Now in its seventh edition, this essential text continues to provide students with a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the study and practice of persuasive communication. Attuned to the swift changes in the world of persuasion in the twenty-first century, this book covers how theories and research illuminate and adapt to our present digital era, with continued attention to ethical implications and today's big topics. This new edition features updated definitions of key terms in the fie...

The third edition of Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology, the highly praised innovative approach to introducing aspects of cultural anthropology to students, features a series of revisions, updates, and new material. * Offers a refreshing alternative to introductory anthropology texts by challenging students to think in new ways and apply cultural learnings to their own lives * Chapters explore key anthropological concepts of human culture including: language, ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Op basis van veldonderzoek waarbij gedurende vier opeenvolgende schooljaren zowel individuele als klasgesprekken werden gevoerd met leerlingen van het basis- en secundair onderwijs van Scholengroep Brussel, wordt in dit boek een overzicht geboden van de bezorgdheden en verzuchtingen van kinderen en jongeren.

Montasser AlDe’emeh hield openhartige gesprekken met leerlingen, van het eerste leerjaar lager onderwijs tot het laatste jaar secundair onderwijs, over identiteit, persoonlijke bekommer...

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.

Some go so far as ...

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.