Symbolic Leaders: Public Dramas and Public Men
ISBN: 9780202308678 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Radio, television, and the press form the vast stage on which the publicdramas of our time are played to a responsive audience of millions-thepeoples of our nation and of the world. Almost anyone can steal the sceneand become a public hero, a favorite villain, or a lamented victim. How dothese persons-the symbolic leaders-emerge? Who are they? How does theclimate of public opinion affect the would-be leader? How does the publicuse its leaders?
Radio, television, and the press form the vast stage on which the publicdramas of our time are played to a responsive audience of millions-thepeoples ...
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The Human Body and the Law: A Medical-Legal Study
ISBN: 9780202308777 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this admirably objective and lucid exposition, the author examines from a medico-legal standpoint the comparative position in various countries, particularly in the UK and the United States, of currently controversial medical procedures: voluntary sterilization, compulsory sterilization and castration, transsexualism, experimentation, transplantation, and euthanasia-few of which, if any, enjoy a settled or clearly defi ned place in the eyes of the law. He considers the problems from two perspectives: fi rst, that of the individual in society and how far he himself may determine the extent...
In this admirably objective and lucid exposition, the author examines from a medico-legal standpoint the comparative position in various countries, pa...
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A New Dictionary of the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780202308784 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed especially to meet the needs of beginners in all the social sciences, "A New Dictionary of the Social Sciences" follows its highly successful distinguished predecessor initially issued as "A Dictionary of Sociology" first published in 1968. Many of the entries have been revised and updated to keep abreast of the proliferation in the vocabulary of the social sciences. The volume remains on excellent single source for definitions in social research. The entries include social psychological terms, terms in social and cultural anthropology, terms common to political science, social...
Designed especially to meet the needs of beginners in all the social sciences, "A New Dictionary of the Social Sciences" follows its highly successful...
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The Significance Test Controversy : A Reader
ISBN: 9780202308791 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tests of signifi cance have been a key tool in the research kit of behavioral scientists for nearly fi fty years, but their widespread and uncritical use has recently led to a rising volume of controversy about their usefulness. This book gathers the central papers in this continuing debate, brings the issues into clear focus, points out practical problems and philosophical pitfalls involved in using the tests, and provides a benchmark from which further analysis can proceed.
Tests of signifi cance have been a key tool in the research kit of behavioral scientists for nearly fi fty years, but their widespread and...
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Hustlers, Beats, and Others
ISBN: 9780202308876 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ranging from pool hustling to pornography, this book analyzes deviant branches of American life, dispels misconceptions about them, and throws new light on sociological theory and method. Each chapter radically dissents from one or more mainstream opinions about deviance. The first chapter examines the alleged causes for the decline of American poolrooms and finds them wanting, traces the rise and fall of poolrooms to historical changes in America's social structure, and cogently dissects the recent poolroom revival. The second chapter, reports a field study of a deviant occupation,... Ranging from pool hustling to pornography, this book analyzes deviant branches of American life, dispels misconceptions about them, and throws new ... |
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Social Psychology and Human Values: Documenting History, Charting Progress, and Exploring the World
ISBN: 9780202308920 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reflecting the contributions of M. Brewster Smith to social psychology and personality study, this selection includes not only his best known essays but also previously unpublished material. Professor Smith's consistent striving for a psychology both scientific and humane unifies the collection; it is a valid and valuable overview of the relevance of social psychology to human experience and societal problems by a man at the midstream of his career. An introductory essay traces the major themes in Professor Smith's work. Part I discusses the interdisciplinary relations of social... Reflecting the contributions of M. Brewster Smith to social psychology and personality study, this selection includes not only his best known essay... |
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Social Accounting Systems
ISBN: 9780202309026 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social accounting grew up as a result of the desire to bring together in a meaningful and comprehensive manner all the available observed facts on the economic and financial activity of a nation. Three social accounting systems of flow have been developed during the last three decades. Each of these systems has been constructed separately and independently. The framework of each system is constructed to tackle specific aspects of the national economy. It is also designed in a manner, which helps in framing policies for future activity. The aim of this book is mainly to describe the anatomy... Social accounting grew up as a result of the desire to bring together in a meaningful and comprehensive manner all the available observed facts on ... |
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Work & Human Behavior
ISBN: 9780202309095 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Work is a many-sided human enterprise that has been written about from a great many different points of view, representing almost every field of knowledge and almost every level of our social structure. Merely to identify these points of view is a daunting task. The subject of work has been written about by theologians and philosophers, by poets and novelists, by historians, economists, and sociologists, by biologists and naturalists, by politicians, by essayists and journalists. It has been described as both a blessing and a curse, as the chief means through which man has developed a...
Work is a many-sided human enterprise that has been written about from a great many different points of view, representing almost every field of...
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237,17 zł |
Hospitals and Patients
ISBN: 9780202309477 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the current social crisis in American medicine. The authors, two well-known sociologists, search out-and fi nd-the roots of this crisis in three areas: the organization of the hospital, the attitudes of the hospital toward its patients, and the relationship of hospitals to one another.
This book examines the current social crisis in American medicine. The authors, two well-known sociologists, search out-and fi nd-the roots of this cr...
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216,98 zł |
Old People in Three Industrial Societies
ISBN: 9780202309507 / Angielski / Miękka / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert and Helen Lynd's Middletown set the format in sociological theory and practice for hundreds of studies in the decades following its publication in 1929. Old People in Three Industrial Societies may well set similar standards for studies in its fi eld for many years to come. In addition to achieving a signifi cant breakthrough in the progress of socio logical research techniques, the book offers a monumental cross-cultural exposition of the health, family relationships, and social and economic status of the aged in three countries-the United States, Britain, and Denmark.
Robert and Helen Lynd's Middletown set the format in sociological theory and practice for hundreds of studies in the decades following its publication...
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247,26 zł |
A Geography of China
ISBN: 9780202309996 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is intended primarily for serious students of geography but it will also appeal to the general reader. For this reason technical terms have been used as sparingly as is consistent with correct meaning. Wherever the subject matter permits, the author emphasizes geographical growth and shows the interaction of geographical environment and the human activity and institutions. When originally published in the 1960s China was beginning to change with breathtaking rapidity. These changes are presented here against geographical and historical background. Knowledge of the environmental...
This book is intended primarily for serious students of geography but it will also appeal to the general reader. For this reason technical terms have ...
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Man the Hunter: The First Intensive Survey of a Single, Crucial Stage of Human Development-- Man's Once Universal Hunting Way of Life
ISBN: 9780202330327 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Man the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic studies increasingly contribute substantial amounts of new data on hunter-gatherers and are rapidly changing our concept of Man the Hunter. Social anthropologists generally have been reappraising the basic concepts of descent, fi liation, residence, and group structure. This book presents new data on hunters and clarifi es a series of conceptual issues among social anthropologists as a necessary background to broader discussions with...
Man the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic ...
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222,03 zł |
Social Work Case Management
ISBN: 9780202360751 / Angielski / Twarda / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Social Work Case Management
ISBN: 9780202360768 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Person-Environment Practice: Social Ecology of Interpersonal Helping
ISBN: 9780202361024 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Person-Environment Practice addresses a core but long- neglected dimension in social work and human services practice; accurate environmental assessment and strategic environmental intervention. Despite the centrality of "person-environment" as a key construct in direct practice, the domain of environmental assessment/intervention has received relatively little systematic attention in the practice literature. For a variety of reasons, the core focus of direct practice assessment and change strategies has centered more on "person" than "environment." This book seeks to redress that... Person-Environment Practice addresses a core but long- neglected dimension in social work and human services practice; accurate environmen... |
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Person-Environment Practice: Social Ecology of Interpersonal Helping
ISBN: 9780202361031 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Person-Environment Practice addresses a core but long- neglected dimension in social work and human services practice; accurate environmental assessment and strategic environmental intervention. Despite the centrality of "person-environment" as a key construct in direct practice, the domain of environmental assessment/intervention has received relatively little systematic attention in the practice literature. For a variety of reasons, the core focus of direct practice assessment and change strategies has centered more on "person" than "environment." This book seeks to redress that... Person-Environment Practice addresses a core but long- neglected dimension in social work and human services practice; accurate environmen... |
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Solution-Based Casework: An Introduction to Clinical and Case Management Skills in Casework Practice
ISBN: 9780202361178 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Solution-based casework is an approach to assessment, case planning, and case management that combines what we know from clinical social work with what we value about sound social work practice. It is grounded in family-centered social work and draws from clinical approaches within social work and mental health. By integrating problem- and solution-focused approaches that form the clinical and social work traditions, treatment partnerships are more easily formed between family, caseworker, and service provider. Solution-Based Casework is a skill-based, practice-oriented text that... Solution-based casework is an approach to assessment, case planning, and case management that combines what we know from clinical social work with ... |
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Solution-based Casework : An Introduction to Clinical and Case Management Skills in Casework Practice
ISBN: 9780202361185 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Solution-based casework is an approach to assessment, case planning, and case management that combines what we know from clinical social work with what we value about sound social work practice. It is grounded in family-centered social work and draws from clinical approaches within social work and mental health. By integrating problem- and solution-focused approaches that form the clinical and social work traditions, treatment partnerships are more easily formed between family, caseworker, and service provider. Solution-Based Casework is a skill-based,... Solution-based casework is an approach to assessment, case planning, and case management that combines what we know from clinical social work with ... |
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186,70 zł |
Evolutionary History of the Robust Australopithecines
ISBN: 9780202361376 / Angielski / Miękka / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In paleoanthropology the group of hominids known as the "robust" australopithecines has emerged as one of the most interesting. Through them we have the opportunity to examine the origin, natural history, and ultimate extinction of not just a single species, but of an entire branch in the hominid fossil record.
In paleoanthropology the group of hominids known as the "robust" australopithecines has emerged as one of the most interesting. Through them we have t...
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Structure and Change in Indian Society
ISBN: 9780202361383 / Angielski / Miękka / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent theoretical and methodological innovations in the anthropological analysis of South Asian societies have introduced distinctive modifications in the study of Indian social structure and social change. This book, reporting on twenty empirical studies of Indian society conducted by outstanding scholars, reflects these trends not only with reference to Indian society itself, but also in terms of the relevance of such trends to an understanding of social change more generally.
Recent theoretical and methodological innovations in the anthropological analysis of South Asian societies have introduced distinctive modifications i...
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247,26 zł |