This text aims to develop and improve the skills of interpretation, application and evaluation that are required by the A Level sociology examination. Key features include: up-to-date stimulus material taken from a wide range of sources; marginal notes and guidelines on answering the exam questions; and a developmental approach to answering structured questions which enables the students to build up their confidence and improve their exam technique.

Sociology: Developing Skills Through Structured Questions

Kirby, Mark

Koubel, Francine

Madry, Nick

Reference

HarperCollins, Publishers

This accessible text explores the staggering rise in inequality in recent years. It includes recent empirical material on all the key dimensions of inequality, including class, gender, ethnicity, age and disability, and considers both classical and new theoretical approaches to the study of these dimensions of social stratification and difference. The exercises and overall active learning approach offer students ample scope to exercise and develop their sociological skills.

Stratification and Differentiation (Skills-based Sociology, 8)

Red Globe Press

One dad was a college kid. One was a cancerous pedophile. One was a blundering dreamer. One was appropriately named, Dick. One was an elder statesman, who died, as elder statesman tend to do. One carried a bible in one hand and a puppet in the other. One was a sociopathic conman. One was just happy to be husband #8. All were deformed father figures married to his mother. None escape the candid retelling of absurdity, abuse, negligence and narcissism in Mark Kirby's memoir. --- In this gripping and engaging memoir, Mark Kirby details an abusive youth in the Pacific Northwest, this intermingled with an absurd flurry of doctor's visits and tests due to his recent cancer diagnosis. Mark jokes, trudges, and flies with us through his experiences with the eight "dads" he watched his mom pass through - for better or for worse: "She marries 'em, and I bury 'em," he quips. But in this memoir, he is careful not to bury his tale of child abuse without conversation, all of this influenced by his recent diagnosis.

My Eight Dads

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Atmosphere Press

Welcome to the Shitshow!In the surreal time of a futuristic pandemic, Will Lawson is an everyman in many ways: a high school teacher, coach, husband, father, and grandfather who falls victim to the virus. He is admitted to a hospital and winds up on a ventilator for 45 long days. While he is in a medically induced coma, the story unfolds.A fever dream of experiences unfolds, taking him from the Pacific Northwest to a mega casino in Belize with his buddies. While on this road trip to ultimately gamble for his life, he meets an eclectic cast of characters. He must decide which of these characters will survive and which will die in an underground game called the Dead Pool. Some characters are real from his present and past. Others are composite characters tending to him in the hospital.In Looking for Lawson by Mark Kirby, the choices we make - or allow others to make for us - define our life. Will learns what matters most to him in the end and at what it may cost him to keep it.If there's a Will, there's a way.

Looking for Lawson

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

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