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ASYLUMS by Erving Goffman
Category: Self-Help | Series: Penguin Social Sciences Ser.
Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions" -- closed worlds such as prisons, army training camps, naval vessels, boarding schools, monastaries, nursing homes and mental hospitals -- where the inmates are regimented, surrounded by other inmates, and unable to leave the premises. It describes ...Show more
Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
Category: Biography | Series: Social Sciences Ser.
""My purpose,"" Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, ""is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am."" Satyagraha, Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement (satya = true, agraha = firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry; the pri ...Show more
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Social Sciences Ser.
Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control - and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole.
How Labour Built Neoliberalism - Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project by Elizabeth Humphrys
Category: History | Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences Ser.
Why do we always assume it was the New Right that was at the centre of constructing neoliberalism? How might corporatism have advanced neoliberalism? And, more controversially, were the trade unions only victims of neoliberal change, or did they play a more contradictory role? InHow Labour Built Neolibe ...Show more
Purposeful Program Theory - Effective Use of Theories of Change and Logic Models by Patricia J. Rogers; Sue C. Funnell
Category: Business | Series: Research Methods for the Social Sciences Ser.
Between good intentions and great results lies a program theory--not just a list of tasks but a vision of what needs to happen, and how. Now widely used in government and not-for-profit organizations, program theory provides a coherent picture of how change occurs and how to improve performance. Purpose ...Show more
Sustainability by Leslie Paul Thiele
Category: Science | Series: Polity Key Concepts in the Social Sciences Series
The pursuit of sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe, widespread initiatives within civil society and business, historic policies for municipal, regional, and national governments, and crucial protocols and agreements by international organizations. Increasingly ...Show more
The Foucault Reader - An Introduction to Foucault's Thought by Michel Foucault
Category: Philosophy and Religion
This is an introduction to Foucault's thought, which includes some previously unpublished material.
The SAGE Guide to Writing in Criminal Justice Research Methods by Jennifer M. Allen; Steven Hougland
Category: Reference | Series: The\SAGE Guide to Writing in the Social Sciences Ser.
The SAGE Guide to Writing in Criminal Justice Research Methods equips students with transferable writing skills that can be applied across the field of criminal justice--both academically and professionally. Authors Jennifer M. Allen and Steven Houglandinterweave professional and applied writing, academ ...Show more
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