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The late and turbulent transition from a largely rural and peasant society to a modern urban state involved the crisis of rooted popular traditions and the emergence of mass cultural forms. As a result, Italy, once the centre of a cultural world, has...

In the wake of the Bradford and Brussels football disasters in 1985, football in England was subjected to detailed scrutiny and criticism. Critics - of all sorts and persuasions - saw in those terrible events, especially the Brussels riot, evidence of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333419380Author Richard ClutterbuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 325g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333418260Author G. PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 251g

Increasingly high unemployment has brought with it a multitude of consequences affecting those without jobs and, beyond them, their families, friends and communities. This book reports findings from original research. It explores, often in the words of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333371589Author Samuel J. StoljarFormat HardbackPage Count 137Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 339g

Previous ed. has sub-title: Illusions and realities.Book InformationISBN 9780333366448Author Leonard SchapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 434g

After thirty years of broadcasting in Britain under a public monopoly, the Television Act of 1954 introduced a controversial new force called Independent Television (ITV) which was a plural structure combining private enterprise and public control. Its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333219157Author J. Maxwell AtkinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 225Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333137727Author Barry HindessFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333127049Author Stuart HoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 140g

A detailed and engaging historical examination that provides an intimate understanding of the daily life of the new immigrants in the United States. In the last decades, a growing number of immigrants from around the world have arrived in the United...

In this unique collection, more than 20 sociologists assembled from across Central and Eastern Europe chronicle the impact political transformation has had upon sociology during the last decade of the 20th century. Contributors investigate the general...

In an effort to shed light on recent developments in sociocybernetic research, this volume represents recent and advanced thinking in this rapidly developing field. The authors address the core problems in social science caused by increasing societal...

Making a Life in Yorkville, based on the verbatim, unedited life-course narrative of an urban, working-class, middle-aged man, expands our understanding of the human life course beyond the currently dominant approaches. It presents a comprehensive and...

The extent to which modern social science continues to reflect the subjective traits of authors and the contexts in which they operate, rather than the objective facts or insights they claim to develop, remains one of the most striking features of social...

In the wake of World War I, a diverse group of women emigrated from Europe to the United States under austere conditions and adapted in different ways to life in the new country. Based on a major new study that includes in-depth interviews with 100...

It is now common knowledge that the FBI and its long-time director, J. Edgar Hoover, were responsible for the creation of a massive internal security apparatus that undermined the very principles of freedom and democracy they were sworn to protect. While...

This, the 16th volume of the Index to International Public Opinion, provides data from opinion surveys conducted in 64 countries. Approximately 98 countries and geographical areas are referenced in these studies. The data were contributed by 166 survey...

Social work originates from humanitarian, religious, and democratic ideals and philosophies, and has universal applications to meet human needs arising from personal-societal interactions. Professional social workers are dedicated to service for the...

The 1983-84 Index documents international opinion on problems such as terrorism, the continuing crisis in the Middle East, global economic imbalances, the conventional and nuclear arms races, and nuclear disarmament. Extensive coverage of the 1984 United...

One of the most original and influential thinkers of the twentieth century was Jean Gebser, whose varied writings on the philosophy of culture gave birth to postmodernist thought. In spite of his prominence internationally, much of his work has not been...

With the advent of a new millenium little more than a decade away, Professor Ferrarotti has written a unique collection of futurological scenarios that stresses the importance of both the historical and a muti-disciplinary approach. The author draws...

In the social sciences, phenomena tend to be hierarchically structured, so that individuals belong to groups, and groups belong to larger organizations and societies. Multilevel research stresses this hierarchical structure of social life, and...

A critique of graduate education in sociology and an evaluation of its shortcomings. Mr. Sibley acknowledges the main and often opposing trends in the field, and calls for mutual recognition and understanding. He also remarks that the study of sociology...

This book is an introduction to the philosophical ideas of Plato, Rene Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, and Immanuel Kant on the role of reason which have contributed to the evolution of sociological thought. Reason, according to Rickman, has a relevance to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313237041Author Merlin B. BrinkerhoffFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

In this collection of essays a number of distinguished scholars examine the proletarianization process and its relation to social protest and class formation. The authors consider how the social origins of the industrial work force and the migration...

The authors consider the nature of explanatory models in the social sciences in order to suggest ways in which conceptual systems differ. They suggest that, in many cases, theorists, researchers and clinicians can utilize insights from rival models in...

The author's investigations were concentrated on the Muslim women of northern India - on their family life, their marriage customs, and their education in relation to their various socio-economic backgrounds in a rapidly changing world that had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313227455Author Raymond FirthFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

A biography of the English social investigator and pioneer in the development of the social survey method who, with Beatrice Potter Webb, made an exhaustive statistical study of poverty in London. He was instrumental in the passage of the Old Age...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313207518Author Asoke BasuFormat HardbackPage Count 418Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313207372Author Jerzy SzackiFormat HardbackPage Count 581Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313207099Author Gilbert ZicklinFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313207242Author Dana F. WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 259Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313206153Author John T. CumblerFormat HardbackPage Count 283Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313214035Author Edward MagdolFormat HardbackPage Count 386Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Each the work of a specialist on the antebellum South, these essays address broad issues such as the slavery system, the growth of the cotton industry, and the growing sectional self-consciousness of the South. The authors' local, microcosmic approaches...