The Subculture of Violence: Towards an Integrated Theory in Criminology
ISBN: 9780415606318 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The search for the social causes of violence has been an ongoing preoccupation of criminologists since the early 20th century, when researchers attempted to look beyond biological and psychological explanations to understand crime. In 'The Subculture of Violence', Wolfgang and Ferracuti draw upon Wolfgang's earlier work on inner-city African-American neighbourhoods in Philadelphia in order to formulate an operational definition of the concept of a subculture.
The search for the social causes of violence has been an ongoing preoccupation of criminologists since the early 20th century, when researchers attemp...
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The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology
ISBN: 9780199338269 / Angielski / Miękka / 840 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since sociologists returned to the study of culture in the past several decades, a pursuit all but anathema for a generation, cultural sociology has emerged as a vibrant field. Edited by three leading cultural sociologists, The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology presents the full theoretical and methodological vitality of this critically significant new area.The Handbook gathers together works by authors confronting the crucial choices all cultural sociologists face today: about analytic priorities, methods, topics, epistemologies, ideologies, and even modes of writing....
Since sociologists returned to the study of culture in the past several decades, a pursuit all but anathema for a generation, cultural sociology has e...
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Libraries, Literatures, and Archives
ISBN: 9780415843874 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not only does the library have a long and complex history and politics, but it has an ambivalent presence in Western culture - both a site of positive knowledge and a site of error, confusion, and loss. Nevertheless, in literary studies and in the humanities, including book history, the figure of the library remains in many senses under-researched. This collection brings together established and up-and-coming researchers from a number of practices - literary and cultural studies, gender studies, book history, philosophy, visual culture, and contemporary art -with an effective historical... Not only does the library have a long and complex history and politics, but it has an ambivalent presence in Western culture - both a site of posit... |
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The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology
ISBN: 9780195377767 / Angielski / Twarda / 840 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since sociologists returned to the study of culture in the past several decades, a pursuit all but anathema for a generation, cultural sociology has emerged as a vibrant field. Edited by three leading cultural sociologists, The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology presents the full theoretical and methodological vitality of this critically significant new area.The Handbook gathers together works by authors confronting the crucial choices all cultural sociologists face today: about analytic priorities, methods, topics, epistemologies, ideologies, and even modes of writing. It is a vital...
Since sociologists returned to the study of culture in the past several decades, a pursuit all but anathema for a generation, cultural sociology has e...
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Qualitative Research in Social Work
ISBN: 9780231161381 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume, progressive experts survey recent trends in qualitative study, which relies on small sample groups and interview data to better represent the context and complexity of social work practice. Chapters address different approaches to qualitative inquiry, applications to essential areas of research and practice, integration of qualitative and quantitative methods, and epistemological issues. This second edition brings even greater depth and relevance to social work qualitative research, including new material that tackles traditional research concerns, such as data quality,...
In this volume, progressive experts survey recent trends in qualitative study, which relies on small sample groups and interview data to better repres...
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670,69 zł |
Qualitative Research in Social Work
ISBN: 9780231161398 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume, progressive experts survey recent trends in qualitative study, which relies on small sample groups and interview data to better represent the context and complexity of social work practice. Chapters address different approaches to qualitative inquiry, applications to essential areas of research and practice, integration of qualitative and quantitative methods, and epistemological issues. This second edition brings even greater depth and relevance to social work qualitative research, including new material that tackles traditional research concerns, such as data quality,...
In this volume, progressive experts survey recent trends in qualitative study, which relies on small sample groups and interview data to better repres...
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The Research Funding Toolkit
ISBN: 9780857029683 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressing a key area for researchers and academics, this practical text provides readers with all they need to know about the process of applying for research funding.
Addressing a key area for researchers and academics, this practical text provides readers with all they need to know about the process of applying for...
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The SAGE Handbook of Social Research Methods
ISBN: 9781412919920 / Angielski / Twarda / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Handbook for Social Research Methods is a must for every social-science researcher. It charts the new and evolving terrain of social research methodology, covering qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods in one volume.
The Handbook for Social Research Methods is a must for every social-science researcher. It charts the new and evolving terrain of social research met...
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Handbook of Ethnography
ISBN: 9781412946063 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ethnography is one of the chief research methods in sociology, anthropology and other cognate disciplines in the social sciences. This book provides an unparalleled critical guide to its principles and practice.
Ethnography is one of the chief research methods in sociology, anthropology and other cognate disciplines in the social sciences. This book provides a...
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Encyclopedia of Gender in Media
ISBN: 9781412990790 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The media strongly influences our everyday notions of gender roles and our concepts of gender identity. The Encyclopedia of Gender in Media critically examines the role of the media in enabling, facilitating, or challenging the social construction of gender in our society. The work addresses a variety of entertainment and news content in print and electronic media and explores the social construction of masculinity as well as femininity. In addition to representations of gender within the media, we also analyze gender issues related to media ownership and the media workforce. Despite...
The media strongly influences our everyday notions of gender roles and our concepts of gender identity. The Encyclopedia of Gender in Media cri...
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Gender and Migration: Feminist Interventions
ISBN: 9781848134119 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provocative and intellectually challenging, Gender and Migration critically analyses how gender has been taken up in studies of migration and its theories, practices and effects. Each essay uses feminist frameworks to highlight how more traditional tropes of gender eschew the complexities of gender and migration. In tackling this problem, this collection offers students and researchers of migration a more nuanced understanding of the topic.
Provocative and intellectually challenging, Gender and Migration critically analyses how gender has been taken up in studies of migration and its theo...
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Global Civil Society: Poverty and Activism
ISBN: 9781848600157 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latest edition of this internationally renowned yearbook from its UCLA and LSE based editors.
Latest edition of this internationally renowned yearbook from its UCLA and LSE based editors.
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The Grim Reaper's Road Map: An Atlas of Mortality in Britain
ISBN: 9781861348234 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With over 100 colour-coded and accessible maps, this atlas presents the geography of death in Britain. It presents data from more than 14 million deaths over a 24-year period in Britain. It details over 100 separate categories of cause of death, including various cancers, suicides, assault by firearms, multiple sclerosis, pneumonia, and falls.
With over 100 colour-coded and accessible maps, this atlas presents the geography of death in Britain. It presents data from more than 14 million deat...
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Supervision in Social Work, 5th Edition
ISBN: 9780231151764 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1976, Supervision in Social Work has become an essential text for social work educators and students, detailing the state of the field and the place, function, and challenges of supervision in social work practice. This fifth edition takes into account the sizable number of articles and books published on supervision since 2002. Changes in public health and social welfare policy have intensified concern about the social work supervision of licensed practitioners. Tax and spending limitations at all levels of government, combined with the unfolding effects of...
First published in 1976, Supervision in Social Work has become an essential text for social work educators and students, detailing the state of...
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Cultural Memories: The Geographical Point of View
ISBN: 9789400736030 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The revival of interest in collective cultural memories since the 1980s has been a genuinely global phenomenon. Cultural memories can be defined as the social constructions of the past that allow individuals and groups to orient themselves in time and space. The investigation of cultural memories has necessitated an interdisciplinary perspective, though geographical questions about the spaces, places, and landscapes of memory have acquired a special significance. The essays in this volume, written by leading anthropologists, geographers, historians, and psychologists, open a range of new... The revival of interest in collective cultural memories since the 1980s has been a genuinely global phenomenon. Cultural memories can be defined as... |
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Growth to Freedom: The Psychosocial Treatment of Delinquent Youth
ISBN: 9780415848084 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published...
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a s...
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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication
ISBN: 9780415670432 / Angielski / Twarda / 676 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication consists of forty chapters that provide a broad, comprehensive, and systematic overview of the role that linguistics plays within health communication research and its applications. The "Handbook" is divided into three sections:
Special attention is given to cross-cutting themes, including the role of technology in health communication,... The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication consists of forty chapters that provide a broad, comprehensive, and systematic overview... |
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Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
ISBN: 9780415757539 / Angielski / Miękka / 968 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Encyclopedia opens with a general map of the region and a chronology of periods and dynasties, providing a context for the entries. The first section of the volume then comprises 14 overviews which explore the history and significance of each period. The main body of the text offers more than 300 alphabetically organized entries, written by some of the most eminent scholars in this field. Areas covered include: artefacts - glass, jewellery, sculpture archaeological practices - dating techniques, representational evidence, textual sources biographies - Howard Carter, Gertrude Caton...
The Encyclopedia opens with a general map of the region and a chronology of periods and dynasties, providing a context for the entries. The first sec...
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Critical Path Analysis in Practice: Collected Papers on Project Control
ISBN: 9780415852975 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published...
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a s...
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The Future of Cities
ISBN: 9780415853699 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of readings draws on material from a wide range of sources - from the past and present and from literature and technology - and is concentrated on the areas which seem most relevant to the planning of the future city - what is happening to the city and what we can do about it. The readings have been selected and organised to present the planning of the future city. This book was first published in 1974. This collection of readings draws on material from a wide range of sources - from the past and present and from literature and technology - and is ... |
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219,12 zł |