Product Description: In recent years the study of nursing history in Britain has been transformed by the application of concepts and methods from the social sciences to original sources. The myths and legends which have grown up through a century of anecdotal writing have been chipped away to reveal the complex story of an occupation shaped and reshaped by social and technological change...read more

This book is a concise intellectual biography of Harold Garfinkel, a key figure in 20th-century social science. Garfinkel is practically synonymous with ethnomethodology, an approach that since the 1960s has led to major analytic and methodological developments in sociology and other disciplines. This introduction to Garfinkel explores how he developed ethnomethodology under the influence of Talcott Parsons and Alfred Schutz, situates it within sociology generally, and demonstrates its important influence on recent developments in the discipline, particularly the sociology of science and technology, gender studies, organization studies, and the computer sciences. The book will be of wide interest in the social sciences and a useful supplement to courses on intellectual history and methodology.

Product Description: Over the past 30 years Robert Dingwall has published an influential series of articles on the professions, especially law and medicine. This represents a substantial and coherent body of work in an important sub-discipline of sociology...read more

Product Description: 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; "an archaic form of consciousness surviving for a while yet in a degraded form" (Tyler 1986:200)...read more

Product Description: A study of the bureaucratic context of medical work. It emphasizes the structural context in which individual action occurs in the medical world. The author argues that there are fundamental and irreconcilable conflicts inherent within medical consultations, and these occur, not just between staff and patients, but even within the various things that any one individual may want or have to do...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With critical observations on past approaches to this issue and the proposal of alternative lines of inquiry, this book is concerned with the attempts made by sociologists (and to a lesser extent, doctors) to account for patterns of social conduct that are observably associated with periods of illness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text arises from an EU-funded TEMPUS programme linking the Universities of Umea (Sweden), Cork (Ireland) and Nottingham with the University of Warsaw (Poland), in order to assist in the reconstruction of the curriculum and pedagogy of social policy and social work on education after the change of regime in 1989...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A critical examination of the principles and practice of qualitative research is provided in this book which examines the interplay between context and method, making it invaluable for both the experienced and the beginning researcher...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This monograph addresses state intervention and family life with reference to the protection of children. Topics covered include the co-ordination of intervention, and the balance between children's rights and the liberties of adults.

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Product Description: In recent years the study of nursing history in Britain has been transformed by the application of concepts and methods from the social sciences to original sources. The myths and legends which have grown up through a century of anecdotal writing have been chipped away to reveal the complex story of an occupation shaped and reshaped by social and technological change...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays examines the many aspects of mediation as a feature of the divorce system in Great Britain today, comparing it with models in other parts of the world. Written by an international team of experts, the essays cover the British experience, the role of attorneys and solicitors, the probation service, courts, conciliation agreements, and alternative dispute resolution, as well as the American system and the Japanese family court...read more

Product Description: Robert Dingwall and Philip Lewis's renowned compilation of diverse chapters--written by internationally recognized theorists and empirical researchers into the sociology of the professions--was groundbreaking when first published in 1983 and has influenced scholars, practitioners, and professionals since...read more

Product Description: A practical, straightforward guide to the legal issues that arise in child protection work.