Bücher veröffentlicht von SAGE Publications Inc

This collection of advice from expert teachers brings together the best of classroom management by compiling suggestions, tactics, and plans for improving classroom management approaches.

Democracy is, in part, a debate about what democracy is. This title offers an overview of classical and contemporary issues.

Focuses on contemporary counselling by comparisons with modern and historical helping services, religious and philosophical analyses of the human condition, and the socio-economic context. This book discusses the issue of professionalization, and examines the arguments concerning the alleged differences between counselling and psychotherapy.

Analyzes the role of religion as a global cultural force in the tension between tradition and modernity. Social theories of religion are explored through a comparative and historical analysis of the Abrahamic faiths and theoretical approaches to the social function of religion are assessed.

Part of the "Key Figures in Psychotherapy" series, this text chronicles the life, contributions and influence of Eric Berne, founder of Transactional Analysis counselling.

Explores the historical development of economic theories of society from Marx, through to Weber, Schumpeter, Polanyi and Parsons. The contribution of economic sociology is demonstrated through critical assessments of key areas of their literature.

This accessible book overviews the psychology of the emotions in its broadest sense by tracing historical, social, cultural and biological themes and analyses.

A Feminist Politics of Difference engages with key contemporary issues such as difference, identity and subjectivity, and their relation to power and politics.

Explores organizational deviance, its damaging consequences and the opportunities for organizational misbehaviour provided by deregulation and globalization. Ten major case studies are provided through which the practices, mechanisms and explanations of deviance can be analyzed.

`This book is a treasure trove of evidence and debate and is essential reading for anyone interested in human resource management and, indeed, in the relationships between work, employment and society' - British Journal of Industrial Relations

The New Era of Terrorism: Selected Readings is a collection of edited articles on policy issues that have emerged since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as relevant events that immediately preceded the attacks.

By providing a comprehensive look at a popular professional development strategy, this handbook will help educators understand and utilize teacher leadership as a path to school improvement.

Argues that we can only make sense of environmental issues if we consider them as part of a more encompassing process of social transformation. This book provides a thorough discussion of the central themes in environmental sociology, identifying two traditions: ecological modernization theory and risk society theory.

An introduction to, and analysis of, the mixture of problems and possibilities within the study of social policy.

Examines the interpretation and use of evidence collected through research, with the goal of promoting good practice.

Managing Industrial Knowledge

Many problems in the Social Sciences are amenable to analysis using Logit and Probit models. Within this genre an important class of models is that of Ordered and Multinomial Models. This book explains what Ordered and Multinomial Models are and shows how to apply them to analysing issues.

This user-friendly reference presents easy-to-implement classroom applications to help increase teaching effectiveness and enhance student outcomes and includes specific tips for boosting cognition and improving test scores.

The Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity and Culture provides the historical background and etymology of a wide number of words related to the concepts of race, ethnicity and culture and looks at them from a broadly multicultural perspective.

Demonstrates ways in which evaluation can and should be an important dimension of social work practice. The book presents an assessment of both qualitative methodology and of the empirical practice movement, and the contributors have varied perspectives.

Analyzes the role of language and symbolic media and shows how this enables us to move to new levels of understanding of contemporary organizational issues. This book critically evaluates the contributions of various disciplines and defines organizational discourse as a subject area.

The McDonaldization thesis argued that contemporary life is succumbing to the standardization, flexibility and predictability of fast-food service. This text makes a critical appraisal of the thesis, discussing the rationalization of modern life, consumer culture and modern citizenship.

Reviewing key contemporary issues and debates about consumption, this accessible textbook portrays and assesses the varied and complex intersections of consumption and everyday life. The contributors show the varying balance between constraint and creativity, links between consumption and production, and the patterns which shape access to symbolic and material resources.

In-depth discussion of the masculinity dimension, and how it can help us to understand differences amongst cultures.

This volume provides specific suggestions for preparing for and carrying out a life story interview. It places the life story interview into a wider research context before moving on to planning and then conducting the interview. Finally, the book deals with the issues of transcribing and interpreting the interview.

The author discusses the most obvious symbolic aspects of organizations - corporate logos, office sizes, use of titles - as well as focusing on the more subtle aspect of expressive forms of symbolism such as storytelling, institutional jargon and workplace personalization, among others.

This guide explains how social scientists can evaluate the reliability and validity of empirical measurements, discussing the three basic types of validity: criterion related, content, and construct. In addition, the paper shows how reliability is assessed by the retest method, alternative-forms procedure, split-halves approach, and internal consistency method.

Describes the mathematical and logical foundations at a level that does not presume advanced mathematical or statistical skills. It illustrates how to do factor analysis with several of the more popular packaged computer programs.