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Open University Press Understanding Emotions in Social Work Theory
Book SynopsisAs a social work student or practitioner it is essential to be able to understand, recognize and critically reflect on your own emotions and those of others. Consciously or unconsciously, emotions play an integral role in day-to-day decision making, assessments and relationship building, and a lack of emotional awareness and understanding can result in poor practice and a failure to think critically. Practical and engaging, this book encourages you to consider the role of emotions in the light of your own experiences and practice contexts. Key topics include: Understanding what emotions are and how they apply to social work practice Recognizing and reflecting upon the emotional content of practice Incorporating emotions in reflective journals, reports, case notes, critical incident analysis and academic writing Understanding the conscious and unconscious emotions at play in your practice and how these can impact upon the development of pTable of ContentsPart 1: What are emotions and why are they important in social work? What are emotions? Locating emotions in the context of social work Reflection and the exploration of emotions Part 2: Applying and understanding emotions in social work practice Engaging and communicating with service users and carers Emotions and written recordings in social workEmotions, supervision and support Organisational culture and emotions Emotions and the social work professional Concluding thoughts ReferencesIndex
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Little, Brown Book Group The Writing On The Wall China And The West In The
Book SynopsisChina constitutes a fifth of the world''s population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The speed of its development is stunning, a combination of cheap labour and commitment to science and technology that has never been matched by a developing country. The Pearl River Delta, Shanghai and Beijing have become city-regions whose growth and embrace of modernity strike the visitor with awesome force. This is a continent on the move, recovering the world position and wealth it once had.The re-emergence of China as a superpower constitutes the biggest challenge the world has had for more than a century. Never before in modern times has the financial, trade, economic and diplomatic world pecking order been so profoundly reconstituted with the challenger country itself in the grips of incredible ideological and political change. ThisTrade Review** 'Hutton's most provocatively enjoyable work to date * Martin Vander Weyer, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *** 'A typically contrarian verdict on the tiger economy of the middle kingdom * Robert McCrum, OBSERVER Books to Watch in 2007 *** 'Pertinent and provocative * HERALD *** 'A very informative, wide-ranging and readable study of the threat that China poses to itself and to the rest of the world * IRISH TIMES *
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Little, Brown Book Group Them And Us
Book SynopsisThe suddenness and depth of the recession has raised questions about the workability of capitalism not seen since the 1930s. One of the constraints on recovery is the growing belief that if the old model did not work there is no new one on offer. This book sets out to provide one, arguing that reconstructing a bust financial system is not just a technical question. It cannot be done without a wholescale revision of the wider system and values on which it is based. And fairness must be placed at the heart of the new capitalism if our society is to recover its values.Will Hutton''s new book musters brilliant, convincing arguments which will lend favour on both right and left. It is set to be a book which captures the mood of the moment in the same way that THE STATE WE''RE IN did.
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Cambridge University Press International Focus Group Research
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Cambridge University Press It Takes a Candidate
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Random House USA Inc American Poison How Racial Hostility Destroyed
Book SynopsisAn urgent and daring examination of how American racism has broken the country's social compact, eroded America's common goods, and damaged the lives of every American--and a heartfelt look at how these deep wounds might begin to heal.Compared to other industrialized nations, the United States is losing ground across nearly every indicator of social health. Its race problem, argues Eduardo Porter, is largely to blame. In American Poison, the New York Times veteran shows how racial animus has stunted the development of nearly every institution crucial for a healthy society, including organized labor, public education, and the social safety net. The consequences are profound and are only growing graver with time. Leading us through history and across America--from FDR's New Deal through Bill Clinton's welfare reform to Donald Trump's retrograde and divisive policies--Porter pieces together how racial hostility has blocked American
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Beacon Press You Are Not American Citizenship Stripping from
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Mark Lynton History PrizeCitizenship is invaluable, yet our status as citizens is always at risk—even for those born on US soil.Over the last two centuries, the US government has revoked citizenship to cast out its unwanted, suppress dissent, and deny civil rights to all considered “un-American”—whether due to their race, ethnicity, marriage partner, or beliefs. Drawing on the narratives of those who have struggled to be treated as full members of “We the People,” law professor Amanda Frost exposes a hidden history of discrimination and xenophobia that continues to this day.The Supreme Court’s rejection of Black citizenship in Dred Scott was among the first and most notorious examples of citizenship stripping, but the phenomenon did not end there. Women who married noncitizens, persecuted racial groups, labor leaders, and political activists were all denied their citizenship, and so
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Beacon Press All Made Up
Book SynopsisA fascinating journey through history and culture, examining how makeup affects self-empowerment, how people have used it to define (and defy) their roles in society, and why we all need to careThere is a history and a cultural significance that comes with wearing cat-eye-inspired liner or a bold red lip, one that many women feel to this day, even if we don’t realize exactly why. Increasingly, people of all genders are wrestling with what it means to be a woman living in a patriarchy, and part of that is how looking like a woman—whatever that means—affects people’s real lives.Through the stories of famous women like Cleopatra, Empress Wu, Madam C. J. Walker, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marsha P. Johnson, Rae Nudson unpacks makeup’s cultural impact—including how it can be used to shape a personal or cultural narrative, how often beauty standards align with whiteness, how and when it can be used for safety, and its function in the work
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Beacon Press Her Body Our Laws On the Front Lines of the
Book SynopsisWith stories from the front lines, a legal scholar journeys through distinct legal climates to understand precisely why and how the war over abortion is being fought.Drawing on her years of research in El Salvador—one of the few countries to ban abortion without exception—legal scholar Michelle Oberman explores what happens when abortion is a crime. Oberman reveals the practical challenges raised by a thriving black market in abortion drugs, as well as the legal challenges to law enforcement. She describes a system in which doctors and lawyers collaborate in order to identify and prosecute those suspected of abortion-related crimes, and the troubling results of such collaboration: mistaken diagnoses, selective enforcement, and wrongful convictions.Equipped with this understanding, Oberman turns her attention to the United States, where the battle over abortion is fought almost exclusively in legislatures and courtrooms. Beginning in Oklahoma, one of t
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Liberty Fund Inc On Liberty Society and Politics The Essential
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Liberty Fund Inc Ideas Persons Events
Book SynopsisThis final volume (save for the Index) in Liberty Fund''s ''The Collected Works of James M Buchanan'' acquaints us most intimately with the man himself. Included are essays and short pieces that shed light on Buchanan''s view of the world. Ranging from personal reflections on the art and science of economics, to restatements of his central themes and reminiscences of his encounters and collaborations with other great thinkers, this volume presents James Buchanan as a multidimensional human being, not just as a great economic and political thinker. The thirty-three pieces collected in IDEAS, PERSONS, AND EVENTS are grouped into these categories: autobiographical and personal reflections; reflections on fellow political economists; political economy in the post-socialist century; reform without romance. As Hartmut Kliemt states in his foreword, The personal and the theoretical are often inseparably intertwined in the essays of this volume... As a case in point, consider James Buchanan''s
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Liberty Fund Inc Present Age
Book SynopsisThe Present Age challenges readers to re-examine the role of the United States in the world since World War I. Nisbet criticises Americans for isolationism at home, discusses the gutting of educational standards, the decay of education, the presence of government in all facets of life, the diminished connection to community, and the prominence of economic arrangements driving everyday life in America. This work is deeply indebted to the analyses of Tocqueville and Bryce regarding the threats that bureaucracy, centralisation, and creeping conformity pose to liberty and individual independence in the western world. The Present Age relates a tragedy -- the unprecedented militarisation of American life in the decades after 1914, as the result of the necessary resistance to National Socialist and Communist totalitarianism that fed into and reinforced the profound tendencies toward centralisation within modern society.
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McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US Geograffity Explorations of Physical Cultural and
Book SynopsisThis book contains six articles by prominent Russian philosophers, geologists, geographers, historians, and artists that explore the Russian view of the earth''s surface, how this space has been perceived and interpreted by humans, and the material legacy that this perception and use has produced. This is an important collection of writings that represents one of the earliest compilations of Russian thought on and synthesis of these subjects following the demise of the Soviet Union. This title is beautifully designed, printed on coated paper, and contains full-colour throughout.
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Clear Light Publishers Time Before Deception
Book SynopsisWhat was the real significance of war paint, of the rituals of shamans, of the mysterious communion with animals, plants, mountains, and wild waters? Looking beneath the surface of tribal communication, this book is the first to focus on the myriad forms of traditional expression that were the outward manifestation of a sophisticated ethical and spiritual ecology that existed for millennia before contact with European culture. Cooper describes practices of tribal cultures world-wide and examines the communication ethic of the Dine (Navajo) of northern Arizona and the Shuswap people of British Columbia. As this world of indigenous meaning opens to us, so does the possibility that these groups may have originated from higher -- not more primitive -- cultures. In an age when we find advertising deceptive, entertainment violent and meaningless, and politics laced with corruption, we can learn rules for living from the deeper, ethically grounded communication of Indigenous Peoples.
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Alfred A. Knopf The Affirmative Action Puzzle A Living History
Book SynopsisA rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today’s tumultuous times From acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis (“Remarkable” —Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books, “Definitive”—Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic) and Dissent and the Supreme Court (“Riveting”—Dahlia Lithwick, The New York Times Book Review), a history of affirmative action from its beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the first use of the term in 1935 with the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act (the Wagner Act) to 1961 and John F. Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925, mandating that federal contractors take “affirmative action” to ensure that there be no discrimination by “race, creed, color, or national origin” down to today’s American society. Melvin Urofsky expl
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Cambridge University Press Language Endangerment
Book SynopsisUp to ninety percent of humanity''s traditional languages and cultures are at risk and may disappear this century. While language endangerment has not achieved the publicity surrounding environmental change and biodiversity loss, it is just as serious, disastrously reducing the variety of human knowledge and thought. This book shows why it matters, why and how it happens, and what communities and scholars can do about it. David and Maya Bradley provide a new framework for investigating and documenting linguistic, social and other factors which contribute to languages shifting away from their cultural heritage. Illustrated with practical in-depth case studies and examples from the authors'' own work in Asia and elsewhere, the book encourages communities to maintain or reclaim their traditional languages and cultures.Trade Review'A masterpiece both because of its erudition and its coherent perspective.' David Olson, University of Toronto'The authors address, among other things, endangerment stages and measures; research methods and ethics; linguistic ideology and attitudes that encourage speakers to maintain, or abandon, their language; factors (demographic, political, economic, etc.) that lead to language endangerment; language policy and planning; and strategies and resources for language reclamation.' L. Lindstrom, Choice'The innovative approach of this book, its distinct style and structure as well as the wealth of information and illustration, make it an invaluable resource not only for scholars and students of cognitive and social sciences, but also for those members of the larger public interested in the latest advances in the field.' Radu Voica, Anthropos'Both the formal features and the contents of this volume make it suitable and of potential interest for a diverse target audience, ranging from non-expert readers to researchers that may wish to obtain an up-to-date state of the issue.' Marc Gandarillas, Language in SocietyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Stages of language endangerment; 3. Working in a community; 4. Identity and attitudes; 5. Language knowledge and use; 6. The sociolinguistic setting; 7. Linguistic processes; 8. Policy and planning; 9. Language reclamation; 10. Methodology; 11. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
Book SynopsisThis ambitious two-volume handbook of social theory consists of forty original contributions. The researchers take stock of the state of social theory and its relationship to the canon, exploring such topics as the nature, purpose, and meaning of social theory; the significance of the classics; the impact of specific individual and theory schools; and more. Both volumes reflect a mixture of what intellectual historian Morton White distinguished as the ''annalist of ideas'' and the ''analyst of ideas,'' locating theoretical thought within the larger socio-historical context that shaped it - within the terrain of the sociology of knowledge. Exploring the contemporary relevance of theories in a manner that is historically situated and sensitive, this impressive and comprehensive set will likely stand the test of time.Trade Review'For the quality of its contributors (the highest) and the range of its contributions (the most diverse), there has never been a theory collection that comes anywhere close to the achievement of this Cambridge Handbook. Peter Kivisto deserves our recognition and our gratitude.' Jeffrey Alexander'Social theory is undergoing a period of rapid change and expansion, and Peter Kivisto has produced an accessible set of introductions to both classic and new topics, with a complement of star contributors. This will be an essential source for students as well as sociologists who need an understanding of the key issues and literatures as they stand today.' Stephen Turner, University of South Florida'A first rate resource featuring thoughtful articles on key thinkers and aspects of sociological theory. Taken together, the contributions offer a rare and comprehensive panorama opening up to all subfields within sociology.' Thomas Faist, Professor of Sociology, Bielefeld University'Social theory is a fascinating intellectual maze. The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory provides all of us with a reliable map, a remarkable achievement. Systematic, precise and ecumenical, this is the guide we were waiting for.' Giuseppe Sciortino, Università di TrentoTable of Contents1. Rational choice theory and methodological individualism Karl-Dieter Opp; 2. Network theories Mark C. Pachucki and Ronald L. Breiger; 3. Cultural sociology Michael Strand and Lyn Spillman; 4. Identity Peter Burke; 5. Emotions theory Donileen R. Loseke and Margarethe Kusenbach; 6. Theorizing sex/gender: feminist social theory Shelley Budgeon; 7. Intersectionality as critical social theory Patricia Hill Collins; 8. Modernity Peter Wagner; 9. Realism Timothy Rutzou; 10. Globalization: not good, bad, or over Sheila Croucher; 11. Time/space Kevin Fox Gotham; 12. Social theory in the anthropocene: ecological crisis and renewal Robert J. Antonio and Brett Clark; 13. Embodiment Chris Shilling; 14. Sexualities Stephen Valocchi; 15. Multiculturalism Christian Joppke; 16. Risk Klaus Rasborg; 17. Trust and the variety of its bases Barbara A. Misztal; 18. Unity's within conflict: mapping biology's relevance to sociological theory Douglas A. Marshall; 19. Civil society Simon Susen; 20. Social movements: sequences vs. fuzzy temporality Kevin Gillan; 21. Immigration Ewa Morawska.
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Cambridge University Press Economic Life in the Real World
Book SynopsisThis clearly written and engaging book brings together anthropology, psychology and economics to show how these three human science disciplines address fundamental questions related to the psychology of economic life in human societies - questions that matter for people from every society and every background. Based around vivid examples drawn from field research in China and Taiwan, the author encourages anthropologists to take the psychological dimensions of economic life more seriously, but also invites psychologists and economists to pay much more attention than they currently do to cultural and historical variables. In the end, this intrinsically radical book challenges us to step away from disciplinary assumptions and to reflect more deeply on what really matters to us in our collective social and economic life.Trade Review'Exploring new horizons in the moral psychology of economic life, Charles Stafford's novel book is bound to inspire social scientists as well as the concerned public in multiple ways.' Yunxiang Yan, University of California'The ambitious aim of this short book is to construct a robust framework for analyzing economic practices. Toward that end, Stafford brings together insights developed in the fields of anthropology, economics, and psychology. With examples drawn from long-term fieldwork in rural Taiwan and China, he uses clear, jargon-free prose to sketch a view of 'the economy not only as a domain of logical deliberation but also as one of emotions - and certainly as one of ethics' (p. xii).' Ethnos (Journal of Anthropology)'This intriguing book focuses on the 'moral aspects of economic Agency' (ix) and seeks to 'bring anthropology, psychology and economics into some kind of conversation' (115) … Writing mostly to colleagues in the guild, Charles Stafford draws from diverse sources of inspiration and grounds his argument in a series of case studies from different parts of rural China and Taiwan, his long-standing field sites … Overall the book is a delight. Readers with even slightly open minds may be convinced, and the seriousness with which Stafford considers the arguments of his opponents, allies, and interlocutors is a model for us all.' American EthnologistTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. Decisions; 3. Substantivist economic psychology; 4. Plans; 5. Self-education as the end of economic life; 6. The politics of cognition; 7. Number and structure; Acknowledgements.
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McGraw-Hill Education ISE DISCOVERY OF SOCIETY
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McGraw-Hill Education From Slavery to Freedom 2026 Release ISE
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McGraw-Hill Education Identities and Inequalities Exploring the
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McGraw-Hill Education Social Problems and the Quality of Life ISE
Book SynopsisSocial Problems and the Quality of Life explores some of the most crucial social issues of our time and how they impact quality of life, providing a firm foundation in how to identify a social problem and the sociological theories and methods for understanding these key concerns. Exploring social problems on a global level, this book is a comprehensive guide to critically analyzing current issues that the nation and the world face today.Table of ContentsPART 1: FOUNDATIONSCHAPTER 1: UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL PROBLEMSPART 2: PROBLEMS OF BEHAVIORAL DEVIANCECHAPTER 2: ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGSCHAPTER 3: CRIME AND DELINQUENCYCHAPTER 4: VIOLENCECHAPTER 5: SEXUAL DEVIANCEPART 3: PROBLEMS OF INEQUALITYCHAPTER 6: POVERTYCHAPTER 7: GENDER AND SEXUAL ORIENTATIONCHAPTER 8: RACE, ETHNIC GROUPS, AND RACISMPART 4: PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONSCHAPTER 9: GOVERNMENT AND POLITICSCHAPTER 10: WORK AND THE ECONOMYCHAPTER 11: EDUCATIONCHAPTER 12: FAMILY PROBLEMSCHAPTER 13: HEALTH CARE AND ILLNESS: PHYSICAL AND MENTALPART 5: GLOBAL SOCIAL PROBLEMSCHAPTER 14: WAR AND TERRORISMCHAPTER 15: THE ENVIRONMENT
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McGraw-Hill Education Women Across Cultures A Global Perspective 2026 Release ISE
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McGraw-Hill Education Sociology Matters 2026 Release ISE
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McGraw-Hill Education Sociology A Brief Introduction 2024 Release ISE
Book SynopsisSociology: A Brief Introduction connects essential sociological theories, research, and concepts to students' daily experiences. The program highlights the distinctive ways in which sociologists explore human social behaviorand how their research findings can be used to help students think critically about the broader principles that guide their lives. In doing so, it helps students begin to think sociologically, using what they have learned to evaluate human interactions and institutions independently. With up-to-date scholarship, examples, and photos, Dr. Schaefer's market-leading, student-friendly program features thorough integration of the latest research on race, ethnicity, and globalization.
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McGraw-Hill Education Public and Private Families An Introduction SELF
Book SynopsisPublic and Private Families: An Introduction devotes equal attention to the public aspects of family life, such as law, social policy and, social inequality, and the private aspects, such as intimate relations, cohabitation, marriage, and the division of labor in the home. The text discusses the meaning of family, how it has evolved and how it continues to evolve, from both private and public perspectives. Andrew Cherlin guides students through an exploration of the history of families around the world, prompting critical and sociological thinking. Public and Private Families: An Introduction defines the private family as a personal space, where we live most of our personal lives, while the public family is where we deal with broader societal issues and challenges. Public and private families are studied through the lenses of gender, race, ethnicity, and social class. Students explore the impact that society, the workplace, and public policy hav
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Technical Writing For Dummies
Book SynopsisLearn to document the technology that makes the world go Technical Writing For Dummies is a master class on how to build a career writing user manuals, e-learning, streaming, simulations, and more. It even zooms into the metaverse. Whether you're new to the field, a seasoned professional, or a technical person who needs to write, this guide arms you with the skills you need to cash in on this flourishing world of technical writing. This isn't your average how-to. It's a compendium of innovative industry knowledge that will help you set yourself apart with the latest trends and best practices in technical writing. As a tech writer, you'll need a robust skillset that allows you to offer clear and concise documentation for just about anything. This new edition of Technical Writing For Dummiesupdated for all of today's tech writing advancescan get you there. Uncover the basics of technical writing and master common documentation types Get insighTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part 1: What It Takes to Write Technical Docs 5 Chapter 1: Working as a Technical Writer 7 Chapter 2: Putting Together a Team and a Plan 25 Part 2: The Write Stuff 37 Chapter 3: Completing a Technical Writing Brief 39 Chapter 4: Crafting a Draft 51 Chapter 5: Designing Documents to Enhance the User Experience 57 Chapter 6: Honing the Tone 85 Chapter 7: Fine-Tuning toward the Ideal 97 Part 3: Frequently Written Docs 107 Chapter 8: Writing User Manuals and More 109 Chapter 9: Preparing Abstracts 127 Chapter 10: Creating Spec Sheets 133 Chapter 11: Generating Questionnaires 141 Chapter 12: Preparing for Technical Presentations 149 Chapter 13: Abridging for Executive Summaries 159 Part 4: Tech Tools 167 Chapter 14: Collaborating with Others 169 Chapter 15: Videoconferencing 183 Chapter 16: Offering eLearning 195 Chapter 17: Surfing the Net 211 Chapter 18: Protecting Intellectual Property 221 Part 5: The Part of Tens 233 Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Writing a Whitepaper 235 Chapter 20: Ten Tips for Publishing in a Technical Journal 241 Chapter 21: Ten Frustrations of Technical Writers 247 Appendix A: Punctuation Made Easy 253 Appendix B: Grammar’s Not Grueling 265 Appendix C: Abbreviations and Metric Equivalents 275 Appendix D: Tech Talk: Glossary of Terms 285 Appendix E: Technical Writing Brief 289 Index 293
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Essential Concepts in Sociology
Book SynopsisSocial life is in a constant process of change, and sociology can never stand still. As a result, contemporary sociology is a theoretically diverse enterprise, covering a huge range of subjects and drawing on a broad array of research methods. Central to this endeavour is the use of core concepts and ideas which allow sociologists to make sense of societies, though our understanding of these concepts necessarily evolves and changes. This clear and jargon-free book introduces a careful selection of essential concepts that have helped to shape sociology and continue to do so. Going beyond brief, dictionary-style definitions, Anthony Giddens and Philip W. Sutton provide an extended discussion of each concept which sets it in historical and theoretical context, explores its main meanings in use, introduces relevant criticisms, and points readers to its ongoing development in contemporary research and theorizing. Organized in ten thematic sections, the book offers a portrait of sociology through its essential concepts, ranging from capitalism, identity and deviance to the digital revolution, environment, postcolonialism and intersectionality. It will be essential reading for all those new to sociology as well as anyone seeking a reliable route map for a rapidly changing world.Table of ContentsIntroduction THEME 1: THINKING SOCIOLOGICALLY Digital Revolution Globalization Modernity Postcolonialism Postmodernity Rationalization THEME 2: DOING SOCIOLOGY Ideal Type Qualitative / Quantitative Methods Realism Reflexivity Science Social Constructionism Structure / Agency THEME 3: ENVIRONMENT AND URBANISM Alienation Environment Industrialization Migration Risk Sustainable Development Urbanism THEME 4: STRUCTURES OF SOCIETY Bureaucracy Capitalism Consumerism Division of Labour Education Organization Religion THEME 5: UNEQUAL LIFE CHANCES Class Gender Intersectionality Patriarchy Poverty ‘Race’ and Ethnicity Social Mobility Status THEME 6: RELATIONSHIPS AND THE LIFE COURSE Community Family Life Course Network Sexuality Socialization THEME 7: INTERACTION AND COMMUNICATION Culture Discourse Identity Ideology Interaction Media Public Sphere THEME 8: HEALTH, ILLNESS AND THE BODY Biomedicine Medicalization Sick Role Social Model of Disability Social Self THEME 9: CRIME AND SOCIAL CONTROL Anomie Deviance Labelling Moral Panic Social Control Stigma THEME 10: POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY Authority Citizenship Civil Society Conflict Democracy Nation State Power Social Movement
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Broadview Press Ltd Modern Tragedy
Book SynopsisModern Tragedy, first published in 1966, is a study of the ideas and ideologies which have influenced the production and analysis of tragedy. Williams sees tragedy both in terms of literary tradition and in relation to the tragedies of modern society, of revolution and disorder, and of individual experience.Modern Tragedy is available only in this Broadview Encore Edition, now edited and with a critical introduction by Pamela McCallum.Trade Review“A serious, unorthodox book on a much vexed subject. … Is tragedy an event in our lives, or a literary form, or a body of dogma? Williams’ analysis here is especially fine.” — New Society“An impassioned, powerful book…splendid.” — The GuardianTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Reading Modern Tragedy in the Twenty-First CenturyA Note on the TextModern TragedyAcknowledgementsForeword PART ONE: TRAGIC IDEAS Tragedy and Experience Tragedy and the Tradition Tragedy and Contemporary Ideas Tragedy and Revolution Continuity PART TWO: MODERN TRAGIC LITERATURE From Hero to Victim: The Making of Liberal Tragedy, to Ibsen and Miller Private Tragedy: Strindberg, O’Neill, Tennessee Williams Social and Personal Tragedy: Tolstoy and Lawrence Tragic Deadlock and Stalemate: Chekhov, Pirandello, Ionesco, Beckett Tragic Resignation and Sacrifice: Eliot and Pasternak Tragic Despair and Revolt: Camus and Sartre A Rejection of Tragedy: Brecht Works Cited and Further ReadingIndex
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American Traveler Press People of the Old Missury: Years of Conflict
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Mass Media & Tienanmen Square
Book SynopsisWhat took place Tiananmen Square was a dramatic conflict. And it was, to a great extent, a media-aided conflict. Without the active involvement of both the Chinese national news media and the international news media, the conflict could never have reached such a magnitude and cast such an extensive impact on the Chinese people and on people around the world. This book adopts a theoretical framework that combines the following lines: the general social environment in which the conflict occurred and the news media operated; the societal, ideological, organisational and professional factors that influenced the news media''s operations; and the interaction between the news media and the conflict. This book concentrates on the following areas to examine the effects of the news media on the movement: 1) the goals, strategies and discourse of the movement; 2) legitimisation or de-legitimisation of the movement; 3) information provision; 4) messages as signals for actions; and 5) people''s attitudes.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc American Constitution in Context
Book SynopsisWhat other document means so much to so many and yet is known to so few? Lamm guides the reader from the origins of the consitution to its present-day status. The reader is treated to readable explanations, history and interpretation as well as to the texture of this important document.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Jobs in America
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Affirmative Action An Annotated Bibliography
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Creativity: Being Usefully Innovative in Solving
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Academic Leadership
Book SynopsisManagement and leadership have become increasingly important issues in academic context and in educational organisations. This is reflected in the growing branch of literature dealing with the topic. Many books, papers and studies on academic leadership treat academic institutions as rather homogenous entities. Although it is commonly accepted that there is no one best way to lead -- good leadership depends on context and on culture -- little attention has been paid to academic leadership in the contexts of different disciplinary or departmental cultures. The book focuses on four distinct disciplines (history, sociology, biology and physics). The material is based on 56 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with scholars in eight departments representing these disciplines. Leadership histories and cultures of the academic departments form the basis of the case studies analysed in this study. The case studies demonstrate how diverse value-orientations and perspectives inherent in the cultures of the disciplines and specialisms, and local cultural processes in the departments, together direct and affect academic leadership. Academic leaders may affect these processes, but a strong local culture may considerably frame the expectations connected to leadership. The book highlights how leadership practices and preferences concerning leadership can vary considerably in different disciplinary, departmental and historical contexts. Leaders and managers in universities and other educational organisations will benefit from the resulting insight and understanding of cultural and social dynamics in the units and departments they are leading.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Community & the World: Participating in Social
Book SynopsisThis collection of articles and artwork examines inclusive community development education, which engages members of diverse, often marginalised groups in research and education for social change. Community development education is the democratic and scholarly practice of involving everyday people, from all backgrounds, in the research-based process of designing, starting, and evaluating programs that meet people''s needs. The book''s varied contributions serve as personalised invitations to: work with others as equals, join democratic social projects, talk to people "you wouldn''t have talked to before", value self-education, recognise contributions made by unpaid workers, invent ways to be non-violent, challenge passivity, and use democracy as a way to improve communities and the world. Addressing culture to science, chapters contain work carried out by younger and older scholarly activists in: Women''s Studies, anti-racist and anti-colonial studies, history, the social sciences, global studies, community studies, media studies, horticulture, philosophy, education, co-operatives and community service, social-movement organising, project development, political art, and popular music. Each chapter contains diverse themes, comes from multidisciplinary research, and speaks to the subject of education for social change in individual ways. Contributions focus on popular education, self-education, self-defined group education, group-defined university projects, and scholarly activism in local to global movements.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Utopia Between Corrupted Public Responsibility &
Book SynopsisIn the present volume Cathal O''Connel looks at the retreat of the public in the area of housing. The changing ownership structures actually affect largely the entire modes of living together societally and socially -- accommodation and settlement structures are reconstructed under a certain aegis of privatised options -- of which an enforced opting-out is one of the forms of the de-civilising role of the ''regulated de-regulation'', by which the state is backing out public responsibility, creating space for a new ''invisible hand'', though this is highly visible in form of multinational capital. The same shift of the ''individualisation of the social'' is pertinent in third level education which Deirdre Ryan and Peter Herrmann are investigating. In the EU, the current debate on what is called ''Services of General Interests'' the focus is on access and quality. Ryan/Herrmann clarify in a distinguished way that in this educational context economy matters not only in regard of accessibility, but as well in quality not least in the meaning of ''trimming substance''. What in these cases is more linked to individual policy areas, radiating and affecting indirectly the entire societal and social fabric, is mirrored and coined by the wider mechanisms of policy making and actually politics. Catherine Forde points on respective mechanisms in local government, making clear that formal restructuration actually does not open ''closed systems''; instead they create a kind of black whole -- claims of opening spaces for participation degenerate into unlevelled playgrounds. Problems of balancing such ''open spaces'' between the formal openness and the actually available ''real living space'' are topical in Rosie Meade''s contribution. It is getting obvious that responsibility is both a question of rights and personal commitment. Joe Finnerty in his contribution points on the most important fact, that the role of scientific research and the measurement of social and societal processes is as well not least a matter of commitment -- it has to be guaranteed and clarified and ''objective reason'' is not concerned with expelling subjective factors and artificially reducing complexity by constructing arithmetical constraints; instead, the development of indicator-oriented methods has to sublate and supersede complexity.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Health Research in Cyberspace: Methodoligical,
Book SynopsisChen and colleagues (2004: 157) contend, online technologies provide "researchers with an array of alternative arenas for data collection". As we shall see in this volume, there are numerous ways for social researchers to undertake their research. In many ways, online research provides researchers with numerous attractive environments that offline research may not be able to do. But we shall see too that online researchers have come to realise that many issues that we have adopted for offline research can be problematic when we attempt to do the same for online research and this includes the methods of data collection and ethics. Online research can also be problematic and there are important issues which researchers need to think through and deal with. I have attempted to cover these issues in the chapters in this volume. Essentially, contributors discuss more or less along the methodological, practical and personal issues in doing their online research. Some chapters may lean towards a more formal type of writing and are more theoretical while others may be more subjective and practical. But this is the intention of this book, as reflected in its title.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Advances in Sociology Research: Volume 3
Book Synopsis"Advances in Sociology Research" presents original research results on the leading edge of sociology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. This volume focuses on ageing, abortion and leadership.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Man in a Spider-Net
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates how the human life is influenced by systems, paradigms and social conventions. As a consequence of that, human beings can be considered trapped in a spider net from cradle to grave. Rational structured organisations, namely, are prerequisites for the society''s deliveries of products and services of good quality to reasonable prices from organisations of different kinds, public as well as others. Not least scientific organisations as universities and related institutions. It can be added that human individuals who are employed in different organisations are depending on the organisational structure and that a good or a bad structure of an organisation can influence their life as employees and even influence their private life. However, the organisational systems are only parts of superior systems that dominate the society. These systems are intertwined with paradigms and social conventions. It is these systems which are the objects for a study in part two. Thus, it is possible to say that the systems in question directly influences human life both social, cultural as well as scientific research.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Advances in Sociology Research: Volume 4
Book Synopsis"Advances in Sociology Research" presents original research results on the leading edge of sociology. Each chapter has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial advances across a broad spectrum. This volume focuses on poverty, life expectancy and migration.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Argentina: Economic, Political & Social Issues
Book SynopsisArgentina, officially the Argentine Republic is a South American country, constituted as a federation of twenty-three provinces and an autonomous city. It is second in size on the continent to Brazil and eighth in the world. Argentina occupies a continental surface area of 2,766,890 km (1,068,302 sq mi) between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south. It is bordered by Paraguay and Bolivia in the north, Brazil and Uruguay in the north-east, and Chile in the west and south. The country claims the British controlled territories of the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Argentina also claims 969,464 km (374,312 sq mi) of Antarctica, known as Argentine Antarctica, overlapping other claims made by Chile and the United Kingdom. Argentina has the highest Human Development Index level and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in purchasing power parity in Latin America. The country is currently classified as an Upper-Middle Income Country by the World Bank, or as a secondary emerging market. Argentina''s nominal GDP is the 31st largest economy in the world. This book concentrates on the latest economic, political and social issues of Argentina.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc India: Economic, Political & Social Issues
Book SynopsisIndia is the world''s twelfth largest economy at market exchange rates and the third largest in purchasing power. Economic reforms have transformed it into the second fastest growing large economy; however, it still suffers from high levels of poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition and environmental degradation. A pluralistic, multilingual, and multiethnic society, India is also home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected habitats. This book presents recent important issues dealing with India.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Korea: Economic, Political & Social Issues
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Nova Science Publishers Inc User-Centric Policy Design to Address Complex
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the question: How can democracy and governance be made more accountable to diverse groups of people within nested regions? How can we address risks across spatial and conceptual boundaries? Emotions are central to policy making. Making connections is the basis for consciousness and mindfulness. The more connections we can make, the better our thinking, our policy processes and our governance outcomes will be. We need to think about our emotions and not to deny them. Emotions, values, and perceptions are central to our humanity. They underpin the so called ''enemies within'', namely ''religion, morality, aesthetics and politics''. Enabling more decision making at the local level has both advantages and disadvantages. The research challenge is to find a democracy and governance process to maximise the advantages and minimise the disadvantages. This requires building organisational capacity to address accountability and the management of risk to enable people to work with diverse perceptions, interests, and issues.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Social Networks: Development, Evaluation &
Book SynopsisSocial networking is not a new concept. Various traditional facets of our existence might be reinterpreted as social networking, from early Christians to the World Wide Web. It refers to the act of relating nodes for example; individuals, organisations, other social entities through social links for example; friendship, professional relationship, information exchange. Before the 20th century, social networking could only take place at short distance, or with considerable time delay when travelling or exchanging letters. Since the 1950''s, telephones, tele- and videoconferencing have allowed real-time communications even over long distances. These two-way communication channels are generally good links for pairs of people or small groups, but they tend to be inefficient for large-scale, mass interactions. Moreover they enable simultaneous communications. This book provides leading edge research on this field from around the globe.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Mexico: Economic, Political & Social Issues
Book SynopsisMexico''s economic, political and societal issues have become major points of interest to countries all over the globe. Mexico is the second leading market for U.S. exports after Canada, and is the third most important source of U.S. imports after Canada and China. The United States is Mexico''s most important customer by far, receiving about 80% of Mexico''s exports, including petroleum, automobiles, auto parts, and winter vegetables, and providing about 50% of Mexico''s imports. The United States is the source of over 60% of foreign investment in Mexico, and the primary source of important tourism earnings. Mexico is also the leading country in Latin America in terms of U.S. investment, with the total stock of U.S. investment being about $85 billion in 2006. This book presents in-depth analyses of such issues such as foreign policy, political reform, and overall economic developments.
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