Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up until 2012, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Such history is needed to understand h...

Societal Organization and Globalization in Cultural Anthropology Cultural Anthropology: A Global Perspective provides students with an introduction to cultural anthropology through a traditional holistic and integrative approach. Organized by societal type, this book's primary emphasis is on applied anthropology, with a strong coverage of globalization. Additionally, it emphasizes three unifying themes: 1) the diversity of human societies and cultural patterns the world over, 2) the similarit...

Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods is a highly regarded text that presents a comprehensive and balanced introduction to both qualitative and quantitative approaches to social research with an emphasis on the benefits of combining various approaches.

Groepsdynamica bestudeert het gedrag van mensen in kleine groepen. Door haar brugfunctie tussen psychologie en sociologie neemt de groepsdynamica een unieke plaats in binnen de sociale wetenschappen.

Dit boek behandelt de hoofdthema's uit de groepsdynamica, waaronder niveaus en interventies in groepen, groepsvorming, feedback, besluitvorming, conformiteit en het functioneren van teams. In deze elfde herziene druk is er ruime aandacht voor twee centrale onderwerpen binnen het vakgebied: commu...

This book will equip social work students with the skills they need to meet the new and perennial challenges to achieving empowering practice with carers and people who use services.

De case study, de bestudering van een verschijnsel in zijn natuurlijke omgeving, wordt in het Nederlandse en internationale sociale onderzoek steeds belangrijker. De vraag hoe case studies uitgevoerd (moeten) worden is niet eenvoudig te beantwoorden. In verschillende wetenschappelijke benaderingen worden uiteenlopende antwoorden op deze vraag gegeven.

In Case studies vindt de lezer een grondige bespreking van de verschillende mogelijkheden. Aan de hand van enkele centrale vragen komen de moge...

Joining Together introduces readers to the theory and research needed to understand how to make groups effective and, through exercises and thorough explanations, equips them with the skills required to apply that knowledge to practical situations. Chapters discuss the history of groups and group dynamics, the nature of experiential learning, group goals, communication within groups, leadership, power, decision making, controversy and creativity, and conflict management. More applied chapters...

This book explains the origins of development and underdevelopment and offers a new vision for development, demystifying the statistics that international organizations use to measure development and introducing the alternative concept of buen vivir: the state of living well.

Presenting a practical approach to CBPR by describing how an individual researcher might understand and conduct CBPR research, this book includies a concise overview of CBPR theoretical underpinnings, methods considerations and ethical issues - all presented in an accessible format.

Philosophy of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction is the first systematic textbook in the philosophy of economics. It introduces the epistemological, metaphysical and ethical problems that arise in economics, and presents detailed discussions of the solutions that have been offered. Throughout, philosophical issues are illustrated by and analysed in the context of concrete cases drawn from contemporary economics, the history of economic ideas, and actual economic events.

This demonstrates ...