Making Gray Gold

Making Gray Gold
Author: Timothy Diamond
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2009-06-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780226144795

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This first hand report on the work of nurses and other caregivers in a nursing home is set powerfully in the context of wider political, economic, and cultural forces that shape and constrain the quality of care for America's elderly. Diamond demonstrates in a compelling way the price that business-as-usual policies extract from the elderly as well as those whose work it is to care for them. In a society in which some two million people live in 16,000 nursing homes, with their numbers escalating daily, this thought-provoking work demands immediate and widespread attention. "[An] unnerving portrait of what it's like to work and live in a nursing home. . . . By giving voice to so many unheard residents and workers Diamond has performed an important service for us all."—Diane Cole, New York Newsday "With Making Gray Gold, Timothy Diamond describes the commodification of long-term care in the most vivid representation in a decade of round-the-clock institutional life. . . . A personal addition to the troublingly impersonal national debate over healthcare reform."—Madonna Harrington Meyer, Contemporary Sociology

Fundamentals of Social Work Research

Fundamentals of Social Work Research
Author: Rafael J. Engel,Russell K. Schutt
Publsiher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781483352084

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Designed to help students develop skills in evaluating research and conducting studies, this brief version of Rafael J. Engel and Russell K. Schutt’s popular, The Practice of Research in Social Work, makes principles of evidence-based practice come alive through illustrations of actual social work research. With integration of the CSWE Competencies, the text addresses issues and concerns common to the discipline and encourages students to address diversity and ethics when planning and evaluating research studies. The Second Edition includes a focus on qualitative research, a new chapter on research ethics, new sections on mixed methods research and community-based participatory research, and more.

Making Care Count

Making Care Count
Author: Mignon Duffy
Publsiher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2011
Genre: Caregivers
ISBN: 9780813549606

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Use of historical and comparative approach to examine and critique the development of paid care work in the twentieth-century including health care, education and child care, and social services.

Acculturating Age Approaches to Cultural Gerontology

Acculturating Age  Approaches to Cultural Gerontology
Author: Brian J. Worsfold
Publsiher: Universitat de Lleida
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2011
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9788484094920

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Acculturating refers to the interchange of patterns of behaviour, perceptions and ideas between groups of individuals who have different cultural backgrounds. This book, which is the result of collaboration between specialists from different disciplines from around the world, allows the comparison of systems of dependency, mediation skills, empathy and social understanding and cultural attitudes towards people who experience the stages of aging.

Making Sense of the Social World

Making Sense of the Social World
Author: Daniel F. Chambliss,Russell K. Schutt
Publsiher: Pine Forge Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2006-02-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 141292717X

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Provides an introduction to social research. This book presents research methods as an integrated whole, with balanced treatment of qualitative and quantitative methods, integration of substantive examples and research techniques, and consistent attention to the goal of validity and the standards of ethical practice.

Long Slow Burn

Long Slow Burn
Author: Kath Weston
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781135208820

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Kath Weston's powerful collection of essays, Long, Slow Burn, challenges the preconception that queer studies is the brainchild of the humanities and argues that social science has been talking about sex all along. To deny this one would have to overlook Kinsey's pioneering sex research in the 1950s, or the psychiatrist Evelyn Hooker's pathbreaking study of homosexuality, but also in the "sex talk" that lies at the heart of classic debates on kinship, inequality, cognition, and other foundational topics in the social sciences. What is different now, Weston claims, is the way sexuality has been isolated from other contemporary issues. Not content with its ghettoization as a contained subfield, Weston refuses to draw an artificial line around sexuality.

Race and Immigration

Race and Immigration
Author: Nazli Kibria,Cara Bowman,Megan O'Leary
Publsiher: Polity
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2014
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780745647913

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Immigration has long shaped US society in fundamental ways. With Latinos recently surpassing African Americans as the largest minority group in the US, attention has been focused on the important implications of immigration for the character and role of race in US life, including patterns of racial inequality and racial identity. This insightful new book offers a fresh perspective on immigration and its part in shaping the racial landscape of the US today. Moving away from one-dimensional views of this relationship, it emphasizes the dynamic and mutually formative interactions of race and immigration. Drawing on a wide range of studies, it explores key aspects of the immigrant experience, such as the history of immigration laws, the formation of immigrant occupational niches, and developments of immigrant identity and community. Specific topics covered include: the perceived crisis of unauthorized immigration; the growth of an immigrant rights movement; the role of immigrant labor in the elder care industry; the racial strategies of professional immigrants; and the formation of pan-ethnic Latino identities. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book will be invaluable for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate-level courses in the sociology of immigration, race and ethnicity.

Feminism and Method

Feminism and Method
Author: Nancy A. Naples
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013-10-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781134568147

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Naples draws on different research topics, such as welfare, poverty, sexual identity, and sexual abuse, to illustrate some of the most salient dilemmas of feminist research: the debate over objectivity, the paradox of discourse, the dilemma of "standpoint," and the challenges of activist research. By linking important feminist theoretical debates with case studies, Naples illustrates the strategies she developed for resolving the challenges posed be postmodern, Third World, postcolonial, and queer studies.