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Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China, 1919-1949 (Cambridge Modern China Series)

Yung-chen Chiang

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Yung-chen Chiang tells the story of the origins, visions, and achievements of the social sciences in China during the first half of the twentieth century. He focuses on the efforts of social scientists at three institutions to relate their disciplines to the needs of Chinese society. As all three groups received funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, their stories offer a window onto Sino-American interactions, revealing how the social sciences became a lingua franca of the cultural frontier. This study advances our understanding of the transfer, indigenization, and international patronage of social science disciplines.

How to Observe Morals and Manners

Harriet Martineau

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This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1838 edition by Charles Knight and Co., London.

Sociological Methodology (Volume 29, 1999)

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This volume of Sociological Methodology touches on both long standing and more recent themes in social statistics. In the first chapter, Adrian Raftery discusses all of these themes, reviewing the analysis of cross-tabulations and statistical methods developed to analyze survey data on individuals. Turning to the future, he discusses the limitations of some current work and outlines developments important for the field in the coming years, such as social networks, the analysis of longitudinal network data, spatial statistics, and social interactions. Durlaf's outstanding and forward looking work on what is perhaps the most important issue in sociology, the interdependence between group and individual, proposes models that can be used to inform important sociological issues, such as whether to have child, to move, or how many years of education one seeks. The editors of this volume have taken exceptional care to be mindful of the needs and interests of readers of Sociological Methodology and offer here a very rich and rewarding spectrum of issues and perspectives.
CONTENTS
RAFTERY Statistics in Sociology, 1950 2000: A Selective Review
DURLAUF A Framework for the Study of Individual Behavior and Social Interactions (Discussion by Bowles, Tao and Winship, Dechter, and Durlauf)
GILULA AND HABERMAN Analysis of Categorical Response Profiles by Informative Summaries
GOODMAN AND HOUT Statistical Methods and Graphical Displays for Analyzing How the Association Between Two Qualitative Variables Differs Among Countries, Among Groups, or Over Time. Part II: Some Exploratory Techniques, Simple Models, and Simple Examples.
MAGIDSON AND VERMUNT Latent Class Factor and Cluster Models, Bi Plots and Related Graphical Displays
SCOTT AND HANDOCK Covariance Models for Latent Structure in Longitudinal Data
WHITE AND HARARY The Cohesiveness of Blocks in Social Networks: Connectivity and Conditional Density
SIJNDERS The Statistical Evaluation of Social Network Dynamics

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This annual volume, sponsored by the American Sociological Association, focuses on methods of research in the social sciences.

Interpersonal Sensitivity: Theory and Measurement (The Lea Series in Personality and Clinical Psychology)

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Interpersonal sensitivity refers to the accuracy and/or appropriateness of perceptions, judgments, and responses we have with respect to one another. It is relevant to nearly all aspects of social relations and has long been studied by social, personality, and clinical psychologists. Until now, however, no systematic or comprehensive treatment of this complex concept has been attempted. In this volume the major theorists and researchers of interpersonal sensitivity describe their approaches both critically and integratively. Specific tests and methods are presented and evaluated. The authors address issues ranging from the practical to the broadly theoretical and discuss future challenges. Topics include sensitivity to deception, emotion, personality, and other personal characteristics; empathy; the status of self-reports; dyadic interaction procedures; lens model approaches; correlational and categorical measurement approaches; thin-slice and variance partitioning methodologies; and others. This volume offers the single most comprehensive treatment to date of this widely acknowledged but often vaguely operationalized and communicated social competency.

Social Research Methods

Richard Hessler

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This text presents a survey of research methods. It places an emphasis on showing students the logic of research and specific research procedures. Extensive coverage of qualitative methodology, including the use of PCs for organizing and analyzing field notes, entry to data strategies, and ways of analyzing and writing quantitative and qualitative data.

Essays on the History of British Sociological Research

Martin Bulmer

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This book traces the history of British sociology and empirical social research over the last hundred years. Its coverage includes the census of population, the classic poverty surveys of Booth and Rowntree, the slow growth of social science between the wars, Mass-Observation, the rise of the Government Social Survey, the establishment of academic sociology after 1945 outside Oxford and Cambridge, and independent initiatives such as the foundation of the Institute of Community Studies. A concluding section considers the uses made of British sociology, the place of the citizen as the subject of research, social surveys for policy-making, and the sucess of social science in predicting the future. These essays reflect the interests of the distinguished British sociologist, the late Philip Abrams. In addition to him the contributors include a number of distinguished sociologists such as A/H. Halsey, Hannan C. Selvin, Edward Shils, Peter Townsend, and Peter Willmott as well as several well-known younger scholars.

Qualitative Sociology as Everyday Life

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This insightful volume collects essays from some of the most renowned sociologists working today. They examine the ways that sociological understanding helps them with their daily experiences. These essays reflect the desire to understand experiences in a broader context rather than as random and isolated events - and how the qualitative approach can achieve that end.

Organized around the notion of place - public places, family spaces, interior spaces, and workplaces, the essays touch on the major sub-disciplines within sociology.

The Practice of Social influence in Multiple Cultures (Applied Social Research Series)

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This book provides a diverse collection of studies reporting the effects of social influence processes in multiple cultures at both the universal and culture-specific levels. The book is characterized by three distinct features. First, the social influence process is considered as a ubiquitous and pervasive feature of human interaction. Second, the book represents a multicultural approach which includes both cross-cultural and culture-focused examinations. Third, the book emphasizes practical implications of the research presented.

This volume incorporates theory and research stemming from three different approaches to social influence: social influence principles across cultures, social influence and social change across cultures, and culture and moral perspective in the social influence process. Because each of these three parts encompasses a considerable variety of research methodologies, social contexts, and cultures, each is proceeded by an integrative commentary authored by one of the book editors. These essays provide syntheses of the topics and themes within the corresponding sections and within the book as a whole. They also offer critical commentaries on both theoretical and methodological issues, raise suggestions for future research, and focus on practical applications.

This book is intended for both scholars interested in cross- and multicultural research into the mechanisms of the social influence process and for the professional whose mission is to make planned changes in a society. Knowledge about the influence process, especially regarding how it works in different cultures and within several cultural groups, facilitates this goal. The practical implications ending each chapter serve as encouraging instructions for such applications.

Risk Assessment in Social Care and Social Work (Research Highlights in Social Work, 36)

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Risk Assessment in Social Care and Social Work outlines the theoretical issues behind the decisions, processes and organizations involved in risk assessment. Written by leading academics and experienced practitioners, it considers implications for future policy, drawing on a full range of perspectives in the most recent research. It considers the following themes: the concepts of risk and dangerousness, and ethical questions which arise when assessments of risk are made; the wider context of social policy and legislation, and the interaction between rehabilitation and the distribution of risk; social services staff and the risks they pose on their clients -- issues of selection, supervision and accountability; and risks to practitioners themselves. Individual chapters describe and compare methods of risk assessment with different client groups, including older people, children, people with mental health problems, and sex offenders. This book will ensure that practitioners, mangers and policy makers deepen and coordinate their understanding of the key issues involved in both the initial choices made about the extent of risk, and the stable and productive management of the outcomes of those decisions.

Developing Sociological Knowledge

Bernard Cohen

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This book provides a detailed examination of what is required for a body of knowledge to be considered scientific. Cohen treats general topics like value bias, the nature of observation, and the limitations of the scientific study, but he also discusses specific topics like the elements of a theory and the necessity of restricting the scope of knowledge claims. The second edition contains substantial new material including new chapters dealing with the problems of quantitative measurement, research design, the limits of empirical research, and the methodology of cumulative research programs.