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Key Concepts eBook Series

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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

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Culture and Cognition

    Patterns in the Social Construction of Reality

    by Wayne H. Brekhus ...
    Series series Cultural Sociology
    How does culture shape our thinking? In what ways do our social and cultural worlds enter into our mental worlds? How do the communities we belong to influence what we notice and what we ignore? What cultural variation do we see in cognition? What general patterns do we see across this diversity and variation?In this lively and engaging book, Wayne H. Brekhus shows us the many ways that culture ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Practicing Therapy as Social Construction

    by Sheila McNamee, Pedro Martins, Emerson F Rasera ...
    This book is a comprehensive introduction to social constructionist ideas and their application within the psychological therapies.Whether you are a trainee or qualified therapist, this book will support you to think about therapy as a socially constructed and relational process, and to develop as a more culturally, socially and politically aware practitioner. It advocates for ‘therapist activists ... Read more

    $52.99 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

  • Participation, Facilitation, and Mediation

    Children and Young People in Their Social Contexts

    Edited by Claudio Baraldi, Vittorio Iervese ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Traditionally, children have been considered from a primarily developmental perspective, in need of education in order to achieve autonomy, growth, and eventually adulthood. Childhood studies have recently underlined an alternate way to look at children, starting from the consideration that children are competent social actors and can actively participate in social life. However, there has been ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms

    by MILLER, Jennifer, KOSTOGRIZ, Alex, GEARON, Margaret ...
    The growing cultural, racial and linguistic diversity in schools has changed the face of language teaching in many countries. This book presents theory and research by a group of internationally recognised scholars who address the issues and challenges for teachers and their students in increasingly plurilingual and multicultural classrooms. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD