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"This book presents various recently developed and traditional statistical techniques, which are increasingly being applied in social science research. The social sciences cover diverse phenomena arising in society, the economy and the environment, some of which are too complex to allow concrete statements; some cannot be defined by direct observations or measurements; some are culture- (or region- ) specific, while others are generic and common. Statistics, being a scientific method - as distinct from a 'science' related to any one type of phenomena - is used to make inductive inferences regarding various phenomena. The book addresses both qualitative and quantitative research (a combination of which is essential in social science research) and offers valuable supplementary reading at an advanced level for researchers."--

"This book examines, for perhaps the first time, singlehood at the intersections of race, media, language, culture, literature, space, health, and life satisfaction. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach, borrowing from sociology, literary studies, medical humanities, race studies, linguistics, demographic studies, and critical geography to understand singlehood in the world today. This collection of essays aims to establish the discipline of Singles Studies, finding new ways of examining it from various disciplinary and cultural perspectives. It begins with laying the field, then moves on to critically look at how race has shaped the way we understand singlehood in the West, and how class, age, gender, privilege, and the media play a role in shaping singlehood. It argues for a need for increased interdisciplinarity within the field, for example analyzing singlehood from the perspective of medical humanities. The volume also explores the role the workplace, living arrangements, financial status, and gender play in single people's life satisfaction. With an inter-disciplinary and transnational approach, this interdisciplinary volume seeks to establish Singles Studies as a truly global discipline. This pathbreaking volume would be of interest to students and researchers of Sociology, Literature, Linguistics, Media Studies and Psychology"--

Sport is one of the most ubiquitous activities of modern contemporary society. The pervasiveness of sport can be seen by the enormous amount of primary and second ary involvement in it by people of all ages and social strata. Sport penetrates into and plays a significant role in all of the social institutions. The functions of play, games, and sport is a major theme running through much of the work of social scientists. Although there is no definitive list, there are seven major categories of functions of play, games, and sport: in stinct, developmental-cognitive, mastery, social integration, socialization, social control, and personal-expressive. There is a substantial body of literature in the social sciences dis cussing the importance of each of these functions.

Intro -- Preface -- Introduction of Chief Editor -- Contents -- About the Translator -- Connotation and Function of Social Governance -- 1 The Origin of the Concept of Social Governance -- 1.1 The Intellectual Evolution of the Term-"Social Governance" -- 1.2 The Connotation and Denotation of Social Governance -- 2 Determinants of Social Governance -- 2.1 Productivity and Production Relations -- 2.2 Economic Base and Superstructure -- 3 The Function and Goal of Social Governance -- 3.1 The Basic Function of Social Governance -- 3.2 The Main Goals of Social Governance -- 4 Status and Role of Social Governance -- 4.1 The Status and Role of Social Governance in State Governance -- 4.2 The Status and Role of Social Governance in Social Construction -- 4.3 The Promotion Role of Social Governance on Economic, Political, Cultural and Ecological Civilization Construction -- Basic Theory of Social Governance in China -- 1 The Social Governance Thought of Marxism -- 1.1 The Background of the Social Governance Thought of Marxism -- 1.2 The Main Contents of Social Governance Thought of Marxism -- 1.3 Significance of Social Governance Thought of Marxism -- 2 The Development of Social Governance Thought of Marxism in China -- 2.1 Mao Zedong's Thought of Social Governance -- 2.2 Socialist Social Governance Thought with Chinese Characteristics -- 2.3 Important Discussion on Social Governance by General Secretary Xi Jinping -- References -- Chinese Traditional Thoughts on Social Governance -- 1 The Social Governance Thought in Ancient China -- 1.1 Social Relations and Social Order Thought -- 1.2 People's Livelihood Security and Power Operation -- 2 The Social Governance Thoughts in Modern China -- 2.1 The Evolutionary View on Social Order and the Equality View on Social Relations -- 2.2 The Principle of People's Livelihood and Democratic Thoughts -- References.

Das Lehrbuch bietet die erste umfassende Einführung in die Werke der großen klassischen Denker der Soziologie sowie in mikro- bzw. makrosoziologische Theorieansätze. Der erste Band behandelt Denker wie Spencer, Marx, Pareto, Simmel, Durkheim, Weber und Mead: ihre Sicht auf die Gesellschaft, ihre methodischen Ansätze sowie ihre Wirkung auf die Entwicklung der Soziologie. Im Mittelpunkt des zweiten Bandes stehen Handlungstheorien wie Verhaltenstheorie, Rational-Choice-Theorie, Phänomenologie, Ethnomethodologie, Symbolischer Interaktionismus, Pragmatismus und kognitivistische Soz

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Sociological Foundations of Computational Social Science -- Chapter 3. Methodological contributions of computational social science to sociology -- Chapter 4. Computational Social Science: A Complex Contagion -- Chapter 5. Model of meaning -- Chapter 6. Sociological Meaning of Contagion -- Chapter 7. Polarization of Opinion -- Chapter 8. Coda.

This ebook builds on an initial scoping review commissioned by the NIHR School for Social Care Research which sought to collate the existing evidence on relationships between general practice/primary care and adult social care. Entitled 'New conversations between old players', the review concluded that we know very little about this fundamental relationship (and that the relatively small amount of evidence which exists tends to derive from previous reforms in the late 1990s and early 2000s). The quality of this evidence was also very mixed, and the review concluded that existing relationships