Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, David A. Karp brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of intimate interviews with fifty depressed men and women. By turns poignant, disturbing, mordan…
Speaking of Sadness, based on fifty in-depth interviews, provides first-hand accounts of the depression experience while discovering clear regularities in the ways that personal identities are shaped over the course of an ""illness career."" The book also emphasizes the inextric…
Depression, disconnection and the meaning of illness.
Being Urban
by Karp, David A., Yoels, William C., Dempsey, Nicholas P., Stone, Gregory P.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Issues and Perspectives in Urban Sociology -- Chapter 1: Classical Conceptions of Urban Life -- Chapter 2: Classical Observat…
This third edition of a classic urban sociology text examines critical but often-neglected aspects of urban life from a social-psychological theoretical perspective. * Provides a complete analysis of the important social psychological dimensions of urban life that are often over…