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  • Children, Schools, And Inequality

    by Doris R Entwisle ...
    Educational sociologists have paid relatively little attention to children in middle childhood (ages 6 to 12), whereas developmental psychologists have emphasized factors internal to the child much more than the social contexts in explaining children's development. Children, Schools, and Inequality redresses that imbalance. It examines elementary school outcomes (e.g., test scores, grades, ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • The Long Shadow

    Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood

    by Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, Linda Olson ...
    Series series American Sociological Association's Rose Series
    A volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology West Baltimore stands out in the popular imagination as the quintessential “inner city”—gritty, run-down, and marred by drugs and gang violence. Indeed, with the collapse of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s, the area experienced a rapid onset of poverty and high unemployment, with few public resources available to ... Read more

    $36.39 CAD

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    Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

    by Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray ...
    The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public policy can do to mitigate socioeconomic differences in IQ, birth rate, crime, fertility, welfare, and poverty. ... Read more

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  • Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count

    Why Schools and Cultures Count

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    “[Nisbett] weighs in forcefully and articulately . . . [using] a thoroughly appealing style to engage . . . throughout.”—Publishers WeeklyWho are smarter, Asians or Westerners? Are there genetic explanations for group differences in test scores? From the damning research of The Bell Curve to the more recent controversy surrounding geneticist James Watson’s statements, one factor has been ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Father Involvement

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    Edited by Natasha J. Cabrera, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda ...
    This second edition reviews the new research findings and theoretical advances on fathers, families, child development, programs, and policies that have occurred in the past decade. Contributors from a range of disciplines and countries showcase contemporary findings within a new common chapter structure. All of the chapters are either extensively revised or entirely new. Biological, evolutionary, ... Read more

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  • Researching Resilience

    Edited by Linda Liebenberg, Michael Ungar ...
    While categorization has always been one of the primary focuses of the social sciences, recent trends within these disciplines have tended to categorize various behaviours as disorders. Researching Resilience challenges this tendency to pathologize, and marks a profound shift in research methods from the study of disorder to the study of well-being.This collection assembles qualitative and ... Read more

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  • Moral Development in the Professions

    Psychology and Applied Ethics

    Edited by James R. Rest, Darcia Narv ez ...
    Every year in this country, some 10,000 college and university courses are taught in applied ethics. And many professional organizations now have their own codes of ethics. Yet social science has had little impact upon applied ethics. This book promises to change that trend by illustrating how social science can make a contribution to applied ethics.The text reports psychological studies relevant ... Read more

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  • Divorce

    Causes and Consequences

    by Professor Alison Clarke-Stewart, Professor Cornelia Brentano ...
    Series series Current Perspectives in Psychology
    This comprehensive book provides a balanced overview of the current research on divorce. The authors examine the scientific evidence to uncover what can be said with certainty about divorce and what remains to be learned about this socially and politically charged issue. Accessible to parents and teachers as well as clinicians and researchers, the volume examines the impact of marital breakup on ... Read more

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  • Rehabilitation

    by Tony Ward, Shadd Maruna ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Criminology
    Over the last two decades, empirical evidence has increasingly supported the view that it is possible to reduce re-offending rates by rehabilitating offenders rather than simply punishing them. In fact, the pendulum’s swing back from a pure punishment model to a rehabilitation model is arguably one of the most significant events in modern correctional policy. This comprehensive review argues that ... Read more

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  • Crime and the Life Course

    by Michael L. Benson ...
    Series series Criminology and Justice Studies
    In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime. Yet despite its growing importance in the field of criminology, most textbooks give it only cursory treatment. Crime and the Lifecourse: An Introduction by Michael L. Benson provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and theory on the life-course approach to crime. The book ... Read more

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  • The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior

    by John F. Dovidio, Jane Allyn Piliavin, David A. Schroeder, Louis A. Penner ...
    Written by four leading researchers in the study of prosocial behavior, this book introduces a new perspective on prosocial behavior for the 21st century. Building on the bystander intervention work that has defined this area since the 1960s, The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior examines prosocial behavior from a multilevel perspective that explores the diverse influences that promote ... Read more

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  • Too Many Children Left Behind

    The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective

    by Bruce Bradbury, Miles Corak, Jane Waldfogel, Elizabeth Washbrook ...
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