Constructing Social Research

Constructing Social Research

Author: Charles C. Ragin

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2018-03-30

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1544322445

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Constructing Social Research answers the question: What is social science? Updated throughout with new references and examples, the Third Edition of this innovative text by Charles C. Ragin and Lisa M. Amoroso shows the unity within the diversity of activities called social research to help students understand how all social researchers construct representations of social life using theories, systematic data collection, and careful examination of that data.


Consilience

Consilience

Author: E. O. Wilson

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2014-11-26

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 0804154066

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." —The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest scientists—and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants—gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career. In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities. Using the natural sciences as his model, Wilson forges dramatic links between fields. He explores the chemistry of the mind and the genetic bases of culture. He postulates the biological principles underlying works of art from cave-drawings to Lolita. Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence, and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole, Consilience is science in the path-clearing traditions of Newton, Einstein, and Richard Feynman.


Divided in Unity

Divided in Unity

Author: Andreas Glaeser

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2000-02

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780226297835

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In Divided in Unity, Andreas Glaeser examines why east and west Germans continue to feel deeply divided and develops an analytical theory of identity formation, which offers a middle ground between modernist theories of a unitary self and postmodernist theories of a fragmented self."--BOOK JACKET.


The Nature of the Social Unity

The Nature of the Social Unity

Author: Romanzo Adams

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-25

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780282556273

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Excerpt from The Nature of the Social Unity: An Examination of the Theory That Society Is a Psychic Unity; A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculties of Arts and Literature, in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Sociology) While I have, for the sake Of fairness, distinguished between the form of statement and the actual belief held by these writers, crediting them in most instances with better thinking than the form Of statement would allow I do not mean to hold the form Of statement as a matter Of small importance. Taking the most favorable View Of an author's theory, it is still true that a false statement is the result Of false, or confused, thinking. It is the purpose Of this paper to criticise the psychological statement, showing that the social unity is not a psychic unity. An attempt will also be made to set forth the true nature Of the social unity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.