Researching City Life: An Urban Field Methods Text-Reader examines the city from a street level perspective and provides readers with tools to conduct research on urbanism—the everyday experiences of people in cities. Contending that culture is central to understanding urbanism, editors Tyler Schafer and Michael Ian Borer address qualitative research in cities and how it provides insights unable to be captured via quantitative methods. Carefully selected and edited readings cover participan...

This anthology for Medical Sociology courses brings together a collection of readings from the scholarly literature on health, medicine, and health care. covering some of the most timely health issues of our day,

Written specifically to support those undertaking practice educator awards that meet the staged requirements of the Practice Educator Professional Standards, this book will provide invaluable guidance and support to social workers who are new to a practice education role.

Welcome to Social Theory is exactly what students want: a lucid and engaging introduction to social theory that carefully uses images, examples and quotations to illustrate new ways of examining contemporary social life.

As one of the few teaching books that looks at fieldwork in the broadest of contexts, this book provides a strong foundation in the fundamentals of fieldwork within social research. It not only teaches theory but puts into practice planning, designing, conducting and sharing social research.Â

Part of the New Approaches to Sociology series, Social Inequalities is a relevant and valuable exploration of how we see the world through a decolonised lens, offering a critical re-reading of traditional approaches to understanding social inequalities.

A coherent and comprehensive account of the different frameworks for understanding power which have been advanced within the social sciences.

Written for the undergraduate and graduate future practitioner, Correctional Counseling, Treatment, and Rehabilitation will provide an overview of how counseling exists within the correctional environment, both in institutional settings and community-based settings.

Questioning Gender: A Sociological Exploration serves as a point-of-departure for productive conversations and questions about gender and as a resource for exploring answers to many of those questions.