Bücher veröffentlicht von SAGE Publications Inc

Masculinities, Gender Relationships and Sport brings together readings which explore perspectives that have emerged on the study of gender, men and sport.

Intelligence Testing and Minority Students offers an opportunity to re-learn and re-consider the implications of intelligence testing.

Christensen presents a new theory of the underlying structure and dynamics of the US intergovernmental system. It is designed to help planners and policy makers clarify the obstacles to effective action on behalf of the public good.

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Michael Welch gathers together his contributions to issues in criminal justice. Topics range from the war on drugs, boot camps and institutional violence to AIDS and HIV, capital punishment and the corrections industry. This vision of punishment and corrections emphasizes social control but takes account of social forces.

Communal Families focuses on the role definition of the family within the commune. Historic communal groups such as Shakers, Oneida, Amana, and the Mormons are investigated as are contemporary rural and urban communal groups such as twin Oaks, Jesus People USA, and the Hutterites.

Action training and research method of organizational development is a classic in public administration. Authors have assembled Neely Gardner's work in the form of a training manual, updating and putting it in the context of modern practice and scholarly thought.

Examines the reasons why children ultimately leave home to live on their own and how the pattern has changed throughout the 20th century.

Discourses on fatherhood often focus on minimal changes in men's participation in family-life and in so doing mask significant changes some men have made. In contrast, Dienhart's qualitative study of 18 shared parenting couples explores men's and women's resourcefulness as they deliberately co-create alternatives to traditional parenting patterns.

Uses health psychology to compare health issues faced by people in developing and developed countries. This title brings mainstream health psychology concepts to bear on the problems of international health. It discusses international health statistics and social science research methods applied to health in developing countries.

Describing the principles and methods of ethnography used by nurse researchers, the authors demonstrate how to: conduct ethnographic research in health settings; analyze and interpret data collected from field work; make ethical decisions related to the role of being an ethnographer; and how to put ideas in writing.

The author of this volume skillfully demonstrates that a vital component to understanding crime is to be able to view it as more than a single activity. James W. Messerschmidt argues that crime operates subtly through a complex series of gender, race and class practices and these interwoven elements must be seen as part of all social existence, not viewed independently.

While there is an expanding literature of qualitative studies with children, there is relatively little that examines the actual fieldwork process with them. This book looks at fieldwork with children from a number of perspectives, and helps to address the needs of researchers working with children.

This volume presents a systematic approach to identifying and modifying client defence mechanisms in the counselling process.

This book offers a clear, well-documented view of troubled adoptive families. It focuses on adoptive families after the legal finalization of the adoption has taken place and is full of case examples, detailed case histories and presentations of various practice strategies.

Providing practical help to counsellors who may not have been exposed to many aspects of women's experiences of illness, this book draws extensively from the research literature and the author's own nursing experience to identify the common ground of women who have moved through the difficulties of illness to satisfactory outcomes.

This introduction to computer supported cooperative work provides an overview of latest innovations in computer support with a focus on employees' interaction with technology and the extent to which technology facilitates collaboration. The book examines the impact technology has on workers and the implications for employee selection, training, performance appraisal, and job design.

From the premise that knowledge is co-constructed by observer and observed, and both must be clearly visible in research reports, Conversation as Method explores a rich methodology evolving from people coming together to talk, listen and learn from one another.

Traces the replacement of social and political activism by the pursuit of personal, psychological change. This title identifies the movement as the "rhetoric of therapy", where a persuasive cultural discourse that applies concepts such as coping and adapting replaces active attempts to reform flawed systems of social and political power.

This work offers an extended discussion of key issues of career development for women, such as: how women make career choices; what difference cultural and economic background makes for a woman's career development; and how women's and men's career development patterns compare.

This is a comprehensive guidebook for earning a graduate degree in the United States without ever setting foot on a campus. Help and advice is given for every stage of the distance learning process.