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The Social Media Mind: How Social Media Is Changing Business, Politics and Science and Helps Create a New World Order.
Like any medium of communication social media has its own tropes which must be mastered in order to use it properly. In The Social Media Mind David Amerland illustrates how Social Media is a game changer. It challenges us to rethink our assumptions on alm...
MPN: 965b77dce89809f16a30793bcd3b2592
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Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975
In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress. They were also widely criticized for their increasingly close ties to military and governmental power-not only...
MPN: b24005015b8eef21089daa906ea8b56f
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Regional Conference on Science, Technology and Social Sciences (Rcstss 2014) : Business and Social Sciences
Hardcover, Springer, 2016, ISBN13 9789811014567, ISBN10 9811014566
MPN: c54a7b7c8667250b0d5770a0bc16983f
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Contours of African American Politics, Volume 2: Black Politics and the Dynamics of Social Change
Contours of African American Politics chronicles the systematic study of African American politics and its subsequent recognition as an established field of scholarly inquiry. African American politics emanates from the demands of the prolonged struggle f...
MPN: 907f01e4ccfc7553e9cc88e90a492f14
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The Emergence of Professional Social Science: The American Social Science Association and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Authority
Thomas L. Haskell's "The Emergence of Professional Social Science" signaled the beginning of his distinguished career as a historian of ideas and critic of historical logic. His first book, now available in this paperback edition with a new preface by...
MPN: 21e47fd956721fe13bbec11a53824c5d
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Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Behavior: The 4th International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science 2015 (ICIBSOS 2015) , Kazan Federal University, Russia, 22-23 October 2
Hardcover, CRC Press, 2016, ISBN13 9781138028388, ISBN10 113802838X
MPN: ef7f746089dac6904e201871469d6aac
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Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America
Solovey s social scientists are neither naive researchers exploited by the military-industrial complex nor greedy masterminds eagerly anticipating their patrons needs. Instead, he presents us with a series of encounters between program managers, disciplinary spokesmen, and political partisans, each of which demonstrates its participants unexpectedly complex positions. In what feels like a prelude to contemporary partisan investigations of the social sciences, "Shaky Foundations "recounts numerous instances ...
MPN: c0b908791f7e51144519f460a46b98e1
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Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy
This encyclopedia is a comprehensive introduction to Catholic social thought. The work combines three levels of analysis: broad-ranging theoretical work on key topics and scholarly disciplines, social science perspectives on a wide range of topics relatin...
MPN: 1296f66af8092d7e9e7c59ff3150fca9
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Food for Change: The Politics and Values of Social Movements
Concern about our food system is growing, from the costs of industrial farming to the dominant role of supermarkets and recurring scandals about the origins and content of what we eat. Food for Change documents the way alternative food movements respond to these concerns by trying to create more closed economic circuits within which people know where, how, and by whom their food is produced. Jeff Pratt, Peter Luetchford and other contributors explore the key political and economic questions of food through ...
MPN: 46334e9d2e0782c1d0d275e7135e4cea
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The Time of Youth: Work, Social Change, and Politics in Africa
Most young Africans are living in waithood, a period of suspension between childhood and adulthood. Failed neo-liberal economic policies, bad governance and political instability have caused stable jobs to disappear without jobs that pay living wages, these young people cannot support families, thus becoming fully participating members of society. As this limbo becomes pervasive and prolonged, waithood in Africa becomes seemingly permanent, gradually replacing conventional adulthood. And with the deepening ...
MPN: 5f8c09c8c46254fe81b29519cf78433e
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Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics
Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French and American revolutions to the post-Soviet, ethnic, and terrorist movements of today, contentious politics exercises a fleeting but powerful influence on politics, society, and international relations. This study surveys the modern history of the modern social movements in the West and their diffusion to the global South through war, colonialism, and diffusion, and it puts forward a theory to explain its cyclical surges...
MPN: f75830d8ca35a76b8862949e3012b7dc
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Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity
This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in three arenas industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market po...
MPN: f1d37a7904f92253465f9b2be538cb38
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