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Rural Regional and Remote Social Work: Practice Research from Australia (Paperback)

This book gives voice to the direct practice experience of social workers working in rural and remote contexts using Australia as the primary case-study. The authors undertake a qualitative research project conducting in-depth interviews to examine... more

Names and Naming in the Social Sciences Literary Onomastics (Hardcover)

Literary Onomastics surveys different methods of studying names in works of literature and offers representative works of literary onomastic analysis. Included in this volume are qualitative studies that examine select names as well as quantitative... more

Worker satisfaction and development; a case study of work and social behavior in a factory group. 1956 [Leather Bound]

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Pre-Owned Social Work Research Methods : Qualitative and Quantitative Applications 9780205299140

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Social Problems & Social Issues: Qualitative Methods and Health Policy Research (Paperback)

Qualitative researchers have traditionally been cautious about claiming that their work was scientific. The right-on schools have exaggerated this caution into an outright rejection of science as a model for their work. Science is for them outmoded;... more

Social Work and Child Services (Paperback)

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Bringing together the results of studies of child services from diverse countries and cultures this book covers a broad array of topical issues and social work interventions. It examines... more

Social Indicators Research: Qualitative Studies in Quality of Life: Methodology and Practice (Paperback)

This volume explores the use and relevance of qualitative methods for the study of quality of life. It analyzes the role of qualitative researcher and the role of the context and the culture in quality of life studies. It presents the use of... more

Vunta Kutchin Social Change : a Study of the People of Old Crow Yukon Territory (Paperback)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United... more

Studies in social work. : Child welfare series. Volume no.3 9999 [Leather Bound]

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Cambridge Cultural Social Studies The New American Cultural Sociology (Paperback)

This exciting new volume brings together seminal work by leading figures in what is emerging as a new and important intellectual tradition relating them to other work in sociology and different disciplines. The book is divided into sections on... more

Vunta Kutchin Social Change: a Study of the People of Old Crow Yukon Territory (Hardcover)

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Report of a study of the interrelation of the work of national social agencies in fourteen American communities / by Porter R. Lee Walter W. Pettit and Jane M. Hoey (1923) [Leatherbound]

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1923 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more

The Nation s Food : a Statistical Study of a Physiological and Social Problem (Paperback)

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Income Distribution and Social Change; a Critical Study in British Statistics (Paperback)

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Pre-Owned Empowerment Series: an Introduction to the Profession of Social Work 9781305258990

Segal Gerdes and Steiner s AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROFESSION OF SOCIAL WORK introduces readers to the social work profession and describes the role of social worker in the social welfare system. Through case studies personal stories and exercises... more

Research in Social Work: Social Work and the Making of Social Policy (Paperback)

Bringing together international case studies this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and social policy. Moving beyond existing studies on policy practice the book employs the policy cycle as a... more

Community a Sociological Study [microform]: Being an Attempt to Set out the Nature and Fundamental Laws of Social Life (Paperback)

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Cambridge Studies in Work and Social Ine Rights Of Passage: Social Change And The Transition From Youth To Adulthood Book 4 (Paperback)

First Published in 1995. This original and timely analysis of the transition from youth to adulthood breaks with traditional ideas about the labour market and demographic processes and makes an important and general contribution to understanding... more

International Library of Sociology Penelope Hall s Social Services of England and Wales (Paperback)

This is Volume VI of eighteen in a series on Public Policy Welfare and Social Work. Originally published in 1969 this study is a revision of Penelope Hall s book (1952) from the Social Science Department at the University of Liverpool deemed... more

Pre-Owned Social Work Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Applications (Hardcover) 0205299148 9780205299140

Contains coverage of qualitative and quantitative social work research and evaluation applications for undergraduate and graduate social work students. This text shows students that social work research does not take place in a vacuum - that the... more

Studies in Childhood and Youth: Separated Migrant Young Women in State Care: Living in Contested Spaces (Hardcover)

This book considers the responses of states to migrant girls who are separated from family and enter state care systems as unaccompanied or trafficked young people. The book draws on research with girls and social work practitioners in the UK to... more

Series in Victorian Studies: Hidden Hands : Working-Class Women and Victorian Social-Problem Fiction (Paperback)

Tracing the Victorian crisis over the representation of working-class women to the 1842 Parliamentary bluebook on mines with its controversial images of women at work Hidden Hands argues that the female industrial worker became even more dangerous... more

Social work with travelers and transients; a study of travelers aid work in the United States by Grace Eleanor Kimble Ph. D. 1935 [Leather Bound]

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The Development of Religion; a Study in Anthropology and Social Psychology (Paperback)

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Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe: The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus (Paperback)

Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe is a landmark work in the areas of anthropology and migration studies. Since its first publication in 1989 this classic study has remained in demand. The third edition is published to mark the centenary of the 1923... more

International Library of Sociology Sociology Of Housing Ils 194 (Paperback)

This is Volume XIV of eighteen in a collection of works on Public Policy Welfare and Social Work. Originally published in 1964 this is a study of Berinsfield which was originally a rural slum known as Field Farm in Oxfordshire. more

The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu; A Social Study (Paperback)

The Industrial Condition of Women and Girls in Honolulu; A Social Study a classic since it was first published. Has been considered important throughout the human history and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its... more

Primitive Traits in Religious Revivals; a Study in Mental and Social Evolution (Paperback)

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The Negro Church; Report of a Social Study Made Under the Direction of Atlanta University; Together With the Proceedings of the Eighth Conference for the Study of Negro Problems Held at Atlanta Unive

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Pre-Owned The Cocktail Waitress: Woman s Work in a Man s World (Hardcover) 0471817694 9780471817697

A 1975 classic this highly readable in-depth study examines a familiar female role in contemporary American society. The authors apply fieldwork methods to the study of social behavior in a college bar--as viewed from the perspective of cocktail... more

Madame Mohl her Salon and her Friends a Study of Social Life in Paris (Hardcover)

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Routledge Studies in Gender and Environments: Gender Intersectionality and Climate Institutions in Industrialised States (Paperback)

This book explores how climate institutions in industrialized countries work to further the recognition of social differences and integrate this understanding in climate policy making. With contributions from a range of expert scholars in the field... more

Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought: Bourdieu s Philosophy and Sociology of Science: A Critical Appraisal (Hardcover)

This book explores Pierre Bourdieu s philosophy and sociology of science which though central to his thought have been largely neglected in critical examinations of his work. Addressing the resultant confusion that surrounds Bourdieu s sociologized... more

Class Structure and Social Transformation (Hardcover)

The study of class structure is crucial to the understanding of society and social transformation as these are based on class relations and class struggle. This work presents a class analysis approach to the study of society and social relations.... more

Studies in Critical Social Sciences: Syed Hussein Alatas and Critical Social Theory: Decolonizing the Captive Mind (Paperback)

Known for his most famous works such as The Myth of the Lazy Native (1977) and The Problem of Corruption (1986) as well as his concept of the captive mind Syed Hussein Alatas (1928-2007) made significant contributions to decolonization theory social... more

Pre-Owned Organisational Behaviour for Social Work (Paperback 9781847422798) by Gavin Bissell

9781847422798. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Paperback. Language: English. Organisational behaviour for social work unites the well-established study of behaviour in organizations with the special and sometimes unusual organizational settings of social... more

Pre-Owned Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India (Hardcover) 0300085303 9780300085303

?An outstanding work of social science one of the most important studies of ethnic violence to appear in many years.??Samuel P. Huntington author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order ?An important breakthrough in... more

International Library of Sociology Psych Soc Work Gt Brit Ils 264 (Paperback)

This is Volume V of seven in a collection on the Sociology of Mental Health. Originally published in 1964 the object of this book is to study a particular group of social workers those trained as psychiatric social workers. It was begun in the... more