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Constructionist Controversies: Issues in Social Problems Theory Gale Miller 9780202304571
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82"Constructionist Controversies" reviews the substantial contributions to social problems theory that have been made by social constructionist theorists and examines debates about the future of this... -
Social Movement Organizations: Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities John Lofland 9780202305530
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $101.81The authorative and richly detailed handbook is divided into three parts: (1) procedures for studying SMOs; (2) propositions or generalizations about them; and (3) perspectives or wider... -
Sociology of Religion: An Historical Introduction by Roberto Cipriani 9780202305912
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $190.43In adopting an international perspective that goes beyond the conventional framework of western theology, this volume bridges the divide between European and North American scholars through its... -
Why are Some People Healthy and Others Not? Morris Barer 9780202304908
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70Each topical chapter in this volume crystallizes the findings of a five-year study, under the auspices of the Population Health Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, that probed... -
The Geography of Towns by Arthur E. Smailes
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $69.07When first released much praise was given to this book: "An outstanding book on urban geography. . . representative of the best on this subject."--Higher Education Journal"The book ought to be... -
Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse by Richard Brown
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82During the past decade, it has become commonplace to interpret social and cultural reality-the very groundwork of the social sciences-as linguistic constructions. Not only is society viewed as a... -
Navajo Infancy: An Ethological Study of Child Development by James S. Chisholm
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $232.45Combining the concepts and methods of classical ethology with those of social-cultural anthropology, Navajo Infancy describes the major sources of change and continuity in Navajo infant development... -
Selected Satires of Lucian by Lionel Cassen
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $100.04The unsurpassed satirist of the ancient era was a young Syrian named Lucian, who, writing in Greek in the second century a.d., combined wit, irony, fearless candor, and exuberant comic fantasy to... -
Images of Issues: Typifying Contemporary Social Problems by Joel Best
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $101.18Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention. By typifying a problem and characterizing it as a... -
Human Capital or Cultural Capital?: Ethnicity and Poverty Groups in an Urban School District George Farkas 9780202305240
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82This study seeks to reorient our understanding of the early educational determinants of social stratification outcomes. It focuses on the process and consequences of unequal cognitive skill... -
Genetic Diversity and Human Behavior by J. N. Spuhler
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.34Genetic differences in humans, like those between individuals of any animal or plant species and those between species, are all products of the evolutionary development of the living world. These... -
Banking on Fraud: Drexel, Junk Bonds, and Buyouts by 9780202304663
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82In analyzing the fraud-facilitated leveraged buyouts engineered by Michael Milken and the firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert, the author suggests that such buyouts have multiple and extensive... -
Entertaining Crime: Television Reality Programs Mark Fishman 9780202306162
Booksplease Price: $95.82In eleven original studies by social scientists, this is the first volume to focus on television reality crime programming as a genre. Contributors address such questions as: why do these programs... -
Comparable Worth: Social Institutions and Social Change by Paula England
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82This volume provides a detailed description of the situation of women in employment in the early 1990s and considers how sociological and economic theories of labor markets illuminate the gap in pay... -
Children and Families in the Social Environment: Modern Applications of Social Work James Garbarino 9780202360799
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $92.90The first edition of this volume successfully applied Bronfenbrenner's "micro-systems" taxonomy to childrearing and family life. Emphasizing how forces in the environment influence children's... -
Classification and Biology by R. A. Crowson
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82Classification of plants and animals is of basic interest to biologists in all fields because correct formulation and generalization are based on sound taxonomy. This book by a world authority... -
Family Group Conferencing: New Directions in Community-Centered Child and Family Practice Gale Burford 9780202361222
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $101.81Family Group Conferencing indicates a large-scale shift in assumptions about the way child welfare services are planned and delivered - away from models that emphasize pathology, and toward those... -
Paying for Medicare: The Politics of Reform by David G. Smith
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82** Paying for Medicare received the American Risk and Insurance Association's Elizur Wright Award for itsoutstanding contribution to risk management and insurance literature.The Prospective Payment... -
Collective Violence James F., Jr. Short 9780202362663
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.97Collective violence has played an important role throughout American history, though we have typically denied it. But it is not enough to repress violence or to suppress our knowledge of it. We must... -
Four Years Old in an Urban Community by John Newson
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.97Although psychologists by training, John and Elizabeth Newson have more aptly been described as pioneers in social ecology; they work from the conviction that the causes and the consequences of... -
The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry Stuart A. Kirk 9780202304328
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $101.18When it was first published in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition-univer-sally known as DSM-III-embodied a radical new method for identifying psychiatric... -
Mirrors of Madness: Patrolling the Psychic Border by Bruce Luske 9780202304236
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $69.07Mirrors of Madness depicts the social-psychological processes and institutional consequences of psychiatric staffs experience of "closet insanity" (private worries about theirown social and... -
Pleistocene Mammals of Europe by Bjorn Kurten
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82This book provides a comprehensive treatment of all the Pleistocene species in Europe, classified according to modern taxonomic principles. For each species there is a description of its descent and... -
Women and the Ownership of PMS: The Structuring of a Psychiatric Disorder by Anne Figert
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $51.20This is the first book-length account of the controversy preceding and following the APA's decision in 1986 to include a premenstrually related diagnosis in its revised diagnostic manual, DSM III-R... -
American Economic Policy from the Revolution to the New Deal by William Letwin
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $96.45The documents in this volume reflect the great debates that have shaped this country's economic life. Covering a wide variety of problems, they show how each was treated at a moment when it was... -
Prehistoric America: An Ecological Perspective by Piotr Makowski
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $97.63The cultural parallels between widely separated but environmentally similar regions are often extraordinary, yet these parallels are discounted by anthropologists on the basis that they ignore a... -
Man the Hunter by Richard Borshay Lee
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $96.45Man the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic studies increasingly contribute substantial... -
Primate Evolution and Human Origins Russell L. Ciochon 9780202011752
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.97Primate Evolution and Human Origins compiles, for the first time, the major ideas and publications that have shaped our current view of the evolutionary biology of the primates and the origin of the... -
Old People in Three Industrial Societies by Ethel Shanas
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.97Robert and Helen Lynd's Middletown set the format in sociological theory and practice for hundreds of studies in the decades following its publication in 1929. Old People in Three Industrial... -
Reinventing Human Services: Community- and Family-Centered Practice Benjamin Higgins 9780202360980
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $94.06Dissatisfaction with a human services system that is unresponsive, stigmatizing, and ineffective has led to a ferment of experimentation in recent years. Reinventing Human Services examines the... -
Hollywood Shot by Shot: Alcoholism in American Cinema by Norman K. Denzin 9780202303451
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $105.84To what extent have Hollywood feature films shaped the meanings that Americans attach to alcoholics, their families, and the alcoholic condition? To what extent has the mass culture of the movie... -
A Literary History of Greece by Robert Flaceliere
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $98.26There are several good histories of Greek literature of various shapes and sizes, but the purpose of this book is not simply to consider the literature of ancient Greece as an isolated subject,... -
The Cannibal within Lewis Petrinovich 9780202020488
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $102.98The Cannibal Within offers an evolutionary account of the propensity of human beings, in extreme circumstances to eat other human beings, despite the strong Western taboo against such practices. What... -
Natural Regulation of Animal Populations by Ian A. McLaren
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82Surveying an area dense with conflicting observations and ideas, this volume vividly depicts the current state of knowledge as well as the great diversity of opinion in the field of population... -
Adoption and Disruption: Rates, Risks, and Responses by Richard P. Barth 9780202360546
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.99First Published in 2017. In this book the authors move easily and often between the worlds of policy, practice, and research in child and family welfare. Their own research delineates- better than... -
A History of Western Literature: From Medieval Epic to Modern Poetry by John M. Cohen
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $110.75This book begins in a narrow territory, strictly Western, and extends with the passage of time to include the poetry, plays, novels, and works of speculation of the great authors of the past and... -
Politics of Southern Equality: Law and Social Change in a Mississippi County by Frederick M. Wirt
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82This path-breaking text deals with the effects of federal civil rights legislation on the behavior and attitudes of the inhabitants of a single county in Mississippi--Panola County. These effects are... -
Herbert Spencer's Sociology by Jay Rumney
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $108.34The republication of this book is eminently fitting at this time. Jay Rumney's Herbert Spencer's Sociology first appeared in 1937. In that year Talcott Parsons, citing Crane Brinton, declared:... -
Decision Theory by D. J. White
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70All of human life may be seen as a process of decision-making, but it is only in recent years and in response to the needs of the large and complex organizations characterizing our society that this... -
Court-Ordered Insanity: Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment by James A. Holstein 9780202304496
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $94.06This book analyzes how hearing participants construct and organize arguments that are legally, psychiatrically, and practically accountable. It argues that commitment decisions orient to the...