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Citizenship and Ethnicity
The Growth and Development of a Democratic Multiethnic Institution
Av Feliks Gross
E-bok, 1999
1169 kr
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Today, all industrialized states are multinational. However, as Political Sociologist Feliks Gross points out, there remains considerable debate and experimentation on how to organize a multiethnic, democratic, and humane state. Gross examines various types of multiethnic states as well as their …
Ideology and the Social Sciences
E-bok, 2000
1144 kr
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The extent to which modern social science continues to reflect the subjective traits of authors and the contexts in which they operate, rather than the objective facts or insights they claim to develop, remains one of the most striking features of social science research and writing. Kinloch and …
International Perspectives on Homelessness
Av Valerie Polakow, Cindy Guillean
E-bok, 2001
1169 kr
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Homelessness strikes in all types of nations, from wealthy western nations to poor undeveloped countries. Each government and culture attends to this worldwide problem differently. This work collects eleven case studies of selected countries from around the world in order to offer a wide …
American Ritual Tapestry
Social Rules and Cultural Meanings
E-bok, 1998
935 kr
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American rituals are vital to the creation and renewal of cultural meanings and rules for social interaction. These rituals are rooted in tradition yet are rapidly changing: a contradiction of hyper-modern society. This phenomenon was first explored by Professor Deegan in her 1989 study American …
Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries
A Global Perspective
Av Claire Bélanger, Parvin Ghorayshi
E-bok, 1996
1169 kr
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The chapters in this collection are based on qualitative fieldwork studies and collectively offer the reader a perspective on women, work, and gender relations that is at once multidisciplinary and feminist. Women's work in the household, agriculture, industry, and in the so-called informal sector …
Building Movement Bridges
The Coalition of Labor Union Women
Av Silke Roth
E-bok, 2003
1204 kr
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Activists often participate in more than one social movement and organization. Bridging organizations are formed by activists who feel that the movements in which they are participating do not adequately address the various issues they are involved in. The author provides a case study of the …
Sociocybernetics
Complexity, Autopoiesis, and Observation of Social Systems
Av Rudolf F. Geyer, Johannes van der Zouwen
E-bok, 2001
1169 kr
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In an effort to shed light on recent developments in sociocybernetic research, this volume represents recent and advanced thinking in this rapidly developing field. The authors address the core problems in social science caused by increasing societal complexity and analyze the inadequacy of many of …
Chinese Triangle of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
Comparative Institutional Analyses
Av Alvin Y. So, Nan Lin m. fl.
E-bok, 2001
1677 kr
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The Chinese triangle of mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan constitutes one of the most dynamic regions in the world economy. Since the late 1970s, these three societies have experienced increasing economic integration; however, studies aimed at analyzing and explaining this integration have …
NGOs in India
A Cross-Sectional Study
Av R. Sooryamoorthy, K. D. Gangrade
E-bok, 2001
1169 kr
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Focusing on NGOs that work in the areas of rural development, women, and children, the authors' goal is to shed light on the contributions of the sector in the spheres of social welfare, empowerment, service, and rural development. In addition, the problems and difficulties experienced by NGOs are …
Exchange, Action, and Social Structure
Elements of Economic Sociology
E-bok, 2001
1169 kr
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This unique volume provides a new interpretation and synthesis of network exchange theory in an effort to contribute to a neo-Weberian economic sociology. Arguing against commonly held assumptions about network exchange theory and its interpretation of all social actions as economic exchanges, …
Social Control for the 1980s
A Handbook for Order in a Democratic Society
Av Joseph S. Roucek, Dan A. Chekki
Inbunden, 1978
1065 kr
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Politics, Character, and Culture
Perspectives from Hans Gerth
Av Marilyn Bensman, Nobuko Gerth m. fl.
Inbunden, 1982
1065 kr
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Ethnicity, Pluralism, and Race
Race Relations Theory in America Before Myrdal
Inbunden, 1982
853 kr
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Uniforms and Nonuniforms
Communication Through Clothing
Av Nathan Joseph, Dan A. Chekki
Inbunden, 1986
1101 kr
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Clothing serves as a system of signs that helps to order social interaction by identifying and locating individuals and groups within society. In the first in-depth study to analyze the communicative character of uniforms and other types of clothing, Nathan Joseph examines how clothing functions in …
Emile Durkheim
Ethics and the Sociology of Morals
Av Robert T. Hall, Dan A. Chekki
Inbunden, 1987
1210 kr
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This work examines Durkheim's concern with the sociology of morals and demonstrates the importance of this orientation of his social theory, which until now has been vastly underrated. In addition, it emphasizes the problematic relationship between sociology and philosophical ethics, which served …
Community in Rural America
Av Kenneth P. Wilkinson, Dan A. Chekki
Inbunden, 1991
1210 kr
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Far from being the bucolic paradise that is often imagined, the rural areas of this country are afflicted with chronic economic hardship, severe forms of alienation, and the lack of a foundation for community development or for the enhancement of economic, social, and educational opportunities for …
Theories of Ethnicity
A Critical Appraisal
Av Richard H. Thompson, Dan A. Chekki
Inbunden, 1989
1069 kr
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Perhaps no aspect of social relations has stirred more academic controversy than the subject of race and ethnicity. Theories that explain the persistence and vitality of the ethnic phenomenon--as well as commentaries on these theories--abound in sociological and anthropological literature. This …
Impossible Organizations
Self-Management and Organizational Reproduction
Av Yohanan Stryjan, Dan A. Chekki
Inbunden, 1989
1101 kr
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Stryjan's notable study outlines a new theoretical perspective on self-managed organizations, which is also of considerable interest to students of conventional organizations. The work describes the functioning of, and the preconditions for, successful self-management and its reproduction. Examples …
Time, Memory, and Society
Av Franco Ferrarotti, Dan A. Chekki
Inbunden, 1990
856 kr
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Why should the sociologist concern himself with time? asks Franco Ferrarotti in his latest work. Temporality is, he argues, the essential fluid dimension in the study of the social. Including time as a factor in sociological analysis is the only way to reintroduce the dynamic moment of social …
Consciousness and Culture
An Introduction to the Thought of Jean Gebser
Inbunden, 1992
1069 kr
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One of the most original and influential thinkers of the twentieth century was Jean Gebser, whose varied writings on the philosophy of culture gave birth to postmodernist thought. In spite of his prominence internationally, much of his work has not been translated into English. This book is the …
Critical Theory and Political Possibilities
Conceptions of Emancipatory Politics in the Works of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Habermas
Inbunden, 1995
1423 kr
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Alway identifies and assesses new models of emancipatory politics in the Frankfurt Schools Critical Theory. She outlines the complexities of Critical Theory, and clarifies the logical connections between assumptions that inform the critical theorists' analyses of social conditions and their views …
American Ritual Tapestry
Social Rules and Cultural Meanings
Av Mary Jo Deegan, Dan A. Chekki
Inbunden, 1998
856 kr
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American rituals are vital to the creation and renewal of cultural meanings and rules for social interaction. These rituals are rooted in tradition yet are rapidly changing: a contradiction of hyper-modern society. This phenomenon was first explored by Professor Deegan in her 1989 study American …
Movies, Masculinity, and Modernity
An Ethnography of Men's Filmgoing in India
Inbunden, 2000
1069 kr
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Men in India are attracted to Hindi films partly because of their attraction to depictions of modern lifestyles. Dern^D'e argues that films help men handle their ambivalence about modernity by rooting their sense of Indianness in women's acceptance of traditional food habits, clothing, and gender …
Sociocybernetics
Complexity, Autopoiesis, and Observation of Social Systems
Av Rudolf F. Geyer, Johannes van der Zouwen
Inbunden, 2001
1069 kr
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In an effort to shed light on recent developments in sociocybernetic research, this volume represents recent and advanced thinking in this rapidly developing field. The authors address the core problems in social science caused by increasing societal complexity and analyze the inadequacy of many of …
New Poverty
Families in Postmodern Society
Av David Cheal
E-bok, 1996
546 kr
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Cheal argues that the sociology of poverty has entered a new postmodern phase. The new poverty is about loss of faith—in relationships that were once believed to last a lifetime, and in government programs that we used to think would last for generations. The new poverty is about the economic fall …
Postmodern Social Analysis and Criticism
E-bok, 1989
844 kr
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Although postmodernism has had clear impact on literary criticism, the social and political implications of this philosophy have not been systematically investigated. Murphy's study is the first to bring a broad interdisciplinary perspective to the subject and to present postmodernism as a coherent …
Switzerland in Perspective
E-bok, 1991
1169 kr
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This volume is the only collection of essays available in English on modern Swiss economy, society, and culture. Twelve of Switzerland's most eminent social scientists express their ideas and viewpoints about their nation's past, present, and likely future in a readable and informative way. The …
Handwriting on the Wall
Toward a Sociology and Psychology of Graffiti
Av Edith Martindale, Dan A. Chekki
Inbunden, 1977
860 kr
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Hidden Professoriate
Credentialism, Professionalism, and the Tenure Crisis
Av Edith Martindale, Arthur Wilke m. fl.
Inbunden, 1979
1043 kr
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Wilke has called upon sociologists, observers as well as victims of the caste system, to describe by use of case studies and to analyze the plight of non-tenured faculty and their efforts to survive in an increasingly hostile environment. These stories reveal the human factor, too often slighted or …
Identities in the Lesbian World
The Social Construction of Self
Av Barbara Ponse, Dan A. Chekki
Inbunden, 1978
718 kr
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