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Comparable Worth
Theories and Evidence
Av Paula England, Paula England
Inbunden, 1992
2594 kr
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This volume provides a detailed description of the situation of women in employment in the early 1990s and considers how sociological and economic theories of labor markets illuminate the gap in pay between the sexes.
Comparable Worth
Theories and Evidence
Av Paula England, Paula England
Häftad, 1992
752 kr
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This volume provides a detailed description of the situation of women in employment in the early 1990s and considers how sociological and economic theories of labor markets illuminate the gap in pay between the sexes.
Of Human Bonding
Parent-Child Relations across the Life Course
Av Alice S. Rossi, Peter Henry Rossi
Häftad, 1990
854 kr
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This life-course analysis of family development focuses on the social dynamics among family members. It features parent-child relationships in a larger context, by examining the help exchange between kin and nonkin and the intergenerational transmission of family characteristics.
Myth of the Madding Crowd
Av Clark McPhail, Clark McPhail
Häftad, 1991
730 kr
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Crowd behavior is one of the most colorful but least understood forms of human social behavior. This volume is a major contribution to the field of collective behavior, with implications for social movement analysis.McPhail's critical assessment of the major theories of crowd behavior establishes …
Satanism Scare
Av Joel Best
Inbunden, 1991
3066 kr
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Although there is growing concern over Satanism as a threat to American life, the topic has received surprisingly little serious attention. Recognizing this, the editors of this volume have selected papers from a wide variety of disciplines, broadly covering contemporary aspects of Satanism from …
Satanism Scare
Av Joel Best
Häftad, 1991
752 kr
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Although there is growing concern over Satanism as a threat to American life, the topic has received surprisingly little serious attention. Recognizing this, the editors of this volume have selected papers from a wide variety of disciplines, broadly covering contemporary aspects of Satanism from …
Paying for Medicare
The Politics of Reform
Häftad, 1992
798 kr
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** Paying for Medicare received the American Risk and Insurance Association's Elizur Wright Award for itsoutstanding contribution to risk management and insurance literature.The Prospective Payment System and the Medicare Fee Schedule, two of the most effectively sustained and successful efforts at …
Abused and Battered
Social and Legal Responses to Family Violence
Av Dean Knudsen
Häftad, 1991
752 kr
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That family violence injures and kills its victims both physically and psychologically was established over two decades ago by early researchers in this field. Abused and Battered heralds the second generation of domestic abuse research: it examines the implications of the legal and social …
Adolescent Stress
Causes and Consequences
Av Mary Colten
Inbunden, 1991
1776 kr
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Adolescent Stress concentrates on a range of major problems—those of a normal developmental nature as well as those of poor adaptation—identified in adolescents.
Adolescent Stress
Causes and Consequences
Av Mary Colten
Häftad, 1991
774 kr
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Adolescent Stress concentrates on a range of major problems—those of a normal developmental nature as well as those of poor adaptation—identified in adolescents.
Politics of Medicare
Av Theodore R. R. Marmor, Theodore Marmor
Häftad, 2000
752 kr
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On July 30, 1965, President Johnson flew to Independence, Missouri to sign the Medicare bill. The new statute included two related insurance programs to finance substantial portions of the hospital and physician expenses incurred by Americans over the age of sixty-five. Public attempts to improve …
On National Socialism
Inbunden, 1993
2519 kr
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During the years between the publication of the first of his two major works, The Structure of Social Action (1937), and the writing of his second, The Social System (1951), Talcott Parsons was primarily engaged in political activity through the Office of Strategic Services in its efforts to bring …
Changing Contract across Generations
Av Vern L. Bengtson, W. Andrew Achenbaum
Inbunden, 1993
1832 kr
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Generational conflict has attracted considerable attention in the media and within academic circles during the past decade. At the center of this collection of papers analyzing various facets of that conflict lie complex issues of generational equity - issues that will remain important for the …
Legal Construct, Social Concept
A Macrosociological Perspective on Law
Inbunden, 1993
1682 kr
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Based on sophisticated demographic analysis, Legal Construct, Social Concept argues that legal doctrine on social issues is shaped by the needs and values of society rather than by individuals and interest groups and that it evolves in response to social change but has little impact on that change. …
Families in Troubled Times
Adapting to Change in Rural America
Av Rand Conger
Häftad, 1994
752 kr
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This book documents the experiences of rural Iowa families, who lived through the "farm crisis" years of the 1980s, in a fashion that might help families of the future cope more successfully with economic reversals. The documentation could be used to fashion more effective social policies.
Human Capital or Cultural Capital?
Ethnicity and Poverty Groups in an Urban School District
Häftad, 1996
730 kr
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This study seeks to reorient our understanding of the early educational determinants of social stratification outcomes. It focuses on the process and consequences of unequal cognitive skill attainment for ethnic and poverty groups within our nation's cities. It draws, theoretically, on the notion …
Targeting Guns
Firearms and Their Control
Av Gary Kleck, Gary Kleck
Häftad, 1997
690 kr
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This new paperback comprehensively reviews the research evidence on the links between guns, violence, and gun control, and reports results of the author's own research as well. In Targeting Guns, Kleck follows the line of argument and careful statistical inference of his earlier prizewinning …
Nowhere to Grow
Homeless and Runaway Adolescents and Their Families
Häftad, 1999
284 kr
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Les B. Whitbeck and Dan R. Hoyt begin their report on street children in the Midwest with the statement, "If you live in or have visited even a medium-sized city recently, you have seen runaway and homeless young people. They congregate in certain downtown areas and hang out in malls during …
Medical Careers and Feminist Agendas
American, Scandinavian and Russian Women Physicians
Häftad, 2001
774 kr
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The increasing proportion of women in the medical profession has been followed keenly both by conservative and feminist observers during the past three decades. Statistics both in Europe and in the United States tend to confirm that women work mainly in niches of the health care system or medical …
Education, Social Status, and Health
Häftad, 2003
774 kr
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Education forms a unique dimension of social status, with qualities that make it especially important to health. It influences health in ways that are varied, present at all stages of adult life, cumulative, self-amplifying, and uniformly positive. Educational attainment marks social status at the …
Social Causes of Psychological Distress
Häftad, 2003
730 kr
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A core interest of social science is the study of stratification--inequalities in income, power, and prestige. Few persons would care about such inequalities if the poor, powerless, and despised were as happy and fulfilled as the wealthy, powerful, and admired. Social research often springs from …
Entitlement Politics
Medicare and Medicaid, 1995-2001
Av David G. Smith, David G. Smith
Häftad, 2002
774 kr
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Entitlement Politics describes partisan attempts to shrink the size of government by targeting two major federal health care entitlements. Efforts to restructure or eliminate entitlements as such, and to privatize and decentralize programs, along with more traditional attempts to amend and reform …
Strangers at the Bedside
A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making
Av David J. Rothman, David J. Rothman
Häftad, 2003
819 kr
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David Rothman gives us a brilliant, finely etched study of medical practice today. Beginning in the mid-1960s, the practice of medicine in the United States underwent a most remarkable--and thoroughly controversial--transformation. The discretion that the profession once enjoyed has been …
Death, Deeds, and Descendents
Inheritance in Modern America
Av Remi Clignet, Jens Beckert m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
690 kr
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Clignet's analysis of inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment of the subject by a sociologist. Clignet shows that even today inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations. He examines what leads decedents to chose particular legal …
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The Homeless in America
Häftad, 2009
737 kr
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Homelessness in America has grown from a minor problem in isolated areas of a few big cities into a near epidemic. Today, scarcely any American city of any appreciable size lacks homeless people. Homeless shelters and programs have become as essential and as commonplace as police protection or …
Moving into Adolescence
The Impact of Pubertal Change and School Context
Av Roberta G. Simmons, Roberta G. Simmons
Häftad, 2009
901 kr
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From the sociological point of view, adolescence traditionally has been described as a period of physical maturity and social immaturity. Adolescents reach physical adulthood before they are capable of functioning well in adult social roles. The disjunction between physical capabilities and …
Legal Construct, Social Concept
A Macrosociological Perspective on Law
Häftad, 2010
690 kr
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Based on sophisticated demographic analysis, Legal Construct, Social Concept argues that legal doctrine on social issues is shaped by the needs and values of society rather than by individuals and interest groups and that it evolves in response to social change but has little impact on that change. …
On National Socialism
Häftad, 2017
909 kr
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During the years between the publication of the first of his two major works, The Structure of Social Action (1937), and the writing of his second, The Social System (1951), Talcott Parsons was primarily engaged in political activity through the Office of Strategic Services in its efforts to bring …
Organizing for Collective Action
The Political Economies of Associations
Av David Knoke
Häftad, 2018
909 kr
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Organizing for Collective Action investigates the political and economic behaviors of national associations, including trade associations, professional societies, labor unions, and public interest groups. It focuses upon the ways that these organizations acquire resources and allocate them to …
Of Human Bonding
Parent-Child Relations across the Life Course
Av Alice S. Rossi, Peter Henry Rossi
Inbunden, 2018
2510 kr
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This life-course analysis of family development focuses on the social dynamics among family members. It features parent-child relationships in a larger context, by examining the help exchange between kin and nonkin and the intergenerational transmission of family characteristics.
