Sociology / Six Edition.

Donald Light

Craig Calhoun

Suzanna Keller

Mc/graw-Hill

This introductory text adopts a strong cross-cultural focus and an eclectic approach to current topics, with social policy sections. This edition features new sections including global perspectives on women, international crime rates and US population policies overseas - plus a new chapter, "Social Inequality Worldwide". Three new supplements include an annotated instructor's edition, a critical thinking guide, and a brief English for non-native speakers guide. Balanced treatment of the three major sociological perspectives functionalism conflict theory, interactionism. Applies theoretical and research material to contemporary polticy issues (unique to this text) making sociology relevant for every student. continuous use f cross-cultural examples; coverage of issues affecting women thoughout text not just in gender stratification. (example - women and politics chapter - chapter 15). A new chapter on cross-cultural issues "Social Inequality Worldwide" (ch. 9) that includes an extended case study on stratification in Brazil, modernization in Kenya and inequality in Japan among other issues. Twenty-two new boxes, including "The Eloquence of Sign-language", "Self Help Groups", "Blaming the Victim", "The Process of Role Exit", and "Motorists as Welfare Recipients". Seven new social policy sections (tied to the text with a set of three or four questions for each) on such topics as sexual harassment, catastrophic health care, family leave, inequalities in school financing, and homelessness. New sections on topics such as the underclass (ch. 8) school choice programs (ch. 16), and the conflict view of urban growth (ch. 18).

Readings and Review for Sociology

Politics & Social Sciences

Suzanne Keller

Anthropology

McGraw-Hill Companies

Becoming psychiatrists: The professional transformation of self

Psychiatrists make a deep impression on patients and their relatives. This book will provide insight on how psychiatrists are trained and witness their struggles toward professional identity. Uniting information on the training program at University Psychiatric Center, the author examines what kinds of people to become psychiatrists, how their training experience alters their sense of illness, treatment, and responsibility, how they cope with suicidal patients, and how they overcome the uncertainties of their work. Underlying these lessons is the organization of the program, the moral transformation it puts residents through, and the tendencies toward omnipotence it embodies. The larger and ever-changing context of this study is psychiatry itself. The profession constantly vacillates between the psychological and physiological explanations of mental problems, but in no country have the psychoanalytic schools of Freud and his successors influenced the profession so deeply and broadly as in the United States. However, today the leading edge of psychiatry is shifting toward biology and physiology with a seriousness and depth that are neither cosmetic nor ephemeral. This orientation is still combined with basic training in the psychoanalytic model of mental disorders and their treatment, but there are basic differences between the two groups in how they go about their work, in the model of pathology they use, and in the values they hold. This being the case, incompatibility may force psychoanalysis to the periphery. The new biopsychiatry constitutes a basic shift in how psychiatrists are trained and go about their work. This study describes how leading psychiatrists were trained, before the new mandarins ascended.

Becoming Psychiatrists: The Professional Transformation of Self

Reference

W.W.Norton&Company

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