Anne Edwards & Marilyn Fleer 
Motives in Children’s Development [PDF ebook] 
Cultural-Historical Approaches

This practical book offers a guide to finding, choosing, and applying theoretical frameworks to social sciences research, and provides researchers with the scaffolding needed to reflect on their phil …

Japanese Industry in the American South is an anthropological case study that describes whole industrial cultures found in three Japanese industrial plants in the American South. This book searches f …

Leach and Pini bring together empirical and theoretical studies that consider the intersections of class, gender and rurality. Each chapter engages with current debates on these concepts to explore t …

The relationship between sport, medicine and health in our society is becoming increasingly complex. This important and timely study explores this relationship through an analysis of changing politic …

Since the 1980s, popular management thinkers, gurus have promoted a number of performance improvement programs and management fashions which have greatly influenced both the everyday conduct of organ …

An introduction to the central concerns of social anthropology, presenting an alternative to standard texts. More concerned with the life-worlds of underdevelopment than the primitive or the exotic, …

Both the great cities studied in this book are renowned for their imposing streets and buildings, their cultural and political vitality and their cosmopolitan lifestyles, but just outside their centr …

Peasant rebellions are uncommon. ‘Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance’ explores peasants” foot dragging, feigned ingorance, false compliance, manipulation, flight, slander, theft, arson, sabotage, …

Globalization, European integration, and migration are challenging national identities and changing education across Europe. The nation-state no longer serves as the sole locus of civic participation …