Sociology: Windows on Society: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780195330526 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The seventh edition of Lauer and Lauer's best-selling anthology Sociology: Windows On Society has been significantly updated with fifteen new selections. The book continues to draw on both contemporary sources and the classical literature of sociology to explore the nature of social life, with an emphasis on issues of gender, race/ethnicity, and inequality.
The editors have chosen articles that challenge preconceived notions and conventional wisdom while also demonstrating the distinctive power of the sociological viewpoint. The units are divided into parts to show how the... The seventh edition of Lauer and Lauer's best-selling anthology Sociology: Windows On Society has been significantly updated with fifteen new...
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The Transformation of Work in the New Economy: Sociological Readings
ISBN: 9780195330816 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Transformation of the New Economy, editors Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C. Perrucci critically examine existing conditions in the workplace and discuss the political and economic forces that have shaped them. The book explores established practices governing how products are produced, how work is organized, and who comprises the labor force. Perrucci and Perrucci examine computerized production technology, global production chains, and the international division of labor as products of political struggles between corporations, workers, and the government. The outcomes of...
In The Transformation of the New Economy, editors Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C. Perrucci critically examine existing conditions in the workp...
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1093,74 zł |
Ireland North and South: Perspectives from Social Science
ISBN: 9780197261958 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this first-ever systematic study of the social, economic, and political development of the two Irelands since partition, a distinguished group of scholars have worked together to provide answers that are essential for any understanding of current political events. Some important areas of convergence are demonstrated, especially in fertility, but in other respects the two Irelands remain distinct.
In this first-ever systematic study of the social, economic, and political development of the two Irelands since partition, a distinguished group of s...
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204,69 zł |
Understanding Social Change
ISBN: 9780197263143 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These essays not only describe the major changes in British society in recent years, but seek to understand and explain what is happening. They consider the wide variety of mechanisms that underlie these changes, in particular processes of social interaction. The ill-understood nature of these mechanisms may be a major reason why so much social reform has proved ineffective. By highlighting the complexities of the causal mechanisms, sociological research can make a major contribution to policy and public debate. While these papers do not claim that sociology will provide all the answers, they...
These essays not only describe the major changes in British society in recent years, but seek to understand and explain what is happening. They consid...
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394,13 zł |
International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories: Volume IV: Gender and Memory
ISBN: 9780198202516 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gender and Memory, the fourth volume of the International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, explores the issue of the shaping of memory by gender. Are the different ways in which men and women are recalled in public and private memory, and also the differences in men's and women's own memories of similar experiences, simply reflections of unequal lives in gendered societies, or are they more deeply rooted? The Editors draw on original contributions reflecting on the relationships between gender and memory in western and eastern Europe, China, Africa, Australia, the United States and...
Gender and Memory, the fourth volume of the International Yearbook of Oral History and Life Stories, explores the issue of the shaping of memory by ge...
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287,48 zł |
Medical Care and the General Practitioner 1750-1850
ISBN: 9780198227939 / Angielski / Twarda / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unlike most histories of the medical profession between 1750 and 1850, which focus on a small handful of famous doctors and their discoveries, this book concentrates on the neglected but far larger group of rank and file practitioners: the surgeon-apothecaries of the late 18th century and the general practitioners of the early 19th century. Delving into an array of manuscript sources, Loudon examines their social and economic status, their background and training, their scientific methods and medical challenges, and their patients and pay-scales. He demonstrates that they actually faced...
Unlike most histories of the medical profession between 1750 and 1850, which focus on a small handful of famous doctors and their discoveries, this bo...
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1000,11 zł |
Children of the Japanese State: The Changing Role of Child Protection Institutions in Contemporary Japan
ISBN: 9780198234227 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Japan today, over 30,000 children are in the care of the state. Drawing on his long-term fieldwork in an institution for such children, Roger Goodman describes what happens to them in a country with no professional social workers and little tradition of adopting or fostering children in need of care. He explains how, in the 1990s, the convergence of several factors--in particular, Japan's rapidly declining birth-rate, its signing of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and its "discovery" of child abuse--led to a new role for child protection institutions. In the...
In Japan today, over 30,000 children are in the care of the state. Drawing on his long-term fieldwork in an institution for such children, Roger Goodm...
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369,89 zł |
Social Closure: The Theory of Monopolization and Exclusion
ISBN: 9780198272687 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Max Weber's concept of social closure states that a dominant group safeguards its position and privileges by monopolizing resources and opportunities for its own group while denying access to outsiders. Using this idea, Murphy here examines the reasons for social inequality in contemporary society. Using Quebec as a case study, He shows how language controls social actions and material interests, and then compares the situation in Canada with those in Northern Ireland and South Africa, where religion and race respectively are used as criteria for exclusion.
Max Weber's concept of social closure states that a dominant group safeguards its position and privileges by monopolizing resources and opportunities ...
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Liberalism, Community, and Culture
ISBN: 9780198275992 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Liberalism is often described as a theory about the proper relationship between the individual and the state. But liberalism also contains a broader account of the relationship between the individual and society. Kymlicka here presents the liberal view about the nature and value of community culture in an unusually explicit and systematic way, and links it to more familiar liberal views on individual rights and state neutrality.
Liberalism is often described as a theory about the proper relationship between the individual and the state. But liberalism also contains a broader a...
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539,56 zł |
Pluralism, Justice, and Equality
ISBN: 9780198280088 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this book by a group of leading political theorists assess and develop the central ideas of Michael Walzer's path-breaking Spheres of Justice. Is social justice a radically plural notion, with its principles determined by the different social goods that men and women allocate to one another? Is it possible to prevent the unequal distribution of money and power from distorting the allocation of other goods? Are there universal principles of justice which apply regardless of context? These and other related questions are pursued in depth by the contributors.
The essays in this book by a group of leading political theorists assess and develop the central ideas of Michael Walzer's path-breaking Spheres of Ju...
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272,94 zł |
Changing Times: Work and Leisure in Postindustrial Society
ISBN: 9780198287872 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If we can measure how the members of a society spend their time, we have the elements of a certain sort of account of how that society works. This is what Jonathan Gershuny provides in Changing Times, using 120,000 survey-diary accounts of daily life in twenty countries from the 1960s on to construct an account of how time-use patterns have changed in the developed world over the last third of a century and to relate these changes to economic development. His analysis of the data and of existing theoretical approaches highlights, and goes some way to addressing, problems in the standard...
If we can measure how the members of a society spend their time, we have the elements of a certain sort of account of how that society works. This is ...
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263,24 zł |
Resources and Population: Natural, Institutional, and Demographic Dimensions of Development
ISBN: 9780198289180 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the world's population has increased threefold. The "demographic revolution" has not only changed the size of the population; it is radically transforming its age structure and its spatial distribution, with attendant problems and contradictions. Despite measurable advances in human welfare, such as increased longevity, more than one billion people--about a third of the total Third World population--live in poverty. Sharply diverging rates of population growth have been accompanied by increasing disparities in income and quality of life across...
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the world's population has increased threefold. The "demographic revolution" has not only changed the si...
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Women's Education, Autonomy, and Reproductive Behaviour: Experience from Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780198290339 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women's access to education has been recognized as a fundamental right. At the national level, educating women results in improved productivity, income, and economic development, as well as a better quality of life, notably a healthier and better nourished population. It is important for all kinds of demographic behavior, affecting mortality, health, fertility, and contraception, The personal benefits that women attach to education vary widely according to region, culture, and level of development, but it is clear that education empowers women, providing them with increased autonomy and...
Women's access to education has been recognized as a fundamental right. At the national level, educating women results in improved productivity, incom...
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Research Strategies in the Social Sciences: A Guide to New Approaches
ISBN: 9780198292371 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this single, accessible volume, a team of international experts set s out a range of analytic tools available to social scientists from th e cutting edge of social science methodology. In contrast to much exis ting literature, which is often of daunting complexity, this volume pr esents social scientists with some experience with a guide through the maze of advanced techniques applicable across the range of the social sciences.
In this single, accessible volume, a team of international experts set s out a range of analytic tools available to social scientists from th e cuttin...
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486,23 zł |
Against the Odds?
ISBN: 9780198292395 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the relation between social class and social justice? This is currently a matter of public as well as academic interest. In this compelling new study the authors bring together recent developments in normative thinking about social justice with new empirical findings about educational attainment and social mobility. The result is a path-breaking contribution to the study of class and justice, one that will be of interest to sociologists and political theorists for years to come.
What is the relation between social class and social justice? This is currently a matter of public as well as academic interest. In this compelling ne...
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Against the Odds?: Social Class and Social Justice in Industrial Societies
ISBN: 9780198292401 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the relation between social class and social justice? This is currently a matter of public as well as academic interest. In this compelling new study the authors bring together recent developments in normative thinking about social justice with new empirical findings about educational attainment and social mobility. The result is a path-breaking contribution to the study of class and justice, one that will be of interest to sociologists and political theorists for years to come.
What is the relation between social class and social justice? This is currently a matter of public as well as academic interest. In this compelling ne...
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Restructuring the Employment Relationship
ISBN: 9780198293903 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new study presents the first large-scale empirical analysis of the changes in British work experiences and employment relationships between the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing evidence from the Employment in Britain survey, it demonstrates that, despite a marked trend towards upskilling, the restructuring of the employment relationship has actually reinforced traditional lines of division in the workplace.
This new study presents the first large-scale empirical analysis of the changes in British work experiences and employment relationships between the 1...
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287,48 zł |
The Problems of Communitarian Politics: Unity and Conflict
ISBN: 9780198295631 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book offers a detailed critical analysis of the ideal of 'community' in politics. The book traces elements of the idea of community in a number of social and philosophical contests over the last century, explaining how these are articulated in very recent political and public policy debates. 'Community' is invoked as a justification for re-organisation of state institutions as the source of care, and support for individuals, and as an entity which is valuable in its own right, and needs itself to be sustained and defended.
In community development, community action, community care,... The book offers a detailed critical analysis of the ideal of 'community' in politics. The book traces elements of the idea of community in a number of...
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384,44 zł |
Multicultural Questions
ISBN: 9780198296102 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume assembles leading scholars to debate multiculturalism in theory and practice. It discusses the following questions: Is universalism ethnocentric?; Does multiculturalism threaten citizenship?; Do minorities require group rights?; and What can Europe learn from North America? The book aims to answer these questions by moving the debate about multicultural questions into a more consensual mode.
This volume assembles leading scholars to debate multiculturalism in theory and practice. It discusses the following questions: Is universalism ethnoc...
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563,81 zł |
The Empowered Self: Law and Society in an Age of Individualism
ISBN: 9780198298410 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the gradual emancipation of the individual in national and international law and the changing social attitudes towards personal choice in constituting identity. It demonstrates that this desire of persons for choice is not limited to Western industrial society but a historical development powered by such independent variables as urbanization, the communications revolution, education, and economic development.
This book examines the gradual emancipation of the individual in national and international law and the changing social attitudes towards personal cho...
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258,38 zł |