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Learning Policy, Doing Policy: explores how policy theory is understood by practitioners and it influences their practice.
The fourth edition of the most widely used introduction to Australian sociology. Designed as a flexible learning tool, it takes an applied approach, demonstrating the value of a sociological perspective on contemporary Australian life.
This book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the flows of communication between politicians, journalists, and citizens. Distinguished contributors grapple with how the pandemic, as a global unexpected event, disrupted the communication process and changed the relationships between politics, media, and publics, the three central players of political communication.
Grounded in black feminist scholarship and activism and formally coined in 1989 by black legal scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, intersectionality has garnered significant attention in the field of public policy and other disciplines/fields of study. The potential of intersectionality, however, has not been fully realized in policy, largely due to the challenges of operationalization.
This book contains five chapters centered around the topic of social capital, defined as the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively.
Sociology addresses challenging social issues and seeks new ways to understand them.
Research Ready is a series of online learning modules that will help you to understand more about:
The modules include videos, live webpage searching, and short quiz questions to check your knowledge. A good understanding of these topics may help you to improve your marks and save time.
A Quick Guide to Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences by 
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Writing Readable Research: A Guide for Students of Social Science by 
What Is Online Research? Using the Internet for Social Science Research by 
Theoretical Sociology by
Since Durkheim's influential work a century ago, sociological theory has been among the most integrative and useful tools for social scientists across many disciplines. Sociological theory has nevertheless, due to its usefulness, expanded so very broadly that some wonder whether the concept of "general theory," or even the attempt to link middle-range theories, is still of any use. This book, a collection of top theorists reflecting on the present and future of the craft, addresses this most important question. Taking their lead from Jonathan Turner's important recent work, and drawing on their own broad experience, Seth Abrutyn and Kevin McCaffree have organized the chapters in this book from the general, integrative and review-focused bookend chapters to more specific chapters on innovations in theory construction at the micro, meso and macro levels. Moreover, the book's microsociological content on interpersonal violence, solidarity, identity and emotion coheres with chapters in mesosociological dynamics on class, education and networks, which in turn integrate with the chapters on inequality, justice, morality and cultural evolution found in the section on macrosociology.
Applying social Science: The Role of Social Research in Politics, Policy and Practice by You can browse the Library shelves for books in your area. These location (or Dewey) numbers are relevant for the broad area of Social Science:
300 Social sciences
301 Sociology
302 Social interaction
303 Social processes
304 Factors affecting social behavior
305 Social groups
306 Culture & institutions
