Resistance and social movements in mental health have been important in shaping current practice in both mental health and psychiatry. Contesting Psychiatry, focusing largely on the UK, examines the history of resistance to psychiatry between 1950 and 2000. Building on the author's extensive research, the book provides an empirical account and exploration of the key features including: an account of the key social movements and organizations who have contested psychiatry over the last fifty years the theorization of resistance to psychiatry which might apply to other national contexts and to...
Resistance and social movements in mental health have been important in shaping current practice in both mental health and psychiatry. Contesting Psyc...
Explores both the embodied nature of social life and the social nature of human bodily life. This title provides a review of the contemporary social science debates on the body. It critically reviews the literature on mind and body, and also on the body and society. It provides a review of the theoretical approaches to the sociology of the body.
Explores both the embodied nature of social life and the social nature of human bodily life. This title provides a review of the contemporary social s...
This book explores both the embodied nature of social life and the social nature of human bodily life. It provides an accessible review of the contemporary social science debates on the body, and develops a coherent new perspective.
Nick Crossley critically reviews the literature on mind and body, and also on the body and society. He draws on theoretical insights from the work of Gilbert Ryle, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, George Herbert Mead and Pierre Bourdieu, and shows how the work of these writers overlaps in interesting and important ways which, when combined, provide the basis for a...
This book explores both the embodied nature of social life and the social nature of human bodily life. It provides an accessible review of the contemp...
'Clear and accessible - Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory makes difficult ideas available to an undergraduate audience' -Larry Ray, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent
The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding.
Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to...
'Clear and accessible - Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory makes difficult ideas available to an undergraduate audience' -Larry Ray, ...
An introduction to the notion of intersubjectivity as a central concern of philosophy, sociology, psychology and politics. The main purpose of this volume is to provide a coherent framework for this concept against which the various and contrasting debates can be more clearly understood.
An introduction to the notion of intersubjectivity as a central concern of philosophy, sociology, psychology and politics. The main purpose of this vo...
Nick Crossley argues for a properly 'relational' approach to sociology by unpacking & evaluating key concepts in the relational 'toolbox' - interaction, relations, networks and power - linking abstract & theoretical debates on the nature of relational thought to concrete concerns of method & research practice.
Nick Crossley argues for a properly 'relational' approach to sociology by unpacking & evaluating key concepts in the relational 'toolbox' - interactio...
Social networks are critical for the creation and consumption of music. This edited collection, Social Networks and Music Worlds, introduces students and scholars of music in society to the core concepts and tools of social network analysis. The collection showcases the use of these tools by sociologists, historians and musicologists, examining a variety of distinct 'music worlds', including post-punk, jazz, rap, folk, classical music, Ladyfest and the world of 'open mic' performances, on a number of different scales (local, national and international). In addition to their overarching...
Social networks are critical for the creation and consumption of music. This edited collection, Social Networks and Music Worlds, introduces students ...
In 1899, two women from very different backgrounds are about to embark on a journey together - one that will take them from the Old World to the New, from the 19th century into the 20th, and from the comfort and familiarity of England to the rigours of Western Canada, where challenges await at every turn.
The journey begins simply for Kicker Stuart when she leaves her home village to take employment as hostler and farrier at Grindleshire Academy for Young Ladies. But when Kicker falls in love with a teacher, Madelyn Bristow, it radically alters the course of her tranquil life.
Together, the...
In 1899, two women from very different backgrounds are about to embark on a journey together - one that will take them from the Old World to the New, ...
The ego-net approach to social network analysis, which takes discrete individual actors and their contacts as its starting point, is one of the most widely used approaches in the field. This is the first textbook to take readers through each stage of ego-net research, from conception, through research design and data gathering to analysis.
It starts with the basics, assuming no prior knowledge of social network analysis, but then moves on to introduce cutting edge innovations, covering both new statistical approaches to ego-net analysis and also the most recent thinking on...
The ego-net approach to social network analysis, which takes discrete individual actors and their contacts as its starting point, is one of the mos...
