Sociology & Social Policy

This book was published in 2003.Competition/anti-trust law, as a separate body of law, is very much a creation of the 20th century and grew only in maturity in the latter half of that century...

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

In four parts, this book seeks to establish ‘the state of the art’ of complexity-informed social science as it stands now, examining: the key issues in complexity theory; the implications of complexity theory for social theory; the methodology and methods of complexity theory; and complexity within ..

Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches from across the social sciences, this book contends that society, culture, and economy are emergent from social and environmental transaction and negotiation. With each transaction comes renegotiation, however small, and thus the continuous reconstruction..

The book investigates compositional processes shedding new light on the components and conditions that constitute artistic agency. Using a mixture of case studies and theoretical frameworks, this book will appeal to sociologists, musicologists, creative studies scholars, and artists particularly tho..

Published in 1994, this work supplies an up-to-date view of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and its role in empowering groups to achieve better solutions faster. The enabling technology and group organizational and behavioural aspects of CSCW should be of interest to a wide audience...

The fields of molecular biology and genetics are faced with an enormous accumulation of information: DNA sequencing, associated sequences of amino acids in proteins, genetics, macromolecular structures and other sets have created a quantitative backlog of data which needs to be organized and analyze..

Computing in Organizations..

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 philsophy of science...

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 philsophy of science...

Concepts of Capital..

Concepts of identity are complex and changing. Through a comprehensive study of paintings, sculpture, photography, film, television and other media, this book examines images of individuals and families from Ancient Egypt to the present. More than two-thirds of the book covers the 20th century...