"Social Sciences and Cultural Studies: Issues of Language, Public Opinion, Education and Welfare" ed. by Asunción López-Varela

This is a unique and groundbreaking collection of questions and answers coming from higher education institutions on diverse fields and across a wide spectrum of countries and cultures. It creates routes for further innovation, collaboration amidst the Sciences (both Natural and Social) and the Humanities and the private and the public sectors of society.

The chapters speak across socio-cultural concerns, education, welfare and artistic sectors under the common desire for direct responses in more effective ways by means of interaction across societal structures.

Contents
Section 1 Science and Interdisciplinarity
1 Are the Social Sciences Really- and Merely- Sciences?
2 Karl Popper and the Social Sciences
3 Historic ism, Hermeneutics, Second Order Observation: Luhmann Observed by a Historian
Section 2 Communities and Their Representations
4 The Significance of Inter media I ity in the Immortalization of the French Republican Nation (1789-1799)
5 Western and Eastern Ur-Topias: Communities and Nostalgia
6 Social Science as a Complex and P lur i-D isc ip I inary System: Economics as Example
Section 3 Citizenship Participation and Sustainable Communities
7 Sustainability Science and Citizens Participation: Building a Science-Citizens-Policy Interface to Address Grand Societal Challenges in Europe
8 Social Science, Equal Justice and Public Health Policy: Translating Research into Action Through the Urban Greening Movement
9 Environmental Effect of Major Project: Object-Oriented Information Extraction and Schedule-Oriented Monitoring
Section 4 Social Sectors and Integration
10 When do People Protest? - Using a Game Theoretic Framework to Shed Light on the Relationship Between Repression and Protest in Hybrid and Autocratic Regimes
11 Embracing Intersectional Analysis: The Legacy of Anglo European Feminist Theory to Social Sciences-Humanities
12 Cyberfeminist Theories and the Benefits of Teaching Cyberfeminist Literature
13 Social Exclusion and Inclusion of Young Immigrants in Different Arenas - Outline of an Analytical Framework
Section 5 Security and Justice
14 The Conceptualising of Insecurity from the Perspective of Young People
15 War, Genocide and Atrocity in Yugoslavia: The ICTY and the Growth of International Law
16 The Power of Words: Inmates Write Stories of Life and Redemption
Section 6 Multilingual Settings and Integration
17 The Challenge of Linguistic Diversity and Pluralism: The Tier Stratification Model of Language Planning in a Multilingual Setting
18 Creative Expression Through Contemporary Musical Language
Section 7 Public Knowledge: Transference and Dissemination
19 International Higher Education Rankings at a Glance: How to Valorise the Research in Social Sciences and Humanities?
20 Scientific Publishing in the Field of Social Medicine in Slovenia
21 Japan's University Education in Social Sciences and Humanities Under Globalization
22 ICT, Learning Objects and Activity Theory
23 An Anthropology of Singularity? Pastoral Perspectives for an Embodied Spirituality in the Annus virtual is and Beyond
Section 8 Quality Assessment
24 The Effects of Environment and Family Factors on Pre-Service Science Teachers' Attitudes Towards Educational Technologies (The Case of Mugla University-Turkey)
25 Social Engineering Theory: A Model for the Appropriation of Innovations with a Case Study of the Health MDGs
26 Stress Management for Medical Students: A Systematic Review