Microeconomics and Behaviour

Business & Money

Frank,Robert

Parker, Ian

Economics

McGraw-Hill/Ryerson

Microeconomics & Behaviour was the first intermediate microeconomics text designed specifically for Canadian students. At a basic but important level, in every chapter, students will encounter Canadian spelling, units of measurement, people, companies, places, historical examples, and, of course, applications of microeconomic principles to Canadian economic policy issues. 
According to the authors, three elements are vital in developing students' economic intuition. The first is that the examples through which they learn the concepts are familiar ones, so that students can build on what they already know in grounding the concepts in their own experience. The second is reinforcement: repetition with variations of the same concept in different contexts. Students thus acquire not merely abstract knowledge, but rather a working knowledge of how the models function in different contexts and under varying assumptions. The third is enjoyment. Learning economics is hard work, but it does not have to be boring. 
Frank/Parker provides students with a combination of rigour and accessibility. The text uses puzzles, humour, and interesting examples to involve students in the process of acquiring the concepts. The mathematical applications allow for flexibility as to the rigour of calculus or non-calculus based courses through extensive appendices and a very unique Basic Math Review online resource.

Frank, Robert H.

Alger, Ingela

Qualitative Psychology: Introducing Radical Research

This practical guide introduces students to the latest theoretical approaches in ethnography, interviewing, narrative, discourse, and psychoanalysis and brings them not only up to date but also beyond the limits of mainstream psychological research methods. Interwoven with conceptual issues and methodological frameworks are 44 sections outlining key issues in the development, application, and assessment of qualitative research methods. By reviewing key debates, students are able to explore the problems with particular qualitative methods taught in psychology today—and use better methods to practice their craft.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Open University Press

This practical guide introduces students to the latest theoretical approaches in ethnography, interviewing, narrative, discourse, and psychoanalysis and brings them not only up to date but also beyond the limits of mainstream psychological research methods. Interwoven with conceptual issues and methodological frameworks are 44 sections outlining key issues in the development, application, and assessment of qualitative research methods. By reviewing key debates, students are able to explore the problems with particular qualitative methods taught in psychology today—and use better methods to practice their craft.

Providing an accessible introduction to qualitative methods, this book combines a solid grounding in the theory behind research methods, with a practical guide to conducting qualitative investigations, and a critical assessment of these methods. Thoroughly revised, the new edition reflects the changes that have taken place in research methods in recent years and features a new three part layout, with the individual sections covering: <ul> <li>Orientations - broad considerations about qualitative research</li> <li>Methodologies - includes worked examples of major different qualitative research approaches: observation, ethnography, interviewing, personal construct, psychosocial analysis, narrative enquiry and historical analyses</li> <li>Representations - a guide to writing up qualitative research, with an emphasis on reflexivity and ethics</li> </ul> The new edition covers the BPS syllabus for qualitative methods and includes new chapters on: <ul> <li>Phenomenology</li> <li>Psychosocial analysis</li> <li>Narrative inquiry</li> <li>Future directions for qualitative research</li> <li>Emerging forms of representation</li> <li>Problems in qualitative research</li> </ul> Qualitative Methods in Psychology 2nd edition is key reading for psychology students and professionals who use psychological research methods in their work.

Qualitative Methods in Psychology: a Research Guide (UK Higher Education OUP Psychology Psychology)

Daniels, John

Goodley, Dan

Lawthom, Rebecca

Burman, Erica

Smailes, Sophie

Runswick-Cole, Katherine

Bunn, Geoff

Duckett, Paul

Sixsmith, Judith

Banister, Peter

Tindall, Carol

Whelan, Pauline

Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context: Subjectivity, History and Autobiography

Psychoanalysis is a strange and mysterious practice. In his new book, Ian Parker offers insights into his own experiences, first as trainee then as analyst, the common assumptions about psychoanalysis which can be so misleading, as well as a map of the key debates in the field today. Beginning with his own history, at first avoiding psychoanalysis before training as a Lacanian, Parker moves on to explore the wider historical development of clinical practice, making an argument for the importance of language, culture and history in this process. The book offers commentary on the key schools of thought, and how they manifest in the practice of psychoanalysis in different regions around the world.
Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context will be of great value to practitioners and social theorists who want to know how psychoanalytic ideas play out in training and the clinic, for trainees and students of psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and for the general reader who wants to know what psychoanalysis is and how it works.

Mental Health

Routledge

Psychology through Critical Auto-Ethnography: Academic Discipline, Professional Practice and Reflexive History

This unique book is an insider account about the discipline of psychology and its limits, introducing key debates in the field of psychology around the world today by closely examining the problematic role the discipline plays as a global phenomenon. Ian Parker traces the development of 'critical psychology' through an auto-ethnographic narrative in which the author is implicated in what he describes, laying bare the nature of contemporary psychology. In five parts, each comprising four chapters, the book explores the student experience, the world of psychological research, how psychology is taught, how alternative critical movements have emerged inside the discipline, and the role of psychology in coercive management practices. Providing a detailed account of how psychology actually operates as an academic discipline, it shows what teaching in higher education and immersion in research communities around the world looks like, and it culminates in an analytic description of institutional crises which psychology provokes. A reflexive history of psychology's recent past as a discipline and as a cultural force, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone thinking of taking up a career in psychology, and for those reflecting critically on the role the discipline plays in people's lives.

Reference

Deconstructing Social Psychology

This book should be of interest to IDeconstructing Social PsychologyN presents a strong selection of new critical writing in social psychology. It will be a useful text for students of pyschology, social science, and sociology, and for those working in the area of language.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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