Nowhere to Grow

Les B Whitbeck

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• Les B. Whitbeck and Dan R. Hoyt begin their report on street children in the Midwest with the statement, "If you live in or have visited even a medium... Lees meer

Moving Into Adolescence

Roberta G. Simmons

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• From the sociological point of view, adolescence traditionally has been described as a period of physical maturity and social immaturity. Adolescents ... Lees meer

Families in Troubled Times

Rand Conger

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• This book documents the experiences of rural Iowa families, who lived through the "farm crisis" years of the 1980s, in a fashion that might help famil... Lees meer

Tie a Knot and Hang on

Teresa Scheid

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• Tie a Knot and Hang On is an analysis of mental health care work that crosses the borders of diverse sociological traditions. The work seeks to unders... Lees meer

Dating, Mating, and Marriage

Martin King Whyte

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• This book examines the American system of dating, mate choice, and marriage. It analyzes a wide range of established ideas about how dating and mate c... Lees meer

Social Causes of Psychological Distress

Catherine E Ross

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• A core interest of social science is the study of stratification--inequalities in income, power, and prestige. Few persons would care about such inequ... Lees meer

Industries, Firms, and Jobs

George Farkas

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• What are the links among industrial structure, segmentation, the internal structure of firms, job characteristics, technology, productivity, labor mar... Lees meer

Beliefs about Inequality

James R Kluegel, Eliot R Smith

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• Motivated by the desire to explain how Americans perceive and evaluate inequality and related programs and policies, the authors conducted a national ... Lees meer

Medical Careers and Feminist Agendas

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• The increasing proportion of women in the medical profession has been followed keenly both by conservative and feminist observers during the past thre... Lees meer

Of Human Bonding

Alice S Rossi, Peter Henry Rossi

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• This life-course analysis of family development focuses on the social dynamics among family members. It features parent-child relationships in a large... Lees meer

On National Socialism

Talcott Parsons

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• During the years between the publication of the first of his two major works, The Structure of Social Action (1937), and the writing of his second, Th... Lees meer

Care of the Chronically and Severely Ill

J Hollingsworth

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• Because most severely and chronically ill people will receive care outside of hospitals or nursing homes, there is increasing recognition that the int... Lees meer

Networks of Power

Robert Perrucci

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• Large organizations, particularly corporations, possess considerable resources, and with that comes considerable power, often extending beyond a singl... Lees meer

The Satanism Scare

Joel Best

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• Although there is growing concern over Satanism as a threat to American life, the topic has received surprisingly little serious attention. Recognizin... Lees meer

Nowhere to Grow

Les B Whitbeck

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• Les B. Whitbeck and Dan R. Hoyt begin their report on street children in the Midwest with the statement, "If you live in or have visited even a medium... Lees meer

Abused and Battered

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• That family violence injures and kills its victims both physically and psychologically was established over two decades ago by early researchers in th... Lees meer

Banking on Fraud

Mary Zey

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• In analyzing the fraud-facilitated leveraged buyouts engineered by Michael Milken and the firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert, the author suggests that suc... Lees meer

Human Capital or Cultural Capital?

George Farkas

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• This study seeks to reorient our understanding of the early educational determinants of social stratification outcomes. It focuses on the process and ... Lees meer

Social Justice and Political Change

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• Analysis and debate about economic and political justice rarely involves research on the views of the common person. Scholars often make assumptions a... Lees meer

Address Unknown

James Wright

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• Homelessness in America has grown from a minor problem in isolated areas of a few big cities into a near epidemic. Today, scarcely any American city o... Lees meer

The Power Elite and the State

G. William Domhoff

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• This volume presents a network of social power, indicating that theories inspired by C.Wright Mills are far more accurate views about power in America... Lees meer

Networks of Power

Robert Perrucci

• Paperback | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• Large organizations, particularly corporations, possess considerable resources, and with that comes considerable power, often extending beyond a singl... Lees meer

Managing to Care

Ann Dill

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• The point of departure for Managing to Care is widespread concern that the present delivery of health and social welfare services is fragmented, uncoo... Lees meer

Adolescent Stress

Mary Colten

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Institutions and Social Change
• Adolescent Stress concentrates on a range of major problems--those of a normal developmental nature as well as those of poor adaptation--identified in... Lees meer