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| Author | : Judy Dunn |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9780674064539 |
When does our acknowledgment of the social contract really begin? When do young children first display an understanding of their social world? When and why do they begin to grasp that other people have feelings and thoughts like their own, yet different? In this pathbreaking work Judy Dunn explores several aspects of the early process of social discovery: children's recognition of the feelings of others, their ability to interpret and anticipate the behavior and relationships of others, and their comprehension of the prohibitions and accepted practices of their world. Dunn's work brings into focus an apparent paradox in our current view of the very young child's social understanding. Whereas research on infancy reveals that babies are born with a predisposition to learn about other people, and appear sensitive to the emotions and behavior of others, experimental studies suggest that children of three, four, and five years of age have difficulty gauging the feelings, intentions, and perceptions of others. Why should this social intelligence--which might be expected to be high on the developmental agenda--proceed so slowly? Is the social understanding of young children really so limited? Dunn pursues answers to these questions through close observation of children in their homes, in the complex social world of the family; her findings suggest a sophistication that has not yet been appreciated or documented. The Beginnings of Social Understanding draws upon observations and analyses from three longitudinal studies of children during the transition from infancy to childhood, examining children's disputes, jokes, play, their questions and narratives about others. The book demonstrates children's increasing subtlety as members of a cultural world, and argues that emotional relationships and family discourse play crucial roles in the development of this understanding. Dunn breaks through traditional notions of child development as she sets forth a refreshingly original perspective from which to view the social potential of children.
| Author | : Jill Kickul |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2012-03-22 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 113662323X |
"This book seeks to provide graduate-level and upper-division or honors undergraduate students with a comprehensive understanding of the emerging and rapidly growing field of social entrepreneurship. It is the most complete text on the subject available, exploring both the theory and practice of social entrepreneurship and blending these seamlessly through examples, case studies, the voices of practicing social entrepreneurs, and special features that put students in a position that requires creative thinking and strategic problem solving"--
| Author | : Yair Amichai-Hamburger |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2013-02-07 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 019963954X |
How do people fall in love on the Internet? Why is cyberspace such a violent place? This volume answers these and many other questions, focusing on the psychological well-being of Internet users and the commercial benefits of understanding online behaviour.
| Author | : Gordon B. Moskowitz |
| Publisher | : Guilford Press |
| Total Pages | : 632 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9781593850852 |
An ideal text for undergraduate- and graduate-level courses, this accessible yet authoritative volume examines how people come to know themselves and understand the behavior of others. Core social-psychological questions are addressed as students gain an understanding of the mental processes involved in perceiving, attending to, remembering, thinking about, and responding to the people in our social world. Particular attention is given to how we know what we know: the often hidden ways in which our perceptions are shaped by contextual factors and personal and cultural biases. While the text's coverage is sophisticated and comprehensive, synthesizing decades of research in this dynamic field, every chapter brings theories and findings down to earth with lively, easy-to-grasp examples.
| Author | : Larissa Hjorth |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2019-09-23 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1526426269 |
Exploring questions of both exploitation and empowerment, Understanding Social Media provides a critical conceptual toolbox for navigating the evolution and practices of social media. Taking an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach, it explores the key themes and concepts, going beyond specific platforms to show you how to place social media more critically within the changing media landscape. Updated throughout, the Second Edition of this bestselling text includes new and expanded discussions of: Qualitative and quantitative approaches to researching social media Datafication and algorithmic cultures Surveillance, privacy and intimacy The rise of apps and platforms, and how they shape our experiences Sharing economies and social media publics The increasing importance of visual economies AR, VR and social media play Death and digital legacy Tying theory to the real world with a range of contemporary case studies throughout, it is essential reading for students and researchers of social media, digital media, digital culture, and the creative and cultural industries.
| Author | : John Pierson |
| Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2011-10-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0335240283 |
"This scholarly and engaging volume shows us where social work has come from, and so helps us understand and shape its future. The author has a gift for making the profession's complex history accessible, whilst respecting its intricacy. The result is an illuminating 'tour de force' – a book that gives perspective and hope." Suzy Braye, Professor of Social Work, University of Sussex, UK "Pierson’s richly documented overview of social work’s evolution in Britain promises to support coming generations of social workers in learning from their field’s responses to changing issues and ideas on assistance for those in need." J. Lee Kreader, Interim Director, National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University, USA This introductory textbook provides a concise account of the development of social work in Britain, from its beginnings in the industrial revolution to the present day. The book seeks to recover overlooked experiences and important but forgotten debates, whilst re-examining the concepts and approaches developed by chief architects of the profession. The book has several unique features designed to help students both understand the development of social work and to form their own judgements on the issues it raises: Timelines that mark important practice and policy developments Discussion points that pose questions for readers to think through First hand testimony and excerpts from case records showing the viewpoints, perspectives and decisions of social workers in earlier decades Documentary material that encourages students to critically reflect on the present in light of the past Understanding Social Work is written with the student and educator in mind, in a style and format that makes the history of social work approachable, relevant, and profound. The view of history embodied here is of a continuously unfolding, many-sided phenomenon that offers a rich source of ethical insight, practical experience and moral guidance.
| Author | : Jennifer Mason |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2010-12-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1446246566 |
Jennifer Mason and Angela Dale′s book seeks to set out cutting-edge developments in the field of social research and to encourage students and researchers to consider ways of learning from different approaches and perspectives in such a way as to make their own research richer, more insightful and more rewarding. Social Researching brings together a wide variety of research methods - both qualitative and quantitative - to help students and researchers to consider the relative benefits of adopting different approaches for their own research work. The authors clearly identify the most appropriate methods for different research questions and also highlight areas where it might be fruitful to compliment different methods with each other or exploit creative tensions between them. The book is therefore a highly practical guide which also seeks to draw readers outside their methodological comfort zones. This book includes: - Critical coverage of issues in research design; - Expert experience in many methodological fields; - An overview of the many different ways to approach similar research problems; - Coverage of the tensions between different methodological approaches; - Examples of excellence in research design and practice; - An examination of how to turn methodological tensions into richer research practice. The methods covered include highly innovative, ′cutting-edge′ approaches and they are demonstrated in terms of their transferability between the different social sciences. This inter-disciplinary approach is complimented by a wide range of strategically chosen examples which demonstrate the authors′ pragmatic and creative take on research design.
| Author | : Elizabeth A. Segal |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2018-10-16 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0231545681 |
Our ability to understand others and help others understand us is essential to our individual and collective well-being. Yet there are many barriers that keep us from walking in the shoes of others: fear, skepticism, and power structures that separate us from those outside our narrow groups. To progress in a multicultural world and ensure our common good, we need to overcome these obstacles. Our best hope can be found in the skill of empathy. In Social Empathy, Elizabeth A. Segal explains how we can develop our ability to understand one another and have compassion toward different social groups. When we are socially empathic, we not only imagine what it is like to be another person, but we consider their social, economic, and political circumstances and what shaped them. Segal explains the evolutionary and learned components of interpersonal and social empathy, including neurobiological factors and the role of social structures. Ultimately, empathy is not only a part of interpersonal relations: it is fundamental to interactions between different social groups and can be a way to bridge diverse people and communities. A clear and useful explanation of an often misunderstood concept, Social Empathy brings together sociology, psychology, social work, and cognitive neuroscience to illustrate how to become better advocates for justice.
| Author | : Jane L. Fielding |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2006-03-02 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9781412910538 |
`This book is highly recommended for libraries and departments to adopt. If I had to teach a statistics class for sociology students this would be a book I would surely choose. The book achieves two very important goals: it teaches students a software package and trains them in the statistical analysis of sociological data′ - Journal of Applied Statistics This fully revised, expanded and updated Second Edition of the best-selling textbook by Jane Fielding and Nigel Gilbert provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to quantitative data analysis. Designed to help take the fear out of the use of numbers in social research, this textbook introduces students to statistics as a powerful means of revealing patterns in human behaviour. The textbook covers everything typically included in an introductory course on social statistics for students in the social sciences and the authors have taken the opportunity of this Second Edition to bring the data sources as current as possible. The book is full of up-to-date examples and useful and clear illustrations using the latest SPSS software. While maintaining the student-friendly elements of the first, such as chapter summaries, exercises at the end of each chapter, and a glossary of key terms, new features to this edition include: - Updated examples and references SPSS coverage and screen-shots now incorporate the current version 14.0 and are used to demonstrate the latest social statistics datasets; - Additions to content include a brand new section on developing a coding frame and an additional discussion of weighting counts as a means of analyzing published statistics; - Enhanced design aids navigation which is further simplified by the addition of core objectives for each chapter and bullet-pointed chapter summaries; - The updated Website at http:/www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/uss/index.html reflects changes made to the text and provides updated datasets; A valuable and practical guide for students dealing with the large amounts of data that are typically collected in social surveys, the Second Edition of Understanding Social Statistics is an essential textbook for courses on statistics and quantitative research across the social sciences.
| Author | : Dr Rosina McAlpine |
| Publisher | : eBook Partnership |
| Total Pages | : 86 |
| Release | : 2014-12-16 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0987336290 |
Our children are the leaders of tomorrow so we need to help them increase their social awareness, ethical development & environmental understanding. To sustain our planet & to improve the quality of life for all, we need to take care of people, animals & their environments. To help your children make a positive contribution, they need to be aware of the consequences of their own & other's actions. These 15 minute activities support children's social awareness, ethical development & environmental understanding.It is every parent's wish for their child to grow up happy, healthy & inspired so they can lead a meaningful & fulfilling life. Today's children are very interested in the environment & in a recent study they ranked environmental issues ahead of science, history, IT & art, & only slightly behind English & maths. Children who understand what it means to be environmentally & socially responsible will be able to act ethically in the face of life's many challenges. Empowering children with social and environmental awareness will ensure they make a positive contribution to our world not just part of a family, but as contributing members of community & proactive global citizens. Most children live in societies that are diverse in terms of gender, culture & social status. Children with an awakened social consciousness are more likely to interact responsibly & sensitivity by being empathetic towards others regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, disability, class, or sexual identity. Your children make numerous choices every day & you won't always be there to guide them, so help them develop the ability to act responsibly & navigate life successfully. The activities in this Inspired Children Home Activity Book support your children to develop the skills they need to act ethically & increase their understanding of the many facets of sustainability. For humans, sustainability is about maintaining long-term wellbeing, which has environmental, economic & social aspects.As tomorrow's leaders, our children's social awareness, ethical development & environmental understanding will have a huge impact on their lives & the lives of others. The 15 minute activities help your child understand the environmental & social consequences of their own actions & be proactive members of a family, community & as global citizens.
