De bevindingen van drie onderzoeken documenteren de invloed van sociale normen op individuele regelnaleving. Die invloed is zichtbaar in het zelf-gerapporteerde belang van naleving (in vragenlijsten) en in de (onbewuste) cognitieve processen (in hersenactiviteit) tijdens het naleven of overtreden van regels in een veeleisende besluitvormingstaak.

Wanneer een sociale norm het belang van de regels relativeert, zeggen mensen zelf ook minder belang te hechten aan regelnaleving. Dit verschilt ten ...

Iedereen wil leven in een veilige omgeving. Daar wordt in ons land volop aan gewerkt, maar iedereen beleeft veiligheid verschillend, ieder vanuit het eigen perspectief. Tegelijkertijd lijkt zich in de samenleving een tweedeling te voltrekken die niet meer alleen langs de klassieke scheidslijnen van arm en rijk plaatsvindt. Polarisatie in de politiek, in het racismedebat en rond de maatregelen tijdens de Covid-19-crisis zijn aan de orde van de dag.

Daar staat tegenover dat veel mensen op zoek ...

Mensen die slachtoffer zijn geworden van een misdrijf hebben iets ingrijpends meegemaakt. Goede hulpverlening – juridisch en psychologisch, formeel en informeel – is belangrijk. Er zijn in Nederland steeds meer organisaties die diensten verlenen aan slachtoffers en nabestaanden. Tot op heden ontbrak het overzicht. Wetenschappers en professionals uit de praktijk zetten in dit boek uiteen wat er vanuit onderzoek bekend is over de effectiviteit van slachtofferinterventies: wat werkt en wat w...

Revised edition of the author's Social work with older adults, c2014.

Sociology: a global introduction represents a uniquely co-ordinated and complete learning resource for sociology students worldwide. International in outlook and culturally wide-ranging, it also reminds us that sociology is valuable. Unrivalled in breadth, it is a text of passion and sophistication helping you become an active, connected and critical learner.

Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society. This book argues that co-operation needs more than good will: it is a craft that requires skill. It explores the nature of co-operation, why it has become weak and how it can be strengthened.

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender a...

What is happening to public debate in Western cultures? Is our public sphere disintegrating? In the face of popular tabloid newspapers, new forms of reality television and an increasing lack of respect for traditional authorities, many critics are concerned that our society no longer has a rational, informed and unified space where everyone can communicate about the issues that affect us all. In this book Alan McKee answers these questions by providing an introduction to the concept of the pu...

Extremely student friendly, Healey's STATISTICS: A TOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH AND DATA ANALYSIS, 11e, equips you with a solid understanding of statistical fundamentals and their practical application to current social issues -- no advanced math knowledge required. The text breaks down even the most complex material to help you master key concepts and develop the skills you need as a professional in a social science field -- or simply to become a "statistically literate" consumer of social resea...

Risk asserts the ongoing importance of the analysis of risk in our age of permacrisis and mounting scepticism about experts and science, and calls for a ‘re-turn’ to risk theory. This fully revised and expanded new edition includes a new chapter on risk information and denial in the context of the climate crisis and COVID-19 pandemic.