Product Description: This unique workbook involves readers in “hands-on” practice with applying sociological concepts as tools for understanding the social world around them — both social institutions and social processes. A series of essays and accompanying exercises actively engages readers in the study of human situations and social behavior by having them collect familiar information and analyze it using the sociological perspective...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Candid interviews with all of the family members--wife, husband, and children--in families shattered by family violence are interwoven with statistical profiles to portray the facts of family violence, with accompanying information on counseling programs