Sociology And Health
Peter Morrall is Senior Lecturer in Health and Sociology at theUniversity of Leeds, UK. This lively, introductory text provides students and health practitionerswith the foundations of a sociological understanding ofhealth…[...]
Pierre Bourdieu, Key Concepts
Edited by Michael Grenfeil Pierre Bourdieu is now regarded as one of the foremost socialphilosophers of the twentieth century. Born in a small village in theFrench Pyrenees, his extraordinary academic…[...]
Handbook of Narrative Analysis
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Depression in Children and Adolescents
Edited byKedar Nath Dwivediand Ved Prakash Varma There has been a growing awareness of the need to take the problem ofchildhood depression more seriously. It is sometimes felt that there…[...]
Handbook of Depression in Children and Adolescents
Handbook ofDepression inChildren andAdolescentsEdited byJohn R. Z. AbelaBenjamin L. Hankin Children and adolescents are currently experiencing depression at anunprecedented rate. As prevalence rates of depression in Western cultures have soared…[...]
Eco-feminism and Globalization: Exploring Culture, Context, and Religion
Edited byHeather Eatonand Lois Ann Lorentzen TH IS VOLUME IS AN IMPORTANT EFFORT to evaluate the discourse of ecofemi- nism, which has emerged worldwide in the last three decades, and…[...]
Medical Sociology: An Introduction
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George Ritzer, Globalization A Basic Text
Ritzer, George.Globalization : A Basic Text / George Ritzer. Similarly illustrative of rapid and extensive global flows is the scandal associatedwith the $50 billion Ponzi scheme run by New York…[...]
Encyclopedia of Social Theory Vol. II
GENERAL EDITORGeorge RitzerUniversity of Maryland Social theory has approached nationalism most as a politicalideology structuring relations of power and conflict. It hasfocused on nationalism’s relationship to ethnic violenceand war, on…[...]
Encyclopedia of Social Theory Volume : I
George RitzerUniversity of Maryland To the best of our knowledge, this is the first Encyclopediaof Social Theory. There are, of course, encyclopedias of thesocial sciences (among others) that have addressed…[...]