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Mindful Inquiry in Social Research
This innovative introduction to research in the social and human sciences guides students and novice res earchers through the maze of research traditions, cultures o f inquiry and epistemological frameworks....
Video as Method
Perhaps the greatest strength of choosing video as a method for social research is its flexible and almost limitless potential for gathering, analyzing, writing up, and disseminating the research findings....
DOING YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT
If you are a beginner researcher, the problems facing you are much the same whether you are producing a small project, an MEd dissertation or a PhD thesis. You will...
Community Profiling: A Practical Guide
The new edition of this popular book has been substantially revised and provides a practical step-by-step guide to community profiling, invaluable for students and practitioners involved in community-based research. The...
Contemporary Social Theory: Investigation and Application
For courses in Contemporary Social Theory. This text begins with an examination of the major schools of thought of social theory and provides an in-depth analysis of its relevance to...
Transitional Subjects: Critical Theory and Object Relations
$50.00 AUD
Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers...
Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety
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Childhood In Contemporary Cultures
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work in cultural anthropology and developmental psychology, Childhood in Contemporary Cultures presents...
Experiments of the Mind: From the Cognitive Psychology Lab to the World of Facebook and Twitter
Author: Emily Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 Experimental cognitive psychology research is a hidden force in our online lives. We engage with it, often unknowingly, whenever we download...
Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde-Primal Happenings,
Comparable to Paris in the 1920s, 1960s New York City was a cauldron of avantgarde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs,...
Social Psychology: An Experimental Approach
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when science turns its rigorous eye on the invisible forces that govern human behaviour?...
Harvard Design School Guide To Shopping. Project on the City 2.
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Minor nick on spine, otherwise internally sound. What happens when...
A Second Chicago School?: The Development of a Postwar American
From 1945 to about 1960, the University of Chicago was home to a group of faculty and graduate students whose work has come to define what many call a second...
Queen Bees And Wannabes for the Facebook Generation: Helping your teenage daughter survive cliques, gossip, bullying and boyfriends
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The Risk Society and Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory
Risk society and beyond traces the evolution of Ulrich Beck''s ideas as expressed in Risk Society (1992) and expands into previously unforeseen risk areas, such as genetics and cyberspace.'
Social Support and Motherhood: The Natural History of a Research
Drawing on her expertise as an academic researcher and as a writer of both non-fiction and fiction, Ann Oakley here tells the story of a research project. Moving far beyond...
A History of Sociological Research Methods in America, 1920-1960
This is the first book on the general history of US sociological research. It provides systematic archival, documentary, and interview data which question conventional views on research methods, developing our...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness
The phenomenal New York Times bestseller now published in the UK for the first time Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of...
The Chicago School of Sociology: Institutionalization, Diversity, and
From 1915 to 1935 the inventive community of social scientists at the University of Chicago pioneered empirical research and a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, shaping the future of...
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
An incisive and deeply practical essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My Hair Stop the denial Stop the false equivalencies Interrogate whiteness Interrogate capitalism Denounce the white Saviour...
All About Love: New Visions
Author: bell hooks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks'...
A Woman of the World: An American Woman's Counsel to the Other People's Sons and Daughters
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Interpersonal Relations And Education: Revised Student Edition
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens in the hidden social world of the classroom, where the unspoken dynamics between teachers and students...
Social Creature: 'A Ripleyesque exploration of female insecurity set among the socialites of Manhattan' (Guardian)
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First Impressions: The Psychology Of Encountering Others
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens in the first few seconds of meeting someone — and why does it matter so profoundly?...
Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce
A powerful argument for a class-based approach to college admissions that "shows where we have gone wrong so far, and how we will get to justice, equality, and even diversity...
Writing Essays and Research Reports in the Social Sciences
The book titled Writing Essays and Research Reports in the Social Sciences by the author Katharine Betts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Agent Zo: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025: 'A masterfully written biography... inspiring and powerful' 'Gripping, moving and important' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE 'Agent Zo is a triumph. Absolutely essential reading'...
Making a Difference in Families: Research that creates change
'This 'must read' volume will challenge every researcher to re-examine their assumptions and approach to research with families. Munford and Sanders emphasise the positive contribution research can make through the...
Selves as Solutions to Social Inequalities: Why Engaging the Full
Social disparities tied to social group membership(s) are prevalent and persistent within mainstream institutions (e.g., schools/workplaces). Accordingly, psychological science has harnessed selves - which are malleable and meaningfully shaped by...
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2023 A Times Best Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year Critic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with...
The New Sociology: Essays In Social Science And Social Theory In Honor Of C. Wright Mills
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of intellectual rebellion and academic rigor, The New Sociology stands as a landmark...
Hopes and Prospects
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Regulation and Repression
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The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One
After decades studying creatures great and small, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson had an epiphany: Darwin's theory won't fully prove itself until it improves the quality of human life in...
Selected Writings Of T.C. Schneirla
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Non-fiction Classics Bargain Book Box
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This collection features 16 monumental works of non-fiction, encompassing philosophy, politics, autobiography, and practical advice. Spanning over two millennia, from the ancient wisdom of Confucius and Marcus Aurelius to the...
Commitment And Community: Communes And Utopias In Sociological Perspective
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Edition: 3rd printingCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it take for a community to survive — and what binds human beings together...
Theory and Credibility: Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science
Author: Scott Ashworth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social science The credibility revolution, with...
Social Class In America: A Manual Of Procedure For The Measurement Of Social Status
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Jacket protected by plastic sleeve.At a time...
The Female Persuasion
From the bestselling author of The Wife and The Interestings comes a warm and immersive novel about ambition, power, women, friendship and finding your place in the world ** Selected...