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Simulation for the Social Scientist
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 186.00Interest in social simulation has been growing rapidly worldwide as a result of increasingly powerful hardware and software and also a rising interest in the application of ideas of complexity, evolution, adaptation and chaos in the social sciences. Simulation for the Social Scientist is a practical textbook on the techniques of building computer simulations... more...
Counterfactuals and Causal Inference
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00The essential features of the counterfactual model of causality for observational data analysis are presented with examples. more...
Sociology (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 41.95First published in 1962, this seminal work is an introduction to sociology in a world context, and a sophisticated guide to the major themes, problems and controversies in contemporary sociology. The book remains unique in its organisation and presentation of sociological ideas and problems, in it s lack of insularity (its wide coverage of diverse... more...
Structural Idealism
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 48.95Do we determine our actions, or are our actions ruled by the structure of our society? Does our culture create us, or do we create our culture? Within history and social theory there is a fundamental division of opinion between those who explain human action by considering the intentions, reasons and motives of individuals and those who use broader... more...
Sociology
Edward Elgar Publishing 2012; US$ 40.00Sociology's goals are ambitious. Their pursuit is exciting. Covering the development of sociology from its origins to the present-day as well as identifying the strengths and limitations of all sociology's main research methods, this book provides a lucid introduction for students who are embarking or considering taking-up sociology. It explains the... more...
Die Psychologismus-Kontroverse
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 22.03Hauptbeschreibung Der Psychologismus-Streit erreichte im deutschen Wissenschaftsdiskurs im 19. Jahrhundert nicht die Breitenwirkung wie der Darwinismus-Streit oder der Materialismus-Streit, in denen ideologische und religiöse Kontroversen mit neuen Wissenschaftsentwicklungen ausgetragen wurden und immer noch werden. Die zum Teil wesentlich subtileren... more...
A Treatise on Social Theory: Volume 2, Substantive Social Theory
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 60.00Third and concluding volume on social theory, applying distinctive methodology to case of twentieth-century England. more...
Le métier de sociologue
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 70.00The work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has emerged as one of the most substantial and innovative bodies of theory and research in contemporary social science. Le métier de sociologue, both a textbook and an original contribution to epistemology in social science, focuses on a basic problem of sociological research: the necessity of an epistemological... more...
Core Sociological Dichotomies
SAGE Publications 1998; US$ 63.00In this sociology text the contributors provide an introduction to the subject without over-simplifying or `writing-down' to their audience. The book aims to furnish undergraduates with the knowledge that will help them to understand and practice sociology and also to develop a self-perpetuating sociological imagination to enable them to think through... more...









