Sociology & Social Policy

From the 1950s 'girl junkie' to the 1990s 'crack mom', Using Women chronicles the history of women and drug use, providing a critical policy analysis of the government's drug policies and recommendations these policies should take...

Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1968 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection...

This book explores differences and similarities that exist in attitudes, beliefs and opinions on a range of issues across Europe. Drawing on the extensive data of the European Social Survey, it presents insightful analyses of social attitudes, organised around the themes of religious identity, polit..

Social values shape and are shaped by historical, political, cultural and socio-economic circumstances. This book focuses on the interrelationship of social values, attitudes and economic scarcity in the context of the last economic crisis experienced by many European countries. It will appeal to sc..

In a tough opening statement, M. Brewster Smith outlines his own life course and contrasts it with the agenda of social psychology in the present professional moment...

This title was first published in 2000:  This text provides international perspectives on examples of best practice in child welfare and proposes organizational structures and policies to support this practice. Practice innovations span the range of child welfare services, including prevention, prot..

Varieties of the Gaming Experience..

Varieties of the Gaming Experience..

Vegetation and Soils..

Veterans' Journeys Home..

Tells the story of David Amram's adventures growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania, working odd jobs, misfitting in the Army, barnstorming through Europe with the famous Seventh Army Symphony, exiling in Paris, scuffling on the Lower East Side, day-laboring - often down but never out - finally emergin..

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...