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Provides a concise summary of what we know about attitudes, and suggests we could discover much more by adopting novel means, both conceptual and methodological, for studying attitudes in and around organizations.

Presents a model of clinical supervision that embraces different theoretical approaches to counselling, moving away from models limited to only one approach. This book emphasizes research-based techniques and principles through boxes that summarize empirical work and define and illustrate key constructs of the model.

Gary Krug demonstrates how communication technology must be studied as an integral part of culture and lived-experience. Rather than stand in awe of the apparent explosion of new technologies, this book links key moments and developments in communication technology with the social conditions of their time.

The Foundation Stage Teacher is essential reading for all early years students and practitioners; early years course tutors, and teachers new to working with 3-5 year olds and also primary headteachers.

Drawing directly on the work of teachers and other professional trainers concerned with programmes for Continuing Professional Development, this book promotes action research for practitioners so as to develop qualities of critical appraisal and analysis of practice, appropriate to professional contexts.

'Feminist theories and methodologies have become an increasingly complex as well as somewhat fraught terrain where ideas and egos clash productively and destructively. This is an up-to-date, intelligent introduction to a field which remains a vital component of contemporary sociopolitical issues and debates' - Sneja Gunew, University of British Columbia

Covers a range of policy problems relating to women's inequality including: pay equity, antidiscrimination and affirmative action, education, child care, abortion, domestic violence and sexual harassment.

`I am sure that this will be a book that will make a major impact' - Mike Reed, Lancaster UniversityIn this comprehensive and scholarly book, the essential critical strands in organizational analysis are explained. It examines how central traditions have realigned in relation to the challenge of postmodernism and the new reflexive turn in organizational studies.

This textbook helps students and practising researchers to improve the quality of their research. Practical examples and exercises demonstrate how to evaluate qualitative research, how to plan and collect good quality data, how to do thoughtful analysis and how to write and report on qualitative research.

An overview of recent feminist and sociological debates on heterosexuality and the construction of desire - without recourse to psychoanalysis. The author draws on feminism, along with phenomenological and interactionist sociology, to critique the concept of repression and the place of sexuality.

Students embarking upon empirical research will find this to be an indispensable resource, enabling them to focus on the correct issues and ask the right questions for effective research. The book develops a set of research practices that are appropriate to a critical understanding of culture, power and everyday life.

Offers an overview of one of the important approaches to the study of politics in the modern world - rational choice theory. This title discusses how we might use rational choice theory to analyze the political competition that affects almost every aspect of our lives.

Managing Effective Learning and Teaching

This book focuses on small-scale quantitative surveys studying the relationships between variables. After showing the central place of the quantitative survey in social science research methodology, it then takes a simple model of the survey, describes its elements and gives a set of steps and guidelines for implementing each element.

How Children Learn to Write

`An essential easy-to-use guide to geography... unique in providing not only advice but also activity based guidance to both potential and current geography undergraduates... an all encompassing text which offers a fresh and original outlook on geography at degree level' Lorraine Craig, Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers)

The Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research is the definitive reference work on theory and methods for family scholars and students worldwide. This volume provides a diverse, eclectic, and paradoxically mature approach to theorizing, and demonstrates how the development of theory is crucial to the future of family research.

Effective measurement is a cornerstone of scientific research. Yet many social science researchers lack the tools to develop appropriate assessment instruments for the measurement of latent social- psychological constructs.Scaling Procedures: Issues and Applications examines the issues involved in de

Each year, academic institutions produce thousands of social science graduates, skilled in applied social research - many more than can be absorbed into the teaching profession. This volume provides information on how and where social scientists can put their skills to use in the private sector?

In this book, the authors, who have both bought and sold several businesses, reveal creative and low cost ways to do your own diligence in investigating entrepreneurial opportunities. The book covers all the basics, including market, products, insurance, facilities, assets, short and long-term liabilities and much more.

As research in the area of same-gender sexual orientation grows, so has visibility of this population and the oppression they often encounter dealing with everyday life. Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youths and Adults provides research-based insights.

DiGiulio outlines how communities - not the government, doctors, or lawyers - can offer schools vital and concrete support to play a preventive rather than a reactive role in keeping students safe.

This book critically introduces the main contemporary debates on globalization and demonstrates how conventional versions or narratives of globalization have served to shape policy responses at both state and corporate levels.

Drawing inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Georg Simmel, this book explores the dream-like and ghost-like experiences of the city, best described as phantasmagorias. These phantasmagorias, while commonplace, are far from self-evident. Real Cities explains how the phantasmagorias of modern city life are experienced and produced.

Analyses a range of social contexts in which human decisions shape technology in the market economy. This book covers such topics as: the social context for individual acts of creative insight; the development of the technology-market relationship; the management of R&D and technological standards; and, technological competition.