Sociology for Social Work, Paperback

Examines changes in religious beliefs, in motives for work, in the issues that give rise to political conflict, in the importance people attach to ...

This book unravels the lives, needs and experiences of Nigerian and Ghanaian women working in prostitution in Brussels. It will be of particular in...

This book chronicles the evolution of women's participation in the labour force in Ireland over the last five decades. It will be a valuable resour...

Reducere. In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book...

Reducere. Based in the idea that social phenomena are best studied through the lens of different disciplinary perspectives, Empty Churches studies the growin...

This edited collection examines the intersections between career guidance, social justice and neo-liberalism. Contributors offer an original and gl...

This volume is the product of interest in both Howell and the genesis of the Rastafari movement. The volume was conceived and compiled by Rastafari...

Sociology, as a discipline, was born at the height of global colonialism and imperialism. Over a century later, it is yet to shake off its commitme...

The Scholar as Human brings together faculty from a wide range of disciplines-history; art; Africana, American, and Latinx studies; literature, law...

Whether a student, an instructor, a researcher, or just someone interested in understanding the roots of sociology and our social world, The Cambri...

Reducere. Most people get information about child sexual abuse from media coverage, social movements, or conversations with family and friends. Confronting C...

Reducere. Bestselling author and modern-day prophet Tony Campolo believes that one of the best ways to tell the grand story of the gospel is to tell stories ...

Reducere. Analysing Casual Conversation, first published in 1997 by Cassell, develops a systematic model for the analysis and description of casual conversat...

There would be no need for sociology if everyone understood the social frameworks within which we operate. That we do have a connection to the larg...

Pierre Bourdieu is one of the world's most important social theorists and is also one of the great empirical researchers in contemporary sociology....

This book provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to current debates on gender, exploring the major theorists whose work has prod...

The Open Access version of this book, available at https: //www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351234146, has been made available under a Creative Com...

Learning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging, being dependent on one's ability to critically engage with an array of theo...

This latest edition of Kenneth J Gergen's bestselling textbook is now even more accessible for students, offering a clear and thorough introduction...

From politics to education, work, crime, and religion this Very Short Introduction discusses some of the core considerations of contemporary sociol...

Reducere. Macro Social Work Practice: Working for Change in a Multicultural Society explores the dynamics and practice implications of increasingly diverse c...

Reducere. What if all you had to do was give your worries to The Worry Jar (TM) and you could work through anything? In this book, Michelle teaches our young...

Reducere. In this book there is something for everyone. The theorist will have ample opportunity to test his or her current knowledge against this model, to ...

Reducere. What does it mean to be an adult? In this original and compelling work, John Russon answers that question by leading us through a series of rich re...

Reducere. George Ritzer′s seminal work of critical sociology, The McDonaldization of Society, continues to stand as one of the pillars of modern sociological...

Reducere. Over a career spanning nearly seven decades, Jürgen Habermas - one of the most important European philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first ce...

This leading, authoritative textbook has been carefully and substantially revised to provide the indispensable foundational resource for the sociol...

Reducere. A Systems Theory of Religion, still unfinished at Niklas Luhmann's death in 1998, was first published in German two years later thanks to the edito...

Reducere. A cartoon book about Marx? Are you sure it's Karl, not Groucho? How can you summarize the work of Karl Marx in cartoons? It took Rius to do it. He'...

Reducere. Becoming German tells the intriguing story of the largest and earliest mass movement of German-speaking immigrants to America. The so-called Palati...

Reducere. This clear and accessible guide√>=written by social workers for social workers√>=describes the most current developments in neuroscience and their ...

Reducere. In Transforming Communication, Richard Bolstad combines his knowledge and experience as a communications educator and trainer on 6 continents, to s...

Reducere. DescriptionThis new text is based on Frederic G. Reamer's key reference for practitioners, Social Work Malpractice and Liability: Strategies for Pr...

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.'s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiraciesNo metropolis has been more loved or more ha...

Over the past two decades, Zapatista indigenous community members have asserted their autonomy and self-determination by using everyday practices a...

Reducere. A landmark work in sociology, cultural studies, and ethnography since its publication in 1977, Paul Willis's Learning to Labor is a provocative and...

Reducere. DescriptionHelping Teens Stop Violence, Build Community, and Stand for Justice is a guide for adults who work with young people ages ten and up on ...

Reducere. DescriptionGreen Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from a Minneapolis High School is a unique collection of thirty personal essays written by ...

DescriptionTranscontinental Dialogues brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous anthropologists from Mexico, Canada, and Australia who work at ...

Reducere. With its high salaries and good work-life balance, Denmark is an attractive place to work for professionals from all over the world. But the Danish...

City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of ci...

Reducere. How does social regulation shape who is "deviant" and who is "normal"? Critical Perspectives on Social Control and Social Regulation in Canada is a...

DescriptionIn the 2000s, Laos was treated as a model country for the efficacy of privatized, "sustainable" hydropower projects as viable options fo...

Reducere. DescriptionField placement is one of the most exciting and exhilarating parts of a formal social work education. It is also one of the most challen...

DescriptionShortlisted, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, 2019 Commended, Children's Book Council of Australia, 2019 Longlisted, Go...

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scienti...

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart o...

DescriptionFor two years Ester Newton did field research in the world of drag queens-homosexual men who make a living impersonating women. Newton s...

DescriptionCompassion traces the ways in which various societies across the globe have responded to the vulnerable among them from early human hist...

DescriptionGeorg Simmel, as well as being a major philosopher, is one of the founding figures of sociology whose work is comparable in importance t...

Social work is a human profession founded on social justice. It is difficult, however, to negotiate this in the constantly changing context of the ...

Reducere. Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon was a French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and p...

In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"-and on this basi...

Reducere. DescriptionGoing beyond dragon-slayers and sword-swingers, The Lost Heir blends fantasy and adventure with social justice issues in an unstoppable ...

DescriptionBetsy the Beetle has a constant companion, Murray. Unfortunately, he's a notorious and pesky worry bug. He loves to whisper horrible "wh...

Reducere. Are they human, or are they beast? Over the past several decades, the world has seen a new phenomenon on the rise, a group of people identifying as...

DescriptionExtending the definition of ecology to encompass social relations and human subjectivity as well as environmental concerns, The Three Ec...

Reducere. DescriptionMumbai's textile industry is commonly but incorrectly understood to be an extinct relic of the past. In The Archive of Loss Maura Finkel...

Reducere. Ethnosociology: The Foundations is a systematic presentation of the main principles and analytic strategies of the discipline of ethnosociology, wr...

Focusing on the immigrant family, this title brings together documents and commentary that is suitable for teaching United States history survey co...

Reducere. DescriptionFor her tenth birthday, Rebecca is invited to visit her cousin Max's movie studio When the cameras begin to roll, she finds herself unex...

DescriptionThis new manual provides a clear, comprehensive overview of the responsibilities of professionals in relation to safeguarding adults, an...

Reducere. DescriptionAllison Avery's cell phone is possessed--literally. Maybe. Growing up between two sisters of blond beauty, fiery and sarcastic Allison i...

... provides readers with a much-needed cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective on ecofeminist activism and scholarship." --Iris... a very...

The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a corne...

Reducere. Ethan is a young raindrop living a very content life floating in a cloud with his brothers and sisters. But a trip over the big blue ocean brings a...

DescriptionContemporary global challenges require practitioners to confidently analyse the dominant discourses and develop frameworks and strategie...

A chance meeting between a young white boy and an African American community mentor leads to an altruistic obsession in this one-of-a-kind biograph...

Reducere. A step-by-by guide, a book of poetry, a memoir, a life's work all blended together to form an alive manuscript for how we can support one another i...

Reducere. DescriptionMargaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 - 13 November 1963) was a prominent British Egyptologist and anthropologist. Primarily known for her...