Category: Social Sciences - Sociology
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Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
Original price was: $119.00.$95.20Current price is: $95.20.Add to cartAdvances in Experimental Social Psychology continues to be one of the most sought after and most often cited series in this field. Containing contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest, this series represents the best and the brightest in new research, theory, and practice in social psychology.
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Age and Structural Lag: Society’s Failure to Provide Meaningful Opportunities in Work, Family, and Leisure
Original price was: $306.95.$245.56Current price is: $245.56.Add to cartIn twentieth-century industrial societies most of us live longer and healthier lives than ever before in history. Yet the social structures and institutions that provide opportunities for our lives are still marked by age constraints that were appropriate a century ago. Education is still primarily reserved for the young; work and family responsibilities are crowded …
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An Introduction to Politics, State and Society
Original price was: $140.00.$112.00Current price is: $112.00.Add to cartThis major new textbook will equip students with a complete understanding of contemporary politics, state and society in the United Kingdom today. Key underlying themes include: The differences between traditional and alternative ‘sites of power’ and what we mean by ‘political’ the relationships between politics, society and how individuals become and remain engaged with politics …
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Applied Statistics with SPSS
Original price was: $151.00.$120.80Current price is: $120.80.Add to cartAccessibly written and easy to use, Applied Statistics Using SPSS is an all-in-one self-study guide to SPSS and do-it-yourself guide to statistics. What is unique about Eelko Huizingh’s approach is that this book is based around the needs of undergraduate students embarking on their own research project, and its self-help style is designed to boost …
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Battered Women
Original price was: $34.95.$27.96Current price is: $27.96.Add to cartDomestic violence affects women from all walks of life. Contributors to this anthology investigate the pattern of domestic violence and examine legal and other measures that can protect battered women. Personal narratives by women who were victims of domestic violence illustrate the problem.
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Creative Transformation of the Universal Order of Orders to Ensure Humankind’s Peaceful Development
Original price was: $69.90.$55.90Current price is: $55.90.Add to cartThe necessity of conceptualizing global change tends to broaden understanding of the complex issues common to all sciences, and requires new ontological and epistemological methods that are superior to any discipline. In this regard, the book is the first scholarly work on the intersection of natural, social, and human sciences, the purpose of which is …
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Criminological Research
Original price was: $140.00.$112.00Current price is: $112.00.Add to cart‘Noaks and Wincup’s book is useful primarily to criminology students for its clarity, use of illustrative case studies, exercises and end-of-chapter suggested further reading’ – The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice Criminological Research offers a comprehensive guide to both the theory and practice of qualitative criminological research. Through a detailed yet concise explanation, the reader …
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Criminology and Political Theory
Original price was: $140.00.$112.00Current price is: $112.00.Add to cartA lucid, sophisticated and timely vindication of the importance of Marxist, feminist and other radical perspectives on the state and political economy to the analysis of crime, control and justice. It offers a valuable guide to issues of political philosophy for students and teachers of criminology, critically deconstructing the taken-for-granted categories of law and criminal …
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Criminology and Social Policy
Original price was: $190.00.$152.00Current price is: $152.00.Add to cartCriminology and Social Policy systematically examines the relationship between social policy and crime. In this lively and engaging text, Paul Knepper discusses the difference social policy makes, or can make, in any response to crime. He also considers the contribution of criminology to the debates on major social policy areas, such as housing, education, employment, …
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Doing Ethnography
Original price was: $116.00.$92.80Current price is: $92.80.Add to cartDoing Ethnography systematically describes the various phases of an ethnographic inquiry, provides numerous examples, and offers suggestions and advice for the novice ethnographer. Ethnography seeks to understand, describe, and explain the symbolic world lying beneath the social action of groups, organizations, and communities. This book clearly sets out the coordinates and foundations of this increasingly …
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Doing Sensory Ethnography
Original price was: $121.00.$96.80Current price is: $96.80.Add to cartDoing Sensory Ethnography responds to a recent an explosion of interest in the senses across the social sciences. Sarah Pink suggests re-thinking the ethnographic process through reflexive attention to what she terms the ‘sensoriality’ of the experience, practice and knowledge of both researchers and those who participate in their research. The book provides an accessible …
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Experiencing Social Work
Original price was: $182.00.$145.60Current price is: $145.60.Add to cart‘Experiencing Social Work provides a refreshing change in the expanse of social work education texts. Its focus on learning from people who had received a good service from social workers drew out many of the foundation blocks of practice that can so easily be minimised in favour of ‘deeper academic theories’. In short, it reminded …
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Fire Safety and Loss Prevention
Original price was: $56.95.$45.56Current price is: $45.56.Add to cartFire Safety and Loss Prevention explores the ramifications of fire prevention and how the security department can implement fire safety systems and designs, even when fire codes conflict with prudent security practices. Fire Safety and Loss Prevention is a necessity for security directors, managers, and supervisors as well as owners of health care, retail, and …
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First (and Second) Steps in Statistics
Original price was: $190.00.$152.00Current price is: $152.00.Add to cartFirst (and Second) Steps in Statistics, Second Edition provides a clear and concise introduction to the main statistical procedures used in the psychological and social sciences. The rationale and procedure for analyzing data are presented through exciting examples, with an emphasis on understanding rather than computation. It is ideally suited for introductory courses in statistics. …
