Category: Social Sciences - Sociology
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Global Social Policy and Governance
Original price was: $201.00.$160.80Current price is: $160.80.Add to cartGlobal Social Policy and Governance explores these issues and presents a critical analysis of policy-making in an interconnected world. The chapters caution against a superficial account of understanding global social policy and instead discuss the complexities and controversies surrounding the global actors shaping international policy. Overall the book presents an authoritative understanding of the way …
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Handbook of Clinical Sociology
Original price was: $269.00.$215.20Current price is: $215.20.Add to cartClinical sociology is an action-oriented field that seeks to prevent, reduce, or resolve the seemingly overwhelming number of social problems confronting modern society. In an extensive revision of the first edition of this classic text and reference, published by Plenum in 1990, the editors have assembled a distinguished roster of contributors to address such topics …
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Interpreting Quantitative Data With IBM SPSS Statistics
Original price was: $75.00.$60.00Current price is: $60.00.Add to cartThe second edition of Interpreting Quantitative Data with IBM SPSS Statistics is an invaluable resource for students analysing quantitative data for the first time. The book clearly sets out a range of statistical techniques and their common applications, explaining their logic and links to the research process. It also shows how SPSS can be used …
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Introducing Anova and Ancova
Original price was: $201.00.$160.80Current price is: $160.80.Add to cartTraditional approaches to ANOVA and ANCOVA are now being replaced by a General Linear Modeling (GLM) approach. This book begins with a brief history of the separate development of ANOVA and regression analyses and demonstrates how both analysis forms are subsumed by the General Linear Model. A simple single independent factor ANOVA is analysed first …
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Police Field Operations
Original price was: $88.00.$70.40Current price is: $70.40.Add to cartA textbook for a course in the actual procedures police should and do use when in the field. They include patrol, basic procedures, observation and perception, communications, reporting and records, interviewing techniques, crimes in progress, unusual occurrences, traffic direction and enforcement,
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Profiling Property Crimes
Original price was: $124.95.$99.96Current price is: $99.96.Add to cartEach of these commissioned papers explores the varieties of different crimes against property. The actions that differentiate types of arson, burglary, workplace crime and robbery are examined to provide insights of relevance to criminologists, psychologists and criminal investigators.
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Prostitution
Original price was: $195.00.$156.00Current price is: $156.00.Add to cartMany commentators have attempted to analyze and explain the nature of prostitution. However this is the first textbook to offer a complete overview of the way it operates within contemporary society, its characteristics, organizational structures, and cultural contexts. The book also explores how criminal, social, and health policies have sought to regulate and control the …
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Racisms
Original price was: $129.00.$103.20Current price is: $103.20.Add to cartProviding a sign-posted route into key elements of contemporary debates, this book introduces practical methods which enable students to think coherently and sociologically about the complex feature of ‘raceÂ’ and ‘racism.Â’ Author Steve Garner argues that there is no single monolithic object of analysis but rather a plural set of ideas and practices that result …
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Research Ethics for Social Scientists
Original price was: $134.00.$107.20Current price is: $107.20.Add to cartEthics is becoming an increasingly prominent issue for all researchers across the western world. This comprehensive and accessible guide introduces students to the field and encourages knowledge of research ethics in practice. Research Ethics for Social Scientists sets out to do four things: The first is to demonstrate the practical value of thinking seriously and …
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Researching ‘Race’ and Ethnicity
Original price was: $157.00.$125.60Current price is: $125.60.Add to cart‘Gunaratnam’s framework is rich in its examination and synthesis of approaches to the study of “race”… the reward for the reader who does pick up the book is that the author deftly articulates the complicated view of research on “race” first from the quantitative perspective and then skilfully moves the reader to issues of “race” …
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Social Inequality
Original price was: $121.00.$96.80Current price is: $96.80.Add to cartWhat is the state of social inequality today? How can you situate yourself in the debates? This is an essential book that not only introduces you to the key areas, definitions and debates within the field, but also gives you the opportunity to reflect upon the roots of inequality and to critically analyse power relations …
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The SAGE Dictionary of Health and Society
Original price was: $63.00.$50.40Current price is: $50.40.Add to cart`The inter-relationships of health, illness and society are matters of intense and growing research and debate. Kevin White has performed an extraordinary service to anyone who would wish to understand or contribute to such debates. His dictionary is authoritative and comprehensive. It provides clear, confident and succinct summaries of key terms, concepts,debates and influential figures …
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The SAGE Handbook of International Social Work
Original price was: $200.00.$160.00Current price is: $160.00.Add to cartThe SAGE Handbook of International Social Work tackles the global/local aspect of social work in its various forms and interrogates the key concerns that societies are facing through an international lens. The contributors show that, with an appreciation of commonalities and differences, local practices and appropriate forms of international activity can be better developed. With …
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The Sage Handbook of Social Cognition
Original price was: $200.00.$160.00Current price is: $160.00.Add to cartThe SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition is a landmark volume. Edited by two of the field’s most eminent academics and supported by a distinguished global advisory board, the 56 authors – each an expert in their own chapter topic – provide authoritative and thought-provoking overviews of this fascinating territory of research. Not since the early …
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The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics
Original price was: $200.00.$160.00Current price is: $160.00.Add to cart‘A superb volume that weaves together the complex threads of sociological theory, linguistic analysis and practical application that characterise this important and influential field. The contributions offer a range and depth of coverage that is not found elsewhere. Highly recommended for all serious students of the social dimensions of language’ – Ian Hutchby, Professor of …
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The Social Reality of Violence and Violent Crime
Original price was: $91.20.$72.96Current price is: $72.96.Add to cartThis book is written in the form of stories that individually and collectively describe violence and violent crime in America in the twentieth century. Because violence means different things to different people, this book attempts to show the many ways in which we as a society think about violence and how these perceptions have developed …
