To Intuition -- Adam Smith. New Intuitions For A New Age -- John Stuart Mill. An Anti-Intuitionist Social Reformer -- Alfred Marshall. Metaphysician and Economist -- Intuition and Analysis in the Economics of the John Maynard Keynes -- Frank Knight. Intuition, Risk and Uncertainty -- Swimming Against the Stream. Herbert Simon, Harvey Leibenstein, George Shackle, Friedrich von Hayek -- Intuition…
Chapter 1 Overview and Perspective -- Chapter 2 The Intervention Research Framework: Background and Overview -- Chapter 3 The Formative Phase of the Intervention Research Framework: Theories -- Chapter 4 The Formative Phase of the Intervention Research Framework: Literature and Expert Review -- Chapter 5 The Formative Phase of the Intervention Research Framework: Target Group Input -- Chapter 6…
Chapter 1. CREA and our path towards socially relevant social sciences -- Chapter 2. Dialogic relations and interactions as an alternative to power -- Chapter 3. The dialogic self: preventive socialization -- Chapter 4. Successful Actions: democratic sociology for democratic societies.This book presents the findings of research projects conducted by CREA (Community of Researchers on Excellence …
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Process-Oriented Ontologies and the Ethics of Affirmation -- Chapter 3. Non-Representational Theory -- Chapter 4. Performing Research -- Chapter 5. Ekphrastic Geographies -- Chapter 6. Interstices of Becoming.Utilising non-representational theories and practice-led research methods, this book serves to reclaim therapeutics as ecological, spatial and materia…
Part I. Conceptual issues -- Chapter 1. Epistemology of Complexity (Alberto Peruzzi) -- Chapter 2. Building Knowledge. Between Measure and Meaning: A Phenomenological Approach (Rocco Sacconaghi) -- Part 2. Methodological Issues -- Chapter 3. Socio-Economic Statistics for A Complex World: Perspectives and Challenges in the Big Data Era (Marco Fattore) -- Chapter 4. Developing Indicators and Mana…
Response Processes in the Context of Validity: Setting the Stage (Anita M. Hubley and Bruno D. Zumbo) -- Chapter 2. Response Processes and Measurement Validity in Health Psychology (Mark R. Beauchamp and Desmond McEwan) -- Chapter 3. Contributions of Response Process Analysis to the Validation of an Assessment of Higher Education Students’ Competence in Business and Economics (Sebastian Brüc…
This book examines the use of agent-based modelling (ABM) in population studies, from concepts to applications, best practices to future developments. It features papers written by leading experts in the field that will help readers to better understand the usefulness of ABM for population projections, how ABM can be injected with empirical data to achieve a better match between model and reali…
Transnational Family Life -- Urban Sociology -- European Sociology.The authors focus on families who organize their lives in transnational social spaces within and at the outer borders of Europe, to offer a new perspective on transnational family life and to advance the knowledge on borders drawn by social inequality, discrimination and political exclusion. They also discuss social mobility as …
1: Introduction: Situating Children of Migrants across Borders and Origin: Claudio Bolzman, Laura Bernardi, Jean-Marie Le Goff -- Part I: Comparison as Key Methodological Tool ad Challenging Perspective in Study of the Children of Migrants: 2: Damned of you do, Damned if you don’t: The Challenges of Including and Comparing the Children of Immigrants in European Survey Data: Laurence Lessard-P…
Part 1: Overview -- History of Substance Abuse Research in the United States -- Transdisciplinary Research Perspective: A Theoretical Framework for Substance Abuse Research -- part 2: Quantitive Approaches -- Randomized Controlled Trials in Substance Abuse Treatment Research: Fundamental Aspects and New Developments in Random Assignment Strategies, Comparison/Control Conditions, and Design Ch…