Social Sciences
Observing Complexity
Shakes up postmodern criticism with paradigms from the social and techno-sciences.The rubric of systems theory brings together conceptual models and approaches in the sciences and social sciences that study complexity.
Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences
Biosocialities, Genetics and the Social Sciences explores the social, cultural and economic transformations that result from innovations in genomic knowledge and technology.
Conflicts in Social Science
Can social science contribute to the settlement of conflicts while the field is divided by intellectual conflicts?
Principles of Research Design in the Social Sciences
Principles of Research Design in the Social Sciences is a book for researchers who know what they want to study, but who have yet to decide how best to study it.
Explaining Social Behavior
An expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Jon Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences.
Dynamic Analysis in the Social Sciences
The study of social dynamics using quantitative methodology is complex and calls for cutting-edge technical and methodological approaches in social science research. This book presents the existing statistical models and methods available for understanding social change over time.