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The fourth edition of Human Behavior in the Social Environment takes a life course perspective to give a concise, compact treatment of human behavior. This edition includes the DSM - 5, the 2015 EPAS competencies, and a new chapter that explores the future of social work and some of the emerging…
Paperback – 2016-03-08
Routledge
New Directions in Social Work
Social Work and Social Welfare: An Invitation is a best-selling text and website for introduction to social work courses. It provides students with the knowledge, skills, and values that are essential for working with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and public policy in a…
Paperback – 2016-02-18
Routledge
New Directions in Social Work
Obesity has dominated popular media as one of the most pressing issues of the new millennium. In the US, high rates of obesity, and by extension, fat people are often blamed for rising health-care costs and a weakening of national security. What does it mean to be considered fat during a time when…
Paperback – 2015-12-15
Routledge
Innovative Ethnographies
Research continues to uncover early childhood as a crucial time when we set the stage for who we will become. In the last decade, we have also seen a sudden massive shift in America’s racial makeup with the majority of the current under-5 age population being children of color. Asian and…
Paperback – 2015-12-07
Routledge
New Critical Viewpoints on Society
The second volume of Priscilla Alderson’s popular and renowned book Childhoods Real and Imagined relates dialectical critical realism to childhood. By demonstrating their relevance and value to each other, Alderson presents a practical introductory guide for applying critical realism to research…
Paperback – 2015-11-17
Routledge
Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
In our turbulent world of global flows and digital transformations pervasive identity crises and self-reinvention have become increasingly central to everyday life. In this fascinating book, Anthony Elliott shows how global transformations – the new electronic economy, digital worlds,…
Paperback – 2015-10-29
Routledge
This social theory text combines the structure of a print reader with the ability to tailor the course via an extensive interactive website. Readings from important classical and contemporary theorists are placed in conversation with one another through core themes—the puzzle of social order, the…
Paperback – 2016-04-15
Routledge
Contemporary Sociological Perspectives
The number of publications dealing with video game studies has exploded over the course of the last decade, but the field has produced few comprehensive reference works. The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies, compiled by well-known video game scholars Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron,…
Paperback – 2016-04-13
Routledge
Wilderness provides a multidisciplinary introduction into the diverse ways in which we make sense of wilderness: how we conceptualise it, experience it, interact with, and imagine it. Drawing upon key theorists, philosophers, and researchers who have contributed important knowledge to the topic,…
Paperback – 2016-04-12
Routledge
Key Ideas in Geography
This FreeBook brings together several enlightening essays exploring themes surrounding identity - from the process of reinvention to the profound effects of new technologies.
This will be a valuable resource to anyone interested in culture, society, and the social sciences.
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Author of Raising Mixed Race Sharon Chang recently appeared on the King5 New Day TV show to discuss the growing number of individuals identifying as 'mixed race' in the U.S.
Michael Yates, economist, labor educator, associate editor of Monthly Review, and author of The Great Inequality explains that growing inequality in income, wealth, and power will continue to be the central issue of politics.
The editors of recently published An End to the Crisis of Empirical Sociology? take a moment to discuss how the field of social research is changing and why their new book is so important.
To accompany her recent book, Päivi Kannisto has released a short film featuring some interview excerpts with the global nomads.
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