Narrative explores a range of written, spoken, literary and non-literary narratives. It shows
what systematic attention to language can reveal about the narratives themselves, their …

The third edition of this popular book examines the role of psychology in informing adult
education practice and has been fully updated to reflect the effect of changes in the structure …

Social Identity explains how identification, seen as a social process, works: individually,
interactionally and institutionally. Building on the international success of previous editions …

Now in its third edition, this successful book introduces students to the area of social science
theory and research known as social constructionism. Using a variety of examples from …

In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human
beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural …

The power of music to influence mood, create scenes, routines and occasions is widely
recognised and this is reflected in a strand of social theory from Plato to Adorno that portrays …

The first chapter offered a brief introduction to Stephenson's Q technique and traced its
aetiology as an adaptation or inversion of Spearman's method of factor analysis. Much of the …

In this paper, we discuss two complementary commitments of interpretative
phenomenological analysis (IPA): the phenomenological requirement to understand and …

Nexus Analysis presents an exciting theory by two of the leading names in discourse
analysis and provides a practical guide to its application. The authors argue that discourse …

'This fully revised and updated edition of Spinelli's classic introduction to phenomenology
should be essential reading on all person-centred, existential and humanistic trainings, and …