Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Experts from five continents provide a thorough exploration of cultural studies, looking at different ideas, places and problems addressed by the field.
Author: Held, David Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Globalizing World? offers a clear and intelligible guide to one of the key debates of our time, introducing the theoretical positions to examine globalization in practice, from the films we watch to...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The second edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health provides a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health. Chapters by leading scholars and researchers present an overview of h...
Author: Turmel, AndrČ Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What constitutes a 'normal' child? Throughout the nineteenth century public health and paediatrics played a leading role in the image and conception of children. By the twentieth century psychology ha...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Current debate over the motives, ideological justifications, and outcomes of the war with Iraq have been strident and polarizing. A Matter of Principle is the first volume gathering critical voices fr...
Author: Manicas, Peter T. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This introduction to the philosophy of social science provides an original conception of the task and nature of social inquiry. Peter Manicas discusses the role of causality seen in the physical scien...
Author: Medina, Luis Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The notion that groups form and act in ways that respond to objective, external costs and benefits has long been the key to accounting for social change processes driven by collective action. Yet this...
Author: Bradshaw, Jonathan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Discusses the social implications of absentee fathers. Provides a text for undergraduates in social policy and should also be important for professionals concerned with family breakdown and child supp...
Author: Jacobs-Kronenfeld, J. Publisher: JAI Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Traditionally in health services research, cost, quality and access to care have been viewed as the three major issues of health care delivery and have been important in the development of health serv...
Author: Witkin, Robert W. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Unpacks Adorno's critique of popular culture in an engagingly, looking at the development of theories of authority, commodification and negative dialectics. Goes on to consider Adorno's writing on spe...
Author: Rutherford, Prof. Markella B. Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and children. Using popular parenting advice literature ...
Author: Welch, Susan / Gruhl, John Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Affirmative action is one of the central issues of American politics today, and admission to colleges and universities has been at the center of the debate. While this issue has been discussed for yea...
Author: Goodwin, Stefan Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The ability to function safely, healthily, and productively in urban places is a continuing challenge for people everywhere. This challenge is exacerbated when the resources available to people in urb...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from hist...
Author: N/A Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. hav...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Edited and with an introductory chapter by sociologist Elijah Anderson, the essays in Against the Wall describe how young black men have come to be identified publicly with crime and violence....
Author: O'Donnell, Mike Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Age and Generation introduces students to the main sociological and anthropological issues surrounding this topic, from childhood to old age, and focuses, in particular, on youth culture.
Description: This book examines alienation from both a sociological and psychoanalytic perspective, revisiting classic treatments of the topic (Marx, Simmel, Weber) and exploring its relevance to understanding pos...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines alienation from both a sociological and psychoanalytic perspective, revisiting classic treatments of the topic (Marx, Simmel, Weber) and exploring its relevance to understanding pos...
Author: Salvati, Armida Publisher: Universal Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book discusses altruism as a sociological category similar to the concept of social capital. The author explains why pro-social action is the basis for social capital, and analyzes sociological l...
Author: Wuthnow, Robert Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: America was built on stories: tales of grateful immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, Horatio Alger-style transformations, self-made men, and the Protestant work ethic. In this new book, renowned socio...
Author: Myers, David G. Publisher: Yale University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Well-known social psychologist David G. Myers addresses why Americans can have so many social problems--reflecting a deep spiritual poverty--at a time when material wealth is at record levels. 32 illu...
Author: Larson, Eric V. / Savych, Bogdan Publisher: Rand Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The support of the American public is widely held to be a critical prerequisite for undertaking military action abroad. This monograph describes American public opinion toward wars and other large mil...
Author: Veitch, Jonathan Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Nathanael West has been hailed as “an apocalyptic writer,” “a writer on the left,” and “a precursor to postmodernism.” But until now no critic has succeeded in fully engaging West’s dis...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Michael Mann is one of the most influential sociologists of recent decades. His work has had a major impact in sociology, history, political science, international relations and other social science d...
Author: Sugimoto, Yoshio Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Essential reading for students of Japanese society, An Introduction to Japanese Society now enters its third edition. Here, internationally renowned scholar, Yoshio Sugimoto, writes a sophisticated, y...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mechanisms are very much a part of social life. For example, we can see that inequality has tended to increase over time, and that cities can become segregated. But how do such mechanisms work? Analyt...
Author: Craib, Ian Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Giddens phenomenon has been one of the most obvious and talked about features of world sociology since the late 1960's. This book, first published in 1992, provides a prudent and essential critica...
Author: Gosden, Chris Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume provides a valuable introduction to the theories and methods of anthropology and archaeology. It covers the historical relationship and contemporary interests of the two inter-related subj...
Author: Sorek,Tamir Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Over the last two decades soccer has become a major institution within the popular culture of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel. They have attained disproportionate success in this field. Given ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Asian American Youth" is the first collection to address a wide number of important topics about Asian American youth as a distinctive group. The Asian-origin population constitutes the fastest growi...
Description: This book explores how migration plays a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the rapidly changing cities of Asia. The contributors examine the roles and effects of ...
Author: Levine, David Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Looking at a neglected period in the social history of modernization, David Levine investigates the centuries that followed the year 1000, when a new kind of society emerged in Europe. New commercial ...
Author: Parker, K. Langloh Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A neighbour of mine exclaimed, when I mentioned that I proposed making a small collection of the folk-lore legends of the tribe of blacks I knew so well living on this station, But have the blacks any...
Author: Russell, Bertrand Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The first of his famous BBC Reith lectures in which Russell examines Ancient Greek philosophy, the French Revolution and the modern welfare state with characteristic clarity and deep understanding. Th...
Author: Murray, Stuart Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Autism is the first book on the condition that seeks to combine medical, historical and cultural approaches to an understanding of the condition. Its purpose is to present a rounded portrayal of the w...
Author: Murray, Stuart Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Autism is the first book on the condition that seeks to combine medical, historical and cultural approaches to an understanding of the condition. Its purpose is to present a rounded portrayal of the w...
Author: M., M. Tight Publisher: JAI Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines how and why autonomy matters in contemporary social science research. It considers how autonomy impacts upon the individual researcher, the cultures and values of the university, an...
Author: Brown, Dona Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For many, “going back to the land” brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s—hippie communes and the Summer of Love, The Whole Earth Catalog and Mother Earth News. More recently, the moveme...
Author: Reese, Ellen Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Backlash against Welfare Mothers is a forceful examination of how and why a state-level revolt against welfare, begun in the late 1940s, was transformed into a national-level assault that destroyed a ...
Author: Dikec, Mustafa Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The relationship between space and politics is explored through a study of French urban policy. Drawing upon the political thought of Jacques Rancière, this book proposes a new agenda for analyse...
Description: This book brings together life stories from five generations of Balts, living through the diverse and recurring transformations of the twentieth century: occupations, war, independence, totalitar...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book brings together life stories from five generations of Balts, living through the diverse and recurring transformations of the twentieth century: occupations, war, independence, totalitar...
Author: Dávila, Arlene Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Arlene Dávila brilliantly considers the cultural politics of urban space in this lively exploration of Puerto Rican and Latino experience in New York, the global center of culture and consumption, wh...
Author: Jackman, Robert W. / Miller, Ross Alan Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The potato famines of the nineteenth century were long attributed to Irish indolence. The Stalinist system was blamed on a Russian proclivity for autocracy. Muslim men have been accused of an inclinat...
