Improving Organizational Surveys

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 158
• Timely and original, this publication presents the latest tools, techniques, and applications for conducting sucessful organizational surveys. --Inter... Lees meer

The Politics of Life in Schools

William Lowe Boyd

• 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
• Written by the multidisciplinary staff of the Citywide Case Management Team in San Francisco, Clinical Case Management is a practical guide for case m... Lees meer

Children's Ethnic Socialization

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 81
• Published in cooperation with the Society for Research in Child Development Most children, whether from majority or minority ethnic groups, have conta... Lees meer

Experiencing Fieldwork

Shaffir

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 124
• Fieldwork has often been viewed as a great black hole, untaught and unteachable. While recent years have seen an increase in the number of how-to manu... Lees meer

Preserving Families

Ying-Ying T Yuan, Michele Rivest

• 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

Hispanics in the Workplace

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 142
• This volume is the first to directly examine the presence, maintenance, and advancement of Hispanics in the U.S. workforce. As such, this book makes a... Lees meer

Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 175
• Few social researchers study elites because elites, by their nature, are very difficult to access. The contributors to this volume provide valuable in... 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

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 a new f... 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

Religion in Aging and Health

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 166
• How does religion influence one′s aging and health? Religion in Aging and Health brings together key scholars and scientists from several fields to ad... Lees meer

Providing Community-Based Services to the Rural Elderly

John a Krout, Krout

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 165
• Drawing on the expertise of researchers and practitioners, this volume presents detailed information on a wide range of community-based services that ... Lees meer

Advances in Social Network Analysis

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 171
• Social network analysis, a method for analyzing relationships between social entities, has expanded over the last decade as new research has been done... Lees meer

Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods

Rosanna Hertz, Jonathan B Imber

• 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

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

A Future for Religion?

William H Swatos

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 151
• The editor has shown clearly the new dimensions in sociology of religion which the classical schools neglected as personal and private concerns and wh... Lees meer

Testing Structural Equation Models

• Paperback | Engels | Sage Focus Editions | nr. 154
• This book is a valuable adjunct to the extant literature on specification, estimation, and identification. My overall impression is that this volume i... Lees meer

The New Localism

Edward G Goetz, Susan E Clarke

• 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. What comes ... 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? Does a relationship exist between wife abuse and child abuse? What r... Lees meer

Families and Retirement

Maximiliane Szinovacz, David J Ekerdt, Barbara H Vinick

• 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

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

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