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Science is at the heart of contemporary society and is therefore central to the social sciences. Yet science studies has often encountered resistance from social scientists.

Family Violence presents a thorough exploration of the major types of family violence and details the range of abusive behaviors perpetrated within the family systems.

Explores a variety of multidisciplinary discourses for representing the contemporary city.

Explores the basis for a postmodern psychology. Contributors examine key themes within postmodernist/post-structuralist theory such as: the nature of knowledge, the central role of language, concept of self, and their implications for reworking psychology in the "postmodern world".

'The book begins with one of the clearest and most interesting introductions to the postmodern terrain I have seen, followed by analysis of `postmodern social theory'... an interesting and illuminating treatment of movies and an insightful critique of the work of Baudrillard, Lyotard and Jameson' - Discourse & Society

This handy guide gives the novice researcher a clear description of the standard tools of the trade. Unlike some texts which focus on either design or statistics, this book covers the fundamentals of design, together with experiments and observational methods.

What informs the process of remembering and forgetting? Is it merely about our capability to store and retrieve experiences in a purely functional sense? This book presents an insight into the social psychology of experience drawing upon a number of works to help develop their argument.

This cutting-edge volume advances theories, methodologies and policy analyses relating to various forms of violence against women. Topics covered include: the nature, importance and variety of cultural contexts in which violence occurs, is reproduced and may be challenged or changed; the nature and variety of sexualized violence; and a range of theoretical perspectives on perpetrators of violence.

Questions that face dying individuals, their families, and the professionals that help them at the end of their lives are explored in this volume. The contributors help the reader to come to terms with issues of mortality complicated by the diversity of cultures within society.

While there are many books that address focus groups, most are directed at business and marketing. This book differs by demonstrating the specific steps necessary to conduct focus groups in educational and psychological settings.Using numerous examples, the authors show how to prepare for a focus group, create a moderator''s guide, select a setting and analyze results. In addition, there is a chapter on focus groups with children and adolescents. Each chapter contains procedural tables as well as applications for performing `trial runs'' of the techniques discussed.

The latest theories on cultural identity and the impact of ethnicity on the practice of marketing are presented in this timely book. Issues addressed include: various ethnic responses to marketing strategies; marketing and ethnicity in developing countries and emerging capitalist nations; the effect of ethnicity on product evaluation and choice; the use of consumer goods and services to express ethnicity; and the involvement of specific ethnic groups in various aspects of the marketing profession.

* A Dutch language edition of Maintaining Change is available. For details, please contact: Dr Ruud Bullens,Ambulant Bureau Jeugdwelzijnszorg,Centraal Bureau Leiden,Postbus 216,2300 AE Leiden,Holland.

Bray''s monograph considers the multivariate form of analysis of variance (MANOVA). The primary emphasis of the book is on methods for interpreting MANOVA statistical analyses. These are illustrated through the use of two numerical examples: one involves a small, hypothetical data set, which can be analyzed by the reader with minimal effort; the other involves real data and shows how MANOVA can be used in actual research. MANOVA represents a logical extension of Analysis of Variance by Iversen and Norpoth (QASS 1).

This revised edition of "Paths of Change" outlines a new foundation for the theory and practice of change. The author takes account of different world views and the need to reconcile and go beyond these in effecting major change.

Provides the reader with a strategy for making changes and resolving issues more effectively. This book addresses the problems faced in the daily operations of organizational life and offers a foundation and theory for effective and sustained issue resolution.

Providing a general introduction to focus group research, this title includes the appropriate reasons for using focus groups and what you can expect to accomplish with them. It provides a brief history of focus groups, a discussion of when to use focus groups and why, and several brief case studies illustrating different uses of focus groups.

This volume brings together articles that apply critical discourse analysis to texts and speech which contribute to the marginalizaton of minority groups. Studying both the fine detail of language use and the political values implicated by word choice, the contributors demonstrate the usefulness of linguistic perspectives in advancing the study of prejudice and social inequality.

This textbook examines themes in the psychology of language. Rather than covering only the formal-structural aspects of language, it provides a broad view of the study of language across the various perspectives, focusing on relationships between language and human psychological processes.

This wide-ranging and accessible contribution to the study of risk, ecology and environment helps us to understand the politics of ecology and the place of social theory in making sense of environmental issues. The book provides insights into the complex dynamics of change in `risk societies'.

`Weiner's third textbook on motivation has more emphasis on emotion than its predecessors. There is also a new organization around basic metaphors... there is particularly good and up-to-date coverage of attributional approaches' - Cognition and EmotionSuccessful with over 24,000 students in two earlier motivation books, Weiner's text - newly available in paperback - depicts motivation as an unfolding story with plot and characters. He offers insights into the history and study of motivation and captures the excitement of the field as it evolves.Theories are explored in the context of the dominant metaphor, or paradigm, of various eras. First to be discussed is the machine metaphor, which took a mechanistic view of human motivation and gave rise to Freudian, Hullian and Gestalt theories. Then Weiner discusses why this paradigm was abandoned in favour of another, which led to Expectancy-Value and Attribution theories. The rise of a further paradigm, which sees humans as evaluating judges, is then examined. The author concludes with a comparison of the theories reviewed.

Hall offers a wide-ranging exploration of the issues surrounding cultural identity. He outlines the reasons why the question of identity is so compelling and yet so problematic. Outstanding contributors then interrogate different dimensions of the crisis of identity providing both theoretical and substantive insights into different approaches to understanding identity.

Shows ways to conduct evaluative inquiry in any kind of organisation. The approach is databased, and the focus is on use within organisations.

Helping ethnographers devise a clearly articulated explanation of their methods, this book argues that norms about discussing methods in ethnographies are underdeveloped. The book considers what ought to be normative in methods discussions within ethnography - from the research design to the end product.

Addresses the issues in competences, skills and knowledge which form the basis of all social work courses in the UK. Initial chapters cover the knowledge base, values and core skills of social work, whilst the remainder are concerned with specific applications.

The sixth volume in this series provides: guides for doing qualitative research; analysis of several autobiographies; hints on how to interpret what it not said in narrative interviews; discussion on how cultural meanings and values are transmitted across generations; and illustrations of the transformational power of stories.

This comprehensive resource book examines a broad range of issues that confront the victims of same-sex domestic violence and those who offer them services. Chapters include topics of practical concern, HIV, same-sex domestic violence, establishing safe-home networks for battered gay men, courtroom advocacy, coalition building and dating violence prevention.

The authors of this innovative book offer a comprehensive perspective on nursing intervention together with theory-driven guidelines for future study. They provide a clear explanation of the problems encountered in outcomes and intervention research and then proceed, via the Intervention Theory, to show how these studies can be undertaken reasonably and comprehensively.

First-hand accounts of the ideological, moral, emotional and practical complexities that surround the doing of narrative research feature in this volume. It explores issues such as: whether work that risks exposing sensitive aspects of peoples' lives can ever be fully ethical and what effect being written about has on people.