Dating, Mating, and Marriage

Martin King Whyte

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• This book examines the American system of dating, mate choice, and marriage. It analyzes a wide range of established ideas about how dating and mate c... Lees meer

Strangers at the Bedside

David J Rothman

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• 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 ... Lees meer

Death, Deeds, and Descendents

Remi Clignet, Jens Beckert, Brooke Harrington

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• Clignet's analysis of inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment of the subject by a sociologist. Clignet shows that even... Lees meer

Just Punishments

Peter H Rossi

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• The sentencing guidelines written by the U.S. Sentencing Commission for the federal crime courts were designed to lead to uniform the just punishments... Lees meer

Nowhere to Grow

Les B Whitbeck

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• 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... Lees meer

The Other Half

Jacqueline Wiseman

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• This current study has emerged from two decades of the author's investigations in related areas: alcoholism and domestic relations. Its canvas is broa... Lees meer

The Disposable Work Force

Thomas Moore

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• The twenty-first century has witnessed a transformation of the organization, opportunities, and terms of work. Downsizing, restructuring, and outsourc... Lees meer

The Power Elite and the State

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• This volume presents a network of social power, indicating that theories inspired by C.Wright Mills are far more accurate views about power in America... Lees meer

The Myth of the Madding Crowd

Clark McPhail

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• 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 co... Lees meer

Human Capital or Cultural Capital?

George Farkas

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• This study seeks to reorient our understanding of the early educational determinants of social stratification outcomes. It focuses on the process and ... Lees meer

Families in Troubled Times

Rand Conger

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• 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 famil... Lees meer

Targeting Guns

Gary Kleck

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• This new paperback comprehensively reviews the research evidence on the links between guns, violence, and gun control, and reports results of the auth... Lees meer

On National Socialism

Talcott Parsons

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• 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, Th... Lees meer

Managing to Care

Ann Dill

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• The point of departure for Managing to Care is widespread concern that the present delivery of health and social welfare services is fragmented, uncoo... Lees meer

Moving Into Adolescence

Roberta G. Simmons

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• From the sociological point of view, adolescence traditionally has been described as a period of physical maturity and social immaturity. Adolescents ... Lees meer

The North American Trajectory

Neil Nevitte

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• North America is steering a new course, with the United States, Canada, and Mexico moving toward continental economic, integration Lees meer

Legal Construct, Social Concept

Larry Barnett

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• Based on sophisticated demographic analysis, Legal Construct, Social Concept argues that legal doctrine on social issues is shaped by the needs and va... Lees meer

On National Socialism

Talcott Parsons

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• 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, Th... Lees meer

Moving Into Adolescence

Roberta G Simmons

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• From the sociological point of view, adolescence traditionally has been described as a period of physical maturity and social immaturity. Adolescents ... Lees meer

Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not?

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• Each topical chapter in this volume crystallizes the findings of a five-year study, under the auspices of the Population Health Program of the Canadia... Lees meer

Industries, Firms, and Jobs

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• What are the links among industrial structure, segmentation, the internal structure of firms, job characteristics, technology, productivity, labor mar... Lees meer

Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not?

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• Each topical chapter in this volume crystallizes the findings of a five-year study, under the auspices of the Population Health Program of the Canadia... Lees meer

Japanese Auto Transplants in the Heartland

Robert Perrucci

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• The idea for this book was formed during the early 1980s when the author was studying the impact of plant closings on displaced workers and communitie... Lees meer

Networks of Power

Robert Perrucci

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• Large organizations, particularly corporations, possess considerable resources, and with that comes considerable power, often extending beyond a singl... Lees meer