Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan is about the organization of refugee relief programs. It describes the practical, political, and moral assumptions of the international refugee relief regime. Tony Waters emphasizes that the agencies delivering humanitarian relief are embedded in rationalized bureaucracies whose values are determined by their institutional frameworks. The demand for victims is observed in the close relation between the interests of the popular press and the decisions made by bureaucracies.This presents a paradox in all humanitarian relief organizations, but perhaps no...
Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan is about the organization of refugee relief programs. It describes the practical, political, and moral assum...
This book is about how the modern market world transformed the lives of remote agricultural farmers. Waters uses diverse examples to illustrate how the modern market economy captured persistent subsistence farmes in 18th century Scotland, 19th century United States, 20th century Tanzania, and indeed, the entire modern world.
This book is about how the modern market world transformed the lives of remote agricultural farmers. Waters uses diverse examples to illustrate how th...
Schooling, Childhood, and Bureaucracy uses sociological explanations to describe how the school system in the United States developed, and why reform is a constant. The American public school system is elemental to the reproduction of society's ideals. Such ideals in turn affect how relationships between teachers, parents, children, schools, and the state develop. Most notably, this results in chronic demands for reform when the high ideals for individual children in terms of "school success," defined as test scores, student behavior, equity, and so forth, are inevitably never quite achieved....
Schooling, Childhood, and Bureaucracy uses sociological explanations to describe how the school system in the United States developed, and why reform ...
Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society rediscovers Max Weber for the twenty-first century. Tony and Dagmar Waters' translation of Weber's works highlights his contributions to the social sciences and politics, credited with highlighting concepts such as "iron cage," "bureaucracy," "bureaucratization," "rationalization," "charisma," and the role of the "work ethic" in ordering modern labor markets. Outlining the relationship between community (Gemeinschaft), and market society (Gesellschaft), the issues of social stratification, power, politics, and modernity resonate just as loudly today as...
Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society rediscovers Max Weber for the twenty-first century. Tony and Dagmar Waters' translation of Weber's works highli...
Gubby, a little boy with special needs, lives in the rural low country of the Carolinas. Interaction with his family and schoolmates is a challenge, yet when left alone, he contentedly roams the fields near his home, happy in his own world. Unexpectedly, the arrival of a stranger stirs a yearning for something beyond his solitude. Join him in this journey with his beloved pup, Skeetuh, and imaginary friend, Pinky, as they help reveal his surprising gift. Gubbys determination to develop his special gift can inspire readers with joy and the courage to follow their own dreams.
Gubby, a little boy with special needs, lives in the rural low country of the Carolinas. Interaction with his family and schoolmates is a challen...
Pat van Zyl is a blacksmith/gunsmith and shottist whose trophies fill a mantlepiece back in his home in Ladysmith Natal. It is on the riverboat, Kimberley on the first leg of his journey up the Pungwe River to Umtali on the eastern border of Mashonaland that he meets two others. Brian Wood-Gush, whose family of Bristol accountants are happy to pay him to be somewhere else. Colin Grieve is a reporter/photographer with The Times of London sent out to write a feature story on Mashonaland. The three decide to join forces in their search for opportunities in this savage new land. On arrival at...
Pat van Zyl is a blacksmith/gunsmith and shottist whose trophies fill a mantlepiece back in his home in Ladysmith Natal. It is on the riverboat, Kimbe...
In exploring the relationship between bureaucratic schooling and the individual child, Waters describes the persistence of educational inequality, child development, and the nature of bureaucracy. The conclusions point out how education bureaucracies frame both schooling and childhood as they relentlessly seek to create ever more perfect children.
In exploring the relationship between bureaucratic schooling and the individual child, Waters describes the persistence of educational inequality, chi...
Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society rediscovers Max Weber for the twenty-first century. Tony and Dagmar Waters' translation of Weber's works highlights his contributions to the social sciences and politics, credited with highlighting concepts such as "iron cage," "bureaucracy," "bureaucratization," "rationalization," "charisma," and the role of the "work ethic" in ordering modern labor markets. Outlining the relationship between community (Gemeinschaft), and market society (Gesellschaft), the issues of social stratification, power, politics, and modernity resonate just as loudly today as...
Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society rediscovers Max Weber for the twenty-first century. Tony and Dagmar Waters' translation of Weber's works highli...
