Social Choice Routledge Revivals

Author : Bernhardt Liebermann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136816062

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Social Choice (Routledge Revivals) by Bernhardt Liebermann Pdf

First published in 1971, Social Choice is both a text and reference containing the proceedings of a conference dealing with contemporary work on the normative and descriptive aspects of the social choice problem. This reissue will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on group decision making and social choice. Economists, social psychologists, political scientists and sociologists will welcome this valuable work.

Author : Bernhardt Liebermann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136816079

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Social Choice (Routledge Revivals) by Bernhardt Liebermann Pdf

First published in 1971, Social Choice is both a text and reference containing the proceedings of a conference dealing with contemporary work on the normative and descriptive aspects of the social choice problem. This reissue will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on group decision making and social choice. Economists, social psychologists, political scientists and sociologists will welcome this valuable work.

Author : Russell Keat,John Urry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136839238

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Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals) by Russell Keat,John Urry Pdf

This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life. This book combines an evaluation of different conceptions of the nature of science with an examination of important sociological theorists and frameworks. This second edition of the work was originally published in 1982.

Author : Martin Bulmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317448372

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The Social Basis of Community Care (Routledge Revivals) by Martin Bulmer Pdf

Care for the elderly, disabled and mentally-ill within and by the community forms a vital part of current social policy. Martin Bulmer argues that this policy is inadequately thought out and rests on a series of poorly founded sociological assumptions. As a result there is a vacuum at the heart of government’s social care policy which is likely to lead to ineffective or deteriorating provision for those in need. This book, first published in 1987, will be essential reading for all those concerned with the organization and delivery of social care, whether as students, practitioners or teachers. It will be particularly useful for courses dealing with social policy, the personal social services and the social context of social work.

Author : William Outhwaite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136830778

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Concept Formation in Social Science (Routledge Revivals) by William Outhwaite Pdf

First published in 1983, this book examines the problems of concept formation in the social sciences, and in particular sociology, from the standpoint of a realistic philosophy of science. Beginning with a discussion of positivistic, hermeneutic, rationalist and realistic philosophies of science, Dr Outhwaite argues that realism is best able to furnish rational criteria for the choice and specification of social scientific concepts. A realistic philosophy of science therefore acts as his reference point for the dialectical presentation of alternative accounts.

Author : Max Beer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317687375

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Fifty Years of International Socialism (Routledge Revivals) by Max Beer Pdf

First published 1935, this title presents a series of recollections, some intimately personal, others bearing on the great social, cultural and political issues that faced the Jews and the European population more generally during the first part of the twentieth century. The author specifically focuses on differing attitudes towards the rise of Socialism in Europe, and the fate of nineteenth-century politics in the face of the tumultuous revolutions and counter-revolutions that arose in the aftermath of the First World War.

Author : E. J. Mishan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136629556

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Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals) by E. J. Mishan Pdf

First published in 1981, Professor Mishan’s Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare: Selected Essays on Fundamental Aspects of the Economic Theory of Social Welfare is a collection of 22 pioneering essays written while the author was teaching at the London School of Economics and chosen to indicate landmarks in the development of his own thought. Professor Mishan, who also enjoys an international reputation as a popular writer on the impact of modern economic growth on social welfare, is among the foremost authorities in the field of resource allocation, and his influence in his subject area has been profound. Mishan’s essays, while generally accessible to the layman due to the author’s lucidity, his economy in the use of mathematical notation and his concern with perspective, are invaluable reading for the economics undergraduate. The essays are particularly relevant to upper level students of project appraisal, welfare economics and cost benefit analysis requiring a coherent survey of their field of study.

Author : Anthony D. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136971075

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The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals) by Anthony D. Smith Pdf

Anthony Smith's important work on the concept of social change, first published in 1973, puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change. He shows that, in attempting to provide a theory of social change, functionalism reveals itself as a species of 'frozen' evolutionism. Functionalism, he argues, is unable to cope with the mechanisms of historical transitions or account for novelty and emergence; it confuses classification of variations with explanation of processes; and its endogenous view of change prevents it from coming to grips with the real events and transformations of the historical record. In his assessment of functionalism, Dr Smith traces its explanatory failures in its accounts of the developments of civilisation, modernisation and revolution. He concludes that the study of 'evolution' is largely irrelevant to the investigation of social change. He proposes instead an exogenous paradigm of social change, which places the study of contingent historical events at its centre.

Author : John Child
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Industrial sociology
ISBN : UCAL:B4912579

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Man and Organization by John Child Pdf

Author : Leonard T. Hobhouse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317399636

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The Rational Good by Leonard T. Hobhouse Pdf

First published in 1921, this book explores the function of Reason in practical life. It considers whether there is a Rational, demonstrable, standard of values to which the actions of man and the institutions of society may be referred for judgement, and to what authority and power does it possess to influence the actual conduct of men and society.

Author : Steven Yearley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317629207

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Science, Technology, and Social Change (Routledge Revivals) by Steven Yearley Pdf

First published in 1988, this book provides students with a way to increase their understanding of the role of science and technology in society. Steven Yearley draws on and develops ideas from research in the sociology and politics of science to address, in particular: the nature of scientific knowledge and the authority it commands; the political and economic role of science in the West; the relationship between science, technology, and social change in underdeveloped countries. Examples used range from nineteenth-century brain science to the strategic defence initiative, and from hugely expensive experiments in nuclear physics, to proposals for inexpensive boat-building programmes in the Sudan. Overall, this reissue provides a comprehensive and stimulating account of the role played by science and technology in contemporary social change.

Author : Bob Franklin,Nigel Parton
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317744221

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Social Work, the Media and Public Relations (Routledge Revivals) by Bob Franklin,Nigel Parton Pdf

Over the past few decades, relationships between social workers and the media have become increasingly challenging. Social workers feel aggrieved by media reporting of their profession and believe that journalists lack sufficient knowledge and experience of the social services to report matters adequately and sensitively, whilst some journalists have urged social workers to adopt a more proactive public relations strategy. This book, first published in 1991, analyses the causes and consequences of the negative portrayal of social work within the media and considers various ways in which this image might be improved. The authors consider a variety of developments during the 1990s designed to redress imbalances in media reporting and present a more accurate picture of social workers and the people with whom they work. This title remains very relevant in light of the high profile cases related to the social service that continue to feature in the British press, and will be of particular value to students and researchers with an interest in the relationship between the media and social policy.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136955549

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Hermeneutics and Social Science (Routledge Revivals) by Zygmunt Bauman Pdf

Originally published in 1978, this important work, by one of the leading European social theorists, is arguably the best introduction to the hermeneutic tradition as a whole. It is designed to help students of sociology and philosophy place the problems of "understanding social science" in their historical and philosophical context. It does so by presenting the major current in sociological thought as responses to the challenge of hermeneutics. The idea that true knowledge of social life can be attained only if human conduct is seen as meaningful action whose meaning is accordingly grasped has been presented as a discovery of recent sociology. In fact its history is long and its connections plentiful, reaching beyond the boundaries of sociology itself. Yet it is in sociology that the hermeneutic tradition has attracted most interest but most misinterpretation. The debate is in full swing and there is no attempt to offer "correct" solutions - the emphasis instead is upon revealing the strengths and weaknesses of each of the main approaches. However it is Bauman's view that the theory of understanding may achieve valid results only if it treats the problem of understanding as an aspect of the ongoing process of social life.

Author : Bernhardt Lieberman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Choix (Psychologie) - Congrès
ISBN : 0677147759

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Social Choice by Bernhardt Lieberman Pdf

Author : Patrick O'Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136736896

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Economic Methodology and Freedom to Choose (Routledge Revivals) by Patrick O'Sullivan Pdf

First published in 1987, Professor O'Sullivan's work provides an in depth philosophical examination of the foundations of method in Economics and other human sciences. The argument is unabashedly dialectical in the great Socratic-Platonic tradition, and the reissue will be very welcome to all students of methodology, in particular those students of economic methodology seeking a refreshing alternative to yet more mathematical game playing. In an age dominated and perhaps to an extent perplexed by an ultimately non-committal postmodernism the book provides a root and branch critique of the epistemological relativism which must lie at the root of the whole post-modernist approach; and in reasserting the fundamental importance not only for the methods of science but also for European civilisation of the pursuit of truth it takes a stance which is very much against the tide of the times. A heterodox perspective is also provided and defended in detail regarding the real nature of economic methodology whereby it is shown that Economics epitomises a teleological mode of explanation which is significantly different from the efficient causal modes of explanation of the natural sciences. In fact Economics is the ultimate subjectivist/interpretative discipline in the methodological sense of Max Weber and Alfred Schutz, a fact which has only been recognised (and welcomed) in the Austrian school of Economics.