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

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

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

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

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

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

Families and Retirement

• Hardcover | 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

Successful Focus Groups

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 156
• This is the first book to systematically address the issues, practical wisdom and problems in conducting focus groups. Written by an interdisciplinary... Lees meer

Gender, Family and Economy

Rae Lesser Blumberg

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 125
• The ′triple overlap′ refers to the link between gender stratification, the household and economic variables. In this volume, leading sociologists exam... 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

Advancing Family Preservation Practice

• Hardcover | 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

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

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

Social Research on Children and Adolescents

• Hardcover | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 133
• The important issues of what theory and research on human development can teach us about adolescents′ vulnerability, how to reduce that vulnerability ... 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

Race and Ethnicity in Research Methods

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 157
• Studying across race and ethnic lines creates many problems for the researcher involving practical, strategic, ethical and epistemological questions a... Lees meer

Organizational Theory and Inquiry

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 75
• The transition from viewing organizations as bureaucracies towards seeing them in metaphoric terms is a contemporary break with past organizational th... 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

The Elderly Caregiver

• Hardcover | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 160
• Bringing together the empirical work of researchers from a variety of disciplines, this volume provides insight into the physical, psychological and s... 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

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

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