Jon Elster 
Explaining Social Behavior [EPUB ebook] 
More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences

Critical Readings on Piaget is a follow-up to Piaget: Critical Assessments a collection of eighty-three papers dealing with the critique of Piaget»s work in psychology, education and philosophy duri …

This book examines gang rape, clitoridectomy, abduction of women, ritual belittling of men, modern feminist criticism, and the ‘war between the sexes’. It deals with the politics of large state-sized …

An introduction to the central concerns of social anthropology, presenting an alternative to standard texts. More concerned with the life-worlds of underdevelopment than the primitive or the exotic, …

This project is aimed the 16+ age range inside or outside any kind of educational institution. It is for courses concerned with general education — either in general studies programmes or as aspects …

Over the last ten years citizenship has become an area of interdisciplinary research and teaching in its own right. This book highlights that globalization poses new challenges for established unders …

Readers come to the topic of leadership development with multiple interests—intellectual, professional, and personal—and with curiosity about how to apply concepts and tools to themselves and to supp …

Immigration policy is one of the most contentious issues facing the United States today. The bitter national debate over California»s Proposition 187, the influx of Cuban refugees into Miami, and th …

This book provides a historical account of anarchist geographies in the UK and the implications for current practice. It looks at the works of Frenchman Élisée Reclus (1830–1905) and Russian Pyotr Kr …

2nd and 3rd year core modules/courses on Family Policy and Comparative Social Policy. Also Women»s Studies — 2nd and 3rd year core component of social policy. Challenging Motherhood examines contemp …

First published in 1997, this book revolves around a textual analysis of the Weberian thesis that »classes», »status groups» and »parties’ are phenomena of the distribution of power within a »c …