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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “muriel darmon”
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  • Socialization

    by Muriel Darmon ...
    Translated by Lucy Garnier ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    How does society form and transform individuals? Sociology has been asking this question since its inception and “socialization” has been analyzed from different vantage points by various prominent thinkers.Socialization offers an overview of some of these perspectives in the classic work of key theorists and in contemporary research that has either developed or challenged these ideas. The book ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Becoming Anorexic

    A sociological study

    by Muriel Darmon ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Anorexia tends to be studied within health disciplines, such as medicine, psychoanalysis or psychology. When the condition is discussed in relation to society more broadly, focus is commonly restricted to considerations about the demise of the traditional family meal or the all-pervading obsession with thinness and media representations of ‘size zero’ models. But what can sociology tell us about ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry

    The Birth of Postpsychiatry

    by Bradley Lewis ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Interesting and fresh-represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead."--Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine"Remarkable in its breadth-an interesting and valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature of the philosophy of psychiatry."--Christian Perring, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Reading and Writing Disability Differently

    The Textured Life of Embodiment

    by Tanya Titchkosky ...
    Mixing rigorous social theory with concrete analysis, Reading and Writing Disability Differently unpacks the marginality of disabled people by addressing how the meaning of our bodily existence is configured in everyday literate society.Tanya Titchkosky begins by illustrating how news media and policy texts reveal dominant Western ways of constituting the meaning of people, and the meaning of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Narrative Therapy

    Making Meaning, Making Lives

    by Catrina Brown, Tod Augusta-Scott ...
    "This volume is especially useful in demonstrating the effects of placing social discourses at the center of therapy. It gores many sacred cows of the larger modernist therapeutic community, but in doing so it offers new ideas for mental health professionals attempting to help their clients with common and serious life problems." —PSYCRITIQUES"This compilation is an insightful read for ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Neuroqueer Heresies

    Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities

    by Nick Walker ...
    The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity.Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory.This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the foundations, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Social Psychology

    A Guide To Social and Cultural Psychology Fourth Edition

    by Connor Whiteley ...
    Series Book 35 - An Introductory Series
    This engaging 4th edition is perfect for psychology students and professionals alike!Do you want to learn why groups behave like they do?Do you want to learn how our groups influence us?Do you want to learn how our culture impacts our behaviour?If the answer to any of these questions and more is yes, then this is the book for you!In this book, you’ll learn about social and cultural psychology and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Good Education in an Age of Measurement

    Ethics, Politics, Democracy

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education. This book argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose. Biesta explores why the question as to what constitutes good ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Risk, Technology, and Moral Emotions

    by Sabine Roeser ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
    Risks arising from technologies raise important ethical issues. Although technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, ICT, and nuclear energy can improve human well-being, they may also convey risks for our well-being due to, for example, abuse, unintended side-effects, accidents, and pollution. As a consequence, technologies can trigger emotions, including fear and indignation, which often ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Minority Body

    A Theory of Disability

    by Elizabeth Barnes ...
    Series series Studies in Feminist Philosophy
    Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon--a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the Disability Rights and Disability Pride movements; but there is a massive disconnect with the way disability is typically viewed within analytic ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Identity, Formation, Agency, and Culture

    A Social Psychological Synthesis

    by James E. Cote, Charles G. Levine ...
    The goal of Identity, Formation, Agency, and Culture is to lay the basis of a theory with which to better understand the difficulties and complexities of identity formation. It provides an extensive understanding of identity formation as it relates to human striving (agency) and social organization (culture). James E. Côté and Charles G. Levine have compiled state-of-the-art psychological and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Social Psychology

    by Jane Callaghan, Lisa Lazard ...
    Series series Critical Thinking in Psychology Series
    This introductory social psychology text addresses the core knowledge domains of the subject, with key chapters on understanding identities, attribution theory, attitudinal research, social influence, racism and prejudice, class and exclusions, methodologies of social psychology and discursive psychology. It provides concise and focused coverage of the central concepts, research and debates in ... Read more

    $70.19 USD