The new edition of Sociology helps students take Sociology with them on campus, in their careers, and in their communities.
While still maintaining its well-balanced coverage of the 3 perspectives, this new revision has a strong focus on encouraging students to think about their world with a socio…
"A discussion of altruism, drawing on different disiplinary perspectives, could hardly be more timely, and this book is a thoughtful and insightful contribution to the debate." Ruth Chadwick - Distinguished Research Professor and Director, Cardiff University
What motivates us to be altruistic?
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In recent years there has been a large and diverse body of writing from scholars in the social sciences who have been studying changes brought about by new communication technologies in general and the Internet in particular. The question of how people behave, interact and organize themselves in rel…
What is social science?
Does social scientific knowledge differ from other kinds of knowledge, such as the natural sciences and common sense?
What is the relation between method and knowledge?
This concise and accessible book provides a critical discussion and comprehensive overview of the major ph…
What can computer simulation contribute to the social sciences?
Which of the many approaches to simulation would be best for my social science project?
How do I design, carry out and analyse the results from a computer simulation?
Interest in social simulation has been growing rapidly worldwide as …