Product Description: The book focusses on questions of individual and collective action, the emergence and dynamics of social norms and the feedback between individual behaviour and social phenomena. It discusses traditional modelling approaches to social norms and shows the usefulness of agent-based modelling for the study of these micro-macro interactions...read more

Product Description: Computational social science is an approach increasingly influential in a broad range of social sciences. It involves building a computer program model that represents a theory and then ′executing′ the program and observing the output as a way of validating the theory, making predictions about the social world or exploring the implications of social interventions...read more

Product Description: Kidderminster has had a colorful history of struggle, conflict, and change, yet—surprisingly—this is the first complete account to have been published for over a century and the first ever chronological history of the town. The medieval manor was large and extended across the Severn, incorporating what was to become Bewdley...read more

Product Description: This text attempts to explain what the underlying processes of the evolution of research policies of the European union and its member states. It does this from both a materialist approach and an idealist approach. On one side, the development of Community research policy since its origins is described as a series of responses to the shifting uncertainties the policy has been faced with and the need to legitimize its continuation in the face of those uncertainties...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An accessible text for the social scientist which introduces the basic techniques of quantitative analysis. It assumes very little statistical knowledge and explains the use of widely available computer programs and other recent developments...read more

Product Description: During the 1980s there were profound changes in the labour process towards the 'flexible worker' and in the labour market towards a 'flexible workforce'. Three approaches to explain these changes provide the focus for this book: Marxist regulation theory; the notion of flexible specialisation associated with the 'new' institutional economics; and the model of the flexible firm derived from managerialist literature...read more