Social Sciences
Making Sense of Science
Science is at the heart of contemporary society and is therefore central to the social sciences. Yet science studies has often encountered resistance from social scientists.
Ordinal Data Modeling {Statistics for Social Science and Public Policy}
Ordinal Data Modeling is a comprehensive treatment of ordinal data models from both likelihood and Bayesian perspectives.
Explaining Society
Explaining Society is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the practice and theory of critical realism in the social sciences. This is the first ever book to comprehensively present critical realism and its methodological implications for social science.
Spatially Integrated Social Science
Spatial analysis assists theoretical understanding and empirical testing in the social sciences, and rapidly expanding applications of geographic information technologies have advanced the spatial data-gathering needed for spatial analysis and model making.
Using IT Effectively
Technology and Social Science examines the development and implementation of computer-assisted-learning in the social sciences.
Ideas and Influence
A group of Australia’s leading thinkers examine the relations between social science research, informed public opinion and the policy community. In short, it dissects relationships between research in the social sciences and policy outcomes.