Social Science: Books & Ebooks

Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.

Multi-volume set that covers rites of passage, traditions, rituals, and life customs that take place around the world. The scope of this book takes in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, and even outer space, and covers customs experienced by men, women, children, and animals, in groups or as individuals.

This ebook covers broad topics including power relationships, trust and community care, and globalization.

This ebook provides key data toward understanding the roots of the issues that make contemporary migration and immigration so contentious around the globe. It explores the social, political, and cultural factors that impact, and are affected by, immigration and human migration, and includes such hot-button topics as undocumented immigration/unauthorized residents, asylum seekers, refugees, the refugee crisis in Europe, and more.

This ebook examines how the postwar “problem film” translated contemporary policy debates and intellectual discussions into cinematic form in order to become one of the preeminent genres of prestige drama. The book demonstrates how the social problem picture both shaped and reflected the middle-class viewer's national self-image, making a lasting impact on Hollywood's aesthetic direction.

This ebook looks at topics such as the legal status of gays and lesbians, religion and homosexuality, portrayal of gays and lesbians in the arts, early psychology and homosexuality, gay and lesbian adoption and more.

This ebook covers the history of the movement through a cross-referenced dictionary with over 1000 entries on specific countries and regions, influential historical figures, laws that criminalized same-sex sexuality, various historical terms that have been used to refer to aspects of same-sex love, and contemporary events and legal decisions.

This ebook examines the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism in the modem era. Delves into the historic origins of ideas of race and racism and explores their social and scientific consequences. Includes biographies of significant theorists, as well as political and social leaders and notorious racists.

This ebook provides primary source documents focused on family in society in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. International in scope.

This book examines the scope, history and purpose of sociology; ways of understanding 'the social'; the state of the world we live in today; suffering and social inequalities and more.

The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we're expected to make more -- and faster -- decisions about our lives than ever before. The author uses the latest brain science to demonstrate how some people excel at managing the information flow -- and how readers can use their methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and time.

LGBT educators speak in their own voices about their experience of being LGBT in schools.

Among the book’s subjects are philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato, Kant, and Cassirer; scientists such as Darwin and Galileo; and authors such as Kafka, Proust, and Shakespeare. The essays not only allow readers to see such thinkers in a new light, but underscore the fact that sociological questions have lain at the very heart of humanity throughout history.

Examines both American and European traditions
and approaches. Entries cover schools, theories, theorists, and debates, with substantial articles on all key topics in the field.

By employing literature, film, art, history, and other disciplines, the approximately 32 chapters identify areas of critical thought and practice in gender and sexuality studies; provide an overview of central themes, current topics, and seminal debates; and offer resources for further research