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Deviance and Mental Illness
Scholars from several disciplines discuss how mental illness is identified, its official and unofficial status, the role of the patient in treatment, the structure and nature of psychiatry, and alternatives to its treatment and explanations, the stereotypes of mental illness, even the question of whether it exists other than as a label.
British Foreign Secretaries Since 1974
This book analyses the changing role of the British Foreign Secretary and presents biographical case studies of all the individual holders of that post, the policies they pursued and the issues they faced, since 1974.
Residential Crowding and Design
The intent of this book is threefold: (1) to summarize recent research concerned with residential crowding, (2) to present some new perspec tives on this important subject, and (3) to consider design implications and recommendations that can be derived from the existing body of research. We have sought to bring together the work of many of the researchers most involved in these areas, and have asked them to go beyond their data-to present new insights into response to residential crowding and to speculate about the meaning of their work for the present and future design of residential environments. We feel that this endeavor has been successful, and that the present volume will help to advan...
Rock-a-by Baby
Although self-help has been an integral strategy of the women's movement, the burgeoning self-help publishing industry and growing popularity of talk shows encouraging personal confession have provoked vicious attacks on self-help from many feminists. Rock-a-By Baby examines the postpartum depression support group movement and exploring the relationship between gender, the ideas and strategies of women's self-help groups and feminism. Taylor uses interviews and personal letters, talk show transcripts, organizational newsletters and a survey of postpartum group leaders to illuminate conflicts played out in the arena of women's self-help.
Deviant Behavior
Using the framework of interest group conflict, this text combines a balanced, comprehensive overview of the field of deviance with first-hand expertise in the workings of the criminal justice system. Deviant Behavior, Seventh Edition, surveys a wide range of topics, from explanations regarding crime and criminal behavior, measurement of crime, violent crime and organizational deviance, to sexual behavior, mental health, and substance abuse. This new edition continues its tradition of applying time-tested, sociological theory to developing social concepts and emerging issues.
Deviant Behavior
Goode provides a comprehensive, balanced exploration of the many different forms of deviant behavior as well as the major sociological perspectives and theories of deviance.
Redefining Rigor
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