Lexington Books
Pages: 206
Trim: 6⅛ x 9¼
978-0-7391-3394-1 • Hardback • August 2009 • $97.00 • (£75.00)
978-0-7391-3395-8 • Paperback • August 2009 • $46.99 • (£36.00)
978-0-7391-3978-3 • eBook • August 2009 • $44.50 • (£34.00)
Jammie Price is professor of sociology at Appalachian State University. Roger Straus is a certified clinical sociologist, and author of Using Sociology: And Introduction from the Applied and Clinical Perspectives. Jeff Breese is a dean at Rockhurst University.
Preface
1.Introduction to Doing Sociology: Applied, Clinical, and Public Sociology
2. Doing Sociology Worldwide
3. The Role of Theory in Sociological Practice
4. Clinical Sociology: Changing Meanings, Changing Lives
If Crime is the Problem, is Community or Problem Solving Policing the Solution?
Issues in Criminal Justice Evaluation: Evaluating Michigan's Drug Courts
Evaluation in Education: From goals to Capacity Development
Community Research Tactics and Social Change: Assessing Needs and Assets in an Inner City Neighborhood
Free Range Humans: Sociology's Role in Shaping the Future of the Build Environment for an Aging World
Communal Living: Intentionally Resisting Global White Supremacist Capitalism
Blending Sociology with Federal Funding: The Example of the National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovative Research Program
Automating Dillman's Total Design Methodology (TDM) for Mail Questionnaires: An Example of How to Improve Survey Research Methodology while Doing Applied Sociology
Surveying Health Care Providers: Strategies to Achieve High Response Rates
Ethics and Values in Sociological Practice