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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “stephen cotgrove”
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  • Technical Education and Social Change

    by Stephen F. Cotgrove ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1958, Technical Education and Social Change examines the social forces which shaped the development of technical education in England and Wales, the reasons for the late start in the 19th century, and for the slow progress in the inter-war years.This book analyzes various social factors which influenced the recruitment of students to the technical colleges. The extent to which ... Read more

    $59.08 CAD

  • The Nylon Spinners

    A case study in productivity bargaining and job enlargement

    by Stephen Cotgrove, Jack Dunham, Clive Vamplew ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1971 The Nylon Spinners presents one of the few detailed and firsthand studies of the impact of productivity bargaining on the shop floor and makes an important contribution to the social and psychological understanding of human behaviour. Productivity bargaining has moved far beyond its earlier preoccupation with the wage-effort bargain. It is becoming increasingly apparent ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Science Industry and Society

    Studies in the Sociology of Science

    by Stephen and Steven Cotgrove & Box ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
    Originally published in 1970. Two major changes have characterised science in the twentieth century. Firstly, there has been its rapid growth. Secondly, and central to the theme his book – science is no longer mainly an academic activity carried on in universities. Industry will soon be the largest employer of scientists. This book deals with issues of bureaucracy in science threatening its ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • The Science of Society (RLE Social Theory)

    An Introduction to Sociology

    by Stephen Frederick Cotgrove ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
    Two main criteria have guided the selection and presentation of the material for this text-book. Firstly, there is the claim that sociology is a science. Throughout, the emphasis has been on presenting sociological perspectives rather than conveying a mass of factual information. Science is essentially analytical. And sociology, if it is to justify its claim to be a science, must be more than ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

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    by Peter Jarvis ...
    Series series Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society
    This book critically assesses the learning that is required and provided within a learning society and gives a detailed sociological analysis of the emerging role of lifelong learning with examples from around the globe. Divided into three clear parts the book:looks at the development of the knowledge economyprovides a critique of lifelong learning and the learning societyfocuses on the changing ... Read more

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  • Critical Perspectives On Educational Leadership

    Edited by John Smyth ...
    This book is an edited collection of original papers which challenge in a very direct manner the dominant behviourist and functionalist views that have come to entrap those who live, work and conduct research in the areas of educational leadership, and focusing instead on the structures and processes within schools as organisations that frustrate, distort and ultimately stifle educative ... Read more

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  • Sports Coaching Research

    Context, Consequences, and Consciousness

    by Anthony Bush, Michael Silk, David Andrews, Hugh Lauder ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms of sports coaching knowledge are problematized and a new vision of the field, which is socially and ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Women, Oppression and Social Work

    Issues in Anti-Discriminatory Practice

    Edited by Lesley Day, Mary Langan ...
    Many of the gains of the women's movement over the past 20 years now seem threatened by the combined effects of prolonged economic insecurity, reductions in the scope of welfare provision and a general shift in the climate of public opinion to the right. Social workers are faced with the growing damands of a more inpoverished and more unstable society, with less resources to meet these demands. In ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • From Children's Services to Children's Spaces

    Public Policy, Children and Childhood

    by Peter Moss, Pat Petrie ...
    More than ever before, children are apparently being recognised as social actors and citizens. Yet public policy often involves increased control and surveillance of children. This book explores the contradiction. It shows how different ways of thinking about children produce different childhoods, different public provisions for children (including schools) and different ways of working with ... Read more

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  • The Social Basis of Community Care (Routledge Revivals)

    by Martin Bulmer ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Care for the elderly, disabled and mentally-ill within and by the community forms a vital part of current social policy. Martin Bulmer argues that this policy is inadequately thought out and rests on a series of poorly founded sociological assumptions. As a result there is a vacuum at the heart of government’s social care policy which is likely to lead to ineffective or deteriorating provision for ... Read more

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  • Understanding Organizations

    by Charles Handy ...
    Organizations are a part of everyday life, whether in schools, hospitals, police stations or commercial companies. In this classics text, Charles Handy argues that the key to successful organizations lies in a better understanding of the needs and motivations of the people within them.Understanding Organizations offers an extended 'dictionary' of the key concepts -- culture, motivations, ... Read more

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  • Tackling Wicked Problems

    Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination

    Edited by John Harris, Valerie A Brown, Jacqueline Russell ...
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