JOURNAL OF BIOSOCIAL SCIENCE
Author: D. F. ROBERTS
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 512
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Spatial Diffusion
Author: Andrew David Cliff
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1981-04-23
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780521228404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the geography by which measles has repeatedly passed through a series of communities in Iceland during the 20th century. Demonstrates the general principles which underlie person-to-person spatial diffusion processes.
Biosocial Bases of Criminal Behavior
Author: Sarnoff A. Mednick
Publisher: Halsted Press
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoing Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences
Author: Thomas R Black
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1999-03-30
Total Pages: 907
ISBN-13: 1446223639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis original textbook provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to using quantitative methods in the social sciences. Thomas R Black guides the student and researcher through the minefield of potential problems that may be confronted, and it is this emphasis on the practical that distinguishes his book from others which focus exclusively on either research design and measurement or statistical methods. Focusing on the design and execution of research, key topics such as planning, sampling, the design of measuring instruments, choice of statistical text and interpretation of results are examined within the context of the research process. In a lively and accessible style, the student is introduced to researc design issues alongside statistical procedures and encouraged to develop analytical and decision-making skills.
Friendship in Childhood and Adolescence
Author: Phil Erwin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780415162326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFriendships are crucial to children's well-being and happiness and lay important foundations upon which later relationships in adolescence and adulthood are built. This overview of the nature and significance of children's peer relationships examines issues such as social-cognitive development; the context of children's relationships; relationship problems such as loneliness; shyness and social isolation; and methods of promoting positive relationships.
Plants, Health and Healing
Author: Elisabeth Hsu
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0857456334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always attracted considerable attention, there is surprisingly little research on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology. This volume, which brings together (ethno-)botanists, medical anthropologists and a clinician, makes an important contribution towards filling this gap. It emphasises that plant knowledge arises situationally as an intrinsic part of social relationships, that herbs need to be enticed if not seduced by the healers who work with them, that herbal remedies are cultural artefacts, and that bioprospecting and medicinal plant discovery can be viewed as the epitome of a long history of borrowing, stealing and exchanging plants.
Biosocial Becomings
Author: Tim Ingold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-06-13
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1107434238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll human life unfolds within a matrix of relations, which are at once social and biological. Yet the study of humanity has long been divided between often incompatible 'social' and 'biological' approaches. Reaching beyond the dualisms of nature and society and of biology and culture, this volume proposes a unique and integrated view of anthropology and the life sciences. Featuring contributions from leading anthropologists, it explores human life as a process of 'becoming' rather than 'being', and demonstrates that humanity is neither given in the nature of our species nor acquired through culture but forged in the process of life itself. Combining wide-ranging theoretical argument with in-depth discussion of material from recent or ongoing field research, the chapters demonstrate how contemporary anthropology can move forward in tandem with groundbreaking discoveries in the biological sciences.
Race, Nature and Culture
Author: Peter Wade
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781783714933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTakes the study of race beyond Western notions of the individual
Biosocial Criminology
Author: Anthony Walsh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-11-12
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 1135857792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdeal for use, either as a second text in a standard criminology course, or for a discrete course on biosocial perspectives, this book of original chapters breaks new and important ground for ways today's criminologists need to think more broadly about the crime problem.
The Nurture Versus Biosocial Debate in Criminology
Author: Kevin M. Beaver
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2014-01-31
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1483311767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Nurture Versus Biosocial Debate in Criminology: On the Origins of Criminal Behavior and Criminality takes a contemporary approach to address the sociological and the biological positions of human behavior by allowing preeminent scholars in criminology to speak to the effects of each on a range of topics. Kevin M. Beaver, J.C. Barnes, and Brian B. Boutwell aim to facilitate an open and honest debate between the more traditional criminologists who focus primarily on environmental factors and contemporary biosocial criminologists who examine the interplay between biology/genetics and environmental factors.
