This popular text has a "how to" and "here's what you need to do" approach to ethnographic research, taking the mystery out of the research process and making ethnography accessible to the reader.

This book develops the reader's knowledge of how and when gender stereotypes form and how they can be perpetuated in various ways through and during a child's education.

Age at Work explores the myriad ways in which 'age' is at 'work' across society, organizations and workplaces, with special focus on organizations, their boundaries, and marginalizing processes around age and ageism in and across these spaces.

Sociaal werkers krijgen in hun werk te maken met levensverhalen. Cliënten vertellen over hoe schulden, verslaving of stoornissen hun levens beïnvloed hebben. Sociologie verscherpt het luisteren naar deze levensverhalen.

In Levensloopsociologie legt de auteur een verbinding tussen de unieke verhalen van individuele vertellers en algemene sociologische theorieën. De verhalen worden in verband gebracht met meeromvattende maatschappelijke verschijnselen. Daarbij komt uitvoerig aan de orde hoe ...

'No brief survey can do justice to the richness, complexity and detail of Foucault's discussion' New York Review of BooksThe second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature of desire explores how sexuality was perceived in classical Greek culture. From the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex, as well as exercise and diet) to the role of women, The Use of Pleasure is full of extraordinary insights into the difference...

Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book argues that the controversy surrounding mass migration and physical borders runs in parallel and is closely connected to the debates surrounding the symbolic boundaries people need to guide on the issues of everyday life. Numerous commentators claim that borders have become irrelevant in the age of mass migration and globalisation.

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This accessible, hands-on text has now been revised and updated, with expanded coverage of topics including how theory may emerge from exploratory data analysis. The book prepares graduate students, new researchers, and even seasoned investigators to develop their own theories and build on existing ones.

Introduces you to the core counselling and psychotherapy skills you will need for effective therapeutic practice.

This practical urban studies research guide for students, revised and with new chapter additions, focuses on the city and on the different ways to research it.