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Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences - Research in an Age of Info-glut (Paperback): Kristin Luker Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences - Research in an Age of Info-glut (Paperback)
Kristin Luker
R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

" You might think that dancing doesn t have a lot to do with social research, and doing social research is probably why you picked this book up in the first place. But trust me. Salsa dancing is a practice as well as a metaphor for a kind of research that will make your life easier and better. " Savvy, witty, and sensible, this unique book is both a handbook for defining and completing a research project, and an astute introduction to the neglected history and changeable philosophy of modern social science. In this volume, Kristin Luker guides novice researchers in: , Knowing the difference between an area of interest and a research topic, Defining the relevant parts of a potentially infinite research literature, Mastering sampling, operationalization, and generalization, Understanding which research methods best answer your questions, Beating writer s block Most important, she shows how friendships, non-academic interests, and even salsa dancing can make for a better researcher. " You know about setting the kitchen timer and writing for only an hour, or only 15 minutes if you are feeling particularly anxious. I wrote a fairly large part of this book feeling exactly like that. If I can write an entire book 15 minutes at a time, so can you. "

Dubious Conceptions - The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy (Paperback, Revised): Kristin Luker Dubious Conceptions - The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy (Paperback, Revised)
Kristin Luker
R890 Discovery Miles 8 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As her little boy plays at a day care center across the street, Michelle, an unmarried teenager, is in algebra class, hoping to be the first member of her family to graduate from high school. Will motherhood make this young woman poorer? Will it make the United States poorer as a nation? That's what the voices raised against "babies having babies" would have us think, and what many Americans seem inclined to believe. This powerful book takes us behind the stereotypes, the inflamed rhetoric, and the flip media sound bites to show us the complex reality and troubling truths of teenage mothers in America today. Would it surprise you to learn that Michelle is more likely to be white than African American? That she is most likely eighteen or nineteen--a legal adult? That teenage mothers are no more common today than in 1900? That two-thirds of them have been impregnated by men older than twenty? Kristin Luker, author of the acclaimed Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood, puts to rest once and for all some very popular misconceptions about unwed mothers from colonial times to the present. She traces the way popular attitudes came to demonize young mothers and examines the profound social and economic changes that have influenced debate on the issue, especially since the 1970s. In the early twentieth century, reformers focused people's attention on the social ills that led unmarried teenagers to become pregnant; today, society has come almost full circle, pinning social ills on sexually irresponsible teens. Dubious Conceptions introduces us to the young women who are the object of so much opprobrium. In these pages we hear teenage mothers from across the country talk about their lives, their trials, and their attempts to find meaning in motherhood. The book also gives a human face to those who criticize them, and shows us why public anger has settled on one of society's most vulnerable groups. Sensitive to the fears and confusion that fuel this anger, and to the troubled future that teenage mothers and their children face, Luker makes very clear what we as a nation risk by not recognizing teenage pregnancy for what it is: a symptom, not a cause, of poverty.

Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (Paperback, New ed): Kristin Luker Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood (Paperback, New ed)
Kristin Luker
R757 R649 Discovery Miles 6 490 Save R108 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this important study of the abortion controversy in the United States, Kristin Luker examines the issues, people, and beliefs on both sides of the abortion conflict. She draws data from twenty years of public documents and newspaper accounts, as well as over two hundred interviews with both pro-life and pro-choice activists. She argues that moral positions on abortion are intimately tied to views on sexual behavior, the care of children, family life, technology, and the importance of the individual.

Taking Chances - Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept (Hardcover): Kristin Luker Taking Chances - Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept (Hardcover)
Kristin Luker
R2,673 Discovery Miles 26 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

Taking Chances - Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept (Paperback): Kristin Luker Taking Chances - Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept (Paperback)
Kristin Luker
R1,179 Discovery Miles 11 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

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