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Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 2000, Volume 47: Evolutionary Psychology and Motivation
ISBN: 9780803229266 / Angielski / Twarda / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent media coverage of the controversial theory of sexual violence as a product of biological evolution has once again brought the question of the origins of human motivation into the public eye. In this volume, leading scholars in behavioral studies examine the value of evolutionary perspectives in understanding psychological motivations. Beginning with the fundamental fact that humans are part of the biological world, evolutionary psychologists contend that human motivations and mental processes should be understood as by-products of natural selection. By viewing human psychology both...
Recent media coverage of the controversial theory of sexual violence as a product of biological evolution has once again brought the question of the o...
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Big World, Small Screen: The Role of Television in American Society
ISBN: 9780803272637 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Big World, Small Screen assesses the influence of television on the lives of the most vulnerable and powerless in American society: children, ethnic and sexual minorities, and women. Many in these groups are addicted to television, although they are not the principal audiences sought by commercial TV distributors because they are not the most lucrative markets for advertisers.
This important book illustrates the power of television in stereotyping the elderly, ethnic groups, gays and lesbians, and the institutionalized and, thus, in contributing to the self-image of many viewers.... Big World, Small Screen assesses the influence of television on the lives of the most vulnerable and powerless in American society: children, e...
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Knowing Children: Participant Observation with Minors
ISBN: 9780803933651 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To help the researcher understand why and how children react to adults who are doing ethnographic research, Fine and Sandstrom explore the methodological and ethical problems of qualitative research with minors. They correct numerous fallacies held by researchers that children think like adults and that they cannot hide their thoughts and feelings from adults, especially strangers. Recognizing that age is an important determinant of children's response, they discuss problems and present strategies for conducting research with three age groups of children: preschool children (4 to 6 year...
To help the researcher understand why and how children react to adults who are doing ethnographic research, Fine and Sandstrom explore the methodologi...
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Mental Health in Black America
ISBN: 9780803935402 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume details the self-reported stress of being Black in the United States, and documents the cultural resources African Americans draw upon to overcome adversity and maintain a positive, healthy perspective on life. Based on data obtained from a United States National Survey of Black Americans, the book first discusses psychological and sociological factors affecting life satisfaction. Contributors then explore how these psychosocial factors contribute to such health problems as alcoholism and hypertension. The volume concludes with an examination of strategies Black Americans use in...
This volume details the self-reported stress of being Black in the United States, and documents the cultural resources African Americans draw upon to ...
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Fundamentals of Item Response Theory
ISBN: 9780803936478 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By using familiar concepts from classical measurement methods and basic statistics, this book introduces the basics of item response theory (IRT) and explains the applications of IRT methods to problems in test construction, identification of potentially biased test items and test equating.
By using familiar concepts from classical measurement methods and basic statistics, this book introduces the basics of item response theory (IRT) and ...
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Generalizability Theory: A Primer
ISBN: 9780803937451 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Considers generalizability theory, covering such topics as generalizability studies with nested facets and with fixed facets, measurement error and generalizability co-efficients and decision studies with the same and with different designs.
Considers generalizability theory, covering such topics as generalizability studies with nested facets and with fixed facets, measurement error and ge...
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The Narrative Study of Lives
ISBN: 9780803948136 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do we derive concepts from stories and then use these concepts to understand people? What would have to be added to transform story material from the journalistic or literary to the academic and theoretically enriching? Addressing these and other issues such as the interface between life as lived and the social times, distinguished contributors explore this emerging new field in this unique volume.
Beginning with the philosophical framework that underlies the study of narrative, the book covers such questions as: what makes people want to preserve the stories of their past? What... How do we derive concepts from stories and then use these concepts to understand people? What would have to be added to transform story material from ...
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The Discursive Mind
ISBN: 9780803955028 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This lucidly argued volume covers the key philosophical revolutions that are shaping contemporary psychology. Harr ac]e and Gillett herald a new paradigm in psychology, dissolving the Cartesian distinction between mind and body in favour of the discursive turn in psychological theory.
This lucidly argued volume covers the key philosophical revolutions that are shaping contemporary psychology. Harr ac]e and Gillett herald a new parad...
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The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier
ISBN: 9780803970595 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How might a multiracial concept dismantle our negative construction of race? How do we redefine 'ethnicity' when 'race' is less central to the definition? The Multiracial Experience challenges current theoretical and political conceptualizations of race using the multiracial experience of individuals as a tool for examining these and other questions. Each contribution opens with a personal sketch of the multiracial experience. Topics explored in the book include: the differences between race and ethnicity; colour, gender and sexuality in a multiracial context; and ethnicity and its role in...
How might a multiracial concept dismantle our negative construction of race? How do we redefine 'ethnicity' when 'race' is less central to the definit...
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Interpreting Experience: The Narrative Study of Lives
ISBN: 9780803971073 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The focus of this book is on the role of narrative analysis in the social sciences and in increasing our understanding of human lives and experiences. Contributors address such questions as: Should in-depth interviews become occasions in which to ask for life stories so as to enhance a study of social phenomena? Can a richer approach to psychological understanding be reached by studying how experience, conscious and unconscious, is organized, interpreted and reshaped throughout the life cycle? How can biographical work be used to shed light on the social construction of individual lives?...
The focus of this book is on the role of narrative analysis in the social sciences and in increasing our understanding of human lives and experiences....
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Deconstructing Feminist Psychology
ISBN: 9780803976405 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How close is feminist psychology to contemporary feminism? How can feminist psychological practice address issues of difference' between women in meaningful ways? What price has feminist psychology had to pay for attempting to engage with mainstream psychology to revise and improve it?
This book critiques feminist practice within psychology, and reflects the diversity from across the globe of feminist struggles around psychology. An international group of key feminist psychologists explore the relations between feminist politics and psychological practices in: transitional and postcolonial... How close is feminist psychology to contemporary feminism? How can feminist psychological practice address issues of difference' between women in mean...
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Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found Its Language
ISBN: 9780803977631 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this work, the author explains how modern psychology found its language by examining the historically changing structure of psychological discourse and offering an analysis of the recent evolution of the concepts and categories on which the quality of psychological discourse depends.
In this work, the author explains how modern psychology found its language by examining the historically changing structure of psychological discourse...
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Feminism and Discourse: Psychological Perspectives
ISBN: 9780803978010 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines a range of discourse analytical work in psychology from a feminist perspective. It constitutes a thorough critical evaluation of this approach for the feminist project of intellectual, social and political change.
This study examines a range of discourse analytical work in psychology from a feminist perspective. It constitutes a thorough critical evaluation of t...
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Feminism and Discourse: Psychological Perspectives
ISBN: 9780803978027 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing a showcase for a wide range of discourse analytical work in psychology from a feminist perspective, this book constitutes a thorough critical evaluation of this approach for the feminist project of intellectual, social and political change.
Providing a showcase for a wide range of discourse analytical work in psychology from a feminist perspective, this book constitutes a thorough critica...
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Resisting Gender: Twenty-Five Years of Feminist Psychology
ISBN: 9780803978256 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study offers a social history of the development of the psychology of women as an academic field. The author examines areas of concern in women's psychology, including discrimination, power and social control, critique of theory and content in psychology, and epistemology.
This study offers a social history of the development of the psychology of women as an academic field. The author examines areas of concern in women's...
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Beyond Disability: Towards an Enabling Society
ISBN: 9780803979567 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important text draws together a wealth of experience to present theoretical and practical insights into the way society intervenes in the lives of disabled people, and considers how resources could be used in ways that are more helpful and supportive.
Stressing the social contexts within which disabilities become apparent, the contributors highlight two key points: disabled people have practical difficulties only in the area of life affected by their disability and in other respects are no different from anyone else; and they are handicapped not by the parameters of their disability... This important text draws together a wealth of experience to present theoretical and practical insights into the way society intervenes in the lives o...
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Beyond Disability: Towards an Enabling Society
ISBN: 9780803979574 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study presents theoretical and practical perspectives on how society intervenes in the lives of people with disabilities, demonstrating ways in which such interventions can be ineffective and often counter-productive. Topics include care and counselling, legislation, and future developments.
This study presents theoretical and practical perspectives on how society intervenes in the lives of people with disabilities, demonstrating ways in w...
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Talking Difference: On Gender and Language
ISBN: 9780803988286 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " Talking Difference provides an excellent critical review of a good selection of the research in language and gender published over the last 20 years, including a substantial amount from the area of psychology... I found this an exhilarating book, written with energy and wit. Crawford maintains a consistently critical approach, identifying contradictions and ambiguities in popular theories of gender difference, and exposing conceptual and methodological weaknesses in language and gender research. The volume is well-structured and readable; it will prove very valuable in undergraduate and...
" Talking Difference provides an excellent critical review of a good selection of the research in language and gender published over the last 20 years...
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Speech Perception By Ear and Eye : A Paradigm for Psychological Inquiry
ISBN: 9780805800616 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Child Health Psychology
ISBN: 9780805800852 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique text offers an interdisciplinary collection of the most current articles concerning the scientific study of Child Health Psychology. The subjects of many articles are applicable to pediatrics, family medicine, child nursing, developmental, clinical child, and pediatric psychology. Emphasizing the scientific basis of the field, this empirical research is invaluable to the specialist, teacher, or student seeking the most contemporary research methods used to study psychological aspects of children's health care.
This unique text offers an interdisciplinary collection of the most current articles concerning the scientific study of Child Health Psychology. The s...
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