Sage Publications Inc imprint: 1562 books
Researching the Public Opinion Environment
Theories and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2000
Researching the Public Opinion Environment: Theories and Methods informs the reader on the rationale, purposes, theories, and methodologies involved in researching the public. The book is divided into four parts. Part One looks at the theories and systems relevant to opinion research. Part Two addresses...
Corrupt Research
The Case for Reconceptualizing Empirical Management and Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Addressing the immensely important topic of research credibility, Raymond Hubbard’s groundbreaking Corrupt Research proposes that we must treat such information with a healthy dose of skepticism. This book argues that the dominant model of knowledge procurement subscribed to in these areas—the...
by Jeannine Studer
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Jeannine R. Studer’s The Essential School Counselor in a Changing Society offers a practical approach to helping students understand the methods and standards in contemporary school counseling. Integrating the new ASCA model as well as the CACREP Standards across all areas of school counseling practice,...
Assessing Allegations of Sexual Abuse in Preschool Children
Understanding Small Voices
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 1998
Written to help frontline practitioners assess and manage cases with children aged 18 months to six years who present allegations of child abuse, this book provides concrete and easily understood information about basic child development, interview procedures, and case management theory. Extensive...
Sibling Abuse
Hidden Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 1997
Often excused by parents as `kids will be kids' behaviour, sibling abuse remains largely unrecognized. Symptoms of such abuse and its devastating effects on victims go undetected, victims do not receive appropriate therapeutic intervention, and transgressors do not come to the attention of the courts.
The...
Encyclopedia of Time
Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009
"With a strong interdisciplinary approach to a subject that does not lend itself easily to the reference format, this work may not seem to support directly academic programs beyond general research, but it is a more thorough and up-to-date treatment than Taylor and Francis's 1994 Encyclopedia...
by Dr. Arthur A, Berger
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
In the Sixth Edition of Media Analysis Techniques, author Arthur Asa Berger once again provides students with a clearly written, user-friendly, hands-on guide to media criticism. The book empowers readers to make their own analyses of the media rather than just accept how others interpret the media....
Family Life Education
Principles and Practices for Effective Outreach
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Drawing on the best scholarship and their own years of professional experience, Stephen F. Duncan and H. Wallace Goddard provide a practical, how-to guide to developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining effective family life education programs. This thoroughly updated Third Edition of Family...
by Jacques Hamel, Stephane Dufour, Dominic Fortin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1993
In this introduction to understanding, researching and doing case studies in the social sciences, Hamel outlines several differing traditions of case study research including the Chicago School of Sociology, the anthropological case studies of Malinowski, and the French La Play school tradition. He...
by Thomas S. Weinberg, Professor Gerhard J. falk, Dr. Ursula Adler Falk
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The American Drug Culture uses sociological and other perspectives to examine drug and alcohol use in U.S. society. The text is arranged topically, rather than by categories of drugs, and explores diverse contexts of drug use including popular culture; sexuality; the legal and criminal justice systems;...
Ways of Social Change
Making Sense of Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
The world is at our fingertips, but understanding what is going on has never been more daunting. Garth Massey’s Ways of Social Change is a primer for making sense of both rapidly moving events and the cultural and structural forces on which social life is built, while teaching critical thinking...
by Joseph S. Tuman, Dr. Douglas Fraleigh
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
A comprehensive guide to effective participation in the public debate about our most indispensable right: freedom of expression
Encouraging readers to think critically about freedom of speech and expression and the diverse critical perspectives that challenge the existing state of the law,...
Social Psychology
Individuals, Interaction, and Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Social Psychology takes a sociological approach to the study of the individual in relationship to society. It's main purpose is is to highlight how social psychology provides varied, yet inter-related, explanations for individuals’ experiences in groups. The text tells the story of how these...
by William Corsaro
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
William A. Corsaro’s groundbreaking text, The Sociology of Childhood, discusses children and childhood from a sociological perspective. Corsaro provides in-depth coverage of the social theories of childhood, the peer cultures and social issues of children and youth, children and childhood within...