Ciências sociais

Public relations practitioners are often called upon to help chart their organization”s strategic development, thus functioning as managerial decision makers linking the organization to its larger e …

This volume scrutinizes the questions of conceptualization, method and history in the fields of kinship, social anthropology and structuralism. It puts forward a radical revision of the conventional …

This is Volume XIII of thirteen in the Urban and Regional Sociology series. First published in 1963, this study looks at the sociology of Westrigg, a cheviot parish, in the borders area of Scotland f …

Pain is felt by everyone, yet understanding its nature is fragmented across myriad modes of thought. In this compact, yet thoroughly integrative account uniting medical science, psychology, and the h …

Parenting: What Really Counts? examines the scientific evidence on what really matters for children”s healthy psychological development. The first section considers whether it is necessary to have t …

In one of the first psychological studies of women in heterosexual relationships, Caroline Dryden examines the social context of their experiences and emotional struggles. Unlike the developmental li …

First published in 1998. Based on the author’s personal experience and first encounter as a member of the sandwich generation revealed which revealed they had a great deal to learn. This book conside …

What role does consumption play in Japanese lives that are more than study, work and shopping? How have those lives changed since World War II as Japan has wrestled with the meaning of white-collar c …

Embark on an exploration of what lies behind our eyelids when we surrender to the secret life of sleep. What makes us cross the line from waking to slumber? According to Harvard scientists it’s our ‘ …

”Does the evidence reflect the reality under investigation?” This is just one of the important questions Marten Shipman asks in the fourth edition of his highly successful book, The Limitations of …