Sociologists at Boston College and a few contributors from other disciplines and other US academies explore social intersections between culture, power, and history and their costs and benefits. Takin
A picture has indeed held modern Western philosophy captive, that of the universe as a vast machine whose iron laws are best understood as exceptionless empirical regularities which, as it were, deter
Kincheloe (education, City U. of New York, and Brooklyn College) believes that social studies education in the U.S. has gone through 40 years of confusion, and is now in critical need of reform. In t
The future as a field of inquiry, debate or forecasts continues to flourish. However, this book differs from existing literature in several important ways. It is not another publication on future scen
Critical thinking is a major and enduring aspect of higher education and the development of criticality in students has long been a core aim. However, understandings of criticality are conceptually an
Knowledge of Statistics is critical for studies in the Social Sciences from the advanced undergraduate classroom through graduate school and research. The step-by-step and exercise-driven approach eng
Drawing on a range of influential contemporary movements in the social sciences, particularly Critical Theory, this volume introduces a critical analysis for the study of management and the various ma
Organizing Words presents a series of essays on some 220 widely used--and much debated--terms in the social sciences, and organization studies. Each essay explores the meanings and uses of the word; a
Critical Event Studies is a growing field, not just within event management and event studies, but across the traditional and digital social sciences. This volume -with contributions from a range of i
The academic study of folklore is a worldwide, interdisciplinary field spanning the humanities and the social sciences. It is very much tied to nationalism and national identity and for this reason it
Structuralism is a broad intellectual movement in the humanities and social sciences that came to prominence in the 1960s. Representing the beginning of modern interdisciplinary work in what has come
Demography is the scientific study of human populations. Classical demography has at its core three processes: fertility, migration, and mortality. To be human is to be part of the demographic process
A social scientists based in Melbourne, Blunden reviews research into the nature of concepts by current and earlier scholars, emphasizing the work of Robert Brandom. Then he focuses more narrowly on H
