Legacy Editions – serie
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8 produkter
The Levittowners
Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community
Häftad, 2017
323 kr
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In 1955, Levitt and Sons purchased most of Willingboro Township, New Jersey and built 11,000 homes. This, their third Levittown, became the site of one of urban sociology's most famous community studies, Herbert J. Gans's The Levittowners. The product of two years of living in Levittown, the work …
On Becoming a Rock Musician
Inbunden, 2017
1236 kr
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In the 1960s and 1970s, becoming a rock musician was fundamentally different than playing other kinds of music. It was a learned rather than a taught skill. In On Becoming a Rock Musician, sociologist H. Stith Bennett observes what makes someone a rock musician and what persuades others to take him …
On Becoming a Rock Musician
Häftad, 2017
315 kr
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In the 1960s and 1970s, becoming a rock musician was fundamentally different than playing other kinds of music. It was a learned rather than a taught skill. In On Becoming a Rock Musician, sociologist H. Stith Bennett observes what makes someone a rock musician and what persuades others to take him …
Morals and Markets
The Development of Life Insurance in the United States
Häftad, 2017
288 kr
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Life insurance-the promise of an insurer to pay a sum upon a person's death in exchange for a regular premium-is a bizarre enterprise. How can we monetize human life? Should we? What statistics do we use, what assumptions do we make, and what behavioral factors do we consider? First published in …
The Credential Society
An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification
Inbunden, 2019
1167 kr
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The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall Collins’s claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but rather …
The Credential Society
An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification
Häftad, 2019
297 kr
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The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall Collins’s claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but rather …
The People's Choice
How the Voter Makes Up His Mind in a Presidential Campaign
Häftad, 2021
263 kr
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The People’s Choice is a landmark psychological and statistical study of American voters during the 1940 and 1944 presidential elections, originally published in 1948. Amid a burgeoning interest in statistics and population sampling, it constituted the first systematic effort to trace voters’ …
Morals and Markets
The Development of Life Insurance in the United States
Inbunden, 2017
875 kr
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Life insurance-the promise of an insurer to pay a sum upon a person's death in exchange for a regular premium-is a bizarre enterprise. How can we monetize human life? Should we? What statistics do we use, what assumptions do we make, and what behavioral factors do we consider? First published in …
