SPSS For Social Scientists

This student-friendly text offers a step-by-step introduction to the use of SPSS--easily the most widely used data analysis computer package in the social sciences. Supported by four datasets taken from the well-known British Social Attitudes Survey on the topics crime, health, politics and poverty, it offers an eminently practical approach to its subject, while still setting its explanation of statistical procedures within the wider social research context.

SPSS for Social Scientists

Miller, Robert

John Maltby

Jo Campling

Ciaran Acton

Deirdre Fullerton

Ebsco Publishing

This compelling and unique book amasses a wealth of documentary and research evidence to explode popular myths about the absence of significant prison riots until the 1960s. It demonstrates that prison riots are a central feature of penal history, from traditional riots in which prisoners made no specific demands, to consciousness-raising riots where they often challenged the dominant penal philosophy of rehabilitation.The last quarter of the twentieth century has seen the discrediting of the rehabilitative philosophy of imprisonment and a shift in the nature of challenges to the authorities by prisoners, from an almost exclusive focus on macho confrontations by the 'heavy end' of long-sentence prisoners to riots by diverse categories of prisoners, including women, mentally-ill and remand or trial prisoners.Drawing on incidents where in extreme cases the prisoners have blow-torched, sodomised and raped their guards and each other, and the authorities have used the military, tanks, dynamite, and machine-guns to quell riots, the book illustrates the violent nature of prison riots and of responses to them by the authorities. It concludes that the challenge to all involved in debates about penal policy and practice is to project a future for prisons, beyond the patterns of violent confrontations which have been so much a feature of prison riots in the past.

Prison Riots in Britain and the USA

Robert, Adams

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Masculinity in Crisis: Myths, Fantasies and Realities

This book argues that masculine identity is in deep crisis in Western culture - the old forms are disintegrating, while men struggle to establish new relations with women and with each other.This book offers a fresh look at gender, particularly masculinity, by using material from the author's work as a psychotherapist. The book also considers the contributions made by feminism, sociology and anthropology to the study of gender, and suggests that it must be studied from an interdisciplinary standpoint.Masculinity is seen to have economic, political and psychological roots, but the concrete development of gender must be traced in the relations of the male infant with his parents. Here the young boy has to separate from his mother, and his own proto-feminine identity, and identify with his father - but in Western culture fathering is often deficient.Male identity is shown to be fractured, fragile and truncated. Men are trained to be rational and violent, and to shut out whole areas of existence and feeling. Many stereotypes imprison men - particularly machismo, which is shown to be deeply masochistic and self-destructive.

Roger Horrocks

As the population of all European countries ages rapidly, understanding the phenomenon of ageing and social responses to old age has become a vital contemporary issue. The diverse ways in which old age is seen across Europe are compared and different forms of care for the needs of older people are examined. With the demise of large institutions, and increasing demands on families and on domiciliary care, the question of inter-generational relations is seen as a key element in the future of old age. It is argued that much is to be learned from cross-national comparisons in developing social responses to old age.

Ageing and the Care of Older People in Europe

Richard Hugman

Examines some of the ways in which sexuality has been described and interpreted in Western culture, referring to sources ranging from Freud to films. Early chapters look at the Christian view of sex as sinful, the psychoanalytical model, the social construction model, and the possible connections between sexuality and spirituality. Later chapters describe the feminist approach, gay studies, and male sexuality. For students. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

An Introduction to the Study of Sexuality

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Behind Closed Doors in White South Africa: Incest Survivors Tell Their Stories

The intent in this book is to tear away the veil of secrecy that surrounds incestuous abuse in white South Africa by presenting five in-depth personal accounts of this heinous form of sexual exploitation as told by the survivors. Each of these accounts includes an analysis of important incest-related issues raised by the survivor's story. Another objective is to explore the connections between the often cruel sexual exploitation of girls by their white male relatives and the brutal exploitation of black people by white men in South Africa.

Diana E. H. Russell

Celluloid Sisters: Women and Popular Cinema

Politics & Social Sciences

Janet Thumim

Social Sciences

Ethics, Accountability and the Social Professions

Sarah Banks

Bloomsbury Publishing

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