Studieboeken (18)
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Data and Society
A Critical Introduction
2021 || Paperback || Anne Beaulieu e.a. || SAGE
The standard teaching text for Data and Society modules explaining to undergraduates, in different social-science disciplines, the Big Data Revolution in an accessible and critical way.
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Thinking Through Communication / 9th International Student Edition
An Introduction to the Study of Human Communication
2021 || Paperback || Sarah Trenholm || Taylor & Francis
The 9th edition of this textbook for hybrid introductory communication courses provides a balanced introduction to the fundamental theories and principles of communication. The book explores communication in a variety of contexts-including interpersonal, group, organizational, and mass media-and provides students the theoretical knowledge and the research and critical thinking skills they'll need to succeed in advanced communication courses and communication professions. The first section exp...
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Sociology / 9th edition
2021 || Paperback || Anthony Giddens e.a. || Polity Press
The indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we lead. This thoroughly revised and updated ninth edition remains unrivalled in its vibrant, engaging and authoritative introduction to sociology. The authors provide a commanding overview of the latest global developments and new ideas in this fascinating subject.
Classic debates are also given careful coverage, with even the most complex ideas explained in a straightforward way. Written in a fluent, easy-to-follow sty...
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Understanding Communication Research Methods / 3rd Edition
A Theoretical and Practical Approach
2021 || Paperback || Stephen M. Croucher e.a. || Taylor & Francis
COMPREHENSIVE: The book offers an unbiased introduction to all three methodological paradigms: positivist, interpretive, critical/cultural (quantitative, qualitative, critical). - INNOVATIVE: The book includes new sample student papers along with critiques of these papers to that students can model their own work on that of their peers.
FOCUSED ON THE STUDENT: Specific attention is given to presenting conceptual and theoretical information regarding methods, and to providing real-life exampl...
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The Data Revolution / 2nd Edition
A Critical Analysis of Big Data, Open Data and Data Infrastructures
2021 || Paperback || Rob Kitchin || SAGE
Widely acknowledged as being the first academic text to provide a critical overview of the (big) data revolution and the classification of data which it outlined is now widely used/recognised as the taxonomy in social science. The Data Revolution a canonical text in data studies and the wider social sciences.
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Small Places, Large Issues - Fourth Edition
An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
2021 || Paperback || Thomas Hylland Eriksen || Pluto Press || met inkijkexemplaar
This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world. Presenting a clear overview of anthropology, it focuses on central topics such as kinship, ethnicity, ritual and political systems, offering a wealth of examples that demonstrate the enormous scope of anthropology and the importance of a comparative perspective. Unlike other texts on the subject, Small Places, Large Issues incorpor...
Understanding Cultural Geography / 3rd Edition
Places and Traces
2021 || Paperback || Jon Anderson || Taylor & Francis
This book outlines how the theoretical ideas, empirical foci, and methodological techniques of cultural geography make sense of the 'culture wars' that define our time. It is on the battleground of culture that our opportunities, rights, and futures are determined and Understanding Cultural Geography showcases how this discipline can be used to understand these battles and how we can engage in them. Through doing so, the book not only introduces the reader to the rich and complex history of c...
Research Methods / 3rd edition
The basics
2021 || Paperback || Nicholas Walliman || Taylor & Francis
Research Methods: The Basics is an accessible, user-friendly introduction to the different aspects of research theory, methods and practice. This third edition provides an expanded and fully updated resource suitable for students and practitioners in a wide range of disciplines including the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. It is structured in two parts - the first covers the nature of knowledge and the reasons for doing research, the second explains the specific methods used...
Plantation Life / 1st edition
Corporate Occupation in Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone
2021 || Paperback || Tania Murray Li e.a. || Duke University Press
In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance of Indonesia's contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia, which supply 50 percent of the world's palm oil. They attend to the exploitative nature of plantation life, wherein villagers' well-being is sacrificed in the name of economic development. While plantations are often plagued by ruined ecologies, injury among workers, and a devastating loss of livelihoods for former landholders, small-scale inde...
Understanding Digital Societies
2021 || Paperback || Jessamy Perriam e.a. || SAGE
Understanding Digital Societies provides a framework for understanding our changing, technologically shaped society and how sociology can help us make sense of it.