments are illustrated with abundant examples and...
Because we need to know how clearly about our social thinking and how to resist the allure of self-deception, everyone skeptical about or confused by ...
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109,42 zł |
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Measuring Evolution
ISBN: 9780978982713 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second in a series of six new books for a Darwin Anniversary Book Cycle, "Measuring Evolution: A User's Guide to the Health and Wealth of Nations" tells the inspiring story of the development of, and provides a guide to the use of Global Sounding, a new instrument for measuring local, national, and planetary health and well-being on 15 basic indicators of evolution.
The second in a series of six new books for a Darwin Anniversary Book Cycle, "Measuring Evolution: A User's Guide to the Health and Wealth of Nations"...
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65,68 zł |
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Methodology and Epistemology of Multilevel Analysis: Approaches from Different Social Sciences
ISBN: 9781402014758 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 3 the observation focus on aggregate or individual behaviours? Will the meth ods used to identify the relationships between the values measured be the same or totally different depending on the level of observation? Can several aggregation levels be used simultaneously? and so on. The social scientist will also need to address the issue of time: Will it be historical time, in which the events studied unfold, or, on the contrary, the time lived by the individual who experiences the events? Will the observation point be a precise moment of that "lived" time, in order to explain the behaviours...
3 the observation focus on aggregate or individual behaviours? Will the meth ods used to identify the relationships between the values measured be the...
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391,77 zł |
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Realism in Action: Essays in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9781402016677 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Realism in Action is a selection of essays written by leading representatives in the fields of action theory and philosophy of mind, philosophy of the social sciences and especially the nature of social action, and of epistemology and philosophy of science. Practical reason, reasons and causes in action theory, intending and trying, and folk-psychological explanation are some of the topics discussed by these leading participants. A particular emphasis is laid on trust, commitments and social institutions, on the possibility of grounding social notions in individual social...
Realism in Action is a selection of essays written by leading representatives in the fields of action theory and philosophy of mind, ...
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391,77 zł |
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How People Negotiate: Resolving Disputes in Different Cultures
ISBN: 9781402018312 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How People Negotiate brings together a set of negotiation stories, accompanied by an integrative overview. This volume provides cases and theoretical elaboration and includes a comprehensive overview of research on negotiation. Some negotiation stories are exotic and strange: they come from a large number of countries, ranging from China, to African Countries, to the Ancient Middle East. Others are drawn from Western settings such as France, Germany, and USA. The negotiations described take various forms: negotiating with oneself, negotiating one's own way through bicycle...
How People Negotiate brings together a set of negotiation stories, accompanied by an integrative overview. This volume provides cases...
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391,77 zł |
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Allocating Public and Private Resources Across Generations: Riding the Age Waves - Volume 2
ISBN: 9781402044809 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 21st century, the populations of the world s nations will display large and long-lived changes in age structure. Demography will matter in this century not by force of numbers, but by the pressures of waves of age structural change. In rapidly industrializing countries, demographic changes continue to have significant effects on the well-being of individuals and families, and as aggregate human and financial capital. These effects may be analyzed in terms of inter-generational transfers of time, money, goods, and services. The chapters in this volume greatly develop our... In the 21st century, the populations of the world s nations will display large and long-lived changes in age structure. Demography will matter in t... |
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391,77 zł |
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Allocating Public and Private Resources Across Generations: Riding the Age Waves - Volume 2
ISBN: 9781402047909 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 21st century, the populations of the world s nations will display large and long-lived changes in age structure. Demography will matter in this century not by force of numbers, but by the pressures of waves of age structural change. In rapidly industrializing countries, demographic changes continue to have significant effects on the well-being of individuals and families, and as aggregate human and financial capital. These effects may be analyzed in terms of inter-generational transfers of time, money, goods, and services. The chapters in this volume greatly develop our... In the 21st century, the populations of the world s nations will display large and long-lived changes in age structure. Demography will matter in t... |
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391,77 zł |
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The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth: A Dialogue Between Mathematics, Biology and Sociology
ISBN: 9781402060359 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 18th century, one phenomenon, the proportion of the sexes at birth among human beings, has contributed to various developments such as the calculus of probabilities, administrative statistics, the moral and social sciences, the statistics of variability, post-Darwinian biology and Durkheimian sociology. This fact is brought to the critical attention of readers who rarely work together -- mathematicians, biologists, historians, social scientists and historians of the sciences -- along a three centuries European journey, meeting Sussmilch, Condorcet, Laplace, Fourier, Girou de... Since the 18th century, one phenomenon, the proportion of the sexes at birth among human beings, has contributed to various developments such as th... |
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391,77 zł |
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The Scientific Study of Society
ISBN: 9781402073212 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tradition recognises five social sciences: anthropology, economies, social psychology, sociology, and political science. But who knows what is going on in all five disciplines? Social scientists from one discipline often know little or nothing about the progress made by social scientists from another discipline working on essentially the same social problem. Sometimes, even of a neighbouring discipline is terra incognita. the methodology The problem becomes worse when we widen the remit to natural scientists and engineers. I have found little evidence myself that they see themselves as...
Tradition recognises five social sciences: anthropology, economies, social psychology, sociology, and political science. But who knows what is going o...
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391,77 zł |
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Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order
ISBN: 9781410200655 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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169,19 zł |
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The Sage Handbook of Social Science Methodology
ISBN: 9781412901192 / Angielski / Twarda / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a jewel among methods handbooks, bringing together a formidable collection of international contributors to comment on every aspect of the various central issues, complications, and controversies in the core methodological traditions. It is designed to meet the needs of those disciplinary and nondisciplinary problem-oriented social inquirers for a comprehensive overview of the methodological literature. The text is divided into 7 sections: Overviews of methodological approaches in the social sciences Cases, comparisons, and theory Quantification and experiment Rationality, complexity...
This is a jewel among methods handbooks, bringing together a formidable collection of international contributors to comment on every aspect of the var...
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788,53 zł |
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Historical Methods in the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9781412903707 / Angielski / Twarda / 1664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historical methods are at the foundation of research in the social sciences. This synthesizing and integrative project on the methodology of historical social science addresses programmatic objectives, interpretive principles, explanatory logic, and substantive applications to form a unique contribution to the field.
Historical Methods in the Social Sciences offers the broadest disciplinary coverage available - with contributions from prominent historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, economists, psychologists, and philosophers - and also features... Historical methods are at the foundation of research in the social sciences. This synthesizing and integrative project on the methodology of historica...
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3548,36 zł |
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Contemporary Philosophy Social
ISBN: 9781557865380 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides a lucid and distinct introduction to multiculturalism and the philosophy of social science.
This volume provides a lucid and distinct introduction to multiculturalism and the philosophy of social science.
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160,20 zł |
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The Uncertainties of Knowledge
ISBN: 9781592132423 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Uncertainties of Knowledge, Immanuel Wallerstein extends his work over the last decade of elucidating the crisis of knowledge in current intellectual thought. Arguing that the current disciplinary divisions of academia - divisions produced by a previous crisis of knowledge - has left us trapped in a paradigm that assumes knowledge is a certainty that can help us explain the social world, Wallerstein offers us a new way of imagining the social sciences, one which allows for uncertainties and for methods of studying our world and its historical place.
In The Uncertainties of Knowledge, Immanuel Wallerstein extends his work over the last decade of elucidating the crisis of knowledge in current intell...
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310,15 zł |
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The Uncertainties of Knowledge
ISBN: 9781592132430 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Uncertainties of Knowledge, Immanuel Wallerstein extends his work over the last decade of elucidating the crisis of knowledge in current intellectual thought. Arguing that the current disciplinary divisions of academia - divisions produced by a previous crisis of knowledge - has left us trapped in a paradigm that assumes knowledge is a certainty that can help us explain the social world, Wallerstein offers us a new way of imagining the social sciences, one which allows for uncertainties and for methods of studying our world and its historical place.
In The Uncertainties of Knowledge, Immanuel Wallerstein extends his work over the last decade of elucidating the crisis of knowledge in current intell...
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126,12 zł |
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Handbook of Emergent Methods
ISBN: 9781593851477 / Angielski / Twarda / 740 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social researchers increasingly find themselves looking beyond conventional methods to address complex research questions. The "Handbook of Emergent Methods" is the first book to comprehensively examine emergent qualitative and quantitative theories and methods across the social and behavioral sciences. Providing scholars and students with a way to retool their research choices, the volume""presents cutting-edge approaches to data collection, analysis, and representation. Leading researchers describe alternative uses of traditional quantitative and qualitative tools; innovative hybrid or...
Social researchers increasingly find themselves looking beyond conventional methods to address complex research questions. The "Handbook of Emergent M...
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657,10 zł |
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Program Evaluation: Forms and Approaches
ISBN: 9781593854065 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Program Evaluation, Third Edition, provides a conceptual and practical overview of the evaluation process in real-world educational, organizational, and social service settings. Using an issues-driven perspective, Owen helps students and practitioners compare and select from an array of evaluation approaches by providing an original conceptual framework for the five major forms of evaluative inquiry: proactive, clarificative, interactive, monitoring, and impact.
Program Evaluation, Third Edition, provides a conceptual and practical overview of the evaluation process in real-world educational, organizati...
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241,76 zł |
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Program Evaluation: Forms and Approaches
ISBN: 9781593854119 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Program Evaluation, Third Edition, provides a conceptual and practical overview of the evaluation process in real-world educational, organizational, and social service settings. Using an issues-driven perspective, Owen helps students and practitioners compare and select from an array of evaluation approaches by providing an original conceptual framework for the five major forms of evaluative inquiry: proactive, clarificative, interactive, monitoring, and impact.
Program Evaluation, Third Edition, provides a conceptual and practical overview of the evaluation process in real-world educational, organizati...
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367,92 zł |
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Evaluation Ethics for Best Practice: Cases and Commentaries
ISBN: 9781593855697 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on ethical challenges in program evaluation, this innovative book features six case-study scenarios that end at a point where the evaluator faces a significant decision about how to proceed. For each case, two distinguished evaluators offer insights on the best course of action to choose, and why. -What If?- boxes modify the details of the scenarios, inviting readers to reflect on whether these changes alter the ethical implications of the case. Six additional cases are presented with questions that guide readers to develop their own ethical analyses. The book is organized to follow...
Focusing on ethical challenges in program evaluation, this innovative book features six case-study scenarios that end at a point where the evaluator f...
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199,71 zł |
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Evaluation Ethics for Best Practice: Cases and Commentaries
ISBN: 9781593855703 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on ethical challenges in program evaluation, this innovative book features six case-study scenarios that end at a point where the evaluator faces a significant decision about how to proceed. For each case, two distinguished evaluators offer insights on the best course of action to choose, and why. -What If?- boxes modify the details of the scenarios, inviting readers to reflect on whether these changes alter the ethical implications of the case. Six additional cases are presented with questions that guide readers to develop their own ethical analyses. The book is organized to follow...
Focusing on ethical challenges in program evaluation, this innovative book features six case-study scenarios that end at a point where the evaluator f...
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299,59 zł |
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