“guides for frank social sciences”

"Principles of Research Design in the Social Sciences" is a book for researchers who know what they want to study but who have yet to decide how best to study it. This book does not aim to provide a set of rigid recipes for social scientists; rather, it is intended to stimulate them to think about t... More

Editorial Review COMES WITH A CD OF A MUSIC NUMBER BY REMO FERNANADAS.When Frank Simoes, in his own words, ‘gatecrashed the advertising party’ in the Sixties, his bosses at S.H. Benson, precursor of Ogilvy Benson & Mather, knew they had found a young man of talent. That he would create advertis... More

This is a masterly theoretical treatment of one of the central problems in evolutionary biology, the evolution of social cooperation and conflict. Steven Frank tackles the problem with a highly original combination of approaches: game theory, classical models of natural selection, quantitative genet... More

This highly original text examines whether these extensions from nature to society are justified, and considers how dangerous they may be in implying the systematic neglect-or even destruction-of the least 'fit'. It asks what, in any case, is 'fitness' as applied to human beings? It also questions w... More

Despite the importance of the concept of social structure, sociologists have not agreed on how to define it and discussions have been plagued by confusion. In this concise and enlightening text, Jose Lopez and John Scott argue theat analysing the conceptual frameworks in which differenct concepts of... More

Populism is a widely used concept but it is rarely fully understood. For a term which appears so frequently in both popular and specialist writing, the social sciences have given it remarkably little attention. In this lively and engaging book, Paul Taggart surveys the field and concludes that popul... More

This lively and accessible text examines the concept of caste, noting its origin in orientalist descriptions of Indian society, and showing how it made its way into social scientific discourse as a tool for the comparative analysis of social stratification. The book represents a key text for student... More