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The success or failure of empires, nation-states and city-states often rests on the relationship between bureaucracy and politicians. This book examines the myriad relationships between politicians and bureaucrats.

This volume is designed to revolutionize the field of communication by identifying a broad ethical theory which transcends the world of mass media practice to reveal a more humane and responsible code of values. The contributors defend the possibility of universal moral imperatives such as justice, reciprocity and human dignity.

This is an interdisciplinary analysis of the largest Asian American ethnic group, addressing such issues as ethnic identity, the impact of different colonizations on ethnic identity, personal and family relationships, mental health, race and racism.

East Asia's dynamic entrance into the global economy has provided a fruitful avenue for research in economic sociology. In this perceptive and timely volume, the authors theorize Asian capitalism and analyze the economic organization of East Asia.Presenting differing dimensions of a Weberian perspective, the authors first provide a theoretical grounding, then consider capitalism in East Asia comparatively, and finally contrast the economies of East Asia and Europe. The book shows how radically different social and cultural institutions can lead to economies that are organized in remarkably similar ways.

Systematically examining and documenting the range of discriminatory behaviour that many women experience on a daily basis, the editor of this volume demonstrates how subtle sexism devalues women and limits their work. Nijole V Benokraitis also explains how these practices can be challenged and changed.The four parts cover: the continuing significance of sexism; subtle sexism in organizational settings; subtle sexism as social control; and how to change subtle sexism practices.

While earlier studies often portrayed African Americans as passive or powerless, as victims of white racism or slum pathologies, this book emphasizes scholarship which conveys a sense of active involvement, of people empowered, engaged in struggle, living their lives in dignity and shaping their own futures.

Cultivating sensitivity to ethnographic, demographic, status and affiliation differences between people, this practical and creative resource provides a workbook approach to learning interviewing skills.Numerous activities and exercises are provided to help the interviewer understand the cultural context of decisional interviewing. Case studies are also included to illustrate the types of multicultural situations an interviewer might experience. The book will guide readers toward more accurate interview assessments and appropriate interventions.

This book demonstrates how some of the most serious problems and dangers confronting teenagers today - tobacco, alcohol, substance abuse, pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, mental health problems and youth violence - can be addressed through health promotion and educatio

This volume describes a myriad of policy, research and practice issues related to families of children with serious emotional disorders. It centres on families' direct and indirect roles in children's mental health services - for example, families can determine if and when the child enters treatment, and they can provide the context within which all therapeutic gains are played out.The contributors discuss: family-centred service delivery characteristics and strategies; society's role in strengthening the family and preventing emotional disorders in children and young people; supports for and barriers to parent-professional partnerships; the complexities of assessing family functioning; and culturally sensitive service delivery. Throughout the book, consideration is given to the complexity and diversity of families, and the resultant impact upon service delivery.

`This book is an outstanding contribution to existing knowledge about bereavement. It breaks new ground in a number of respects: It advances understanding beyond interpersonal level analysis to explore phenomena of grief and grieving in an interpersonal perspective. As such, it extends the perspective usually adopted in traditional theorizing_ The book is a must for both researchers and clinicians alike, indeed, for anyone whose lives are affected by bereavement. It offers new insight and new ways of understanding' - Margaret S. Stroebe, University of Utrecht, The NetherlandsThrough interviews and analysis, the author explores the healing process within the family context, and looks at the dynamics at work in families in which a member has died. With a keen sense of empathy, the author shares stories which show how, gradually, families come to terms with their grief and make sense of the death, as time goes by.This `family meaning-making' is not a linear process; it is alternately stimulated and inhibited within a family. The author draws conclusions from her research about which particular social factors and conditions play a role in the overall outcome. She succeeds in showing not only how different families cope with death within the family, but also how skilful and sensitive field research is done.

This completely updated second edition presents an integrated, multidisciplinary account of children's experience of divorce from historical, cultural and demographic perspectives. The author uses his family systems model to integrate research findings into a theoretical whole and to evaluate psychological interventions with divorcing and divorced families.

An interdisciplinary study of masculinities in organizational settings, discussing workplace roles and the ways they relate to and affect masculinity, and shedding light on some misconceptions that have plagued the study of organizations. Subjects include emotional labor in a male-dominated occupati

A hot topic in organizational science in recent years has been how organizational members conceptualize and make sense of their organizational worlds. The growing interest in cognition has coincided, not accidentally, with the increasing legitimacy of a constructionist point of view among organizational scholars.Bringing together the scholars whose work has fueled these theoretical developments, this volume covers broad ground - from cognitive coordination on the bridge of a Navy ship, to cultural belief systems in the California wine industry. Yet each contributor applies the insights of modern cognitive science to problems of sensemaking and decision-making in organizations, creating a coherent volume and marking the contributions as the cutting edge of cognitive research within and between organizations.

This book is written for professionals and academics who are looking for ways to help people of all sexual orientations work together creatively, productively and without prejudice. The authors examine the structure of today's workforce in relation to its sexual orientation. They explore how leaders, groups and organizations can establish a positive climate and initiate equal policies for workers.

A guide through the complexities of cross-cultural research. It examines topics such as: the design and analysis of quasi-experiments; the dominant framework for cross-cultural research; the important tools of cross-cultural research; and the useful techniques, illustrated with sample data.

Suitable for those who are interested in learning more about using negotiation and mediation to settle conflicts positively and effectively, this book includes stories that can be used to: generate discussion; stimulate thinking in assemblies; enrich mediation training; support win/win positions; and, help those in conflict find solutions.

Shows how happiness and professional success can be achieved through effective personal decision-making. This book is suitable for those in management situations - at various levels - and those who wish to reap the personal benefits of clear thinking.

Peter Dahlgren clarifies the underlying theoretical concepts of civil society and the public sphere, and relates these to a critical analysis of the practice of television as journalism, as information and as entertainment. He demonstrates the limits and the possibilities of the television medium and the formats of popular journalism.

In this comprehensive guide to important developments in the study of media reception, Shaun Moores reviews a wide range of qualitative audience research and charts the emergence of a critical ethnographic perspective on everyday consumer practices.

Most counsellors use the telephone to interact with clients to some degree. This volume explores the skills needed to carry out effective telephone counselling - such as welcoming and establishing a relationship with the client, listening and responding, and understanding silences.

Offers 30 practical suggestions to help practising counsellors develop and enhance their Transactional Analysis (TA) counselling skills. After an introductory section that summarizes the uses of TA theory and technique, this book covers crucial aspects of best practice in TA.

This reader draws together key material which has been published in "Counselling", the journal of the British Association for Counselling, over the last few years. It discusses such topics as: therapeutic approaches; contexts and practice; and research and future trends.

Psychology, health and medicine assessment and referral skills are useful for counsellors and psychotherapists. This book explores a range of key topics, covering how psychiatric diagnoses and classifications are arrived at, and the issues that can arise when working in conjunction with other mental health practitioners, such as psychiatrists.

Outlines a set of techniques that enable a researcher to discuss the "hidden structure" of large data bases. These techniques use proximities, measures which indicate how similar or different objects are, to find a configuration of points which reflects the structure in the data.

A collection of interviews that examines crucial issues of uncertainty which leading British and American therapists have encountered during the course of their work.

This book deals with the key professional issues faced by students on teacher training courses and practicing primary teachers.

Formerly a SkyLight publicationIn this updated edition, the authors show how to devise specific performance standards for each intelligence and easily apply them directly in the classroom.

This text provides a theoretical and practical basis for understanding inter-organizational collaboration and for designing processes to enable it to work. It develops a framework for what is meant by collaboration and details key features of collaboration in practice.

The use of computers in qualitative research has redefined the way social researchers handle qualitative data. Two leading researchers in the field have written this lucid text on the principal approaches in qualitative research and show how the leading computer programs are used in computer-assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDAS).