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It is very difficult for the student or practitioner to find their way through the jungle of different personality typographies that has sprung up in the field of psychotherapy; and even harder for them to find a point of sufficient height above the forest canopy to get their bearings in order to co…

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"Anyone seeking to identify potentially useful disease-specific measures for their study will find this a good starting point." Quality of Life Research Praise for the first edition: "...text that is remarkably detailed and comprehensive in its coverage of a range of quality of life measures...Bowli…

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* What does 'social structure' mean?* What are the principal ways in which societies are 'organized' or 'structured'?* How can structural ideas be used in sociological analysis?Despite the importance of the concept of social structure, sociologists have not agreed on how to define it and discussions…

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* What is populism and what are its defining elements?* Why are moments of populism so spectacular and yet movements of populism so difficult to sustain?* What are the connections between democracy, populism and representative politics?Populism is a widely used concept but it is rarely fully underst…

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Reviews of the 1st Edition:"....This book is a welcome addition to the sociology of technology, a field whose importance is increasingly recognised." - Sociology "....sets a remarkably high standard in breadth of coverage, in scholarship, and in readability and can be recommended to the general rea…

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