Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Handbooks: HM-HX: Sociology. Women. Social Welfare. Criminology

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Alienation -- Anomie -- Body-subject -- Body-power/bio-power -- Capital (in the work of Pierre Bourdieu) -- Citizenship -- Colonization of the lifeworld -- Crisis -- Cycles of contention -- Deconstruction -- Discourse -- Discourse ethics -- Doxa -- Epistemological break -- Field -- Freedom -- Globalization -- Habitus -- Hegemony -- Hexis/body techniques -- Humanism & anti-humanism -- Hybridity -- I & me -- Id, ego & superego -- Ideal speech situation -- Identity (personal, social, collective & 'the politics of') -- Ideology -- Illusio -- Imaginary, symbolic & real -- Intersubjectivity -- Knowledge constitutive interests -- Lifeworld -- Mirror stage & the ego -- New social movements -- Orientalism -- Patriarchy -- Performativity -- Power -- Power/knowledge -- Public sphere -- Racism(s) & ethnicity -- Rationality -- Realism -- Recognition (desire & struggle for) -- Relationalism (vs substantialism) -- Repertoires of contention -- Repression (psychoanalysis) -- Sex/gender distinction -- Social capital -- Social class -- Social constructions/social constructionism -- Social movements -- Social space I (Bourdieu) -- Social space II (networks) -- Symbolic power/symbolic violence -- System & lifeworld -- Unconscious (the)

"Complementing the student's primary reading, Key Concepts in Sociology presents a comprehensive glossary of the key terms, concepts and figures that dominate the sociological landscape."

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Theoretical and methodological issues -- From nature to culture -- From orientation to meaning -- Symbolic resources for the constitution of experience -- From society to the person through culture -- From social culture to personal culture -- Making sense of the past for the future.

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"The volume addresses a broad range of established and emerging topics including: theoretical and methodological issues that influence the study of personal relationships; research and theory on relationship development, the nature and functions of personal relationships across the lifespan; individual differences and their influences on relationships; relationship processes such as cognition, emotion, and communication; relational qualities such as satisfaction and commitment; environmental influences on personal relationships; and maintenance and repair of relationships."

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General Perspectives -- Biological Bases of Violence -- Individual Factors & Violence -- Interpersonal Factors & Violent Behavior -- Contextual Factors & Violent Behavior -- Methods for Studying Violent Behavior -- Looking Toward the Future

"This 3-vol. set presents the social & cultural history of childhood from antiquity to the present. Children & Childhood examines this history through articles on education, parenting, child labor, economics, images of childhood, children's literature, play, toys & games, health, physiology, law, the criminal justice system & social welfare."

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v. 1. Normative processes in development -- v. 2. Interpersonal & sociocultural factors -- v. 3. Psychopathology & non-normative processes

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Protesters & Protest Rights -- Civil & Human Rights -- War & Peace -- Civil Liberties & Social Issues -- Politics, Policy & Political Dissent -- Labor, Trade & Globalization -- Sovereignty -- Health, Environment & Animal Rights

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"These 290 alphabetically organized entries detail the notorious and often violent histories, activities, and beliefs of the most active and influential extremists and extremist groups in operation around the world. Atkins highlights the dark truth that people of all ideologies, religions, regions, and races share a readiness for violence." "A majority of the book's entries focuses on extremist activity since 1980. Many entries provide historical perspectives that add an unprecedented fullness of information. This work, a companion to the Encyclopedia of Modern American Extremists and Extremist Groups, contains information that no other single source can offer, covering such groups and individuals as English Neo-Nazis, Argentinean death squads, ecoterrorists, Hindu xenophobes, and Japanese cults."

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v. 1. Periods of social change ; Methods and contexts ; The construction of social identity ; Processes of social change -- v. 2. Ethnic and racial subcultures ; Regionalism and regional subcultures ; Space and place ; Patterns of everyday life ; Work and labor -- v. 3. Popular culture and recreation ; Family history ; Social problems, social control, and social protest ; Science, medicine, and technology ; Education and literacy

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"This three-volume set on the social, historical, biological, and cultural aspects of violence in the United States offers 600 entries on topics ranging from violence, homicide, and race and ethnicity to women, child abuse, labor and unions, sociobiology, "ultimate fighting," television, gun violence, and various events and persons."

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"Clearly and concisely explains the basic ideas in the interdisciplinary field of urban studies; Offers concise discussions of concepts ranging from community, neighbourhood, and the city to globalization, the New Urbanism, feminine space, and urban problems."

"After a generation of pathbreaking scholarship that has reoriented and enlightened our perception of the American city, the two volumes of the Encyclopedia of American Urban History offer both a summary and an interpretation of the field. With contributions from leading academics in their fields, this authoritative resource offers an interdisciplinary approach by covering topics from economics, geography, anthropology, politics, and sociology."

""This unique work analyzes urban America in a series of 547 signed articles. Biographical articles include Jane Addams, Marion Barry, Al Capone, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lewis Mumford, and Lincoln Steffens, while topical entries cover mass transit, social welfare, residential construction, mill towns, and boom towns. Others deal with religious, racial and ethnic topics such as Shaker villages, Native Americans, African-American towns, and African Americans in cities. A bibliography follows each article, and the book concludes with an extensive 9-page selected bibliography on urban America."

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"explores the range of discriminations that people experience and discusses a number of theories that inform anti-discriminatory practice -- considers the legal frameworks within which anti-discriminatory practice operates -- analyzes the skills and knowledge required to practice effectively;highlights the dynamic nature of anti-discriminatory practice and points the way towards a new practice dimension"

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