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This concise text, covers both classical and contemporary social thought. It traces the major schools of thought over the past 150 years as they appear and reappear in different chapters and looks at important new voices in social theory. The treatment of individual theories and theorists is balanced with the development of key themes and ideas about social life.

Even in the closest of relationships, things can go wrong. This volume takes an honest look at difficulties, dilemmas and challenges in relationships and examines useful management and tolerance skills. Topics explored include: anger; having enemies; the family after divorce; interpersonal violence; codependency; HIV//AIDS; chronic illness; and bereavement.

This book provides an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of crime control and the new politics of safety and security across the globe. The contributions to this volume present a critique of current policy and open up the field of study to new directions.

The findings of a large qualitative research project which studied the experiences of the chronically ill within the health care system are presented here. Thorne demonstrates the vast difference between chronic and acute illness in terms of their social and health care consequences.The book is divided into three sections: the first examines how patients handle the onset of diseases and acute episodes; the second explores the relationship with health care providers; and the final part focuses on the ''system'' with its sociocultural and organizational agenda. The concluding chapter proposes future directions for health care organization, biomedical technology and social policy.

Community policing continues to be of great interest to policy makers, scholars and, of course, local police agencies. Successfully achieving the transformation from a traditional policing model to community policing can be difficult. This book aims to illuminate the path to make that change as easy as possible. Morash and Ford have produced a contributed anthology with original articles from a variety of well-known researchers, police trainers and leaders. They focus on:· Recent research for developing data systems to shape police reform · Changing the police culture to implement community policing · Creating partnership strategies within police organizations and between police and community groups for successful community policing · Anticipating future challenges

Presents a new approach to the integration of science and practice in clinical work

This book analyzes the issues surrounding divorce and its implications for public policy. The authors integrate research and policy perspectives of scholars to focus on the consequences of divorce for children, the parents' responsiblities after divorce, nonresidential parenting, and the effects of a high divorce rate in society.

Drawing upon years of experience working with communities and present practical strategies for working alongside non-researchers the authors offer tips, advice and exercises for preparing people to conduct focus groups, whether they are preparing a team to conduct a community study or teaching one person to help in a study.

A natural companion to the recently published Drug Control and the Courts (SAGE 1996), this accessible volume focuses on five case studies in judicial innovation - the dedicated drug treatment courts in Miami, Oakland, Fort Lauderdale, Portland and Phoenix. Each case is presented in a chapter written by a local expert to describe and evaluate five prime examples of dedicated drug treatment courts. These chapters are written to a common outline and each discuss the following points: community demographics; structural organization of the court; court caseloads, including drug cases; successes and failures of initial goals and objectives and subsequent adaptations; and measures of long-term successes and failures (recidivism and successful completion of treatment programmes).

This hands-on guide begins at the point many grant seekers can identify with - rejection. Part One emphasizes how to resubmit unfunded applications to make them more competitive. The material contained in this section is invaluable, especially since funding sources are now limiting the number of times the same application can be resubmitted. Part Two highlights the practical issues of a project after funding has been obtained. The authors provide a map of the people and places that must become part of a researcher''s daily and weekly routine, a checklist to aid the newly funded researcher''s progress, and guidance on the essential but often overlooked feature of research funding, time management. Subjects of other sections of this volume include the `small business'' aspects of maintaining funding for a project, and the process of targeting continued funding by determining the next fundable step of a project.

With opinion surveys being used increasingly to measure the public response to governmental initiatives, this book that helps clarify the basics of survey research as they apply to public administration will be welcomed. It is organized around the fundamental stages of the research process - planning, design, implementation, analysis and presentation of data.David H Folz presents practical illustrations and does not assume the reader to have an extensive background in statistics. Thorough coverage of the use of computers in data analysis is provided, together with illustrations of SPSS screens.

This accessible introduction to de Beauvoir's life and ideas considers the themes and tensions which inform her work. Highlighting the autobiographical aspects in de Beauvoir's work, Mary Evans presents a new and important analysis of the complex relationship between fact, fiction and autobiography.

Covers the research on strategic alliances and serves to lay out a research agenda on collaborative strategy and alliance management. The handbook also covers the theoretical foundations that guide work on inter-firm collaboration, ranging from sociological perspectives to real options theory to diverse traditions within organizational economics.

Discussing the aspects of the multimethod research approach, this book offers an explanation of how a planned synthesis of various research techniques (fieldwork, surveys, experiments, and nonreactive studies) can be used to improve social science knowledge.

Leading in a Multicultural Environment is suitable for a variety of management courses, well grounded in solid research, but written in an easy to comprehend style that: provides a culturally-centred leadership perspective allowing organizational leaders the opportunity to attend to the influence of culture; helps the reader.

Understanding Democratic Politics

'This is a unique interpretation of rural issues that will become essential reference for students, scholars, politicians, developers and rural activists...'- Imre Kovach, President, European Society for Rural Sociology, Research director, Institute for Political Sciences, Budapest

Appropriate for novice and experienced educators alike, this indispensable book explains how practitioner research can be used to solve instructional problems and improve student achievement.

Illustrates a range of techniques and approaches used in social research projects. This text covers quantitative and qualitative approaches to data collection and analysis in social research, considering both the structure and logic of research projects and the ethics and politics of research.

Political parties are indispensable to democracy and a central subject of research and study in political science around the world. This handbook maps the developments in party politics scholarship. It also addresses some topics to be addressed in nationally or regionally specific ways.

Provides a foundation from which to plan and implement social research and program evaluation projects that place youth in central roles. This title emphasizes how youth-led research represents a political and social statement about making relevant research result in significant changes to programs in the field of youth services.

Examines ways to analyze surveys, and focuses on the problems of weights and design effects. This edition incorporates practice of analyzing complex survey data, introduces the analytic approach for categorical data analysis, reviews new software and provides an introduction to the model-based analysis that can be useful analyzing social surveys.

The Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities is an interdisciplinary and international culmination of the growth of men's studies that also offers insight about future directions for the field.

Presents a discussion of fundamental statistical modeling concepts in a multiple regression framework. This book provides an introduction to GLM, exponential family distribution, and maximum likelihood estimation. It is useful for social science researchers who like to learn about advanced techniques.

This book provides encouragement and strategies for researchers who routinely address research questions using data from small samples. Chapters cover such topics as: using multiple imputation software with small sets; computing and combining effect sizes; bootstrap hypothesis testing; latent variable modeling; and time-series data from small numbers of individuals.

This volume is a readily accessible compilation of current, original scholarly research in the area of power and influence in organizations. It offers a rich exploration of emerging trends and new perspectives.

Internationally respected contributors describe in this volume their experiences of balancing the tension between teaching and research. Among the themes that emerge are: teachers as models for each other and for their students; individualism versus collectivism in the institution and the classroom; integrating individual research interests into the classroom; and finding one''s voice. The book suggests that if scholars are to be teachers, their ability to integrate teaching and research is fundamental to their wellbeing over the course of their career, and is probably an indication of their classroom effectiveness as well.

'Price's introduction to public opinion shows that it is possible to add something interesting and distinctive at the same time as introducing neophytes to a new concept.... The issues raised are not new, but they are relevant, and rarely presented in such a concise and accessible way' Irish Communications Review

Does a client's age affect the counselling process? This book links life-span concepts directly to the daily concerns of counsellors. It identifies key decisions that are typically made in the counselling process and determines what kinds of age-related information will positively influence the counselling process.