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  • Social Psychology

    by Anselm Strauss, Alfred R. Lindesmith, Norman K. Denzin ...
    A basic introduction to the field, Social Psychology, Eighth Edition takes a critical, symbolic, interactionist approach and helps students understand the very nature of how individuals do things together in today′s society. The book has been significantly revised and takes into consideration a number of the recent turns in the field: the increased sense that American social psychology is deeply ... Read more

    $125.99 CAD

  • Mirrors and Masks

    The Search for Identity

    by Anselm L. Strauss ...
    Identity as a concept is as elusive as everyone's sense of his own personal identity. It is connected with appraisals made by oneself and by others. Each person sees himself mirrored in the judgments of others. The masks he presents to the world are fashioned upon his anticipations of judgments. In Mirrors and Masks, Anselm Strauss uses the notion of identity to organize materials and thoughts ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Professions, Work and Careers

    by Anselm L. Strauss ...
    Professions, Work and Careers addresses some of the central themes that preoccupied the eminent sociologist Anselm Strauss. This collection is directed at sociologists concerned with the development of theory and graduate and undergraduate students in the sociology of work and the sociology of medicine. His approach is both thematic and topical.Straus examines organization, profession, career, and ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Psychiatric Ideologies and Institutions

    by Anselm L. Strauss ...
    The authors of this volume point out that what is ordinarily termed the psychiatric hospital's "social structure" is principally derived from three sources: the number and kinds of professionals who work there; the treatment ideologies and professional identities of these professionals; and the relationships of the institution and its professionals to outside communities, both professional and lay ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Creating Sociological Awareness

    Collective Images and Symbolic Representations

    by Anselm L. Strauss ...
    This volume of papers from the distinguished sociologist Anselm Strauss reflects his self-professed lifelong intention to create sociological awareness in his readers and students. As Irving Louis Horowitz notes in his foreword to the book, at the center of Strauss's effort has been the democratization of sociology. He has achieved this goal by making sure that relativities of status, power, and ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Psychological Modeling

    Conflicting Theories

    by Anselm L. Strauss ...
    The phenomenon of learning has always been of fundamental interest to psychologists. Although much of the research in this area approaches the process of learning as a consequence of direct experience, this volume is principally concerned with learning by example.A widening interest in modeling and vicarious processes of learning has been apparent in recent years. Psychological Modeling highlights ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The American City

    A Sourcebook of Urban Imagery

    by Anselm L. Strauss ...
    This set of readings presents useful insights into urbanization and provides a fresh perspective on American cities and their inhabitants. Advancing the premise that it is not possible to understand how people live in cities without understanding how they think of them, the editor presents historical and contemporary materials that illustrate vividly the variety of ways in which Americans have ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Contexts of Social Mobility

    Ideology and Theory

    by Anselm L. Strauss ...
    This book contains a major statement by one of America's most preeminent sociologists on what remains an important problem in American history and social analysis: the nature and extent of movement within American society from one status to another. The most important images of mobility involve self-improvement by changing location (going to the frontier, coming to the big city), and by changing ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Discovery of Grounded Theory

    Strategies for Qualitative Research

    by Barney Glaser, Anselm Strauss ...
    Most writing on sociological method has been concerned with how accurate facts can be obtained and how theory can thereby be more rigorously tested. In The Discovery of Grounded Theory, Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss address the equally Important enterprise of how the discovery of theory from data—systematically obtained and analyzed in social research—can be furthered. The discovery of theory ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Status Passage

    by Anselm L. Strauss ...
    The French writer Arnold van Gennep first called attention to the phenomena of status passages in his Rites of Passage one hundred years ago. In Status Passage, first published in 1971, the movement of individuals and groups in contemporary society from one status to another is examined in the light of Gennep's original theory. Glaser and Strauss demonstrate that society emerges as a comparative ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Images of the American City

    Edited by Anselm L. Strauss ...
    Originally published in 1961, Images of the American City examines how Americans dealt with the rapid shock of urbanization as it evolved from an agricultural nation. Working from the framework of a social psychologist, Anselm L. Strauss offers a deeper look into the sociological, psychological, and historical perspectives of urban development. He describes how the cultural changes of a space ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Continual Permutations of Action

    Edited by Anselm L. Strauss ...
    Richard Bernstein expressed the view that pragmatism was ahead of its time; the same has been true of symbolic interactionism. These two closely related perspectives, one philosophical and the other sociological, place human action at the center of their explanatory schemes. It has not mattered what aspect of social or psychological behavior was under scrutiny. Whether selves, minds, or emotions, ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD