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Culture is increasingly important to American social science, but in what way? This book addresses the core issues of the sociology of culture-questions about the social role of meaning, along with those about the methods sociologists use to study culture and society-in a manner that makes clear their relevance to sociology as a whole. Part I consists of essays by leading cultural sociologists on how the turn to culture has changed the sociological study of organizations, economic action, and television, and concludes with Georgina Born's methodological statement on the sociology of art and cultural production. Part II contains a highly original, and at times heated, debate between Richard Biernacki and John H. Evans on the appropriateness of abstract and quantifiable coding schemes for the sociological study of culture. Ranging from the philosophy of science to the concrete, practical problems of interpreting masses of cultural data, the debate raises the controversy over the inte...

The Emotionally Focused Therapist Training Set offers two valuable products, Becoming an Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist: The Workbook and The Casebook at a discount of 10%. Written primarily by Sue Johnson, the originator of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), her Workbook is an accessible resource for training and supervision and contains contributions from seven expert therapists who lead the reader through the nine essential steps of EFT. This interactive Workbook provides an easy road-map to mastering the art of EFT with exercises, review sheets, and practice materials. The Emotionally Focused Casebook, edited by James Furrow, Sue Johnson, and Brent Bradley, picks up where the Workbook leaves off and discusses specialized treatment approaches to a variety of presenting conditions. Appropriate for clinicians, supervisors, students, and scholars, each chapter in this book is unified by a discussion of how attachment processes provide both a resource and a point of intervention ...