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  • Understanding Jim Crow

    Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice

    by David Pilgrim ...
    For many people, especially those who came of age after landmark civil rights legislation was passed, it is difficult to understand what it was like to be an African American living under Jim Crow segregation in the United States. Most young Americans have little or no knowledge about restrictive covenants, literacy tests, poll taxes, lynchings, and other oppressive features of the Jim Crow racial ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Identity Politics

    Where Did It All Go Wrong?

    by David Pilgrim ...
    Identity politics have taken a strong hold on modern society, in particular online on social media platforms. But to what extent have they contributed to human flourishing? Have they changed the world for the better, and to what extent? David Pilgrim explores identity politics as a 'curate's egg': good and bad in parts. The good, that they shine light on topics that may previously have been ... Read more

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  • Critical Realism for Psychologists

    by David Pilgrim ...
    This is the first dedicated text to explain and explore the utility of critical realism for psychologists, offering it as a helpful middle ground between positivism and postmodernism.By introducing its basic concepts, Pilgrim explains critical realism to psychologists and shows how the interface between the natural and social worlds, and the internal and external, can be used to examine human life ... Read more

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  • Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors

    Stories from the Jim Crow Museum

    by David Pilgrim ...
    All groups tell stories, but some groups have the power to impose their stories on others, to label others, stigmatise others, paint others as undesirables - and to have these stories presented as scientific fact, God's will, or wholesome entertainment. Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors examines the origins and significance of several longstanding anti-black stories and the caricatures and ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • Understanding Mental Health

    A critical realist exploration

    by David Pilgrim ...
    Series series Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)
    David Pilgrim PhD is Professor of Health & Social Policy in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Child Sexual Abuse

    Moral Panic or State of Denial?

    by David Pilgrim ...
    Child sexual abuse is a major public policy challenge. Many child protection measures were beginning to reduce its occurrence. However, that progress was impeded by online grooming, the downloading of indecent images of children and even their abuse online in real time. This now places major demands on national and international policing. The book brings together groundbreaking case studies from a ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Mental Health

    by David Pilgrim ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    A classic and long-trusted resource that provides short summaries of all the key theories, concepts and terminology associated with mental health. Each entry is neatly summarised and thoroughly referenced giving the reader an immediate and thorough entry point to the subject.Structured into four sections, the text starts with entries related to Mental Health and Mental Abnormality, before moving ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors

    Stories from the Jim Crow Museum

    by David Pilgrim ...
    All groups tell stories, but some groups have the power to impose their stories on others, to label others, stigmatize others, paint others as undesirables—and to have these stories presented as scientific fact, God’s will, or wholesome entertainment. Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors examines the origins and significance of several longstanding antiblack stories and the caricatures and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Sociology Of Mental Health And Illness

    This book provides a sociological analysis of major areas of mental health and illness. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Examining Trust in Healthcare

    A Multidisciplinary Perspective

    On the part of the patient, healthcare demands unconditional trust in the professional. But what is the nature of this trust, and to what extent is it justified? How significant is the fallout when it is abused?Incorporating sociological, psychological and philosophical approaches, this book examines notions of trust in the self, others and systems inthe field of healthcare. The text explores:- ... Read more

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  • Recovery and Mental Health

    A Critical Sociological Account

    For most of us, the term 'recovery' in mental health implies hope and normality for those suffering from emotional distress. It is understandable why recovery has therefore become a significant goal for mental health services.But what does recovery mean for those who are struggling to see it through? Is the emphasis on recovery always a positive thing. This book takes a critical sociological look ... Read more

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  • Haste to Rise

    A Remarkable Experience of Black Education during Jim Crow

    Between 1910 and the mid-1920s, more than sixty black students from the South bravely traveled north to Ferris Institute, a small, mostly white school in Big Rapids, Michigan. They came to enroll in college programs and college preparatory courses—and to escape, if only temporarily, the daily and ubiquitous indignities suffered under the Jim Crow racial hierarchy. They excelled in their studies ... Read more

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