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Manufacturing Green Gold - Capital, Labor, And Technology In The Lettuce Industry

by Amy E. Barton, Robert J. Thomas e William H. Friedland

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 Originally published in 1981, this book examines the ways in which social groups interact in the making of a common food in American society: iceberg lettuce. The major questions posed by the research, however, extend beyond the features of one agricultural product, as the authors analyse the organization of industrial production.
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Middle Start - An Experiment In The Educational Enrichment Of Young Adolescents

by Frank (Oberlin College, Ohio) Laycock, J. (Oberlin College, Ohio) Milton Yinger, Kiyoshi (University Of Hawaii) Ikeda e Stephen J. (Oberlin College, Ohio) Cutler

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 This 1977 book reports on an experimental program that was designed to discover whether a summer of intensive academic work and recreation on a college campus could significantly improve the educational performance of economically disadvantaged thirteen-year-old children.
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Theory Of Societal Constitutionalism - Foundations Of A Non-Marxist Critical Theory

by David (Texas A & M University) Sciulli

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 Sciulli argues that the existing conceptual frameworks of political and social theory restrict both theorists and empirical researchers to a narrow definition of authoritarianism. This 1992 book will be important reading for theorists in sociology, political science and legal studies.
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Continuity And Change - A Study Of Two Ethnic Communities In Israel

by Rita James Simon

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 In this detailed 1978 study, Professor Rita J. Simon examines two significant ethnic communities in Israel: one of ultra-Orthodox Jews, and the other of Israeli Arabs. The author argues that despite obvious cultural differences the two communities are akin in their separateness from the mainstream of Israeli society.
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Protest And Participation - The New Working Class In Italy

by John R. (Yale University, Connecticut) Low-Beer

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 This 1978 study examines the new working class of white collar professionals that has emerged in advanced in industrial societies and considers its role in the political process. It examines a sample group of Italian technicians and the significance of the new working class for the future of politics and industrial conflict.
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Undocumented Mexicans In The Usa

by David M. Heer

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 When this volume was published in 1990, undocumented Mexican immigrants had become an important component of the US population. The author analyzes the results of a unique survey conducted in Los Angeles County, where an estimated 44 percent of the undocumented Mexican population lived.
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Education, Employment, And Migration - Israel In Comparative Perspective

by Paul Ritterband

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 This 1978 study of the international migration of high-level manpower, popularly referred to as the 'brain drain', is based on data collected during the 1960s and 1970s and analyzes the educational system of Israel as well as two other sample countries, It also considers the relationship between education and occupational success.
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Charisma And Control In Rajneeshpuram - A Community Without Shared Values

by Lewis F. Carter

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 This book is a narrative account of the progressive regimentation of the Rajneeshpuram commune and the escalating hostilities between it and the surrounding communities in Oregon that led to eventual dismantlement. This study offers insights into the importance of shared values for regulating group processes and for negotiating relationships with other groups.
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Paradoxical Harvest - Energy And Explanation In British History, 1870â€“1914

by Richard N. Adams

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 This book is a study of the relationship between the use of energy in society and the general pattern of development in Great Britain during the 1870â€"1914 era. Professor Adams argues that Britain's apparent 'decline' in this period was not in fact a decline but a levelling off in capacity to do work, a result of the country's collective decision to invest more heavily abroad than at home.
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Opening And Closing

by Klapp

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 In this original application of information theory to social analysis, Orrin Klapp examines how and why societies are producing more stress than they ever can handle. He argues that the reduction of 'social noise', the chaos from which we try to construct meaning is a major goal of individuals and groups alike.
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Cities With Little Crime - The Case Of Switzerland

by Marshall B. Clinard

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 In this comparative study, Professor Clinard challenges the often noted correlation between high rates of crime and high levels of urbanization and industrialization by examining the case of Switzerland. Professor Clinard's policy recommendations are valuable for all nations, both developed and developing, that are concerned with crime control.
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Understanding Events - Affect And The Construction Of Social Action

by David R. Heise

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 Human behaviour, Heise argues, normally promotes the maintenance of a steady emotional state. Should events produce undue strain, the individual attempts to anticipate subsequent developments, formulate a course of action and create new events designed to confirm his established sentiments. This book lays the foundation for this approach to interpreting events
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Tasks And Social Relationships In Classrooms - A Study Of Instructional Organisation And Its Consequences

by Steven T. Bossert

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 When the author explores the implications of classroom organisation for group relations, the importance of the structure of resources, roles, expectations, values and verbal exchanges in the school environment fades in relation to that of the structure of tasks, task evaluation systems and supervision.
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Juvenile Delinquency And Its Origins - An Integrated Theoretical Approach

by Richard E. Johnson

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 First published in 1979, this book examines past thought and research about the social and psychological causes of juvenile delinquency in Western society. In his search for a better understanding of delinquency, the author shows the usefulness of examining the impact of all the variables at once and finds that the major theories of delinquency complement rather than contradict one another.
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Sociological Explanation As Translation

by Stephen P. (University Of South Florida) Turner

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 First published in 1980, this book examines the nature of sociological explanation. In providing an account of the problem of interpretive sociological claims, the author argues that there is rationality to interpretation. He also presents a fresh view of the relationship between qualitative and statistical claims and shows their complementary character.
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Sociology, Ethnomethodology And Experience - A Phenomenological Critique

by Mary F. Rogers

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 In this volume, Professor Rogers examines the usefulness of a phenomenological approach to sociology.
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Situations And Strategies In American Land-Use Planning

by Thomas K. Rudel

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 Thomas Rudel's book will be invaluable to all those involved in planning as well as being of interest to environmental and rural sociologists, geographers and political scientists concerned with local government.
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The Cooperative Workplace - Potentials And Dilemmas Of Organisational Democracy And Participation

by J. Allen Whitt e Joyce Rothschild

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 Over the last several years worker cooperatives of many kinds have sprung up all around the world. As a result, industrial relations in the workplace have changed dramatically as workers have come to own and run their own enterprises. This book provides evidence on how these new enterprises are functioning today.
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The Methodology Of Herbert Blumer

by Jr, Kenneth Baugh

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 The Methodology of Herbert Blumer is a comprehensive critical account of the contributions of this important American sociologist to the methodology of social research. In a close reading of Blumer's texts, the author charts the development of Blumer's thinking, revealing a tension between a reductive empiricism and an emphasis on the importance of theory in social research.
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Different Worlds - A Sociological Study Of Taste, Choice And Success In Art

by Liah (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Greenfeld

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 Using a wealth of data collected in Israel, this study depicts a complete system in which art is created and evaluated - the scale of Israeli society allowing for a comprehensive and detailed description of all the agents involved in the production and consumption of modern art.
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Religion And Fertility - Arab Christian-Muslim Differentials

by Joseph Chamie

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 This work is a critical investigation into the relationship between religious affiliation, on the one hand, and fertility, family size preferences and family planning behaviour, on the other. Dr. Chamie works from a set of unique data: the 1971 Fertility and Family Planning Survey in Lebanon.
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Society And Identity - Toward A Sociological Psychology

by Andrew J. (University Of Notre Dame, Indiana) Weigert, Dennis W. Teitge e J. Smith Teitge

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 This book examines sociological perspectives on identity, illuminating the perennial problem of defining the human person, and posing an alternative definition of identity.
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Pathways In The Workplace - The Effects Of Gender And Race On Access To Organizational Resources

by Jon (University Of Southern California) Miller

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 In this book, John Miller shows that negotiating for workplace rewards is actually far more complicated than rationalistic theories of the workplace and the claims typically made by organizations suggest, and he demonstrates that access to networks of organizational communication is in fact fundamentally influenced by race and gender.
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We Shall Live Again - The 1870 And 1890 Ghost Dance Movements As Demographic Revitalization

by Russell Thornton

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 This study of the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements among North American Indians offers an innovative theory about why these movements arose when they did. Professor Thornton argues that the Ghost Dances were deliberate efforts to accomplish a demographic revitalization of American Indians following their virtual collapse.
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