O'Leary The Social Science Jargon Buster

The Key Terms You Need to Know
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84920-343-2
Verlag: Lucky Duck Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

- Are you confused by academic jargon?

- Do you know your `discourse' from your `dialectic'?

- Can you tell the difference between `anomie' and `alienation'? The Social Science Jargon Buster tackles the most confusing concepts in the social sciences, breaking each down and bringing impressive clarity and insight to even the most complex terms.

`This book successfully addresses the central task for any teacher of social theory - how to make the material accessible without making it simplistic and banal. The overall effect is a most effective text that hard-pressed students and lecturers will grab with both hands' - Dave Harris, Senior Lecturer in Social Science

This practical, down-to-earth dictionary will help students new to social science discourse gain a thorough understanding of the key terms. Each entry includes a concise core definition, a more detailed explanation and an introduction to the associated debates and controversies. In addition, students will find a useful outline of the practical application of each term, as well as a list of key figures and recommendations for futher reading.

This dictionary brings a refreshing clarity to social science discourse, making it essential reading for all students on undergraduate social science courses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Leary, Zina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Berufliche Bildung Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Studientechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Action Research
Aesthetics
Agency
Alienation
Anomie
A posteriori / A priori

Authority
Behaviourism

The Body
Bureaucracy

Capital

Capitalism
Causation

Chaos theory

Class
Cognitive dissonance

Collective

Colonization

Commodification
Communism

Community
Conflict theory
Conservatism

Critical / Radical

Cultural Studies

Culture

Deconstruction
Deductive/ Inductive reasoning

Democracy
Determinism
Developed / Developing Countries

Deviant behaviour

Dialectic

Dichotomy
Discourse

Egalitarianism
Empiricism

Epistemology
Essentialism

Ethics

Ethnocentricism
Ethnography

Ethnomethodology
Existentialism

Fascism
Feminism

Functionalism

Fundamentalism

Game theory

Geneology
Globalization

Governance

Grounded theory

Hegemony
Hermeneutics
Historical Materialism

Historicism

Human/social ecology

Humanism

Hybridity

Hypothesis/ hypothetico-deductive method

Id/ ego/ superego

Idealism

Identity
Ideology

Imperialism

Individualism

Industrialisation

Instrumentalism

Justice

Knowledge

Labelling theory
Labour
Leadership

Liberalism

Marginalization
Marxism
Materialism
McDonaldization

Metanarrative

Methods
Methodology
Micro/Macroeconmics

Modernism/Postmodernism
Modernity
Multiculturalism

Nationalism

Nominalism
Norms

Ontology
Other

Paradigm
Patriarchy
Pedagogy/Critical Pedagogy
Personality
Phenomenology
Pluralism
Positivism
Postmodernity
Post Industrial

Post Positivism
Power
Pragmatism
Praxis
Prejudice/Discrimination
Protestant ethic

Qualitative/Quantitative
Rationalism
Realism
Reductionism
Reflexivity
Reification
Relativism
Research Credibility (positivist)
Research Credibility (post-positivist)
Revolution
Risk Society
Role

Scientific method
Secularisation
Self
Semiotics
Sexuality
Social Change
Social Constructionism
Social Control
Social Darwinism
Social Mobility
Social Movements
Social Science Research

Social Stratification
Socialism
Socialization
Society
Sociobiology
Socioeconomic status

Sociolinguistics
Solidarity
(The) State
Structuralism/ Post-structuralism

Subject
Subjectivism
Symbolic Interactionism
Systems theory

Technology
Teleology

Theory/ Social Theory
Totalitarianism
Urbanization
Utilitarianism

BIBLIOGRAPHY/ READING LIST

Über Autor(innen)

O'Leary, Zina
Zina O’Leary is an internationally recognized leader in research methodologies and has a keen interest in the application of research to evidence-based decision-making. Zina is an Adjunct Professor at the Joseph R. Biden Jr, School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware as well as a Senior ­Fellow at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government where she coordinates research and project units for their Executive Masters and Executive Education Programmes. Zina also has an extensive history as a consultant to both government and the private sector and was the research coordinator for the Centre for Environmental Health Development at the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre. She is the author of Researching Real World Problems, The Social Science Jargon Buster, Workplace Research and three books in Sage’s Little Quick Fix Series: Research Questions; Research Proposals; and Presenting Your Research.