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This user-friendly reference presents easy-to-implement classroom applications to help increase teaching effectiveness and enhance student outcomes and includes specific tips for boosting cognition and improving test scores.

The Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity and Culture provides the historical background and etymology of a wide number of words related to the concepts of race, ethnicity and culture and looks at them from a broadly multicultural perspective.

Demonstrates ways in which evaluation can and should be an important dimension of social work practice. The book presents an assessment of both qualitative methodology and of the empirical practice movement, and the contributors have varied perspectives.

Analyzes the role of language and symbolic media and shows how this enables us to move to new levels of understanding of contemporary organizational issues. This book critically evaluates the contributions of various disciplines and defines organizational discourse as a subject area.

The McDonaldization thesis argued that contemporary life is succumbing to the standardization, flexibility and predictability of fast-food service. This text makes a critical appraisal of the thesis, discussing the rationalization of modern life, consumer culture and modern citizenship.

Reviewing key contemporary issues and debates about consumption, this accessible textbook portrays and assesses the varied and complex intersections of consumption and everyday life. The contributors show the varying balance between constraint and creativity, links between consumption and production, and the patterns which shape access to symbolic and material resources.

Features the characteristics and uses of qualitative surveys. This title covers : the steps in a content analysis of qualitative data; survey ethics, including the ethical principles to use in survey development and the characteristics of survey research misconduct; and, more.

In-depth discussion of the masculinity dimension, and how it can help us to understand differences amongst cultures.

This volume provides specific suggestions for preparing for and carrying out a life story interview. It places the life story interview into a wider research context before moving on to planning and then conducting the interview. Finally, the book deals with the issues of transcribing and interpreting the interview.

The author discusses the most obvious symbolic aspects of organizations - corporate logos, office sizes, use of titles - as well as focusing on the more subtle aspect of expressive forms of symbolism such as storytelling, institutional jargon and workplace personalization, among others.

This guide explains how social scientists can evaluate the reliability and validity of empirical measurements, discussing the three basic types of validity: criterion related, content, and construct. In addition, the paper shows how reliability is assessed by the retest method, alternative-forms procedure, split-halves approach, and internal consistency method.

Describes the mathematical and logical foundations at a level that does not presume advanced mathematical or statistical skills. It illustrates how to do factor analysis with several of the more popular packaged computer programs.

Examines the range of issues raised by ageing in contemporary society. This collection combines academic and practitioner analysis with personal accounts. It aims to reflect the diverse nature of the subject by taking a multi-disciplinary approach, including literary and historical perspectives.

`This book explores what clients have to say about their experience of the psychotherapeutic process. David Howe observes that, regardless of the therapist's theoretical orientation, clients say similar things about their experience of being helped (and not being helped)' - Clinical Psychology Forum

Comprehensive guide to the methodological, ethical and practical issues involved in researching sensitive topics. It explores the reasons why social research may be politically and socially contentious, its relation to issues of social power and its capacity to encroach on people's lives.

Does counselling have to be long-term to be helpful? Should only women counsel women? How can you evaluate counselling? This book offers answers to these and many other frequently asked questions. It includes discussions that range over various aspects of counselling, from practical and theoretical to personal and ethical matters.

Introductory text, examining psychological and sociological perspectives on the family, and exploring the links between the family and social policy. The focus is on issues which bring the family into contact with the welfare state, such as domestic violence, child abuse, mental health and poverty.

An introduction to the principles of social and educational research, offering an assessment of issues of values and practice in social research. It discusses such issues as race, gender and power in social research; the politics and ethics of data collection; and the relevance of social research.

Counsellors often struggle in their work with clients, convinced that their more experienced colleagues have not encountered similar problems and worries. This work shares the painful lessons the authors have learned over the course of their careers as practitioners.

Ranging over a rich variety of material from film and film literature, and encompassing a critical interrogation of traditional realist ethnographic and cinematic texts, this book highlights the extent to which the cinema has contributed to the rise of voyeurism throughout society.

This text presents a set of articles which attempt to answer basic questions on the co-ordination of social life by using models of markets, hierarchy and networks. These three models aim to provide a basis for the analysis of social life that transcends time and place.

This text explores the nature and extent of racial discrimination, and the successes and failures of equal opportunities programmes. A successful balance of important articles and specially written contributions, it presents analyses of institutional racism in immigration law, housing, social work, employment training and the criminal justice system.

Blending cultural studies and political analysis, this interdisciplinary text both illuminates and furthers debates over 'race' and its meanings in contemporary society as well as in educational and social policy. It is essential reading for all those concerned with discrimination and antiracist policy.

`Van Zoonen offers a provocative vision for the future of the field, and provides us with an important contribution to the literature of mass communication' - Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

What are the risks of crime and do they vary from country to country? What is the impact of crime on the victim? How are victims treated by police, welfare agencies and courts? Why have governments become interested in victims? Can we learn from the experiences of policies in other nations? This book provides a critique of victimology.

Focuses on the methods and techniques used by counsellors to reassert balance in a relationship. It examines the nature of couple relationships and emphasizes that counselling entails motivating couples, helping them to understand their problems and increasing their behavioural management skills.

Underpinning this examination of Western societies is the notion of the `risk society'. The changing nature of society's relation to production and distribution is related to the environmental impact as a totalizing, globalizing economy based on scientific and technical knowledge becomes more central to social organization and social conflict.

Explores the issues involved in both the training and supervision of counsellors and in the preparation of those who are to undertake supervisory and training roles. This book discusses the responsibilities and the professional and practical issues involved. It deals with the important issue of training for counsellor trainers and supervisors.

In this book leading international social scientists analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Differing explanations are offered for trends towards global unification and their relation to an economic world-system.