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This book covers applied statistics for the social sciences with upper-level undergraduate students in mind. The chapters are based on lecture notes from an introductory statistics course the author has taught for a number of years. The book integrates statistics into the research process, with early chapters covering basic philosophical issues underpinning the process of scientific research. These include the concepts of deductive reasoning and the falsifiability of hypotheses, the development of a research question and hypotheses, and the process of data collection and measurement. Probability theory is then covered extensively with a focus on its role in laying the foundation for statistical reasoning and inference. After illustrating the Central Limit Theorem, later chapters address the key, basic statistical methods used in social science research, including various z and t tests and confidence intervals, nonparametric chi square tests, one-way analysis of variance, correlation, simple regression, and multiple regression, with a discussion of the key issues involved in thinking about causal processes. Concepts and topics are illustrated using both real and simulated data. The penultimate chapter presents rules and suggestions for the successful presentation of statistics in tabular and graphic formats, and the final chapter offers suggestions for subsequent reading and study

Trotz interdisziplinärer Verschiebungen und bildungspolitischer Veränderungen, die die Position der Allgemeinen Didaktik immer wieder infrage stellen, wird im vorliegenden Beitrag dargelegt, dass sie die zentrale Disziplin der Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung war, ist und auch in Zukunft sein kann. Entscheidend dafür ist zum einen eine Rückbesinnung auf bildungstheoretische Traditionen und zum anderen eine Neuorientierung in Richtung empirischer Bildungsforschung. Beide Perspektiven sind notwendig, um die Frage nach einem "guten" Unterricht umfassend beleuchten zu können. Aufgrund ihres wissenschaftstheoretischen und wissenschaftsmethodischen Zugangs und Anspruchs bietet die Allgemeine Didaktik ein disziplinäres Alleinstellungsmerkmal für diese zukunftsweisende Herausforderung in der Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung. (DIPF/Orig.) ; Interdisciplinary shifts and changes in educational policy have repeatedly called the position of general pedagogy into question. Our article shows that general pedagogy was, is, and can continue to be the central discipline in teacher education. The decisive factors are, on the one hand, a return to the traditions of educational theory and, on the other hand, an orientation towards empirical educational research. Both perspectives are necessary in order to be able to examine the question of "good" instruction in a comprehensive way. Due to its theoretical and methodological approach, general pedagogy as an academic discipline provides a unique perspective on this forward-looking challenge in teacher education. (DIPF/Orig.)

The influence of A. Sivanandan's works on the development of race & social policy in GB is explored. Sivanandan played a prominent role in transforming the Instit of Race Relations in the 1970s. He established a method of social research & analysis that involved the thorough accumulation of facts & cases relating to black people's resistance to racism. This directly impacted policy debate & indirectly influenced political campaigns & grassroots political practice. The effects of Sivanandan's work, Race, Class and the State (1976) on concepts of race relations & discrimination are discussed as one of the first analytical accounts of institutionalized racism. Though this work was criticized by the establishment, the intellectual & political Left, & the emerging black bourgeoisie, its acknowledgment of institutionalized racism & the need for anti-racist policy has survived. M. Pflum

Psychologisch-pädagogische Studie über Definition kindlicher Ängste besonders im Zusammenhang mit der sozialen Umgebung des Kindes. Allgemeine Darstellung und Fallstudie über Marokko. (DÜI-DOI)

Challenges and opportunities for communicating corporate social responsibility through digital platforms -- Corporate social responsibility engagement via social media : in theory and practice / Sarah Glozer and Sally Hibbert -- Unlocking corporate social responsibility communication through digital media / Mark Anthony Camilleri -- Strategic imperatives of communicating corporate social responsibility through digital media : an emerging market perspective / Prashant Mishra and Madhupa Bakshi -- The devil's in the details : contested standards of corporate social responsibility in social media / Robert L. Heath, Adam J. Saffer, and Damion Waymer -- Moving toward symmetry and interactivity in digital corporate social responsibility communication -- Exploring corporate social responsibility communication patterns in social media : a review of current research / Ura Golob and Klement Podnar -- The death of transmission models of corporate social responsibility communication / Ralph Tench and Mavis Avo-Mensah -- Social media : from asymmetric to symmetric communication of corporate social responsibility / Swaleha Peeroo, Martin Samy, and Brian Jones -- Communicating corporate social responsibility in the digital media : interactivity is key / Zhifeng Chen and Haiming Hang -- Fostering stakeholder engagement in and through digital corporate social responsibility communication -- A critical reflection on the role of dialogue in communicating ethical corporate social responsibility through digital platforms / Keith Perks, Monica Recalde, Francisca Farache, and Jana Kollat -- The imperative needs of dialogue between corporate social responsibility departments and PR practitioners : empirical evidence from Spain / Isabel Ruiz-Mora and Jairo Lugo-Ocando -- Integrated corporate social responsibility communication : toward a model encompassing media agenda building with stakeholder dialogic engagement / Augustine Pang, Angela Mak, and Shin Wonsun -- Hedonic stakeholder engagement : bridging the online participation gap through gamification / Christian Fieseler, Christian Pieter Hoffman, and Kateryna Maltseva -- Leveraging effective digital corporate social responsibility communication -- Social media concepts for effective corporate social responsibility online communication / Lina Gomez -- Effectiveness and accountability of digital corporate social responsibility communication : a contingency model / Shuili Du and Kun Yu -- The role of social media in communicating corporate social responsibility within fashion micro organisations / Claudia E. Henninger and Caroline J. Oates -- Corporate social responsibility and word of mouth : a systematic review and synthesis of literatures / Ezgi Akpinar -- Digital activism and corporate social responsibility -- Digital activism : NGOs leveraging social media to influence/challenge corporate social responsibility / Vidhi Chaudri and Asha Kaul -- Catastrophe, transparency, and social responsibility on online platforms : contesting cold shutdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant / Majia Nadesan -- Plotting corporate social responsibility narratives : corporate social responsibility stories by global fashion brands after the collapse of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh / Angela Mak and Suwichit Chaidaroon -- Digital methodologies and corporate social responsibility -- A new content analysis methodology appropriate for corporate social responsibility communication / Edward T. Vieira, Jr. and Susan Grantham -- #CSR on Twitter : a hashtag over-simplifying a complex practice / Ana Adi -- Index.

This book not only aims at highlighting existing inequalities between men and women, but also their efforts to overcome these challenges, especially so in women belonging to marginalized communities. It tries to explore systematic denial of rights to marginalized women--opportunities and resources that are normally and easily available to other members of a group, and which are fundamental to social, political integration and observance of human rights such as housing, employment, healthcare, civic engagement and democratic participation. The authors through their in-depth discussions and writings have tried to sketch Equal World as imagined by John Stuart Mill in the opening lines of The Subjugation of Women. This book is co-published with Aakar Books. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Tocqueville says that the superiority of American women is the chief cause of the power and prosperity of American democracy. That superiority is the result of an education that treats women as capable of freedom, but the use of that freedom is to maintain the bonds that restrict women to the household. The present article examines the role of the family and women in the new political science Tocqueville thought necessary for the defence of democratic liberty. It is argued that as the primary influence of democracy upon the family for Tocqueville has been to eliminate the authority of fathers who were the "arbiters of mores" and thereby the defenders of liberty in aristocracy, so democratic liberty depends for him above all upon the new role of women as the makers of mores. Through the agency of women, otherwise fragile religion constitutes an effective limit to the authority of the majority, but what makes it possible for religion to operate through women is their exclusion from the world of commerce, and what maintains this exclusion is the strict conjugal morality that women themselves defend in America. How far the role of women as guardians of democratic liberty might be justified is shown to depend for Tocqueville upon arguments for it that are other than those commonly accepted by American men.

""This book facilitates an understanding of diverse social media tools and platforms and their impact on society, business, and the economy and illustrates how online communities can benefit the domains of marketing, finance, and information technology"--Provided by publisher"--

This book argues that Lionel Robbins's construction of the economics field's organizing cornerstone, scarcity--and all that has been derived from it from economists in Robbins's time to today--no longer can generate general consent among economists. Since Robbins' Essay, economists have learned more than Robbins and his cohorts could have imagined about human decision making and about the human brain that is the lynchpin of human decision making. This book argues however that behavioral economists and neuroeconomists, in pointing to numerous ways people fall short of perfectly rational decisions (anomalies, biases, and downright errors), have saved conventional economics from such self-contradictions in what could be viewed as a wayward approach. This book posits that the human brain is the ultimate scarce resource, and that a focus on the brain can bring a new foundation for economics and can save the discipline from hostile criticisms from a variety of non-economists (many psychologists).

"This book describes the founding and development of social ethics as a discourse in the realms of the academy, church, and general public. It analyzes the three major traditions of social ethics, explains their revisions and offshoots, interprets evangelical and neo-conservative alternatives, and delineates the various confessional and cultural standpoints from which religious thinkers have construed the social meaning of Christianity. Almost from the beginning, "social ethics" named a specific academic field and a way of thinking about Christian ethics that transcended the academy. Dorrien pays attention to both meanings, bringing together prominent academic voices and important exponents of social Christianity, including pastors, movement activists, and self-styled "public intellectuals."" "Engagingly written by one of the field's leading figures, this book is set to become the definitive reference guide to the history and development of social ethics."--Jacket