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Soft Patriarchs, New Men - How Christianity Shapes Fathers And Husbands

by W. Bradford Wilcox

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 Wilcox looks at both mainline and evangelical Protestant teachings since the 1950s and argues that there are perceivable differences between the attitudes of fathers and husbands, according to which sect they follow.
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Citizen Speak - The Democratic Imagination In American Life

by Andrew J. Perrin

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 When we think about what constitutes being a good citizen, routine activities like voting, letter-writing, and paying attention to the news spring to mind. This title argues that these activities play only a small part in democratic citizenship - a form of citizenship that requires creative thinking, talking, and acting.
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God And Government In The Ghetto - The Politics Of Church-State Collaboration In Black America

by Michael Leo Owens

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 As government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods' poorest residents. This title demonstrates that this alliance serves as a means for black clergy to reaffirm their political leadership in black civil society.
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Citizen Speak - The Democratic Imagination In American Life

by Andrew J. Perrin

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 When we think about what constitutes being a good citizen, routine activities like voting, letter writing, and paying attention to the news spring to mind. But in Citizen Speak, Andrew J. Perrin argues that these activities are only a small part of democratic citizenship-a standard of citizenship that requires creative thinking, talking, and acting. For Citizen Speak, Perrin met with labor, church, business, and sports organizations and proposed to them four fictive scenarios: what if your senator is involved in a scandal, or your police department is engaged in racial profiling, or a local factory violates pollution laws, or your nearby airport is slated for expansion? The conversations these challenges inspire, Perrin shows, require imagination. And what people can imagine doing in response to those scenarios depends on what's possible, what's important, what's right, and what's feasible. By talking with one another, an engaged citizenry draws from a repertoire of personal and institutional resources to understand and reimagine responses to situations as they arise. Building on such political discussions, Citizen Speak shows how a rich culture of association and democratic discourse provides the infrastructure for a healthy democracy.
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Catholic Social Imagination - Activism And The Just Society In Mexico And The United States

by Joseph M. Palacios

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 Aims to give readers a feeling for what it means to be Catholic and put one's faith into action. Tracing the practices of a group of parishioners in Oakland, California, and another in Guadalajara, this work reveals parallels - and contrasts - in the ways these ordinary Catholics receive and act on a church doctrine that emphasizes social justice.
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God And Government In The Ghetto - The Politics Of Church-State Collaboration In Black America

by Michael Leo Owens

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 As government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods' poorest residents. This title demonstrates that this alliance serves as a means for black clergy to reaffirm their political leadership in black civil society.
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Making Of Pro-Life Activists - How Social Movement Mobilization Works

by Ziad W. Munson

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 How do people become activists for causes they care deeply about? Many people with similar backgrounds, for instance, fervently believe that abortion should be illegal, but only some of them join the pro-life movement. Delving into the lives and beliefs of activists and nonactivists alike, this book examines the differences between them.
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Cultural Dilemmas Of Progressive Politics - Styles Of Engagement Among Grassroots Activists

by Stephen M. Hart

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 Despite there having been no significant move to the right in recent years in public political opinion, conservatives have fared much better than progressives. This text explores the reasons for this pattern through examination of case studies of grassroots movements.
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Lesser Harms - The Morality Of Risk In Medical Research

by Sydney A. Halpern

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 Research physicians face intractable dilemmas when they consider introducing new medical procedures. Innovations carry the promise of preventing or curing life-threatening diseases, but they can also lead to injury or even death. How have clinical scientists made high-stakes decisions about undertaking human tests of new medical treatments? In Lesser Harms, Sydney Halpern explores this issue as she examines vaccine trials in America during the early and mid-twentieth century. Today's scientists follow federal guidelines for research on human subjects developed during the 1960s and 1970s. But long before these government regulations, medical investigators observed informal rules when conducting human research. They insisted that the dangers of natural disease should outweigh the risks of a medical intervention, and they struggled to accurately assess the relative hazards. Halpern explores this logic of risk in immunization controversies extending as far back as the eighteenth century. Then, focusing on the period between 1930 and 1960, she shows how research physicians and their sponsors debated the moral quandaries involved in moving vaccine use from the laboratory to the clinic. This probing work vividly describes the efforts of clinical investigators to balance the benefits and dangers of untested vaccines, to respond to popular sentiment about medical hazards, and to strategically present risk laden research to sponsors and the public. "Concise and extremely well-written. . . . A fascinating synthesis of sociology, history, and institutional theory."-Samuel C. Blackman, Journal of the American Medical Association
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Laughing Saints And Righteous Heroes - Emotional Rhythms In Social Movement Groups

by Erika Summers Effler

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 Why do people keep fighting for social causes in the face of consistent failure? Why do they risk their physical, emotional, and financial safety on behalf of strangers? How do these groups survive high turnover and emotional burnout? This title provides answers to these questions.
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First Year Out - Understanding American Teens After High School

by Tim Clydesdale

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 Wild parties, late nights, and lots of sex, drugs, and alcohol. Many assume these are the things that define an American teenager's first year after high school. But the reality is really quite different. As Tim Clydesdale reports in The First Year Out, teenagers generally manage the increased responsibilities of everyday life immediately after graduation effectively. But, like many good things, this comes at a cost. Tracking the daily lives of fifty young people making the transition to life after high school, Clydesdale reveals how teens settle into manageable patterns of substance use and sexual activity; how they meet the requirements of postsecondary education; and how they cope with new financial expectations. Most of them, we learn, handle the changes well because they make a priority of everyday life. But Clydesdale finds that teens also stow away their identities-religious, racial, political, or otherwise-during this period in exchange for acceptance into mainstream culture. This results in the absence of a long-range purpose for their lives and imposes limits on their desire to understand national politics and global issues, sometimes even affecting the ability to reconstruct their lives when tragedies occur. The First Year Out is an invaluable resource for anyone caught up in the storm and stress of working with these young adults.
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Heaven'S Kitchen - Living Religion At God''S Love We Deliver

by Courtney Bender

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 How do people practice religion in their everyday lives? Courtney Bender spent more than a year working as a volunteer for a non-profit organisation called God's Love We Deliver, helping to prepare food for people with AIDs, this volume tells the story of that time.
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Rationality And Power - Democracy In Practice

by Bent Flyvbjerg

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 In the Enlightenment tradition, rationality is considered well-defined. However, the author of this study argues that rationality is context-dependent, and that the crucial context is determined by decision-makers' political power. He uses a real-world Danish project to illustrate this theory.
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Money, Morals, And Manners - The Culture Of The French And The American Upper-Middle Class

by Michele Lamont

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The Accidental Species - Misunderstandings Of Human Evolution

by Henry Gee

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 Presents a robust and stark challenge to our tendency to see ourselves as the acme of creation. Human exceptionalism, this book argues, is an error that can infect scientific thought. It aims to overturn popular thinking on human evolution - the key is not what's missing, but how we're linked.
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Faith In Action - Religion, Race, And Democratic Organizing In America

by Richard L. Wood

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 Richard L. Wood spent several years working with two local groups in Oakland, California, one faith-based, the other race-based. Comparing their activist techniques and acheivements, Wood argues that their alternative cultures offer a more democratic future for all Americans.
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Speaking Of Abortion - Television And Authority In The Lives Of Women

by Andrea L. (University Of Virginia, Usa) Press e Elizabeth R. Cole

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 A study of how women's views of television and the media relate to their personal stance on abortion. Over four years, the authors watched television with women, visiting city houses, suburban subdivisions, modern condominiums, and public housing projects. Here are the results of that research.
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The Ironies Of Affirmative Action - Politics, Culture, And Justice In America

by John David Skrentny

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 Analyzing both the resistance from the Right and the support from the Left, this study brings to light the moral culture that has shaped the affirmative action debate, allowing for starkly different policies for different citizens.
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The Catholic Social Imagination - Activism And The Just Society In Mexico And The United States

by Joseph M. Palacios

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 Aims to give readers a feeling for what it means to be Catholic and put one's faith into action. Tracing the practices of a group of parishioners in Oakland, California, and another in Guadalajara, this work reveals parallels - and contrasts - in the ways these ordinary Catholics receive and act on a church doctrine that emphasizes social justice.
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Money, Morals, And Manners - The Culture Of The French And The American Upper-Middle Class

by Michele Lamont

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For The Sake Of The Children - The Social Organization Of Responsibility In The Hospital And The Home

by Carol A. Heimer e Lisa R. Staffen

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 Examines the organization of social responsibility in the USA, in particular of critically ill newborn children. Drawing on medical records and interviews with parents and medical staff, the book investigates two neonatal intensive care units, showing the traumas of extreme medical measures.
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Lesser Harms - The Morality Of Risk In Medical Research

by Sydney A. Halpern

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Healing Powers - Alternative Medicine, Spiritual Communities, And The State

by Fred M. Frohock

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 Focusing on medical norms and practices and on competing philosophies of the mind, the body, reality, and rationality across radically different "belief systems", Fred Frohock clarifies the social and legal dilemmas represented by "scientific medicine" and "alternative care."
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Dilemmas Of Culture In African Schools - Youth, Nationalism, And The Transformation Of Knowledge

by Cati Coe

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 In working to build a sense of nationhood, Ghana has focused on many social engineering projects, the most meaningful and fascinating of which has been the state's effort to create a national culture through its schools.
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