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“amy rossiter”

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  • Practice and Research in Social Work

    Postmodern Feminist Perspectives

    Edited by Barbara Fawcett, Brid Featherstone, Jan Fook, Amy Rossiter ...
    Although postmodernist theory has been related to and explored in sociology and social policy, this book is amongst the first to apply the theories to social work, and relate them to current debates. Contributors come from the UK, Australia, South Africa and Canada and many have professional experience as social workers. They appraise the key issues in the contested field of postmodernism and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • Foucault, Power, and Education

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Key Ideas in Education
    Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some of the ways Foucault has been placed in relation to educational questions or questions about education, Ball highlights the relationships between Foucault’s concepts and methods, and educational ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Reshaping Social Life

    by Sarah Irwin ...
    Caught up in current social changes, we do not fully understand the reshaping of social life. In sociological analyses there is a conceptual gap between subjectivities and social structural processes, and we face real difficulties in understanding social change and diversity. Through analysis of key areas of social life, here, Sarah Irwin develops a new and exciting resource for better ... Read more

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  • Social Identity

    by Richard Jenkins ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    Social Identity explains how identification, seen as a social process, works: individually, interactionally and institutionally. Building on the international success of previous editions, this fourth edition offers a concise, comprehensive and readable critical introduction to social science theories of identity for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates. All the chapters have been updated, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Occupational Science

    Society, Inclusion, Participation

    Edited by Gail E. Whiteford, Clare Hocking ...
    Occupational Science: Society, Inclusion, Participation is the must have resource for occupational therapists, occupational scientists, students and researchers. The book begins with a comprehensive review of the current literature and the knowledge generated to date. Reasons for the field's limited impact are proposed, including its focus on individuals rather than groups and communities, its ... Read more

    $53.00 USD

  • Gender and Social Psychology

    by Vivien Burr ...
    Series series Psychology Focus
    Explaining theory and research in an accessible but thorough manner, Gender and Social Psychology critically evaluates the contribution that psychology has made to the study of gender, examining key issues such a family roles and parenting, inequalities in education, jobs and pay, and the effects of media representation of the sexes. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Social Research

    by Tim May ...
    This text successfully bridges the gap between theory and methods in social research, bringing understanding of the dynamics of social relations. ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • Poststructural Policy Analysis

    A Guide to Practice

    by Carol Bacchi, Susan Goodwin ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers a novel, refreshing and politically engaged way to think about public policy. Instead of treating policy as simply the government’s best efforts to address problems, it offers a way to question critically how policies produce “problems” as particular sorts of problems, with important political implications. Governing, it is argued, takes place through these problematizations. ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Transforming Social Work Practice

    Postmodern Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Jan Fook, Bob Pease ...
    Transforming Social Work Practice shows that postmodern theory offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice. It explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take advantage of the perspectives offered by postmodern theory without totally abandoning the values of modernity and the Enlightenment project of human ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Ethics and Politics in Early Childhood Education

    by Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss ...
    Series series Contesting Early Childhood
    The early childhood services of Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy has gained worldwide interest and admiration. Drawing on the ‘Reggio approach’, and others, this book explores the ethical and political dimensions of early childhood services and argues the importance of these dimensions at a time when they are often reduced to technical and managerial projects, without informed consideration for ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Habermas, Critical Theory and Health

    Edited by Graham Scambler ...
    The contribution of the German sociologist and philosopher Jurgen Habermas has proved seminal for attempts to understand the nature of social change in the context of global capitalism. This book provides an accessible introduction to his work and shows how his theories can be fruitfully applied to a wide range of topics in the sociology of health and illness including:* lay health knowledge* ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • What Makes Health Public?

    A Critical Evaluation of Moral, Legal, and Political Claims in Public Health

    by John Coggon ...
    Series Book 15 - Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    John Coggon argues that the important question for analysts in the fields of public health law and ethics is 'what makes health public?' He offers a conceptual and analytic scrutiny of the salient issues raised by this question, outlines the concepts entailed in, or denoted by, the term 'public health' and argues why and how normative analyses in public health are inquiries in political theory. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD