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Relative Deprivation and Social Justice: A Study of Attitudes to Social Inequality in Twentieth-Century England
1st Edition
By W. G. Runciman
November 02, 2026
Originally published in 1966, Relative Deprivation and Social Justice is a study of attitudes to social inequality in twentieth-century England. It was an important contribution both to the social history and psychology of contemporary England and to political theory at the time. Using ideas drawn ...
Rethinking Work Experience
1st Edition
By Andrew Miller, A. G. Watts, Ian Jamieson
November 02, 2026
The 1980s saw the rapid growth of work-experience programmes in schools and colleges. This development was in response to central government initiatives, such as TVEI, as well as developments in courses with a compulsory work-experience element. Many of the improvements in the quality of ...
Social Relations and Innovation: Changing the State of Play in Hospitals
1st Edition
By David J. Hall
November 02, 2026
David Hall spent several months studying the introduction of play therapy in children’s hospitals – the ways in which it is organized and introduced, and the way in which hospital staff, characteristically therapeutic in their orientation and disciplined in their approach, react to the deliberately...
Teaching Clever Children, 7–11
1st Edition
By N.R. Tempest
November 02, 2026
First published in 1974, Teaching Clever Children, 7–11, a pioneer of its kind in Great Britain, is an account of the experience gained in teaching and observing a group of clever children in a primary school over a period of four years. Professor Tempest looks at the problem of identifying clever ...
Teaching Poor Readers in the Secondary School
1st Edition
By Christine Cassell
November 02, 2026
First published in 1982, Teaching Poor Readers in the Secondary School presents a means of devising an individual teaching programme for children from the beginning of their secondary school career, enabling them to overcome a basic educational disadvantage likely to affect every subject in the ...
The Analysis of Social Interactions: Methods, Issues, and Illustrations
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert B. Cairns
November 02, 2026
First published in1979, The Analysis of Social Interactions examines advances in methodologies for studying social interactions and explores their implications. The book is divided into three parts. Part I, Design, Techniques, and Analysis, focuses on the methods themselves. Part II, Illustrations,...
The Helping Process: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Doug MacLean, Sue Gould
November 02, 2026
Most people at some stage in their lives need professional help. First published in 1988, The Helping Process looks at the nature of the ‘helping process’. It argues that helping can often be destructive and misguided and that it must be based on clearly defined values and directed by ...
The Penetration of Africa: European Enterprise and Exploration Principally in Northern and Western Africa up to 1830
1st Edition
By Robin Hallett
November 02, 2026
In 1750, most of the interior of Africa was unknown to Europeans. By 1830 a large part of the northern half of Africa had been visited and described by European explorers. First published in 1965, The Penetration of Africa, which is based in part on hitherto unpublished material, traces the ...
The Social Contexts of Method
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Brenner, Peter Marsh, Marylin Brenner
November 02, 2026
Originally published in 1978, The Social Contexts of Method explores what the editors considered some basic problems in the sociology of methodology at the time. They felt there were also many others, which find expression and treatment in this book. The contributors, a like-minded group of ...
The Therapeutic Community: Outside the Hospital
1st Edition
Edited
By Elly Jansen
November 02, 2026
First published in 1980, The Therapeutic Community surveys and discusses international developments and deficiencies in the therapeutic community field during the two decades since 1959, with the intention of providing a stimulus for change. It is based on the direct experience of Richmond ...
The Uses of Drama: Acting as a Social and Educational Force
1st Edition
Edited
By John Hodgson
November 02, 2026
Aristotle, Barrault, Brecht, Chambers, Laban, Marowitz, Stanislavski…The Uses of Drama (first published in 1972) contains John Hodgson’s personal selection of writings on the theatre, ranging in time from Aristotle to Brook and covering both critical and technical approaches to the drama. Included ...
The Values of the Enterprise Culture: The Moral Debate
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Heelas, Paul Morris
November 02, 2026
First published in 1992, The Values of the Enterprise Culture examines the moral implications of a cultural reform programme centered on reviving capitalist production, expanding individual freedom, dismantling the culture of dependency, and restoring personal responsibility. This book aims to ...