Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Human Life
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This book addresses the challenge of understanding human life. It compares our life experience with the attempts to grasp it by astrologers, eugenicists, psychologists, neuroscientists, social scientists, and philosophers. The main opposition among these specialties...

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Parution : 2022-11-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Institutional Compass: Method, Use and Scope
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This open access book presents a new generation multi-criteria, multi-stake holder, decision aide, called an "institutional compass". Based on hard data, the compass tells us what quality-direction we are heading in as an institution, region, system or...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-07-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Towards Bayesian Model-Based Demography
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This open access book presents a ground-breaking approach to developing micro-foundations for demography and migration studies. It offers a unique and novel methodology for creating empirically grounded agent-based models of international migration – one of the most...

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Parution : 2021-12-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Researching Elites and Power
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This open access book describes how elite studies theoretically and methodologically construct their object, i.e. how particular conceptualizations of elites are turned into research practice using different methods for collecting, dealing with and analyzing empirical...

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Parution : 2020-08-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Empirical Investigations of Social Space
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This book provides an in-depth view on Bourdieu’s  empirical work, thereby specially focusing on the construction of the social space and including the concept of the habitus. Themes described in the book include amongst others:...

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Parution : 2020-01-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Methodological Investigations in Agent-Based Modelling
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This open access book examines the methodological complications of using complexity science concepts within the social science domain.  The opening chapters take the reader on a tour through the development of simulation methodologies in the fields of artificial life...

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Parution : 2018-02-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Audit Studies: Behind the Scenes with Theory, Method, and Nuance
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This book offers practical instruction on the use of audit studies in the social sciences. It features essays from sociologists, economists, and other experts who have employed this powerful and flexible tool. Readers will learn how to implement an audit study to...

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Parution : 2018-02-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Multilevel Network Analysis for the Social Sciences
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This volume provides new insights into the functioning of organizational, managerial and market societies. Multilevel analysis and social network analysis are described and the authors show how they can be combined in developing the theory, methods and empirical...

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Parution : 2015-12-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Methods for Multilevel Analysis and Visualisation of Geographical Networks
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This leading-edge study focuses on the latest techniques in analysing and representing the complex, multi-layered data now available to geographers studying urban zones and their populations. The volume tracks the successful results of the SPANGEO Project, which was set...

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Parution : 2013-06-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Probability and Social Science
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This work examines in depth the methodological relationships that probability and statistics have maintained with the social sciences from their emergence. It covers both the history of thought and current methods.First it examines in detail the history of the different...

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Parution : 2012-02-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Modelling Written Communication
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This book offers an alternative view to current postmodern approaches to composition. It takes a critical realist stance to arrive at the “essence” of written communication with the aim of informing a practical application: a computerised  writing tutor. Following...

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Parution : 2011-01-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Methodological Choice and Design
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Beginning and well-seasoned researchers alike face significant challenges in understanding the complexities of research designs arising from both within and across methodological paradigms, and in applying them in ways that maximise impact on knowledge, practice, and...

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Parution : 2010-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  New Contributions to the Philosophy of History
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Insights developed in the past two decades by philosophers of the social sciences can serve to enrich the challenging intellectual tasks of conceptualizing, investigating, and representing the human past. Likewise, intimate engagement with the writings of historians can...

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Parution : 2010-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth
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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,...

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Parution : 2007-07-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Hierarchy in Natural and Social Sciences
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Hierarchy is a form of organisation of complex systems that rely on or produce a strong differentiation in capacity (power and size) between the parts of the system. It is frequently observed within the natural living world as well as in social institutions. According...

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Parution : 2006-02-09
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