Bücher veröffentlicht von SAGE Publications Inc

An introduction to Bourdieu's work which places him in an appropriate intellectual and historical context. Derek Robbins argues that Bourdieu is best understood as a cultural analyst.

Illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes, this book is a comprehensive guide to psychodynamic brief counselling and psychotherapy. It is ideal for those looking for a practical introduction to the subject.

Encourages psychotherapists and counsellors to consider seriously the relationship between spiritual experiences and therapeutic practice. This work proposes that therapy itself can be seen as a spiritual process and discusses the implications of this view for therapists, clients and the wider world.

Rethinking Youth challenges the conventional wisdoms surrounding the position and opportunities of young people today and provides a systematic overview of the major perspectives in youth studies.

Provides a consideration of how services are conceptualized, designed and managed, creating the basis for an understanding of the multi-dimensional aspects of services. This book explores the effect of organizational structures, management styles, marketing and management competencies on service management decision making and implementation.

The Second Edition of Persuasion combines a discussion of research on the production of persuasive messages with more traditional research on the study of message effects. It covers the theory of reasoned action, contains new chapters on functional approaches to attitude and behavioural change, and new material on persuasive campaigns.

Proposing a non-western way of conceptualizing identity - the cornerstone of cultural research - this book shows how traditional western and non-western views can be blended into a broader, more realistic understanding of cultures and communication.

This updated edition of Unobtrusive Measures builds on the earlier version's drive to justify novel techniques of survey and archival research. This book encourages and motivates ingenuity in obtaining information. The authors combine different methods so that research results can withstand the 'threats to validity'.

Tune In, Log Out is an ethnographic study of an Internet soap opera fan group. Bridging the fields of computer-mediated communication and audience studies, the book shows how verbal and non verbal communicative practices create collaborative interpretations and criticism, group humour, interpersonal relationships, group norms and individual identity.

An examination of fundamental strategic issues confronted by firms competing in newly opened markets. Michael W Peng's comparative and interdisciplinary study covers emerging markets in East Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union.

This book is based on the evaluation of British criminal justice responses and treatment programmes for men who use violence against a woman partner. Court enforced abuser programmes are compared with more traditional sanctions such as fines and probation.

This critical introduction to consumption and its geographies provides an engaged summary of the consumption literature and demonstrates that consumption is intimately related to the production of space in everyday life.

Shows how the methods and findings of conversation and discourse analysis may inform the development of empirical research questions. It will therefore be an invaluable resource for social science students on courses which require them to undertake practical or empirical exercises.

Shilling offers the most comprehensive overview of the field to date and an innovative framework for the analysis of embodiment, founded on a revised view of the relation of classical works to the body. Shilling believes the body should be read as a multi-dimensional medium for the constitution of society.

This text guides students through the complexities and implications of the concepts of power and domination. It provides accounts of debates about the dynamics and rationale of state power in an era of globalization, social citizenship and the significance of social movements.

A reappraisal of the way in which language is shaped by, and contributes to, social life. Taking a Marxist approach, it focuses on three areas: the global spread of English in relation to international capitalism and colonialism; the ideological underpinnings of English; and language and sexism.

In Justice in the Risk Society Barbara Hudson outlines traditional liberal perspectives on justice, risk and security, as well as addressing some key concerns. The book provides theoretical analysis with a discussion of policies, and arguments are illustrated by cases and examples.

Globalization and Sport argues that although sport is a source of pleasure, it is also part of the government of everyday life. The creation of a sporting calendar, movements of rational recreation and the development of public sector physical education, are read as ways of disciplining and shaping urban-industrial populations.

Making Sense of Education Policy

Counselling in Schools is a practical, contemporary guide to providing effective counselling support within school settings. Recognizing the very specific nature of this area of counselling practice and the uniqueness of every school, the authors provide a flexible framework and guidelines for working collaboratively with pupils, families and colleagues.

Drawing on disciplines including psychology, sociology and organizational theory, Stephen Fineman explores a number of familiar and not so familiar work arenas. He examines the way emotion penetrates leadership, decision-making and organizational change, as well as newer topics like the virtual side of organizations

Attempts to offer a balance between an overview of Attention and an emphasis on how theories and paradigms for the study of Attention have developed. This book highlights issues and findings while giving details of experimental studies, models, and theories. It includes chapter previews, chapter summaries, key words, a glossary, and tables.

Offers an overview of qualitative methods in general and locates grounded theory in this context. It compares and contrasts the various grounded theory approaches in an accessible manner and offers an in-depth case study for students and researchers to follow and use. It also provides a critique of the methodology itself.

The digital revolution is transforming media and communications industries worldwide, and media companies are keen to emerge at the forefront of an increasingly transnational and competitive communications marketplace. However, the volume and scale of mergers and alliances involving media players has raised considerable challenges for regulators and state authorities alike.

This book shows how to combat the stress and low self-esteem suffered by many teachers. Denis Lawrence focuses on the relationship between stress and self-esteem, and sets out a programme of easy-to-use everyday strategies to reduce the problem.

Written in a friendly, how-to manner, this book provides a basic understanding of how to design and implement social experiments and how to interpret their results. Through illustrative examples, the author provides a grounding in the experimental method.

There is no longer any question that qualitative inquiry is fundamental to the enterprise of social science research, with a broad reach and a history all its own. This book examines the theoretical underpinnings, methodological perspectives, and empirical approaches that are crucial to the understanding and practice of qualitative inquiry.

This delightful, thought-provoking book tackles head-on the assumption that laughter and humour are necessarily good in themselves. The author proposes a social theory that places humour central to social life. Billig argues that all cultures use ridicule as a disciplinary means to uphold norms of conduct and conventions of meaning.