Sociology & Psychology

Generation NGO: a generation of young professionals who are actively engaged in global issues, who venture overseas to work in international development. What happens when they leave their comfortable homes to journey to refugee camps or war zones in the name of "development," and then return home? These ...

"How do social class, race-ethnic, and gender differences promote social inequality in our everyday lives? Life of the Party begins with a family birthday celebration as a prelude to examining several other party contexts -- tailgates of college footballand race car fans, home sales gatherings of tool-buying ...

Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today, this book is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm shifts.

This book makes an original contribution to the study of the psychoanalytic process from a relational point of view, and at the same time serves as a textbook on the theory of technique. It provides a general exposition of the theory of psychoanalytic practice from a process perspective that emphasizes ...

The book aims to show that, in the 21st century, it is possible to live, love, form a family without sex, without children, without a shared home, without a partner, without a working husband, without a heterosexual orientation or without a "biological" sexual body.

In examining how our identity shapes the knowledge we produce, Mental health service users in research considers ways of 'doing research' which bring multiple understandings together effectively, and explains the sociological use of autobiography and its relevance.

Based on the acclaimed film that debuted at Sundance, leading experts make a case for summoning the will to eliminate food insecurity and hunger in America.

Offers an overview of neuroscience findings on spontaneous thought processes or snaps, describing how everyone can learn to improve the likelihood of their own Eureka moment by adopting certain rewarding attitudes and habits.

Our planet is busy dealing with continuous wave-like flows of hordes of empty-headed, culturally fooled, crowds of humans destroying everything in their path while senselessly wasting natural resources, including their own lifetimes. They do so while mostly unconsciously respecting packages of cultural/social ...

This book takes a life course perspective, analysing and comparing the biographies of mothers and fathers in seven European countries in context.

Outlines the dreams of liberal economics and political scientists. This book shows how an earlier generation of liberal economists turned ideas into action.

Though the composition of the populace of industrial nations has changed dramatically since the 1950s, public discourse and scholarship, however, often remain welded to traditional concepts of national cultures, ignoring the multicultural realities of most of today's western societies. Through detailed ...

Many nations affirm the principle of gender equality. As women continue to advance in most walks of life, the impression that equality has been reached and that gender issues no longer pose real problems has naturally gained ground. Yet, many cultural, economic, and social barriers remain.

This book illustrates how society in general and individuals and organizations in particular help and hinder the process of extrication - often at the same time. By analyzing the solutions, and their implications, that have been offered to and by the abused women, the authors arrive at a set of alternative solutions...

Adoption has long been a controversial subject in the United States as well as in other western countries, but never more so than in the past three decades. Why that is and how public attention affects the decisions made by those who arrange, legalize, and experience adoptive kinship constitutes the ...

In studying the treatment of battered, raped and sexually-harassed women in the two countries, she has found that, contrary to conventional expectation, the ability of the decentralized American state to innovate effectively has been consistently underestimated, whereas Sweden's ability to do the same has often been exaggerated.

Provides an optimistic look at how humanity's unique qualities are driving it towards a better future. This title argues that humanity has a much brighter future - one that is driven by our unique ability to share information and knowledge between generations and across cultures.