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Locality and Inequality
Farm and Industry Structure and Socioeconomic Conditions
Häftad, 1990
477 kr
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This book explores how the recent restructuring of farming and industry has affected economic and social equality in the United States. The author explains how the farm sector has undergone a dramatic restructuring with profound effects. Moderate-size family farms, the mainstay of American …
Fractured Metropolis
Political Fragmentation and Metropolitan Segregation
Häftad, 1991
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How political boundaries shape residential segregation and fracture America's metropolitan communities.Political boundaries do more than define the limits of cities and suburbs, they shape where people live, whom they live among, and how metropolitan communities become divided.In The Fractured …
Street Addict Role
A Theory of Heroin Addiction
Häftad, 1991
463 kr
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This book provides a new answer to the question, "Why do people use heroin and other street drugs?" Drawing upon a growing body of studies of drug users conducted by sociologists and anthropologists, it attempts to integrate their findings into a theoretically unified sociocultural explanation of …
Capital and Communities in Black and White
The Intersections of Race, Class, and Uneven Development
Häftad, 1994
455 kr
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Capital and Communities in Black and White explores the problems created by global economic restructuring, the decline of inner city neighborhoods, and the heightened racial conflicts in the United States.
Organizing the South Bronx
Av Jim Rooney
Häftad, 1994
463 kr
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This is a story of heroic and articulate individuals who were able to defy overwhelming odds and build affordable housing in the South Bronx. It is about the process of teaching citizens in a low-income neighborhood how to participate in public life.Very little is written about the catastrophic and …
Clinical Assessment and Substance Abuse Treatment
The Target Cities Experience
Av Richard C. Stephens, Christy K Scott m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
477 kr
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Evaluates drug and alcohol abuse treatment systems and their effects on individual alcohol and drug abusers.During the 1990s, in response to the multi-faceted phenomenon of substance abuse, the federal government's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment funded the Target Cities project in nineteen …
High Tech, Low Tech, No Tech
Recent Industrial and Occupational Change in the South
Av William W. Falk, Thomas A. Lyson
Häftad, 1988
565 kr
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Fifty years ago the quality of life in the 13 states of the Old South was judged to be among the lowest in the country. A lack of industrial development and the pervasiveness of a sharecropping system of agricultural production combined to keep the South mired in the backwaters of the American …
First "Real" Job
A Study of Young Workers
Häftad, 1991
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This book examines the work experiences of twenty-five young men and women in their first jobs following high school. The case studies profiled here describe in detail the process of young workers becoming established in our society. The workplaces in which Kathryn M. Borman and her colleagues …
Street Addict Role
A Theory of Heroin Addiction
Inbunden, 1991
1111 kr
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This book provides a new answer to the question, "Why do people use heroin and other street drugs?" Drawing upon a growing body of studies of drug users conducted by sociologists and anthropologists, it attempts to integrate their findings into a theoretically unified sociocultural explanation of …
Work in the Fast Lane
Flexibility, Divisions of Labor, and Inequality in High-Tech Industries
Av Glenna Colclough, Charles M. Tolbert II
Inbunden, 1992
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Arguing that a new form of industrial organization is generating new patterns of inequality, the authors explore the relationship between growth in the high-tech sector and trends in inequality. While considering the promise of high-tech industries in light of the realities of high-tech work, the …
Community versus Commodity
Tenants and the American City
Av Stella M. Capek, John I. Gilderbloom
Häftad, 1992
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Technocracy at Work
Häftad, 1993
393 kr
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Technocracy, loosely defined, is "rule by experts." Technocracy at Work focuses on the organizational dimensions and aspects of technocracy.Substantial sociological literatures have analyzed contemporary changes in factories, bureaucracies, and professional organizations. What has not been well …
Formal Theory in Sociology
Opportunity or Pitfall?
Av Jerald Hage
Häftad, 1994
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A group of renowned sociological theorists analyze why the attempts to make sociological theory formal in the 1960s and early 1970s failed. This becomes not only an unusual and interesting analysis in the sociology of knowledge, but several of the articles move to the level of analyzing the entire …
From Combines to Computers
Rural Services and Development in the Age of Information Technology
Av Amy K. Glasmeier, Marie Howland
Häftad, 1994
401 kr
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Through an analysis of national data and detailed case studies, From Combines to Computers examines how the transition to a service economy is playing out for rural America. It answers two important questions: Will services fill the gap left by lost farming, manufacturing, and mining jobs? And will …
Women and Minorities in American Professions
Av Joyce Tang, Earl Smith
Häftad, 1996
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Asks how and with what measure of success women and minorities fare in comparison with white males in American professions.By asking how and with what measure of success, women and minorities fare in comparison to whites in American professions, this book provides original, up-to-date analyses of …
Rethinking the Labor Process
Av Mark Wardell, Thomas L. Steiger m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
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This diverse collection rethinks and reinvigorates the field of labor process.While paying tribute to Harry Braverman for launching the research field known as the labor process, this book neither eulogizes nor castigates his work. Rather, it takes stock of the field, showing its blend of …
Color and Money
Politics and Prospects for Community Reinvestment in Urban America
Av Gregory D. Squires, Sally O'Connor
Häftad, 2001
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A case study of Milwaukee, Wisconsin exploring how lending practices and access to capital are shaped by race.Contrary to conventional wisdom, green is not the only color that matters to lenders. This case study of Milwaukee, Wisconsin-a fairly typical urban area that has experienced systematic …
Clinical Assessment and Substance Abuse Treatment
The Target Cities Experience
Av Richard C. Stephens, Christy K Scott m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1144 kr
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Evaluates drug and alcohol abuse treatment systems and their effects on individual alcohol and drug abusers.During the 1990s, in response to the multi-faceted phenomenon of substance abuse, the federal government's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment funded the Target Cities project in nineteen …
Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City
William Julius Wilson and the Promise of Sociology
Inbunden, 2004
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An overview and critical appraisal of the work of influential sociologist and public intellectual William Julius Wilson.Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City thoroughly explores the scholarship of William Julius Wilson, one of the nation's leading sociologists and public intellectuals, and the …
Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City
William Julius Wilson and the Promise of Sociology
Häftad, 2004
401 kr
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An overview and critical appraisal of the work of influential sociologist and public intellectual William Julius Wilson.Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City thoroughly explores the scholarship of William Julius Wilson, one of the nation's leading sociologists and public intellectuals, and the …
Cost of Being Poor
A Comparative Study of Life in Poor Urban Neighborhoods in Gary, Indiana
Inbunden, 2005
1111 kr
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Looks at the daily lives of poor people to demonstrate that the poor pay more than others, by both monetary and other measures, to meet basic needs.While the negative effects of urban poverty are well documented, the everyday experiences of urban residents are often absent or secondary in urban …
Cost of Being Poor
A Comparative Study of Life in Poor Urban Neighborhoods in Gary, Indiana
Häftad, 2005
401 kr
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Looks at the daily lives of poor people to demonstrate that the poor pay more than others, by both monetary and other measures, to meet basic needs.While the negative effects of urban poverty are well documented, the everyday experiences of urban residents are often absent or secondary in urban …
