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42 produkter
Social Problems
Häftad, 2024
747 kr
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Joel Best, author of the best-selling Damned Lies and Statistics, and new coauthor Brian Monahan offer a fresh approach to the social problems course. Rather than overloading students with details and data, the book focuses on how and why particular conditions come to be constructed as social …
Satanism Scare
Av Joel Best
Inbunden, 1991
3083 kr
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Although there is growing concern over Satanism as a threat to American life, the topic has received surprisingly little serious attention. Recognizing this, the editors of this volume have selected papers from a wide variety of disciplines, broadly covering contemporary aspects of Satanism from …
Satanism Scare
Av Joel Best
Häftad, 1991
754 kr
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Although there is growing concern over Satanism as a threat to American life, the topic has received surprisingly little serious attention. Recognizing this, the editors of this volume have selected papers from a wide variety of disciplines, broadly covering contemporary aspects of Satanism from …
Troubling Children
Studies of Children and Social Problems
Av Joel Best
Häftad, 1994
733 kr
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Increasingly, sociologists have turned their attention to the social problems of children– in particular, of younger children. This collection reflects those recent interest. While most researchers have focused on social problems involving adolescents, this volume offers instead original case …
Images of Issues
Typifying Contemporary Social Problems
Häftad, 1995
798 kr
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Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention. By typifying a problem and characterizing it as a particular sort, claimsmakers can shape policymaking and public response to the problem. Th is new …
Threatened Children
Rhetoric and Concern about Child-Victims
Av Joel Best
Häftad, 1993
323 kr
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Child abuse, incest, child molestation, Halloween sadism, child pornography: although clearly not new problems, they have attracted more attention than ever before. Threatened Children asks why. Joel Best analyzes the rhetorical tools used by child advocates when making claims aimed at raising …
Stupidity Epidemic
Worrying About Students, Schools, and America’s Future
Av Joel Best
Häftad, 2010
590 kr
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Critics often warn that American schools are failing, and that our students are ill-prepared for the challenges the future holds, and may even be "the dumbest generation." We can think of these claims as warning about a Stupidity Epidemic. This essay begins by tracing the history of the idea of …
Random Violence
How We Talk about New Crimes and New Victims
Av Joel Best
Häftad, 1999
263 kr
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"Random Violence" is a deft and thought-provoking exploration of the ways we talk about - and why we worry about - new crimes and new forms of victimization. Focusing on so-called random crimes such as freeway shootings, gang violence, hate crimes, stalking, and wilding, Joel Best shows how new …
More Damned Lies and Statistics
How Numbers Confuse Public Issues
Av Joel Best
Inbunden, 2004
371 kr
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In this sequel to the acclaimed "Damned Lies and Statistics", which the "Boston Globe" said 'deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk', Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused …
Flavor of the Month
Why Smart People Fall for Fads
Av Joel Best
Inbunden, 2006
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
272 kr
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While fads such as hula hoops or streaking are usually dismissed as silly enthusiasms, trends in institutions such as education, business, medicine, science, and criminal justice are often taken seriously, even though their popularity and usefulness is sometimes short-lived. Institutional fads such …
Damned Lies and Statistics
Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
Av Joel Best
Inbunden, 2012
271 kr
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Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy. Since its publication ten years ago, Damned …
Student Loan Mess
How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem
Inbunden, 2014
599 kr
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This illuminating investigation uncovers the full dimensions of the student loan disaster. A father and son team--one a best-selling sociologist, the other a former banker and current quantitative researcher--probe how we've reached the point at which student loan debt--now exceeding $1 trillion …
Stat-Spotting
A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data
Av Joel Best
Häftad, 2013
263 kr
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Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States? Are four million women really battered to death by their husbands or boyfriends each year? Is methamphetamine our number one drug problem today? Alarming statistics bombard our daily lives, appearing in the news, on the …
Student Loan Mess
How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem
Häftad, 2014
494 kr
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This illuminating investigation uncovers the full dimensions of the student loan disaster. A father and son team - one a best-selling sociologist, the other a former banker and current quantitative researcher - probes how we've reached the point at which student loan debt - now exceeding $1 …
American Nightmares
Social Problems in an Anxious World
Av Joel Best
Inbunden, 2018
818 kr
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In an accessible and droll style, best-selling author Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream-to graduate from college, own a home, work toward early retirement-recent generations have been told that the …
American Nightmares
Social Problems in an Anxious World
Av Joel Best
Häftad, 2018
371 kr
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In an accessible and droll style, best-selling author Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream-to graduate from college, own a home, work toward early retirement-recent generations have been told that the …
Is That True?
Critical Thinking for Sociologists
Av Joel Best
Inbunden, 2021
818 kr
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Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of …
Is That True?
Critical Thinking for Sociologists
Av Joel Best
Häftad, 2021
220 kr
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Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of …
Just the Facts
Untangling Contradictory Claims
Av Joel Best
Inbunden, 2025
818 kr
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Why can’t we seem to agree on facts? In this succinct volume, sociologist Joel Best turns his inimitable eye toward the social construction of what we think is true. He evaluates how facts emerge from our social worlds—including our beliefs, values, tastes, and norms—and how they align with those …
Just the Facts
Untangling Contradictory Claims
Av Joel Best
Häftad, 2025
220 kr
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Why can’t we seem to agree on facts? In this succinct volume, sociologist Joel Best turns his inimitable eye toward the social construction of what we think is true. He evaluates how facts emerge from our social worlds—including our beliefs, values, tastes, and norms—and how they align with those …
Just the Facts
Untangling Contradictory Claims
Av Joel Best
E-bok, 2025
364 kr
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Why can’t we seem to agree on facts? In this succinct volume, sociologist Joel Best turns his inimitable eye toward the social construction of what we think is true. He evaluates how facts emerge from our social worlds—including our beliefs, values, tastes, and norms—and how they align with those …
More Damned Lies and Statistics
How Numbers Confuse Public Issues
Av Joel Best
E-bok, 2004
446 kr
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In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused by …
Flavor of the Month
Why Smart People Fall for Fads
Av Joel Best
E-bok, 2006
468 kr
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While fads such as hula hoops or streaking are usually dismissed as silly enthusiasms, trends in institutions such as education, business, medicine, science, and criminal justice are often taken seriously, even though their popularity and usefulness is sometimes short-lived. Institutional fads such …
Everyone's a Winner
Life in Our Congratulatory Culture
Av Joel Best
E-bok, 2011
485 kr
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Every kindergarten soccer player gets a trophy. Many high schools name dozens of seniors as valedictorians—of the same class. Cars sport bumper stickers that read "USA—Number 1." Prizes proliferate in every corner of American society, and excellence is trumpeted with ratings that range from …
Damned Lies and Statistics
Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
Av Joel Best
E-bok, 2012
311 kr
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Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best''s classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy. Since its publication ten years ago, Damned …
Stat-Spotting
A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data
Av Joel Best
E-bok, 2013
312 kr
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Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States? Are four million women really battered to death by their husbands or boyfriends each year? Is methamphetamine our number one drug problem today? Alarming statistics bombard our daily lives, appearing in the news, on the …
Student Loan Mess
How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem
E-bok, 2014
399 kr
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This illuminating investigation uncovers the full dimensions of the student loan disaster. A father and son team—one a best-selling sociologist, the other a former banker and current quantitative researcher—probes how we’ve reached the point at which student loan debt—now exceeding $1 trillion and …
American Nightmares
Social Problems in an Anxious World
Av Joel Best
E-bok, 2018
446 kr
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In an accessible and droll style, well-known sociologist Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream—to graduate from college, own a home, work toward early retirement—recent generations have been told that …
Controlling Vice
Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St.Paul, 1865-83
Av Joel Best
Häftad, 2021
356 kr
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Kids Gone Wild
From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex
Av Joel Best, Kathleen A. Bogle
Inbunden, 2014
375 kr
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The myths and truths of teen's sexual behavior.Winner of the 2015 Brian McConnell Book Award presented by the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research To hear mainstream media sources tell it, the sexlives of modern teenagers outpace even the smuttiest of cable television shows.Teen …
