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Book Time budgets and Social Activity

Download or read book Time budgets and Social Activity written by Working Group on Time-Budgets and Social Activity and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Time Use Research in the Social Sciences

Download or read book Time Use Research in the Social Sciences written by Wendy E. Pentland and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection demonstrates the use and variety of applications of time use methodology from multidisciplinary, multinational, and multicultural perspectives. A distinguished roster of contributors from such fields as psychology, occupational therapy, sociology, economics, and architecture examines the complex relationship between human time utilization and health and well-being and evaluates the future of time use analysis as a research tool in the social sciences.

Book Time Budgets and Social Activity   V 1

Download or read book Time Budgets and Social Activity V 1 written by University of Toronto. Centre for Urban and Community Studies and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Time Use

    Book Details:
  • Author : William H. Michelson
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-11-17
  • ISBN : 1317250419
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Time Use written by William H. Michelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many researchers have studied people's everyday use of time. National and international agencies increasingly collect and analyze time-use data. Yet this perspective and its techniques remain a black box to most social science researchers and applied practitioners, and the potential of time-use data to expand explanation in the social sciences is not fully recognized by even most time-use researchers. Sociologist William Michelson's unique book places the study of time-use data in perspective, demystifies its collection and analytic options, and carefully examines the potential of time-use analysis for a wide range of benefits to the social sciences. These include the sampling of otherwise socially "hidden" groups, bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative phenomena, gender studies, family dynamics, multitasking, social networks, built environments, and risk exposure.

Book Time budgets of Human Behavior

Download or read book Time budgets of Human Behavior written by Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book It s about Time  International Research Group on Time Budgets and Social Activities

Download or read book It s about Time International Research Group on Time Budgets and Social Activities written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of conference papers on social research in time budgets and leisure activities. Discusses problems of definition, research methodology, statistical analysis, deriving social indicators from data on time use, impact of social policy, etc. Includes case studies.

Book Primate Social Systems

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-03-09
  • ISBN : 1468466941
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Primate Social Systems written by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book grew from small beginnings as I began to find unexpected patterns emerging from the data in the literature. The more I thought about the way in which primate social systems worked, the more interesting things turned out to be. I am conscious that, at times, this has introduced a certain amount of complexity into the text. I make no apologies for that: what we are dealing with is a complex subject, the product of evolutionary forces interacting with very sophisticated minds. None the less, I have done my best to explain every thing as clearly as I can in order to make the book accessible to as wide an audience as possible. I have laid a heavy emphasis in this book on the use of simple graphical and mathematical models. Their sophistication, however, is not great and does not assume more than a knowledge of elementary probability theory. Since their role will inevitably be misunderstood, I take this opportunity to stress that their function is essentially heuristic rather than explanatory: they are designed to focus our attention on the key issues so as to point out the directions for further research. A model is only as good as the questions it prompts us to ask. For those whose natural inclination is to dismiss modelling out of hand, I can only point to the precision that their use can offer us in terms of hypothesis-testing.

Book The Double Life of the Family

Download or read book The Double Life of the Family written by Michael Bittman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern family is under strain. What we crave most from our families is intimacy, warmth and self-fulfilment but we often find this difficult to achieve. We hold onto these expectations of our families even in the face of contradictory experiences, so the family sustains a double life. The authors explore the gap between our values, expectations and yearnings, and our experiences of everyday family life. Family ritual, political rhetoric, advertising images and television family sitcoms are all windows onto what we want and expect - our myths of the family. Yet our aspirations for intimacy and self-fulfilment are frustrated by unacknowledged inequalities between men and women, and parents and children. The inequalities have their origins in the division of domestic labour and in labour markets that disregard family responsibilities. The Double Life Of The Family argues that our expectations of family life are more powerful than is usually believed and have enormous influence on both the way governments structure social policy and on the decisions made by ordinary people.

Book Time Management   A Study Of Hrd Managers

Download or read book Time Management A Study Of Hrd Managers written by U.B. Singh and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every of us should remeber that it is what we do during 24 hours or 86,400 seconds of each day that will ultimately determine how successful one is in his career. Time is money. It is limited and valuable resource. Time is life as measured out in years, months, days, hours minutes and seconds. Nothing is more important to human being than using this free gift of time effectively, generously and wisely. Obviously, no one can control time in the sense of shaping it, slowing it down or speeding it up. But he can apply it economically to the tasks he has to accomplish. Time is thus scarcest resource and unless time is managed nothing can be managed. Time management should be taken as a fun. It should not be a complicated daily chor. It should be kept as simple as possible. It should be Kept as simple as possible. If life is plaanned, time is planned automatically. Good time planning facilitates quality life. Hence time management should be treated as life management. There is no need to plan the life because time management is life management. In a nutshell, everybody should have a time plan. For the purpose, one should first identify his different roles. Each role should first identify his different roles. Each role should be allocated some time. This plan ideally may be for a week. Week should be planned in advance and reviewed one day earlier. Such a time management plan should be simple, easy, underestabable and feasible to follow. Although the study forces around the HRD Mangers, the concept and philosophy is one and same for every successful person.

Book The Geography of Tourism and Recreation

Download or read book The Geography of Tourism and Recreation written by Colin Michael Hall and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text, now in its fully-updated third edition, continues to offer a comprehensive synthesis of the key issues associated with tourism, leisure and recreation.

Book Women Attached

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jacqueline Tivers
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2024-11-20
  • ISBN : 104016613X
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Women Attached written by Jacqueline Tivers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985, Women Attached was one of the first empirical studies in geography to deal with the special problems of women with young children. Even within sociology and psychology there were very few studies in this area at the time. Within geography the study of this population sub-group was certainly a new departure. However, it was impossible to make meaningful sense of the structure of daily lives and activities of women without taking in to account the nature and impact of constraints on such activities. Young children being the most clearly visible constraint in women’s lives. Therefore, one aim of the research project was to relate empirical findings to the existing social science literature dealing with constraints on activities. This book was an attempt to redress the balance slightly in favour of women’s activities and specifically focuses on a group of women who had only rarely been the subject of research interest at the time. Today it can read in its historical context.

Book The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods

Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods written by David Gadd and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conducting research into crime and criminal justice carries unique challenges. This Handbook focuses on the application of ′methods′ to address the core substantive questions that currently motivate contemporary criminological research. It maps a canon of methods that are more elaborated than in most other fields of social science, and the intellectual terrain of research problems with which criminologists are routinely confronted. Drawing on exemplary studies, chapters in each section illustrate the techniques (qualitative and quantitative) that are commonly applied in empirical studies, as well as the logic of criminological enquiry. Organized into five sections, each prefaced by an editorial introduction, the Handbook covers: • Crime and Criminals • Contextualizing Crimes in Space and Time: Networks, Communities and Culture • Perceptual Dimensions of Crime • Criminal Justice Systems: Organizations and Institutions • Preventing Crime and Improving Justice Edited by leaders in the field of criminological research, and with contributions from internationally renowned experts, The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods is set to become the definitive resource for postgraduates, researchers and academics in criminology, criminal justice, policing, law, and sociology. David Gadd is Professor of Criminology at Manchester University School of Law where he is also Director of the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice. Susanne Karstedt has a Chair in Criminology and Criminological Justice at the University of Leeds. Steven F. Messner is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York.

Book Reader s Guide to the Social Sciences

Download or read book Reader s Guide to the Social Sciences written by Jonathan Michie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 2166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2-volume work includes approximately 1,200 entries in A-Z order, critically reviewing the literature on specific topics from abortion to world systems theory. In addition, nine major entries cover each of the major disciplines (political economy; management and business; human geography; politics; sociology; law; psychology; organizational behavior) and the history and development of the social sciences in a broader sense.

Book Time  Leisure and Well Being

Download or read book Time Leisure and Well Being written by Jiri Zuzanek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-02 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The significance of work and leisure as elements of our social fabric have puzzled philosophers and social scientists for generations. This ambitious new study considers historical views of work and leisure alongside contemporary survey evidence about time-use and well-being. Combining sophisticated theoretical analysis with empirical research, the book presents a contrarian argument that defines leisure as a serious and stimulating challenge rather than an unqualified benefit or good. This is vital reading for anyone with an interest in the concept of time in the social sciences, work-life balance, organisational studies, or the history, philosophy, or sociology of work and leisure.

Book Breaking Rules  The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People s Urban Crime

Download or read book Breaking Rules The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People s Urban Crime written by Per-Olof H. Wikström and published by Clarendon Studies in Criminolo. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking new ground in the study of crime in urban environments, Breaking Rules examines the findings, theoretical basis, and new methodology of The Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+). This major longitudinal study investigates the role of the social environment on crime causation, involving a cohort of 700 young people from the age of 12. A particular aim of PADS+ is to employ a new theory, known as Situational ActionTheory, as well as the innovative methodology of ecometrics combined with space-time budgets to improve the study of young people's offending and its changes.

Book Lifestyle and Social Structure

Download or read book Lifestyle and Social Structure written by Michael E. Sobel and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifestyle and Social Structure: Concepts, Definitions, Analyses is devoted the relationship between lifestyle and social structure. The book begins by constructing a meaningful concept of lifestyle in order to understand and model this relationship. The general formulation of the concept hinges on the descriptive word style, defined as ""any distinctive, and therefore recognizable way in which an act is performed or an artifact made or ought to be performed and made."" After developing the implications of the definition, lifestyle is defined, by analogy, as ""any distinctive, and therefore recognizable mode of living."" The notion of social structure is then introduced, arguing that structural differentiation engenders lifestyle differentiation. The remainder of the work is concerned primarily with the modeling of this relationship using data from the 1972-1973 Survey of Consumer Expenditures, and with the concept of stylistic unity. Key topics discussed include the relationship between the theory of lifestyle differentiation and modern economic utility theory; psychographic notions of lifestyle; and the relationships between lifestyle and other key sociological concepts (stratification, alienation). The concept of lifestyle should be of interest to a broad range of applied and theoretical researchers.

Book Seasonality in Primates

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diane K. Brockman
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2005-11-17
  • ISBN : 9780521820691
  • Pages : 616 pages

Download or read book Seasonality in Primates written by Diane K. Brockman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how seasonal variation in resource abundance might have driven primate and human evolution.