From Subjects to Subjectivities Sally Purcell tracing the development of welfare

tracing the development of welfare provision for older people right through the twentieth century

The first part covers the core traditions of American social and political thought--American Exceptionalism

11 lectures in various cities

Videos that accompany the volume demonstrate encounters between a clinician and a patient exhibiting an addiction

exploring how they behave independently as well as how they interact with each other

From Subjects to Subjectivities Sally Purcell tracing the development of welfareFrom Subject to Subjectivities profiles the recent debates about the role of qualitative and participatory methods in psychology, a discipline which has traditionally seen itself as a form of positivistic science. Contributors explain how fundamentally different views of the nature of reality and of scientific theory have shaped these debates, and how psychology is being transformed through the use of these methods. At the heart of the book are 10