Why do individuals and groups hold distinctive theological views? Why do these beliefs change? In what ways do theological interpretations influence concepts of spiritual and political justice? How and why do these concepts of justice affect policy preferences held by religious liberals and conservatives?
Much has recently been written about the relationship between power, conservative politics, and evangelical religious groups, but very little attention has been paid to so-called "progressive" religious groups among Protestants, Catholics, and Jews and their relationship to...
Why do individuals and groups hold distinctive theological views? Why do these beliefs change? In what ways do theological interpretations influenc...
This is the first book to provide sociologists, criminologists, political scientists, and other social scientists with the methodological logic and techniques for doing spatial analysis in their chosen fields of inquiry. The book contains a wealth of examples as to why these techniques are worth doing, over and above conventional statistical techniques using SPSS or other statistical packages. GIS is a methodological and conceptual approach that allows for the linking together of spatial data, or data that is based on a physical space, with non-spatial data,...
This is the first book to provide sociologists, criminologists, political scientists, and other social scientists with the methodological...
Why do individuals and groups hold distinctive theological views? Why do these beliefs change? In what ways do theological interpretations influence concepts of spiritual and political justice? How and why do these concepts of justice affect policy preferences held by religious liberals and conservatives?
Much has recently been written about the relationship between power, conservative politics, and evangelical religious groups, but very little attention has been paid to so-called "progressive" religious groups among Protestants, Catholics, and Jews and their relationship to...
Why do individuals and groups hold distinctive theological views? Why do these beliefs change? In what ways do theological interpretations influenc...
Violence Against Women: Vulnerable Populations investigates under-researched and underserved groups of women who are particularly vulnerable to violent victimization from an intimate male partner. In the past, there has been an understandable reluctance to address this issue to avoid stereotyping vulnerable groups of women. However, developments in the field, particularly intersectionality theory, which recognizes women's diversity in experiences of violence, suggest that the time has come to make the study of violence in vulnerable populations a new sub-field in the area. As the first book...
Violence Against Women: Vulnerable Populations investigates under-researched and underserved groups of women who are particularly vulnerable to violen...
Violence Against Women: Vulnerable Populations investigates under-researched and underserved groups of women who are particularly vulnerable to violent victimization from an intimate male partner. In the past, there has been an understandable reluctance to address this issue to avoid stereotyping vulnerable groups of women. However, developments in the field, particularly intersectionality theory, which recognizes women's diversity in experiences of violence, suggest that the time has come to make the study of violence in vulnerable populations a new sub-field in the area.
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Violence Against Women: Vulnerable Populations investigates under-researched and underserved groups of women who are particularly vulnerab...
This book uses a social world--today's undergraduate students' ubiquitous everyday experience of television--as a vehicle for helping awaken students to the true possibilities for learning and their responsibilities inherent in achieving those goals. The book also introduces students to the social construction of reality embedded in the experience of TV. The lead author Barney McGrane is one of the most accomplished and successful teachers of sociology in the United States today and is also the co-author with John Gunderson and the late Inge Bell of the classic book for teaching This Book Is...
This book uses a social world--today's undergraduate students' ubiquitous everyday experience of television--as a vehicle for helping awaken students ...
Written as a book for undergraduate students, Surviving Dictatorship is both a visual sociology and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty and powerlessness in an authoritarian society: Pinochet's Chile. So powerful a shaper of the poor's experience is a dictatorship, that one might add degree of authoritarianism (conceived by Patricia Hill Collins) as an additional dimension to the idea. This book is ideal for courses in social inequalities, poverty, and race, class and gender.
Written as a book for undergraduate students, Surviving Dictatorship is both a visual sociology and a case study that communicates the lived experienc...
A volume of directed reflections by sociological researchers on the motivations for research, the decisions made at crucial points, and the challenges they face in the research process. It is intended to combine the intriguing elements of memoir and the enlightening aspects of a research 'post-mortem'.
A volume of directed reflections by sociological researchers on the motivations for research, the decisions made at crucial points, and the challenges...
Sociology Looks at the Arts is intended as a concise yet nuanced introduction to the sociology of art. This book will provide a foundation for teaching and discussing a range of questions and perspectives used by sociologists who study the relationship between the arts - including music, performing arts, visual arts, literature, film and new media - and society.
Sociology Looks at the Arts is intended as a concise yet nuanced introduction to the sociology of art. This book will provide a foundation for teachin...
Sociology Looks at the Arts is intended as a concise yet nuanced introduction to the sociology of art. This book will provide a foundation for teaching and discussing a range of questions and perspectives used by sociologists who study the relationship between the arts - including music, performing arts, visual arts, literature, film and new media - and society.
Sociology Looks at the Arts is intended as a concise yet nuanced introduction to the sociology of art. This book will provide a foundation...
