Social Choice (Routledge Revivals)

Social Choice (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Bernhardt Liebermann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2012-07-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136816062

First published in 1971, Social Choice is both a text and reference containing the proceedings of a conference dealing with contemporary work on the normative and descriptive aspects of the social choice problem. This reissue will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on group decision making and social choice. Economists, social psychologists, political scientists and sociologists will welcome this valuable work.

Social Choice (Routledge Revivals)

Social Choice (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Bernhardt Liebermann
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2012-07-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1136816070

First published in 1971, Social Choice is both a text and reference containing the proceedings of a conference dealing with contemporary work on the normative and descriptive aspects of the social choice problem. This reissue will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on group decision making and social choice. Economists, social psychologists, political scientists and sociologists will welcome this valuable work.

Store Choice, Store Location and Market Analysis (Routledge Revivals)

Store Choice, Store Location and Market Analysis (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Neil Wrigley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317567749

This book, first published in 1988, brings together leading researchers from both the retailing business and the academic world to discuss the latest techniques of analysis and forecasting in the fields of store choice, store location, and market analysis. Its rationale is the major restructuring of the UK retailing industry which has taken place over the past twenty years, and the profound implications of that restructuring for the type of research necessary to understand, maintain and enhance corporate responsibility. The contributors present accounts of the development of new and original methods for retail analysis and forecasting purposes. They lay stress upon practical methods which are accurate and robust, and which can operate with the type of data typically available to retailers. The book will provide a major work of reference for retailers, market researchers, retail analysts, estate managers, urban planners and geographers in many countries.

Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals)

Social Theory as Science (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Russell Keat
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2011-01-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136839232

This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life. This book combines an evaluation of different conceptions of the nature of science with an examination of important sociological theorists and frameworks. This second edition of the work was originally published in 1982.

Max Weber on Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals)

Max Weber on Economy and Society (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Robert Holton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2010-10-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136830693

First published in 1989, this re-issue concerns itself with the relevance of Max Weber's sociology for the understanding of modern times. The book outlines key tenets of Weber's sociology and points to the valuable legacy of Weber's thought in contemporary intellectual debate, particularly with regard to secularization and rationalization of global cultures, the crisis of Marxism, the rise of the New Right and the emergence of post-modernism. This book offers an authoritative and insightful study which brings to light, not only the contemporary relevance of Weber's social theory, but also offering a broad perspective for the analysis of social questions.

Concept Formation in Social Science (Routledge Revivals)

Concept Formation in Social Science (Routledge Revivals)
Author: William Outhwaite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2010-10-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415611169

First published in 1983, this book examines the problems of concept formation in the social sciences, and in particular sociology, from the standpoint of a realistic philosophy of science. Beginning with a discussion of positivistic, hermeneutic, rationalist and realistic philosophies of science, Dr Outhwaite argues that realism is best able to furnish rational criteria for the choice and specification of social scientific concepts. A realistic philosophy of science therefore acts as his reference point for the dialectical presentation of alternative accounts.

The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals)

The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Anthony D. Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2010-01-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136971076

Anthony Smith's important work on the concept of social change, first published in 1973, puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change. He shows that, in attempting to provide a theory of social change, functionalism reveals itself as a species of 'frozen' evolutionism. Functionalism, he argues, is unable to cope with the mechanisms of historical transitions or account for novelty and emergence; it confuses classification of variations with explanation of processes; and its endogenous view of change prevents it from coming to grips with the real events and transformations of the historical record. In his assessment of functionalism, Dr Smith traces its explanatory failures in its accounts of the developments of civilisation, modernisation and revolution. He concludes that the study of 'evolution' is largely irrelevant to the investigation of social change. He proposes instead an exogenous paradigm of social change, which places the study of contingent historical events at its centre.

Social Choice

Social Choice
Author: Bernhardt Lieberman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 425
Release: 1971-01-01
Genre: Choix (Psychologie) - Congrès
ISBN: 9780677147758

Local Government and Strategic Choice

Local Government and Strategic Choice
Author: J.K. Friend
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2016-08-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483136434

Local Government and Strategic Choice, Second Edition is the result of a study of policy-formation in the City Council of Coventry during a four-year period. This edition is a reappraisal of the earlier edition, with an emphasis on ""connective planning."" Part I describes the planning strategies made in an urban setting. This part explains the City and the City Council, organization of the local authority, decision-making mechanisms, developmental planning including land use, school system planning, and cross-departmental planning. Part II is a study of city planning as a process of strategic choice that has been altered in many different ways depending on the purpose. This part also discusses the problems encountered in the planning process such as the existence of organization boundaries in the government sector. Part III deals with a fictional case that relates the uncertainties and political realities of decision-making in an urban setting. The case studies cover land allocation and development, tax, and traffic issues. Part IV discusses organizational challenge and also touches in some way on the future organizational structure of local governments. This text then explains the need for ""connective planning"" of how individuals build flexible networks among decision-making agencies to serve the various interests of both the private and government sectors. This book is suitable for sociologists, city administrators and officials, local government officials, heads of government agencies, and heads of planning and engineering departments of local government units.

Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals)

Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals)
Author: E. J. Mishan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136629556

First published in 1981, Professor Mishan’s Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare: Selected Essays on Fundamental Aspects of the Economic Theory of Social Welfare is a collection of 22 pioneering essays written while the author was teaching at the London School of Economics and chosen to indicate landmarks in the development of his own thought. Professor Mishan, who also enjoys an international reputation as a popular writer on the impact of modern economic growth on social welfare, is among the foremost authorities in the field of resource allocation, and his influence in his subject area has been profound. Mishan’s essays, while generally accessible to the layman due to the author’s lucidity, his economy in the use of mathematical notation and his concern with perspective, are invaluable reading for the economics undergraduate. The essays are particularly relevant to upper level students of project appraisal, welfare economics and cost benefit analysis requiring a coherent survey of their field of study.