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22 produkter
Social Genome
The New Science of Nature and Nurture
Inbunden, 2025
293 kr
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For decades, Dalton Conley tried to answer the big social questions—about why groups hold together, about inequality, and more—through the traditional tools of his first field, sociology. He eventually found that those tools could take him only so far. So he went back to school and got another …
Elsewhere, U.S.A.
How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
E-bok, 2009
193 kr
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Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. In Elsewhere, U.S.A. , acclaimed sociologist Dalton Conley connects our day-to-day …
Pecking Order
A Bold New Look at How Family and Society Determine Who We Become
E-bok, 2009
125 kr
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The family is our haven, the place where we all start off on equal footing — or so we like to think. But if that’s the case, why do so many siblings often diverge widely in social status, wealth, and education? In this groundbreaking and meticulously researched book, acclaimed sociologist Dalton …
The Pecking Order: A Bold New Look at How Family and Society Determine Who We Become
Häftad, 2005
161 kr
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After the Bell
Family Background, Public Policy and Educational Success
Av Karen Albright, Dalton Conley
Inbunden, 2004
2433 kr
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Since the publication of the Coleman report in the US many decades ago, it has been widely accepted that the evidence that schools are marginal in the grand scheme of academic achievement is conclusive. Despite this, educational policy across the world remains focused almost exclusively on …
After the Bell
Family Background, Public Policy and Educational Success
Av Karen Albright, Dalton Conley
Häftad, 2012
825 kr
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Since the publication of the Coleman report in the US many decades ago, it has been widely accepted that the evidence that schools are marginal in the grand scheme of academic achievement is conclusive. Despite this, educational policy across the world remains focused almost exclusively on …
Starting Gate
Birth Weight and Life Chances
Av Dalton Conley, Kate Wetteroth Strully m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
306 kr
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Seven percent of newborns in the United States weigh in at less than five and one half pounds. These "low birth weight" babies face challenges that others will never know - challenges that begin with a greater risk of infant mortality and extend well into adulthood in the form of health and …
Being Black, Living in the Red
Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America, 10th Anniversary Edition, With a New Afterword
Häftad, 2009
371 kr
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"Being Black, Living in the Red" demonstrates that many differences between blacks and whites stem not from race but from economic inequalities that have accumulated over the course of American history. Property ownership - as measured by net worth - reflects this legacy of economic oppression. The …
Honky
Häftad, 2023
189 kr
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This vivid memoir captures how race, class, and privilege shaped a white boy’s coming of age in 1970s New York—now with a new epilogue. “I am not your typical middle-class white male,” begins Dalton Conley’s Honky, an intensely engaging memoir of growing up amid predominantly African American and …
Honky
E-bok, 2023
288 kr
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This vivid memoir captures how race, class, and privilege shaped a white boy’s coming of age in 1970s New York—now with a new epilogue. “I am not your typical middle-class white male,” begins Dalton Conley’s Honky , an intensely engaging memoir of growing up amid predominantly African American and …
Honky
E-bok, 2000
603 kr
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This intensely personal and engaging memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York’s Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the details of city life from a child’s point of view—the streets, buses, …
Starting Gate
Birth Weight and Life Chances
Av Neil G Bennett, Kate Wetteroth Strully m. fl.
E-bok, 2003
535 kr
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Seven percent of newborns in the United States weigh in at less than five and one half pounds. These "low birth weight" babies face challenges that others will never know—challenges that begin with a greater risk of infant mortality and extend well into adulthood in the form of health and …
Wealth and Poverty in America
A Reader
Inbunden, 2002
1973 kr
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What does it mean to be poor in America at the dawn of the 21st century? For that matter, what does it mean to be rich? And how are the two related to each other? These apparently simple questions present enormous theoretical and empirical challenges to any student or social scientist. Wealth and …
Wealth and Poverty in America
A Reader
Av CONLEY, Dalton Conley
Häftad, 2002
718 kr
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What does it mean to be poor in America at the dawn of the 21st century? For that matter, what does it mean to be rich? And how are the two related to each other? These apparently simple questions present enormous theoretical and empirical challenges to any student or social scientist. Wealth and …
Genome Factor
What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future
Av Dalton Conley, Jason Fletcher
Inbunden, 2017
263 kr
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For a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague. But the nature-nurture wars are over. In the past decade, a small but intrepid group of economists, political scientists, and sociologists have harnessed the genomics revolution to paint a more complete picture of human social …
Genome Factor
What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future
Av Dalton Conley, Jason Fletcher
Häftad, 2018
237 kr
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How genomics is revolutionizing the social sciencesFor a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague. But the nature-nurture wars are over. In the past decade, a small but intrepid group of economists, political scientists, and sociologists have harnessed the genomics …
After the Bell
Family Background, Public Policy and Educational Success
Av Dalton Conley, Karen Albright
E-bok, 2004
955 kr
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Since the publication of the Coleman report in the US many decades ago, it has been widely accepted that the evidence that schools are marginal in the grand scheme of academic achievement is conclusive. Despite this, educational policy across the world remains focused almost exclusively on …
Genome Factor
What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future
Av Jason Fletcher, Dalton Conley
E-bok, 2017
307 kr
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How genomics is revolutionizing the social sciences For a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague. But the nature-nurture wars are over. In the past decade, a small but intrepid group of economists, political scientists, and sociologists have harnessed the genomics …
Elsewhere, U.S.A.
How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
Ljudbok, 2009
214 kr
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Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. How many of us now work from home, our wireless economy allowing and encouraging us to work …
Parentology
Everything You Wanted to Know About the Science of Raising Children but Were Too Exhausted to Ask
Häftad, 2015
246 kr
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Parentology
Everything You Wanted to Know about the Science of Raising Children but Were Too Exhausted to Ask
E-bok, 2014
173 kr
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An award-winning scientist offers his unorthodox approach to childrearing: “ Parentology is brilliant, jaw-droppingly funny, and full of wisdom…bound to change your thinking about parenting and its conventions” (Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ). If you’re like many parents, you …
