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Focusing on service-providing organizations established by health and human service professionals in post-Communist Poland, this book adds a new dimension to the sociological study of voluntary...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2000
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This text investigates whether or not there is a causal link between personality traits and the development of alcohol abuse. Findings suggest that there is such a link: people who are inclined...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2000
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Statistics emphasize that one out of every five men is incarcerated. The background experiences of dysfunctional black men are often explored while few studies focus on the motivating triggers for...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2000
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This work studies both the social organizational specifics and the interior spatial setting of a survey research organization through a combination of social science and architectural research. The...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2000
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This testprovides students and practitioners with a theoretical and methodological foundation for implementing client- and family-centered 'partnership' approaches in human services. Unlike other...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2000
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Drawing on the results of archaeological research as well as anthropological theory, leading experts synthesize current thinking on the nature of and variation within Neolithic social arrangements....
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2000
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This text reviews the theory, concepts, and basic methods involved in archaeological analysis with the aim of familiarizing both students and professionals with its underlying principles. Topics...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2000
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Archaeology in the Middle East and the Balkans rarely focuses on the recent past; as a result, archaeologists have largely ignored the material remains of the Ottoman Empire. Drawing on a wide...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2000
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Archaeology can either bolster memory and tradition, or contradict the status quo and provide an alternative view of the past. An archaeology of Harpers Ferry's wartime and Victorian eras confronts...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2000
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Is history more than (in Boswell's words) a 'chronological series of remarkable events'? Does it have a pattern? Is it fraught with 'meaning'? Can we discern its trends? What determines its course?...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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2000
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Realism and Social Science offers the reader an authoritative and compelling guide to critical realism and its implications for social theory and for the practice of social science. It offers an alternative both to approaches which are overly confident about the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-12-29
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An accessible and readable introduction to Bourdieu's work, this book places him in intellectual and historical context, and shows how Bourdieu is best understood as a cultural analyst. It traces his development from his early work on education to his relationship to...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-12-20
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Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present is a comprehensive textbook to guide students through the complexities of social theory today. Over 30 chapters, written by an international team of contributors, demonstrate clearly the practical applications...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-12-09
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Reading feminist theory as a complex imaginative achievement, Feminist Imagination considers feminist commitment through the interrogation of its philosophical, political and affective connections with the past, and especially with the `race' trials of the twentieth...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-11-24
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`Barne's work is remarkable in its attempt to transcend previously held dualisms like causal versus voluntaristic explanations, and to advance a model of social action that can contribute to a possible resolution of the problematic relation between 'structure' and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-11-24
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`Karen Healy has written a very interesting and worthwhile book that explores the relevance and significance of postmodern theory to social work. It provides a well-argued account of recent developments in social work theory… However, it is not simply an account of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-11-18
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'If you've ever felt like we're going nowhere fast, and you'd like to know why - preferably sometime before you die - read this book' - James Der Derian, Brown University and UMASS/Amherst
Examining how the 'here and now' of space, territory, the body, are being...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-11-01
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Performing Culture presents a detailed and probing account of cultural studies' changing fixations with theory, method, policy, text, production, audience and the micro-politics of the everyday.
John Tulloch encourages academics and students to take seriously the need...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-10-27
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From getting started to completing your research project, this book provides a practical guide to using QSR NVivo. Written in clear language, it contains six tutorials to use with your own data. Much more than a manual, the book offers advice with each section,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
1999-10-22
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In this book, one of the foremost sociologists of the present day, turns his gaze upon the key figures and seminal institutions in the rise of sociology. Turner examines the work of Karl Marx, Max Weber, Karl Mannheim, Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim and Talcott Parsons to...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-10-13
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