The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology

Augustine Brannigan

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• This unflinching effort critically traces the attempt of social psychology over the past half century to forge a scientific understanding of human beh... Lees meer

Networking Neighborhoods

Erik Van Hove

• Paperback | Social Problems & Social Issues
• This study establishes a direct link between existing perceptions of cities and the persistence of urban poverty, addressing the question of why urban... Lees meer

Becoming Miracle Workers

Gale Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• Brief therapy is a postmodern treatment mode that treats problems as social constructions, encouraging those seeking treatment to replace personal tro... Lees meer

Troubling Children

Joel Best

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• Increasingly, sociologists have turned their attention to the social problems of children- in particular, of younger children. This collection reflect... Lees meer

Creating Fear

David L Altheide

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• The creative use of fear by news media and social control organizations has produced a "discurse of fear" - the awareness and expection that danger an... Lees meer

The Fight Against Big Tobacco

Mark Wolfson

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• Tobacco control leaders were extremely proud of the movement's achievements in the state of Minnesota. In sharing their perspectives and experiences w... Lees meer

Punishment and Social Control

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one of... Lees meer

Sexual Conduct

William Simon

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• The first edition of Sexual Conduct , published in 1973, swiftly became a landmark text in the sociology of sexuality Lees meer

Images of Issues

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention. By... Lees meer

Interpreting Weight

Jeffery Sobal

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• What is "too fat?" "Too thin"? Interpretations of body weight vary widely across and within cultures. Meeting weight expectations is a major concern f... Lees meer

Framing the Victim

Nancy S Berns

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• "Whether you are drawn to this book because of an interest in media, social problems, or domestic violence, reading it will help you better understand... Lees meer

Drug Courts

Thomas L Nolan

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• Drug courts offer offenders an intensive court-based treatment program as an alternative to the normal adjudication process. Begun in 1989, they have ... Lees meer

Images of Issues

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention. By... Lees meer

Abortion, Motherhood and Mental Health

Ellie Lee

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• Whatever reproductive choices women make--whether they opt to end a pregnancy through abortion or continue to term and give birth--they are considered... Lees meer

The Selling of DSM

Stuart A Kirk

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• When it was first published in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition -univer-sally known as DSM-III -embodied... Lees meer

Courting Disaster

Jennifer Dunn

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• This book is about women who are coerced, intimidated, and stalked by former intimates. It is about the things these women do to manage this situation... Lees meer

Court-Ordered Insanity

James a Holstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• This book, about involuntary commitment proceedings, focuses on interpretive practice at the nexus of legal, psychiatric, and practical reasoning. It ... Lees meer

Weighty Issues

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• Many people consider their weight to be a personal problem; when, then, does body weight become a social problem? Until recently, the major public con... Lees meer

Thinking about Social Problems

Donileen R Loseke

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• The new second edition of this distinctive and widely adopted textbook brings into the classroom an overview of how images of social problems can shap... Lees meer

The Fight Against Big Tobacco

Mark Wolfson

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• Tobacco control leaders were extremely proud of the movement's achievements in the state of Minnesota. In sharing their perspectives and experiences w... Lees meer

Understanding Social Problems, Policies and Programs

Leon H. Ginsberg

• Paperback | Social Problems & Social Issues
• Leon Ginsberg brings the reader up to date on social welfare policy in America though the 1990s, explaining developments that have taken place during ... Lees meer

Sexual Conduct

William Simon

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• The first edition of Sexual Conduct , published in 1973, swiftly became a landmark text in the sociology of sexuality Lees meer

Social Movement Organizations

John Lofland

• Paperback | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• The authorative and richly detailed handbook is divided into three parts: (1) procedures for studying SMOs; (2) propositions or generalizations about ... Lees meer

Creating Fear

David L Altheide

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Problems & Social Issues
• The creative use of fear by news media and social control organizations has produced a "discurse of fear" - the awareness and expection that danger an... Lees meer