Improving Organizational Surveys

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 158
• Organizational surveys are becoming increasingly popular with social science researchers and are used for a wide range of purposes, such as measuring ... Lees meer

The Politics of Life in Schools

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 134
• This in-depth study of grassroots politics - `micropolitics′ - in schools, which includes examples from the UK and the USA, explores how teachers, adm... Lees meer

Clinical Case Management

Robert W Surber

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 167
• The integration of a broad array of interventions is described in this comprehensive, practical guide for those working with seriously mentally ill ad... Lees meer

Children's Ethnic Socialization

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 81
• How and why does ethnicity affect children? How do children come to understand their own and others′ ethnicity? This valuable volume, published in coo... Lees meer

Experiencing Fieldwork

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 124
• How do you gain entry into a research setting? What tricks are there to learning the rules of the community without alienating the people you came to ... Lees meer

Hispanics in the Workplace

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 142
• As cultural diversity is increasingly placed on the organization agenda, managers and policymakers need to learn more about the impact of Hispanics in... Lees meer

Preserving Families

• Hardcover | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 117
• The evaluation of social programmes for families and children that focus on keeping the family intact - rather than those that emphasize removing the ... Lees meer

Teachers and Their Workplace

Pedro Reyes

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 114
• What makes a good, committed teacher, one who comes up with new teaching strategies, ideas and programmes that improve the way children learn? This vo... Lees meer

Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 175
• The very nature of elites makes them difficult for social researchers to study. This volume provides valuable insights into how researchers can succes... Lees meer

Preserving Families

Ying-Ying T Yuan, Michele Rivest

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 117
• The evaluation of social programmes for families and children that focus on keeping the family intact - rather than those that emphasize removing the ... Lees meer

Changing Men

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 88
• Changing Men assembles some of the most innovative and exciting research on men and masculinity. As such, it contributes to the demarcation of the new... Lees meer

Religion in Aging and Health

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 166
• This book brings together key scholars and practitioners from a range of fields in order to advance epidemiological and gerontological research into t... Lees meer

Providing Community-Based Services to the Rural Elderly

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 165
• This book brings together information from both researchers and practitioners on a wide range of community-based services that are available to and ne... Lees meer

Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods

• Hardcover | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 175
• The very nature of elites makes them difficult for social researchers to study. This volume provides valuable insights into how researchers can succes... Lees meer

Advances in Social Network Analysis

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 171
• In this book, leading methodologists address the issue of how effectively to apply the latest developments in social network analysis to behavioural a... Lees meer

A Future for Religion?

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 151
• In the 1960s many sociologists proclaimed traditional religion to be in its death throes. But, just as secularization gained nearly universal acceptan... Lees meer

Family Relationships in Later Life

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 64
• Directed towards researchers and practitioners in family studies and gerontology, this completely revised Second Edition of Family Relationships in La... Lees meer

Testing Structural Equation Models

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 154
• What is the role of fit measures when respecifying a model? Should the means of the sampling distributions of a fit index be unrelated to the size of ... Lees meer

The New Localism

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 164
• How have local economic conditions been affected by the emergence of a global economy? What changes, if any, have local political authorities made to ... Lees meer

Investigating Subjectivity

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 139
• Much has been missed by social researchers in their attempt to understand the human experience as a series of rational, cognitive choices. Human subje... Lees meer

Feminist Perspectives on Wife Abuse

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 93
• Why do men batter their wives? How do women define their experiences of violence? Is wife abuse related to child abuse? How do medical authorities rea... Lees meer

Families and Retirement

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 137
• The individual nature of the transition from being a member of the workforce to being retired has been the focus of previous books on retirement. In c... Lees meer

Sharing Social Science Data

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 128
• Researchers in the social sciences discuss the reasons for sharing data, specific sharing practices in various disciplines, and factors affecting the ... Lees meer

Advancing Family Preservation Practice

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 150
• Are there effective ways to support a family with problems (for example, neglect, abuse, HIV, terminal illness) in order to prevent it breaking up, an... Lees meer