Bøger i Social Problems & Social Issues serien
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- The Movement, the State and the Public's Health
629,95 kr. How has the tobacco control movement become such a significant force in shaping contemporary public policy, social norms, and the habits of millions of Americans? This text develops two central arguments to answer this question.
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- 629,95 kr.
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- Typifying Contemporary Social Problems
1.920,95 kr. Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention
- Bog
- 1.920,95 kr.
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- An Introduction to Constructionist Perspectives
1.826,95 kr. The new second edition of this distinctive and widely adopted textbook brings into the classroom an overview of how images of social problems can shape not only public policy and social services, but also the ways in which we make sense of ourselves and others
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- 1.826,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 493,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 631,95 kr.
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- Domestic Violence, Media, and Social Problems
1.732,95 kr. Framing the Victim illustrates how victims of domestic violence are "framed" by the dominant media perspectives focused on them and falsely blamed for a crime committed by someone else. Berns critiques the stories that emerge when social problems are shaped by guidelines that promote entertainment, victim empowerment, inspiration and politics.
- Bog
- 1.732,95 kr.
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- Discussion and Debate Over Health Policy, 1925-1950
348,95 kr. This title traces the policy debates over healthcare delivery, and the ways of paying for it, that were conducted during the second quarter of the twentieth century in the US. It examines the views held by doctors, academics, public health officers, philanthropists and independent scholars.
- Bog
- 348,95 kr.
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263,95 kr. This volume focuses on the spirituality and religious belief of clients within health and human service professions. The text addresses the challenge of understanding the client's perspective, even when it involves a religious tradition unfamiliar to the practitioner.
- Bog
- 263,95 kr.
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- Constructionist Perspectives on Social Problems
493,95 kr. This collection of classic and original essays critiques previous constructionist formulations makes suggestions for advancing, expanding and diversifying the constructionist agenda and challenges the perspective to move in new directions.
- Bog
- 493,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 584,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 493,95 kr.
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- The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness
493,95 kr. This text focuses on how people construct fatness and thinness, examining different strategies used to interpret body weight, such as negotiating weight identities, reinterpreting weight, and becoming involved in weight-related organizations.
- Bog
- 493,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 1.461,95 kr.
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- Intimate Stalking, Culture and Criminal Justice
584,95 - 1.397,95 kr. This text is a wide-ranging examination of the lived experience of intimate stalking victimization. It explores how it feels and what it means to be stalked by a former intimate, and how this situation creates dilemmas for victims and their advocates.
- Bog
- 584,95 kr.
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- Domestic Violence, Media, and Social Problems
553,95 kr. Framing the Victim illustrates how victims of domestic violence are "framed" by the dominant media perspectives focused on them and falsely blamed for a crime committed by someone else. Berns critiques the stories that emerge when social problems are shaped by guidelines that promote entertainment, victim empowerment, inspiration and politics.
- Bog
- 553,95 kr.
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- An Introduction to Constructionist Perspectives
609,95 kr. This text discusses how images of social problems can shape public policy, social services, and how we make sense of ourselves and others. It advocates social change through identity transformation rather than through structural change and emphasizes the role of emotions in this.
- Bog
- 609,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 515,95 kr.
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- Typifying Contemporary Social Problems
515,95 kr. Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention
- Bog
- 515,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 434,95 kr.
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- Fatness and Thinness as Social Problems
515,95 kr. When does a body weight problem become a social problem? This text offers several perspectives that explain the way society deals with fatness and thinness, considering historical foundations, medical models, gendered dimensions, institutional components, and collective perspectives.
- Bog
- 515,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 515,95 kr.
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- The Social Sources of Human Sexuality
490,95 - 1.408,95 kr. This volume retains the original text of "Sexual Conduct" published in 1973 with a small amount of revision and updating. The text is accompanied by a new preface, two essays reflecting on the conditions of writing the book, edited interviews on its contribution to the field, and a new epilogue.
- Bog
- 490,95 kr.
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515,95 kr. This volume explains what qualitative research can do, when it is sensible to use or commission it, and (most crucially and controversially) how to tell good work from bad. The text is amply illustrated with examples of qualitative health care research studies.
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- 515,95 kr.
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- Essays in Honor of Sheldon L. Messinger
682,95 kr. While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one of those terms that appear in the sociological discourse without any corresponding everyday usage
- Bog
- 682,95 kr.
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- In Theory and in Practice
515,95 - 1.089,95 kr. The rapid expansion of the American drug court movement is by now a well-documented story. Practitioners, politicians, and academics alike acknowledge the profound impact that drug courts have had on the American criminal justice system. This work seeks to make sense of this judicial innovation.
- Bog
- 515,95 kr.