Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Sociology - General

Developing and transition economies face myriad challenges in their attempts to achieve and maintain political stability and foster the economic growth essential for national security, the social well-being of current citizens and sustainable environments for future generations. Governments in the Western Balkans have striven to achieve all of the above, and this volume assesses the nature of their experiences as well as the level of their success in doing so. Featuring detailed case studies of public policy reforms in the region as well as comparative analysis on a range of indicators,...

Organized Crime: From the Mob to Transnational Organized Crime, Seventh Edition, provides readers with a clear understanding of organized crime, including its definition and causes, how it is categorized under the law, models to explain its persistence, and the criminal justice response to organized crime, including investigation, prosecution, defense, and sentencing.

This book offers a comprehensive survey, including an extensive history of the Mafia in the United States; a legal analysis of the offenses that underlie organized crimes; specific attention to modern...

"Throughout the book, Spronk develops a nuanced analysis of the ways in which sex and relationships are handled as topics of interest within the various forms of media that circulate in Nairobi... Her] rich ethnographic insights mean that readers interested in sexuality in Africa and in postcolonial...

This volume focuses on social perception, the processing of information about people. This issue has always been central to social psychology, but this book brings together literatures that in large part have been separated by the nature of the social target that is involved. Historically, research on person perception developed quite independently from research involving perceptions of groups. Whereas the former research generally focused on the cognitive processes involved in forming impressions of individuals, research on group perception examined the content of stereotypes and...

In India more than 2/3 people of total population are living very hard life. Their daily income is 20 rupees per day. Good health, education and food is far from them. Young unemployees are suiciding and government has no plan for their future. India has got its freedom only for politicians, contractors and officers. Writer has raised this question the why India is biggest democracy of the world. This book is struggling story of a unemloyee young man. Who fight with evils, but nobody help him, at last he suicide.

A number of philosophers have written about the significance of social equality, and it has also played an...