Bücher der Reihe Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research

This volume engages the interface between the development of human lives and social relational networks. Research practitioners studying social networks typically focus on social structure or social organization, ignoring the complex lives of the people in those networks.

This book provides a roadmap for sociologists and other social scientists to undertake bold new directions in this field of study. It makes landmark contributions to its subject, and offers comprehensive analysis and reports from cutting-edge researchers.

This volume engages the interface between the development of human lives and social relational networks. Research practitioners studying social networks typically focus on social structure or social organization, ignoring the complex lives of the people in those networks.

This volume ambitiously applies sociological theory to create an understanding of aspects of survey methodology. It focuses on the interplay between sociology and survey methodology: what sociological theory and approaches can offer to survey research and vice versa.

This book provides a roadmap for sociologists and other social scientists to undertake bold new directions in this field of study. It makes landmark contributions to its subject, and offers comprehensive analysis and reports from cutting-edge researchers.

This book illustrates the potential for computer simulation in the study of modern slavery and worker abuse, and by extension in all social issues. It lays out a philosophy of how agent-based modelling can be used in the social sciences. In addressing modern slavery, Chesney considers precarious work that is vulnerable to abuse, like sweat-shop labour and prostitution, and shows how agent modelling can be used to study, understand and fight abuse in these areas. He explores the philosophy, application and practice of agent modelling through the popular and free software NetLogo.This topical book is grounded in the technology needed to address the messy, chaotic, real world problems that humanity faces¿in this case the serious problem of abuse at work¿but equally in the social sciences which are needed to avoid the unintended consequences inherent to human responses. It includes a short but extensive NetLogo guide which readers can use to quickly learn this software and go on to develop complex models. This is an important book for students and researchers of computational social science and others interested in agent-based modelling.

This volume presents recent developments in identity theory and research. This comprehensive and authoritative volume is of interest to a wide readership in the social and behavioral sciences, including students and researchers of sociology, social psychology, psychology, and other social science disciplines.