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UNINA9910782972503321 |
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Autore |
Lopreato Joseph |
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Titolo |
Crisis in Sociology : the Need for Darwin / / Joseph Lopreato |
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London : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2017 |
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1-351-32019-X |
1-351-32020-3 |
1-351-32018-1 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (278 pages) |
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Sociology - Research |
Social Darwinism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Part, 1 From Early Promise to Deepening Crisis / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 1 The Early Promise / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 2 The Deepening Crisis / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 3 Why the Crisis: A Sketch / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- part, 2 Elements of Evolutionary Theory / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 4 Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 5 Elements of Evolutionary Behavioral Science / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- part, 3 Select Adaptations and Applications / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 6 Fundamentals of Sex Differences / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 7 An Uneasy Alliance / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 8 Fundamentals of Social Stratification / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen -- chapter 9 The Clannish Brain / Joseph Lopreato Timothy Crippen. |
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"Crisis in Sociology presents a compelling portrait of sociology's current troubles and proposes a controversial remedy. In the authors' view, sociology's crisis has deep roots, traceable to the over-ambitious sweep of the discipline's founders. Generations of sociologists have failed to focus effectively on the tasks necessary to build a social science. The authors see sociology's most disabling flaw in the failure to discover even a single general law or principle. This makes it |
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impossible to systematically organize empirical observations, guide inquiry by suggesting falsifiable hypotheses, or form the core of a genuinely cumulative body of knowledge. Absent such a theoretical tool, sociology can aspire to little more than an amorphous mass of hunches and disconnected facts. The condition engenders confusion and unproductive debate. It invites fragmentation and predation by applied social disciplines, such as business administration, criminal justice, social work, and urban studies. Even more dangerous are incursions by prestigious social sciences and by branches of evolutionary biology that constitute the frontier of the current revolution in behavioral science. Lopreato and Crippen argue that unless sociology takes into account central developments in evolutionary science, it will not survive as an academic discipline. Crisis in Sociology argues that participation in the "new social science," exemplified by thriving new fields such as evolutionary psychology, will help to build a vigorous, scientific sociology. The authors analyze research on such subjects as sex roles, social stratification, and ethnic conflict, showing how otherwise disconnected features of the sociological landscape can in fact contribute to a theoretically coherent and cumulative body of knowledge."--Provided by publisher. |
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UNINA9910779020903321 |
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Autore |
Bloetscher Frederick |
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Utility management for water and wastewater operators [[electronic resource] /] / Frederick Bloetscher |
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Denver, Colo., : American Water Works Association, 2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (495 p.) |
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Waterworks |
Water utilities - Management |
Water-supply |
Sewerage |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""UTILITY MANAGEMENT FOR WATER AND WASTEWATER OPERATORS""; ""Table of Contents""; ""About the Author""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Regulations Affecting Water and Wastewater Operations""; ""Water and Wastewater Operations""; ""Planning for Operations and Maintenance of Assets""; ""Employment Rules and Managing Employees""; ""Supervision of Operations""; ""Management of the Utility""; ""Utility Planning""; ""Developing the Capital Improvement Plan""; ""Capital Construction""; ""Capital Funding Mechanisms""; ""Cost of Service Delivery"" |
""Methods for the Establishment of Rates, Fees, and Charges""""Financial Policies and Evaluations of Financial Health of the Utility""; ""Customer Service and Public Relations""; ""Public Responsibility""; ""Index"" |
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UNINA9910483969703321 |
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Software Engineering Education in the Modern Age : Software Education and Training Sessions at the International Conference, on Software Engineering, ICSE 2005, St. Louis, MO, USA, May 15-21, 2005, Revised Lectures / / edited by Paola Inverardi, Mehdi Jazayeri |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2006 |
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[1st ed. 2006.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (VIII, 208 p.) |
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Programming and Software Engineering, , 2945-9168 ; ; 4309 |
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InverardiPaola |
JazayeriMehdi |
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Software engineering |
Education - Data processing |
Computers and civilization |
Software Engineering |
Computers and Education |
Computers and Society |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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On Software Engineering Education -- Reflections on Software Engineering Education -- Reflections on Software Engineering 2004, the ACM/IEEE-CS Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Software Engineering -- State of the Art and Practice: Creativity and Rigor -- Deciding What to Design: Closing a Gap in Software Engineering Education -- A Pedagogical View on Software Modeling and Graph-Structured Diagrams -- Do Students Recognize Ambiguity in Software Specifications? A Multi-national, Multi-institutional Report -- The Groupthink Specification Exercise -- Challenges for Industries and Academia -- The Making of a Software Engineer -- The Challenges of Software Engineering Education -- Future Directions -- A Strategy for Content Reusability with Product Lines Derived from Experience in Online Education -- Informatics: A Novel, Contextualized Approach to Software Engineering Education -- Software Engineering Education in |
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the Era of Outsourcing, Distributed Development, and Open Source Software: Challenges and Opportunities -- On the Education of Future Software Engineers. |
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Software Engineering is a multifaceted and expanding topic. It aims to provide theories, methods and tools to tackle the complexity of software systems, from development to maintenance. Its complexity is made even more severe today by rapidadvancesin technology,the pervasivenessofsoftwareinallareasofsociety, and the globalization of software development. The continuous expansion of the ?eld presents the problem of how to keep up for practitioners. For educators, the key questions are how should software engineers be educated and what are the core topics and key technologies? Even looking only at the last decade, the tremendous changes that have taken place in the software engineering industry, and in the industrial world in general,raise many questions. What are the e?ects of: Outsourcing?Distributed softwaredevelopment?Opensource?Standardization?Softwarepatents?Mod- driven development? How should these developments change the way we teach softwareengineering?Shouldtextbooksbeupdated?Shouldsoftwareengineering play a di?erent role in the computer science curriculum, for example, be more pervasive? How are instructors in universities handling these issues? All these issues were discussed at the Software Education and Training s- sions at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2005) by leading researchers, educators, and practitioners in software engineering, who presented their—sometimes controversial—views and insights on software en- neering education in the new millennium. In this volume we have collected some of the most representative and innovative approachesthat were presented at the workshop. The authors revised their papers based on discussions at the conf- ence and the comments they received from the reviews. |
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