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Key Topics in Social Sciences Mark Walsh

Key Topics in Social Sciences By Mark Walsh

Key Topics in Social Sciences by Mark Walsh


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Summary

Key Topics in Social Sciences gives nursing and healthcare students an introduction to the important concepts in sociology and psychology that they need to understand.

This book provides a great starting point for essays and assignments and is ideal for revision.

Key Topics in Social Sciences Summary

Key Topics in Social Sciences: An A-Z guide for student nurses by Mark Walsh

Key Topics in Social Sciences is a collection of short articles summarising the most important concepts in sociology and psychology that nursing and healthcare students will need to understand.

Each entry is intended to give a brief introduction to the topic as a prompt for writing essays and assignments.
  • Arranged in alphabetical order so you can find entries quickly and easily
  • Short entries take you straight to the heart of each topic
  • A great starting point for essays and assignments
  • Ideal for revision before assessments and exams
  • Cross-references and further reading suggestions provided so you can study in more depth as needed.
From reviews:

It's a really easy to use book, the layout is very user friendly and I like the references for further reading at the end of each section. I would really recommend this book to all student nurses as it can help support most assignments.
Third-year nursing student, University of Surrey

Key Topics in Social Sciences Reviews

'It's a really easy to use book, the layout is very user friendly and I like the references for further reading at the end of each section. I would really recommend this book to all student nurses as it can help support most assignments.'
Student reviewer

Table of Contents

A
Age and Ageing; Agency; Alienation; Altruism; Anti-psychiatry; Anxiety; Attachment; Attitudes; Attribution theory; Authority; Autonomy

B
Behaviour; Behaviour modification; Behaviourism; Biomedical model; (The) Body

C
Capitalism; Causality; Challenging behaviour; Child abuse; Child development; Child poverty; Citizenship; Classical conditioning; Clinical iceberg; Cognitive perspective; Cognitive behavioural therapy; Cognitive development; Cognitive dissonance; Community; Conformity; Consumerism / consumption; Culture

D
Data; Defence mechanisms; Demography; Depression; Developmental norms; Disabilities; Discourse; Discrimination; Diversity; Division of labour

E
Early experiences; Eating disorders; Emotion; Emotional intelligence; Emotional labour; Empathy; Epidemiology; Equalities; Ethics; Ethnicity; Evaluation

F
Families; Family therapy; Feminism; Freud; Functionalism

G
Gender; Genetics; Globalisation; Group(s) / group dynamics; Group therapy

H
Health; Humanistic perspective; Human Rights; Hypothesis

I
Ideal type; Identity; Identity politics; Ideology; Industrialisation; Inequalities; Interactionism; Intersectionality

L
Labelling theory; Learning difficulties (and learning disabilities); Life chances; Loss

M
Market; Marxism; Maslow's hierarchy of needs; Medicalisation; Memory; Mental illness; Migration; Modernity; Moral panic; Morbidity and mortality; Motivation

N
Narrative(s); Need; Neuroscience

O
Obedience; Operant conditioning

P
Paradigm; Patriarchy; Perception; Personality; Person-centred counselling; Personalisation; Phobias; Piaget, Jean; Postmodernism; Positive psychology; Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Poverty; Power; Prejudice; Profession; Psychiatry; Psychoanalysis; Psychodynamic perspective; Psychological interventions; Psychological perspective; Public sphere

R
Realism; Reflexivity; Reinforcement; Research methods; Resilience; Risk assessment; Rogers, Carl; Role / role theory; Role models

S
Science; Self; Self-actualisation; Self-concept and self-esteem; Self-harm; Separation (and loss); Sexuality; Sick role; Social action and social structure; Social class; Social constructionism; Social institution; Social learning theory; Social mobility; Social model of health; Social policy; Social support; Socialisation; Socialism; Society; Sociological perspective; Sociology; Status; Stereotyping; Stigma; Stress (and coping)

U
Unconscious mind; Underclass; Urbanisation

V
Values; Violence (and aggression)

W
Welfare; Welfare state

Additional information

GOR010015879
9781908625496
190862549X
Key Topics in Social Sciences: An A-Z guide for student nurses by Mark Walsh
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Lantern Publishing Ltd
20180427
206
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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