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Different Worlds
A Sociological Study of Taste, Choice and Success in Art
Av Liah Greenfeld, Ernest Q. Campbell
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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Using a wealth of data collected in Israel, this study depicts a complete system in which art is created and evaluated - the scale of Israeli society allowing for a comprehensive and detailed description of all the agents involved in the production and consumption of modern art. The author analyses …
The Costs of Regime Survival
Racial Mobilization, Elite Domination and Control of the State in Guyana and Trinidad
Häftad, 2006
605 kr
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This comparative study of two republics - Guyana in South America, and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean - examines the conditions which determine regime survival in less developed countries. Given the structure of political and economic organization typical of these countries, and of the web of …
The Methodology of Herbert Blumer
Av Kenneth Baugh, Jr, Ernest Q. Campbell
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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The Methodology of Herbert Blumer is a comprehensive critical account of the contributions of this important American sociologist to the methodology of social research. In a close reading of Blumer's texts, the author charts the development of Blumer's thinking, revealing a tension between a …
Dynamic Functionalism
Strategy and Tactics
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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Over the last several decades, functional theory in the social sciences has fallen into disfavour. Alleged to be a static form of theory incapable of explaining social change, methodologically impotent and ideologically tainted, functionalism stands accused of being socially and politically …
Historical Role Analysis in the Study of Religious Change
Mass Educational Development in Norway, 1740-1891
Häftad, 2006
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This 1990 study in historical sociology explores the relationship between educational development and religious change in Norwegian society during a period of significant social and economic transition. John Flint traces the processes whereby the laity radically reduced clerical control over …
Pathways in the Workplace
The Effects of Gender and Race on Access to Organizational Resources
Av Jon Miller
Häftad, 2006
520 kr
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Rationalistic theories of the workplace and the claims typically made by organizations stress that an individual's access to the resources and advantages of an organization are determined by his or her qualifications and contributions to the collective enterprise, and that the payoffs for effort …
Society and Identity
Toward a Sociological Psychology
Av Andrew J. Weigert, J. Smith Teitge m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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Since the 1940s, there has been an explosion of writings, both scientific and nonscientific, about the question of 'identity' and what it means to be an individual in today's world. This book examines sociological perspectives on identity in order to illuminate the perennial problem of defining the …
We Shall Live Again
The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements as Demographic Revitalization
Av Russell Thornton, Ernest Q. Campbell
Häftad, 2006
461 kr
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This study of the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements among North American Indians offers an innovative theory about why these movements arose when they did. Emphasizing the demographic situation of American Indians prior to the movements, Professor Thornton argues that the Ghost Dances were …
Situations and Strategies in American Land-use Planning
Häftad, 2009
509 kr
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Numerous analyses have identified local land-use controls as the source of our continuing problems with residential segregation and environmental deterioration. Although recent efforts to resolve these problems have focused on policy-making in local government, the existing literature on land-use …
Charisma and Control in Rajneeshpuram
A Community without Shared Values
Häftad, 2010
569 kr
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Rajneeshpuram, a controversial religious community, transplanted from India to Oregon in 1981, attracted international attention when several of its leaders were arrested in 1985. The spiritual leader, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, was deported from the United States and others subsequently served prison …
Undocumented Mexicans in the USA
Häftad, 2010
509 kr
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When this volume was published in 1990, undocumented Mexican immigrants had become an important component of the US population. In this book the author analyzes the results of a unique survey conducted in Los Angeles County, where an estimated 44 percent of the undocumented Mexican population …
Theory of Societal Constitutionalism
Foundations of a Non-Marxist Critical Theory
Häftad, 2010
667 kr
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Sciulli argues that the existing conceptual frameworks of political and social theory restrict both theorists and empirical researchers to a narrow definition of authoritarianism. This 1992 book focuses on government structure and fails to take account of forms of social control exercised outside …
Trafficking in Drug Users
Professional Exchange Networks in the Control of Deviance
Inbunden, 1984
1349 kr
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Control of illegal drug use and abuse requires an elaborate network of organizations and professions: medical, legal, political, educational, and welfare. This book, first published in 1984, explores the way in which these diverse sectors coordinate the control of deviance in a complex society and …
Sociology, Ethnomethodology and Experience
Av Mary F. Rogers, Ernest Q. Campbell
Häftad, 1983
569 kr
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In this volume, first published in 1983, Professor Rogers examines the usefulness of a phenomenological approach to sociology. Her broad purpose is to demonstrate the theoretical and methodological advantages phenomenological sociology holds. Thus she offers a selective, introductory exposition of …
Trafficking in Drug Users
Professional Exchange Networks in the Control of Deviance
Av James Ralph Beniger, Ernest Q. Campbell
Häftad, 1984
569 kr
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Control of illegal drug use and abuse requires an elaborate network of organizations and professions: medical, legal, political, educational, and welfare. This book, first published in 1984, explores the way in which these diverse sectors coordinate the control of deviance in a complex society and …
Religion and Fertility
Arab Christian-Muslim Differentials
Av Joseph Chamie, Ernest Q. Campbell
Häftad, 1981
569 kr
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This work is a critical investigation into the relationship between religious affiliation, on the one hand, and fertility, family size preferences and family planning behaviour, on the other. Dr Chamie works from a set of unique data: the 1971 Fertility and Family Planning Survey in Lebanon. This …
Manufacturing Green Gold
Capital, Labor, and Technology in the Lettuce Industry
Av William H. Friedland, Amy E. Barton m. fl.
Häftad, 1981
487 kr
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Originally published in 1981, this book examines the ways in which social groups interact in the making of a common food in American society: iceberg lettuce. The major questions posed by the research, however, extend beyond the features of one agricultural product, as the authors analyse the …
Paradoxical Harvest
Energy and explanation in British History, 1870-1914
Häftad, 1982
535 kr
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This book is a study of the relationship between the use of energy in society and the general pattern of development in Great Britain during the 1870-1914 era. Professor Adams argues that Britain's apparent 'decline' in this period was not in fact a decline but a levelling off in capacity to do …
Class, Race, and Worker Insurgency
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Av James A. Geschwender, Ernest Q. Campbell
Häftad, 1977
667 kr
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This book, originally published in 1977, provides a historical account and case study of a little-publicised social movement, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. The League, a black Marxist-Leninist movement that developed among automobile workers in Detroit, appeared shortly after the 1967 …
Education, Employment, and Migration
Israel in Comparative Perspective
Av Paul Ritterband, Ernest Q. Campbell
Häftad, 1978
511 kr
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This 1978 study of the international migration of high-level manpower, popularly referred to as the 'brain drain', is based on data collected during the 1960s and 1970s. Whilst explaining the migration, Professor Ritterband analyzes the educational system of Israel as well as two other sample …
Middle Start
An Experiment in the Educational Enrichment of Young Adolescents
Av J. Milton Yinger, Kiyoshi Ikeda m. fl.
Häftad, 1977
553 kr
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This 1977 book reports on an experimental program that was designed to discover whether a summer of intensive academic work and recreation on a college campus could significantly improve the educational performance of economically disadvantaged thirteen-year-old children. For three successive …
Protest and Participation
The New Working Class in Italy
Av John R. Low-Beer, Ernest Q. Campbell
Häftad, 1978
553 kr
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This 1978 study examines the new working class of scientists, white collar professionals, and technicians that has emerged in advanced in industrial societies and considers its role in the political process. Professor Low-Beer examines the lives of a sample group of Italian electronics technicians, …
Opening and Closing
Häftad, 1978
468 kr
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In this original application of information theory to social analysis, Orrin Klapp examines how and why societies are producing more stress than they ever can handle. He argues that the reduction of 'social noise', the chaos from which we try to construct meaning is a major goal of individuals and …
Continuity and Change
A Study of two Ethnic Communities in Israel
Häftad, 1978
520 kr
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In this detailed 1978 study, Professor Rita J. Simon examines two significant ethnic communities in Israel: one of ultra-Orthodox Jews, and the other of Israeli Arabs. The Jews form a tiny but cohesive group with a strong sense of pride in their heritage and values. The Arabs, who comprise thirteen …
Cities with Little Crime
The Case of Switzerland
Av Marshall B. Clinard, Ernest Q. Campbell
Häftad, 1978
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In this comparative study, Professor Clinard challenges the often noted correlation between high rates of crime and high levels of urbanization and industrialization by examining the case of Switzerland. He performs a series of tests designed to determine whether Swiss crime rates are indeed …
Tasks and Social Relationships in Classrooms
A study of instructional organisation and its consequences
Av Steven T. Bossert, Ernest Q. Campbell
Häftad, 1979
553 kr
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Moving beyond the assumption that a teacher's personality or expectations are the primary determinants of classroom behaviour to the more complex sociological perspective of group organisation and social relationships, Steven Bossert provides a glimpse inside the 'black box' of the classroom, as …
Juvenile Delinquency and its Origins
An integrated theoretical approach
Häftad, 1979
527 kr
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First published in 1979, this book examines past thought and research about the social and psychological causes of juvenile delinquency in Western society. The first few chapters summarise major delinquency theories and survey an extensive list of studies that demonstrate those theories. The author …
Understanding Events
Affect and the Construction of Social Action
Av David R. Heise, Ernest Q. Campbell
Häftad, 1979
569 kr
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It is Professor Heise's premise that the psychology of affect theoretically governs common social actions, such as those of a patient toward a doctor or a mother toward a child. Human behaviour, he argues, normally promotes the maintenance of a steady emotional state. Should events produce undue …
From Student to Nurse
A Longitudinal Study of Socialization
Av Simpson
Häftad, 1979
667 kr
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In this study of student nurses at Duke University, Professor Simpson challenges earlier research by demonstrating that a professional school does socialise its students. In addition, by constructing a model that brings together competing theories of socialisation, she finds that socialisation is …
Sociological Explanation As Translation
Häftad, 1980
527 kr
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First published in 1980, this book examines the nature of sociological explanation. The tactics of interpretive sociology have often remained obscure because of confusion over the nature of the evidence for interpretation and the nature of decisions among alternative interpretations. In providing …
