Suburbia Re-Examined

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• The changing nature and definition of suburbia, past and present, and the processes that have influenced its development both physically and as an int... Lees meer

Consciousness and Culture

Eric Kramer

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• One of the most original and influential thinkers of the twentieth century was Jean Gebser, whose varied writings on the philosophy of culture gave bi... Lees meer

Rural Sociology and the Environment

Donald R Field, William R Burch Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• With increasing awareness of the limits that natural resource reserves and environmental concerns impose on economic growth, rural sociologists have d... Lees meer

Uniforms and Nonuniforms

Nathan Joseph

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• Clothing serves as a system of signs that helps to order social interaction by identifying and locating individuals and groups within society. In the ... Lees meer

Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries

Claire Belanger, Parvin Ghorayshi

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• The chapters in this collection are based on qualitative fieldwork studies and collectively offer the reader a perspective on women, work, and gender ... Lees meer

The Development of a Postmodern Self

Michael R Wood, Louis A Zurcher Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• Wood and Zurcher suggest that the social self--its experience and organization--reflects the great transformation of society from industrial to postin... Lees meer

Animals and Science

Niall Shanks

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• Animals and Science examines the debates, from the Renaissance to the present, surrounding issues of animal rights, consciousness, and self-awareness.... Lees meer

Housing Markets and Policies Under Fiscal Austerity

Willem Van Vliet

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• The book is timely, and the arguments easy to follow . . . extensive references accompany each title. Choice A most valuable overview of the responses... Lees meer

Max Weber's Political Sociology

Ronald Glassman, Vatro Murvar

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• This collection of essays focuses on Weber's political ideology as well as his political sociology. This interdisciplinary work draws upon the experti... Lees meer

The Concept of Social Structure.

Douglas Porpora

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• Porpora is concerned with the concept of social structure and with the relationship between social structure and the individual. He focuses on two dif... Lees meer

Eastern Europe in Transformation

Mike Keen, Janusz Mucha

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• Eastern Europe in Transformation examines the history of sociology in Eastern Europe during the period leading up to and including glasnost and perest... Lees meer

Switzerland in Perspective

Janet E Hilowitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• This volume is the only collection of essays available in English on modern Swiss economy, society, and culture. Twelve of Switzerland's most eminent ... Lees meer

For Democracy

Ronald Glassman, Peter Kivisto, William H Swatos Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• These sociologists and theorists, long concerned with the critical role in society of the middle class, trace its historical, structural, and cultural... Lees meer

Al-Anon Narratives

Grazyna Zajdow

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• According to the author, in Australia, men drink alcohol as a mark of masculinity, and women take care of drinking men as a part of normative feminini... Lees meer

The Next Three Futures

W Warren Wagar

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• Wagar pulls together all aspects of futures studies in this unique volume--comprising a vital introduction to, and defense of, the impressive array of... Lees meer

Divided We Stand

Amir Ben Porat

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• Four decades of statehood for Israel has meant four decades of nationalistic, cultural, and ethnic conflicts. Throughout these growing pains, Israel h... Lees meer

Bureaucracy Against Democracy and Socialism

Ronald Glassman

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• This collection of essays represents a comprehensive socio-political analysis of public and private bureaucracy, emphasizing its dangerous ramificatio... Lees meer

Birth Alternatives

Sandra Howell-White

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• A woman's childbirth care choices have a profound effect on her pregnancy and childbirth experience. Today, some pregnant women have three different o... Lees meer

Emile Durkheim

Robert T Hall

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• This work examines Durkheim's concern with the sociology of morals and demonstrates the importance of this orientation of his social theory, which unt... Lees meer

Discourse in the Social Sciences

Barry Glassner, Jonathan Moreno

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• The authors consider the nature of explanatory models in the social sciences in order to suggest ways in which conceptual systems differ. They suggest... Lees meer

Emerging Organizational Forms

James Hawdon

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• Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (REIGOs) have increased in number and importance since World War II and have assumed critical roles in both t... Lees meer

Multiculturalism and Intergroup Relations

James S Frideres

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• Written by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field of ethnic relations, this volume examines the role of ethnicity in modern day society ... Lees meer

Movies, Masculinity, and Modernity

Steve Derne

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• 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 h... Lees meer

Religious Politics in Global and Comparative Perspective

William H Swatos Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | Controversies in Science
• Current social and political theories, which tend to dismiss religious resurgence as a deviant occurrence in the broad sweep of history, do not provid... Lees meer