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Introduction to Sociology
Reveals the surprising links between everyday life and global social change – in a special value edition. This affordable, two-color edition of Introduction to Sociology is the best choice for showing... how sociology can illuminate the real-life issues confronting your students. The authors combine classic theories of sociology with contemporary research to show readers how sociological explanations can give us insights into our own lives, as well as reveal the connections between our experiences and the wider social world.
50 Success Classics: Winning Wisdom For Work & Life From 50 Landmark Books
Tom Butler-bowdon. Includes Bibliographical References.
The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Profiles The World's Most Renowned Sociologists And More Than 100 Of Their Biggest Ideas, Including Issues Of Equality, Diversity, Identity, And Human Rights; The Effects Of Globalization; The Role Of... Institutions; And The Rise Of Urban Living In Modern Society.
Learning to Labor
Hailed by the New Society as the "best book on male working class youth," this classic work, first published in 1977, has been translated into several foreign languages and remains the authority in et...hnographical studies. -The unique contribution of this book is that it shows, with glittering clarity, how the rebellion of poor and working class kids against school authority prepares them for working class jobs.No American interested in education or in labor can afford not to read and study this book carefully. -Stanley Aranowitz -As fresh and challenging as when it was first published, Learning to Labor remains the text to inspire and teach ethnographers, from whatever disciplines,who probe unsentimentally human agency in institutions, political economy, and within the general constraints of modernity. -George E. Marcus
Wednesday's Children: The Memoirs of a Nurse-Turned-Social-Worker in Rural Appalachia
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Books That Changed the World
From the Bible, the Iliad, and the Republic to Civil Disobedience, Das Kapital, and Silent Spring, this revised and greatly expanded edition is a monument to the power of the printed word-an informati...ve discussion of many of the most important works ever created.
Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching about Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word
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The Case Worker
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From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in America
Over twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has served as the standard text on the history of welfare policy in the United States. The only co...mprehensive account of American social welfare history from the colonial era to the present, the new sixth edition has been updated to include the latest developments in our society as well as trends in social welfare. Trattner provides in-depth examination of developments in child welfare, public health, and the evolution of social work as a profession, showing how all these changes affected the treatment of the poor and needy in America. He explores the impact of public policies on social workers and other helping professions -- all against the backdrop of social and intellectual trends in American history. From Poor Law to Welfare State directly addresses racism and sexism and pays special attention to the worsening problems of child abuse, neglect, and homelessness. Topics new to this sixth edition include: A review of President Clinton's health-care reform and its failure, and his efforts to "end welfare as we know it" Recent developments in child welfare including an expanded section on the voluntary use of children's institutions by parents in the nineteenth century, and the continued discrimination against black youth in the juvenile justice system An in-depth discussion of Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein's controversial book, The Bell Curve, which provided social conservatives new weapons in their war on the black poor and social welfare in general The latest information on AIDS and the reappearance of tuberculosis -- and their impact on public health policy A new Preface and Conclusion, and substantially updated Bibliographies Written for students in social work and other human service professions, From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in America is also an essential resource for historians, political scientists, sociologists, and policymakers. Social Work Trattner writes clearly and simply. It is a pleasure to read a book that one not only understands but that stimulates hope in the future from insights drawn from the past.
Social Psychology [With Study Guide & Readings in Social Psychology]
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