Contemporary Issues in Social Science
About the Book Series
Contemporary Issues in Social Science is an interdisciplinary, international series, which provides a forum for disseminating and enhancing theoretical, empirical and/or pragmatic research across the social sciences and related disciplines. Reflecting the objectives of the Academy of Social Sciences, it emphasises the publication of work that engages with issues of major public interest and concern across the world, and highlights the implications of that work for policy and professional practice.
Biographical Research: Challenges and Creativity
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By Ana Caetano, Magda Nico
January 29, 2024
Studying people’s lives requires acknowledging the multiple entanglements between individual singularity and processes of social patterning. This book testifies how challenging and creative the study of these connections can be. It gathers international contributions that show, in imaginative ways,...
Political Activism across the Life Course
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By Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis, Vinnarasan Aruldoss
March 31, 2021
How do people of different ages experience and engage with politics in their everyday lives, and how do these experiences and engagements change over their life course and across different generations? Age, life course and generation have become increasing important experiences for understanding ...
Civic Engagement
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By Robin G. Milne
February 14, 2019
Civic engagement in this book is understood to include attendance at booked National Health Service appointments; compulsory attendance at school; the take-up of a variety of State benefits in cash and kind, such as Pension Credit and free school meals; and attendance at work. This book is the ...
The People and the State: Twenty-First Century Protest Movement
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By Thomas O'Brien
February 14, 2019
Protest has proliferated in the early part of the twenty-first century, forcing change in political systems and challenging established patterns of behaviour. The factors driving these protests range from religion and inequality through to the effectiveness of the state and its role in protecting ...
International and Interdisciplinary Insights into Evidence and Policy
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By Linda Hantrais, Ashley Lenihan, Susanne MacGregor
January 03, 2019
Contributors to this highly original book address the many questions raised by researchers and policymakers about the complex and often uneasy relationship between evidence and policy from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. They explore both the institutions acting as evidence ...
Social Death: Questioning the life-death boundary
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By Jana Králová, Tony Walter
October 18, 2018
Social death occurs when the social existence of a person or group ceases. With an individual, it can occur before or after physical death. Scholars in a wide range of disciplines have applied the concept to very diverse issues – including genocide, slavery, dementia, hospitalisation, and ...
Alcohol and Public Policy
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By Thom Brooks
June 07, 2017
Alcohol and its consumption is a major topic for public policy-making. Growing awareness of alcohol-related health problems among the general public has led to high levels of interest in alcohol consumption and its impact on society. This innovative collection of new perspectives on this critically...
Knowledge Mobilisation and the Social Sciences: Research Impact and Engagement
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By Jon Bannister, Irene Hardill
June 07, 2017
The essays presented in this volume examine knowledge mobilisation and its relation to research impact and engagement. The social sciences matter because they can help us to understand and address the complex challenges confronting society. This is particularly true in an era of significant ...
Protest, Movements, and Dissent in the Social Sciences: A multidisciplinary perspective
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By Giovanni Travaglino
June 07, 2017
Drawing on a wide range of social science disciplines and approaches, each chapter in this book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protest, political dissent and collective action. The distinguished scholars contributing to the book discuss some of the key theoretical and methodological ...
Revisiting the Self: Social Science Perspectives
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By Charalambos Tsekeris
June 07, 2017
Who am I? Or, even more curiously, who are you? These are questions about the self – that aspect of who we are that we believe defines, or at least describes, each of us. The self is not merely an internal creation, however. Family, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances all contribute to who we ...
The Olympic Legacy: Social Scientific Explorations
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By Alan Tomlinson
June 07, 2017
This comprehensive collection provides an overview of social scientific perspectives on Olympic legacy, using specialist analyses and selected cases to illuminate the recurring anthropological, political, and sociological dimensions of the legacy debate. Drawing upon research conducted on the ...
Social Science Perspectives on Climate Change
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By David Canter
May 16, 2017
Although it is generally accepted that the climate is changing for the worse and that human activities are a major contributing factor in that change, there is still only marginal response to the challenge posed by climate change. The reasons behind this limited response are becoming clearer ...