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Cambridge University Press Recognition Politics
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Cambridge University Press Language Culture and Education
Book SynopsisExploring language, culture and education among immigrants in the United States, this volume discusses the range of experiences in raising children with more than one language in major ethno-linguistic groups in New York. Research and practice from the fields of speech-language pathology, bilingual education, and public health in immigrant families are brought together to provide guidance for speech-language pathologists in differentiating language disorders from language variation, and for parents on how to raise their children with more than one language. Commonalities among dissimilar groups, such as Chinese, Korean, and Hispanic immigrants are analyzed, as well as the language needs of Arab-Americans, the home literacy practices of immigrant parents who speak Mixteco and Spanish, and the crucial role of teachers in bridging immigrants'' classroom and home contexts. These studies shed new light on much-needed policy reforms to improve the involvement of culturally and linguistically diverse families in decisions affecting their children''s education.Trade Review'… the book encompasses rich analyses and strong conclusions to be used by research specialists, parents, and practitioners in multicultural communities.' Laura Dubcovsky, LINGUIST ListTable of ContentsIntroduction to the immigrant experience Elizabeth Ijalba; Part I. Immigration, Bilingual Education, Policy, and Educational Planning: 1. Political, social and educational challenges in the struggle to develop bilingual education as a pedagogical model in the United States Elizabeth Ijalba and Patricia Velasco; 2. Distinguishing a true disability from 'something else': Part I. Current challenges to providing valid, reliable, and culturally and linguistically appropriate disability evaluations Catherine J. Crowley and Miriam Baigorri; 3. Distinguishing a true disability from 'something else': Part II. Toward a model of culturally and linguistically appropriate speech-language disability evaluations Catherine J. Crowley and Miriam Baigorri; Part II. Bilingualism, Literacy Ecologies, and Parental Engagement among Immigrant Families: 4. Raising children bilingually: what parents and educators should know about bilingualism in children Anny Castilla-Earls; 5. Language acquisition in emergent bilingual triplets Rosemarie Sepulveda and Elizabeth Ijalba; 6. Chinese parents and raising their children bilingual: Fujianese immigrants Elizabeth Ijalba and Qi Li; 7. Bilingualism in Korean-American children and maternal perceptions on education Elizabeth Ijalba and Nakyung Yoo; 8. Transgenerational bilingual reading practices: a case study of an undocumented Mixteco family Patricia Velasco and Bobbie Kabuto; 9. Parent education with Latino families of children with language impairment Elizabeth Ijalba and Angela Giraldo; Part III. Cultural Perceptions on Disability, the Home Language, and Health Care Alternatives Among Immigrants: 10. Perceptions on autism in hispanic immigrant mothers of preschool children with autism spectrum disorders Elizabeth Ijalba; 11. How early childhood interventions endanger the home language and home-culture: a call to value the role of families Victoria Puig; 12. A critical review of cultural and linguistic guidelines in serving Arab-Americans Reem Khamis-Dakwar; 13. Building home-school connections within a multicultural education framework: challenges and opportunities before and after President Trump's election Patricia Velasco; 14. Health and alternatives to healthcare for Mexican immigrants in New York Esperanza Tuñón Pablos.
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Cambridge University Press Music and Politics
Book SynopsisThis book is not about music or politics. It is about the ''and'' that binds them together. How do these fields intersect, and what theories and approaches can help us understand their interactions? How have the relationships between music and politics changed over time and across cultures, and are the familiar tools we use in dealing with them fit for purpose? This book overhauls our understanding of how these fields interact, offering a rigorous reappraisal of key concepts such as power, protest, resistance, subversion, propaganda, and ideology. It explores and evaluates a wide range of perspectives from contemporary political theory, engaging with an array of musical cultures and practices from medieval chant to rap. In addition, it discusses current ways in which the relationships between music and politics are being reconfigured and reconceptualised. Where else can you find Donald Trump, Kendrick Lamar and Beethoven under one cover?Table of Contents1. Music and politics: key concepts and issues; 2. Power and counterpower; 3. History, ideology and the politics of context; 4. Propaganda, ritual and sovereign power; 5. Performing protest: music and activism; 6. Critique, subversion and negation; 7. Nationalism, racism and fascism.
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Competence
Book SynopsisAn in-depth and over-time analysis of public opinion about party competence on issues in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and Germany, revealing how issue ownership, government performance and generalised competence shape public opinion and how their causes and consequences should shape our understanding of parties, voting and elections.Trade Review'The Politics of Competence provides a compelling analysis of party competence – its causes, electoral consequences and political significance. This landmark study draws together disparate theories, assembles a prodigious amount of data and uses advanced statistical techniques to provide a fascinating account of the shifting relationship between parties and their electorates. Sophisticated, yet also accessible to the general reader, this book instantly becomes the gold standard in studies of party competence.' John Bartle, University of Essex'Central to theories of how voters evaluate parties are ideas that one party is better able than another to handle a given issue. But how do voters develop these evaluations? And what is the role of actual performance of a party in government? In this theoretically ambitious, empirically rich and truly comparative book, Green and Jennings break new ground. They show that parties regularly gain and lose 'ownership' on particular issues, that partisanship strongly affects perceptions of performance, that governments inexorably lose support and reputations for competence, and that they develop a new theoretical perspective towards how voters evaluate parties. Rich with data, comparative in approach and equally theoretical as empirical, this book sets a new standard in the fields of issue ownership on a par with previous works by Donald Stokes, John Petrocik and William Riker.' Frank R. Baumgartner, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and co-author of The Politics of Information (2015)Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Conceptual problems, and solutions; 3. Three concepts of issue competence; 4. Explaining issue ownership change; 5. Performance of governments, and oppositions; 6. Generic competence and costs of governing; 7. Combined effects of ownership, performance and generic competence; 8. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe The Discovery of Society
Book SynopsisThis classic text explores the lives and ideas of the social thinkers who have shaped and continue to forge traditions in sociology. Focusing on the great names in the field, it weaves biographical and conceptual details into a tapestry of the history of social thought of the 19th and 20th centuries. Written in a narrative style that is accessible and exciting, this text serves as an excellent supplement for courses in social and sociological theory, the history of social thought, the history of sociology, and introduction to sociology.Instructors and students can now access their course content through the Connect digital learning platform by purchasing either standalone Connect access or a bundle of print and Connect access. McGraw-Hill Connect is a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or tablet. Choose this option if your instructor will require Connect to be used in the course. Your subscription to Connect includes the followTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION Society and IllusionChapter 1. The Prophets of Paris: Saint-Simon and Comte Chapter 2. Sociology in the Underground: Karl Marx Chapter 3. The Last Gentleman: Alexis de Tocqueville Chapter 4. Nietzsche's Madness Chapter 5. Do-Gooders, Evolutionists and RacistsChapter 6: Dreyfus' Empire: Emile DurkheimChapter 7: Max Weber: The Disenchantment of the WorldChapter 8: Sigmund Freud: Conquistador of the Irrational Chapter 9: The Discovery of the Invisible World: Simmel, Cooley and MeadChapter 10. The Discovery of the Ordinary World: Thomas, Park, and the Chicago School Chapter 11. The Emergence of African-American Sociology: DuBois, Frazier, Drake and Cayton Chapter 12. The Construction of the Social System: Pareto and Parsons Chapter 13. Hitler's Shadow: Mannheim and Mills Chapter 14. Erving Goffman and the Theatre of Social Encounters Chapter 15. Cultural Capital, Revolution, the World-system, and Globalization: the Theories of Pierre Bourdieu, Theda Skocpol, and Immanuel Wallerstein Bibliographical SuggestionsIndex
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Privilege Power and Difference
Book SynopsisPrivilege, Power, and Difference is a groundbreaking tool for students and non-students alike to examine systems of privilege and difference in our society. Written in an accessible, conversational style, the 3rd edition links theory with engaging examples in ways that enable readers to see the underlying nature and consequences of privilege and their connection to it. This program has been used across the country, both inside and outside the classroom, to shed light on issues of power and privilege. The Connect course for this offering includes SmartBook, an adaptive reading and study experience which guides students to master, recall, and apply key concepts while providing automatically-graded assessments.Table of ContentsChapter 1 We’re in TroubleChapter 2 Privilege, Oppression, and DifferenceChapter 3 Capitalism, Class, and the Matrix of DominationChapter 4 Making Privilege and Oppression HappenChapter 5 The Trouble with the TroubleChapter 6 What It Has to Do With UsChapter 7 How Systems of Privilege WorkChapter 8 Getting Off the Hook: Denial and ResistanceChapter 9 What Can We Do?Epilogue A Worldview is Hard to Change
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Global Sociology Introducing Five Contemporary
Book SynopsisAn effective supplement to any standard sociology text, this broad and comprehensive sociological description of five diverse contemporary societies with wide geographic distribution - Japan, Mexico, Egypt, Germany and the San peoples of Namibia - is organized around basic sociological topics: culture, social structure, group life, socialization, deviance, social institutions, social stratification, and social change. Fictional vignettes of individuals in each country help students experience first-person viewpoints on life in five very different societies. By comparing other societies with their own, students read about the range of social variation, learn what makes their own society distinctive, and gain a unique and fascinating vantage point on what sociology offers in a world of rapid social change.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Japan: The Importance of BelongingIntroductionJapan's HistoryJapanese CultureGroup LifeSocializationDeviance in a Demanding SocietySocial Inequality in Japan: Class, Status, and PowerDemographic ChangeJapan’s Future: Crisis And ContinuityChapter 2. Mexico: Conflict and CooperationIntroductionMexican CultureSocial Structure and Group LifeSocial InstitutionsConflict and DevianceSocial Inequality and ConflictChapter 3. The San Peoples of Namibia: Between Subsistence and GlobalizationIntroductionHistory ofthe San? Part I: Reports On Field Research: The Hunting-Gathering LifeSocial Structure and Group LifeSocial InequalityDeviance and Social ControlSocializationPart II: The San in Modern NamibiaChapter 4. Egypt: Youth, Inequality, and Social ChangeIntroductionEgypt's HistoryEgyptian Culture Gender Roles in Egyptian CultureYouth Rises UpSocial Expectations and Inequality in EgyptEgypt’s Authoritarian GovernmentAfter The RevolutionChapter 5. Germany: Diversity in a Modern Nation-StateIntroductionGerman History: Borders and PeoplesChanging Borders: What is GermanyGerman CultureMinority Groups in GermanyDeviance and Diversity Inequality and DiversityDemographic ChangeGermany in An Age of Globalization
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe The Practical Skeptic Core Concepts in Sociology
Book SynopsisThe Practical Skeptic, a concise introduction to sociology, focuses on core concepts as the central building blocks for understanding sociology. Lisa McIntyre's straightforward, lively style and her emphasis on critical thinking make this an engaging and user-friendly text for students of all levels. Through this conversational narrative, students are able to grasp key sociological concepts and learn the essential lesson that there is much that goes on in the social world that escapes the sociologically untrained eye.Table of ContentsMcIntyre, The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in Sociology, 6eIntroduction CHAPTER 1: Responding to Chaos: A Brief History of SociologyCHAPTER 2: The Sociological Eye CHAPTER 3: Science and Fuzzy Objects: Specialization in SociologyCHAPTER 4: Who's Afraid of Sociology?CHAPTER 5: The Vocabulary of ScienceCHAPTER 6: Doing Social Research CHAPTER 7: CultureCHAPTER 8: Social StructureCHAPTER 9: Society and Social Institutions CHAPTER 10: Socialization CHAPTER 11: Deviance and Social Control CHAPTER 12: Stratification and Inequality CHAPTER 13: Inequality and Achievement: Social ClassCHAPTER 14: Inequality and Ascription: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe The Practical Skeptic Readings in Sociology
Book SynopsisThe Practical Skeptic: Readings in Sociology includes classic sociological research writings as well as recent pieces on fascinating topics of interest to students. It is the ideal companion to McIntyre's text, The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in Sociology, or other sociology texts. Readings in this edition challenge students to re-evaluate familiar social arenas: the college classroom, televised sports shows, restaurants, doctors' offices and even public restrooms. The readings focus around the essential message that there is much that goes on in the social world that escapes the sociologically untrained eye.Table of Contents* indicates reading new to this edition.Part I. The Social Imagination 1. C. Wright Mills, The Promise2. Stephanie Coontz, How History and Sociology Can Help Today's Families3. Lisa J. McIntyre, Hernando WashingtonPart II. The Research Craft 4. Stephanie Sanford and Donna Eder, Adolescent Humor During Peer Interaction*5. Charles A. Gallagher, Miscounting Race: Explaining Whites' Misperceptions of Racial Group Size6. Lisa J. McIntyre, Doing the Right Thing: Ethics in Social Research7. Philip Meyer, If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? ProbablyPart III. Culture8. Clyde Kluckhohn, Queer Customs9. Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema10. Cheryl Laz, Act Your Age11. Elijah Anderson, The Code of the Streets *12. Beth A. Quinn, The Power and Meaning of "Girl Watching"*13. David Grazian, The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of MasculinityPart IV. Social Structure 14. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life15. Philip G. Zimbardo, The Pathology of Imprisonment16. Philip G. Zimbardo, The Pathology of Imprisonment17. Greta Feoff Paules, "Getting" and "Making" a Tip18. Natalie Adams and Pamela Bettis, Commanding the Room in Short Skirts: Cheering as the Embodiment of Ideal Girlhood19. Harvey Molotch, The Rest Room and Equal OpportunityPart V. Social Institutions and Socialization *20. Frederic W. Hafferty, "Cadaver Stories and the Emotional Socialization of Medical Students21. Gwynne Dyer, Anybody's Son Will Do22. Thomas J. Schmid and Richard S. Jones, Suspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security Prison23. Lynn Zimmer, How Women Reshape the Prison Guard Role24. Patti A. Giuffre and Christine L. Williams, Not Just Bodies: Strategies for Desexualizing the Physical Examination of PatientsPart VI. Deviance and Social Control 25. Emile Durkheim, The Normality of Crime26. William J. Chambliss, The Saints and the Roughnecks27. D. L. Rosenhan, On Being Sane in Insane Places*28. Steven H. Lopez, Randy Hodson, and Vincent J. Roscigno, Power, Status, and Abuse At Work: General and Sexual Harassment 29. Emily E. LaBeff, Robert E. Clark, Valerie J. Haines, and George M. Dickhoff, Situational Ethics and College Student Cheating30. Michael L. Benson, Denying the Guilty Mind: Accounting for Involvement in White-Collar CrimePart VII. Inequality31. James Loewan, The Land of Opportunity32. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America33. Katherine Newman and Chauncy Lennon, The Job Ghetto34. Joe R. Feagn, Racism35. Roxanna Harlow, "Race Doesn't Matter, but..." The Effect of Race on College Professors' Experiences and Emotion Management in the Undergraduate College Classroom36. Robin D. G. Kelley, Confessions of a Nice Negro or Why I Shaved My Head37. Yin Ling Leung, The Model Minority Myth: Asian Americans Confront Growing Backlash38. Adriane Fugh-Berman, M.D, Tales Out of Medical School39. Randall Collins, The Sociological Eye and Its Blinders
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe The Meaning of Difference American Constructions
Book SynopsisHow do categories of people come to be seen as âœdifferentâ? How does being âœdifferentâ affect peopleâs lives? What does difference mean at the level of the individual, social institutions, or society? What difference does âœdifferenceâ make? The Meaning of Difference offers a conceptual structure and up-to-date readings on the differences distinctive to American lifeâdifferences of race and ethnicity, sex and gender, social class, sexuality, and disability.Table of ContentsPrefaceSECTION I—CONSTRUCTING CATEGORIES OF DIFFERENCE Framework EssayWHAT IS RACE? WHAT IS ETHNICITY?1. “Race” and the Construction of Human Identity, Audrey Smedley 2. Who Is Black? One Nation's Definition, F. James Davis3. The Evolution of Identity, The Washington PostPersonal Account: A Loaded Vacation, Niah Grimes4. Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America, Eva Marie Garroutte 5. An Interlocking Panethnicity: The Negotiation of Multiple Identities among Asian American Social Movement Leaders, Dana Y. NakanoPersonal Account: I Thought My Race Was Invisible, Sherri H. Pereira 6. Latino Racial Choices: The Effects of Skin Colour and Discrimination on Latinos’ and Latinas’ Racial Self-Identifications, Tanya Golash-Boza and William Darity, Jr.7. Whiteness as an 'Unmarked' Cultural Category, Ruth Frankenberg8. Plus Ça Change . . . ? Multiraciality and the Dynamics of Race Relations in the United States, Frank D. Bean and Jennifer LeePersonal Account: The Price of Nonconformity, Julia Morgenstern Personal Account: Basketball, Andrea M. BuschWHAT IS SEX? WHAT IS GENDER? 9. The Olympic Struggle over Sex, Alice Dreger 10.All Together Now: Intersex Infants and IGM, Riki Wilchins 11.Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, Cordelia FineWHAT IS SOCIAL CLASS? 12. What’s Class Got to Do with It?, Michael Zweig13.The Silver Spoon: Inheritance and the Staggered Start, Stephen J. McNamee and Robert K. Miller Jr.Personal Account: I Am a Pakistani Woman, Hoorie I. Siddique14.The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It, Timothy Noah WHAT IS SEXUALITY? 15.Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire, Lisa M. Diamond16.The Biology of the Homosexual, Roger N. Lancaster 17.The Heterosexual Questionnaire, Martin Rochlin WHAT IS DISABILITY?18. Disability Definitions: The Politics of Meaning, Michael OliverPersonal Account: Invisibly Disabled, Heather L. Shaw 19.What Wounds Enable: The Politics of Disability and Violence in Chicago, Laurence Ralph20.Ethnicity, Ethics, and the Deaf-World, Harlan LaneSECTION II—EXPERIENCING DIFFERENCE Framework EssayRACE AND ETHNICITY21. Formulating Identity in a Globalized World, Carola Suárez-OrozcoPersonal Account: Hair, Sarah FaragallaPersonal Account: The Americanization of a Reluctant Vietnamese-American, Hoai Huong Tran 22. Latinos in the U.S. Race Structure, Clara E. Rodríguez23. Everybody’s Ethnic Enigma, Jelita McLeodPersonal Account: My Strategies, Eric Jackson24. From Friendly Foreigner to Enemy Race, John TehranianPersonal Account: Master Status: Pride and Danger, Sumaya Al-Hajebi SEX AND GENDER25.The Privilege of Teaching about Privilege, Michael A. Messner 26.Proving Manhood, Timothy BenekePersonal Account: Just Something You Did as a Man, Francisco Hernandez27.“I’m Not a Feminist, But . . .”: Popular Myths about Feminism, Penny A. Weiss SEXUALITY28. "Dude, You’re a Fag": Adolescent Male Homophobia, C. J. Pascoe29. Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options, Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth Armstrong Personal Account: Living Invisibly, Tara S. Ellison30. Sexual Orientation and Sex in Women’s Lives: Conceptual and Methodological Issues, Esther D. Rothblum SOCIAL CLASS31. Cause of Death: Inequality, Alejandro Reuss32. Why Are Droves of Unqualified, Unprepared Kids Getting into Our Top Colleges? Because Their Dads Are Alumni, John Larew Personal Account: That Moment of Visibility, Rose B. Pascarell33. The Myth of the “Culture of Poverty”, Paul Gorski DISABILITY34. Public Transit, John Hockenberry 35. "Can You See the Rainbow?"' The Roots of Denial, Sally French 36. Not Blind Enough: Living in the Borderland Called Legal Blindness, Beth Omansky Personal Account: A Time I Didn't Feel Normal, Heather CallenderSECTION III—THE MEANING OF DIFFERENCE Framework EssayRACE AND ETHNICITY37. Fourteen Key Supreme Court Cases and the Civil War Amendments38.Blink in Black and White, Malcolm GladwellPersonal Account: Just Like My Mama Said, Anthony McNeill 39.Safe Haven in America? Thirty Years after the Refugee Act of 1980, David W. Haines 40.Hispanics Are Forgotten in Civil Rights History, Nicholas Dauphine 41.Balancing Identities: Undocumented Immigrant Asian American Students and the Model Minority Myth, Tracy Poon Tambascia, Jonathan Wang, Breanne Tcheng, and Viet T. BuiPersonal Account: Let Me Work for It!, Isabelle Nguyen42.Segregated Housing, Segregated Schools, Richard Rothstein SEX AND GENDER43.Many Faces of Gender Inequality, Amartya SenPersonal Account: He Hit Her, Tim Norton 44.The Not-So-Pink Ivory Tower, Ann Mullen45.The Gender Revolution: Uneven and Stalled, Paula England SEXUALITY46.Sex Education and the Promotion of Heteronormativity, Tanya McNeill Personal Account: Learning My Own Privilege, Mireille M. Cecil 47.Gaga Relations: The End of Marriage, J. Jack Halberstam 48.Queers without Money: They Are Everywhere. But We Refuse to See Them, Amber Hollibaugh SOCIAL CLASS49.Rethinking American Poverty, Mark R. Rank 50.Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education, Peter Sacks 51.Wealth Stripping: Why It Costs So Much to Be Poor, James H. CarrDISABILITY52.Disability Trouble, Bradley A. Areheart 53.Learning Disabilities: The Social Construction of a Special Education Category, Christine E. Sleeter 54.(Re)Creating a World in Seven Days: Place, Disability, and Salvation in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Emily AskewSECTION IV—BRIDGING DIFFERENCES Framework Essay 55.Adolescent Masculinity in an Age of Decreased Homohysteria, Eric Anderson 56.What Can We Do? Becoming Part of the Solution, Allan G. Johnson Personal Account: Parents' Underestimated Love, Octavio N. Espinal57.In Defense of Rich Kids, William Upski WimsattPersonal Account: Where Are You From?, C.C. 58.Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, Paul Kivel CreditsIndex
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe American Ethnicity The Dynamics and Consequences
Book SynopsisAmerican Ethnicity is a brief text that provides an accessible introduction to the dynamics of racial and ethnic relations. Key concepts and theories are summarized, and the authors develop a simple theoretical framework that guides the presentation of data on each of the prominent ethnic groups in America. As a result, this book examines each ethnic group from the same perspective, allowing students to compare the dynamics of discrimination against African Americans, Native Americans, Asian and Pacific Island Americans, white ethnic Americans, and Latinos.Instructors and students can now access their course content through the Connect digital learning platform by purchasing either standalone Connect access or a bundle of print and Connect access. McGraw-Hill Connect is a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or tablet. Choose this option if your instructor will require Connect to be used in the course. Your subscription toTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations Chapter 2. Explaining Ethnic Relations Chapter 3. The Anglo-Saxon Core and Ethnic Antagonism Chapter 4. White Ethnic Americans Chapter 5. African Americans Chapter 6. Native Americans Chapter 7. Latinos Chapter 8. Asian and Pacific Island Americans Chapter 9. Arab Americans Chapter 10. The Future of Ethnicity in America
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Penguin Random House Australia The Hopi Survival Kit The Prophecies Instructions
Book SynopsisNow made public for the first time—an ancient Hopi spiritual guide that may hold the key to our survival in the next millennium For nearly a century the Elders of Hotevilla—a tiny village on a remote Hopi reservation in Arizona—have been guarding the secrets and prophecies of a thousand-year-old covenant that was created to ensure the well-being of the earth and its creatures. But the elders are dying, and there is no one left to pass on its remarkable teachings. Renowned Native American expert Thomas Mails was chosen by the last surviving elders to reveal to the outside world the sacred Hopi prophecy and instructions at precisely the time in history when they are most urgently needed. The Hopi Survival Kit is the first full revelation of traditional Hopi prophecy. Many of its predictions have already been realized, but the most shattering apocalyptic events are still to occur. And though this may be a sobering realization, it is also our best defense.
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Harvest Books Journey Into the Whirlwind
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University of Chicago Press A Genealogy of Manners Transformations of Social
Book SynopsisArditi's study offers a history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Drawing on the ideas of Elias, Foucault and Bourdieu, as well as through analysing courtesy manuals and etiquette books of the times, he examines the relationship between power and social practices and traces how power changes over the centuries.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1: Manners, Social Relations, and Power 2: Centeredness, Social Coalescence, and the Hegemony of Ecclesias 3: Courtesy, Detachment, and the Transformations of the Relational Order 4: Civility and the Politics of Grace 5: Honnetete and the Consolidation of Royal Centrality 6: Paradoxes of the English Gentleman 7: Etiquette and the Constitution of Multicenteredness 8: Foundational Metamorphoses Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Scientific Knowledge
Book SynopsisThis text presents an introduction to social studies of scientific knowledge. Using case studies from cognitive science, physics, and biology to illustrate descriptions and applications of the social study of science, the authors aim to provide a perspective on how science is actually done.
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University of Chicago Press Art from Start to Finish Jazz Painting Writing
Book SynopsisGathers a unique group of contributors from the worlds of sociology, musicology, literature, and communications - many of them practicing artists in their own right - to discuss how artists from jazz musicians to painters work: how they coordinate their efforts, how they think, how they start, and, of course, how they finish their productions.
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The University of Chicago Press Early Essays Heritage of Sociology Series
Book SynopsisWith the publication in 1937 of his first book, The Structure of Social Action, Talcott Parsons (1902-79) established himself as one of America's most important social theorists. Yet Parsons's essays from the decade preceding 1937 are virtually unknown to theorists and historians of sociology. By gathering the majority of Parsons's articles and book reviews published between 1923 and 1937, Charles Camic supplies the first comprehensive selection of the writings of the early Parsons. In his superb introductory essay, Camic situates Parsons's early writings in their sociointellectual and biographical context. Drawing upon extensive historical research, he identifies three overlapping but relatively distinct thematic phases in the early development of Paron's ideas: that on capitalist society and its origins, that one the historical development of the theory of action, and that on the foundations of analytical sociology. Camic correlates the emergence of these phases to Parsons's experien
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University of Chicago Press Health Labor Force Participation Over the Life
Book SynopsisThe rise in life expectancies and retirement rates in the 20th century has had dramatic impacts. This survey of Union Army veterans born between 1820 and 1850 examines the factors that affected health and labour force participation in 19th century America.
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The University of Chicago Press Imaginative Horizons
Book SynopsisVincent Crapanzano offers a powerful way to think about human experience: the nition of imaginative horizons. These horizons, he argues, deeply influence both how we experience our lives and how we interpret those experiences.
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The University of Chicago Press A Second Chicago School
Book SynopsisFrom 1945 to 1960, the University of Chicago was home to a group of students whose work has come to define a second Chicago School of sociology. In this book, sociologists critically confront this legacy and discuss the internal conflicts that call into question the idea of a unified school.Table of ContentsPreface Joseph Gusfield Introduction: A Second Chicago School? The Development of a Postwar American Sociology Gary Alan Fine 1: Elaboration, Revision, Polemic, and Progress in the Second Chicago School Paul Colomy, J. David Brown. 2: Research Methods and the Second Chicago School Jennifer Platt 3: The Ethnographic Present: Images of Institutional Control in Second-School Research Gary Alan Fine, Lori J. Ducharme. 4: The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity in the Second Chicago School R. Fred Wacker 5: Chicago's Two Worlds of Deviance Research: Whose Side Are They on? John F. Galliher 6: The Chicago Approach to Collective Behavior David A. Snow, Phillip W. Davis. 7: Transition and Tradition: Departmental Faculty in the Era of the Second Chicago School Andrew Abbott, Emanuel Gaziano. 8: The Chicago School of Sociology and the Founding of the Brandeis University Graduate Program in Sociology: A Case Study in Cultural Diffusion Shulamit Reinharz 9: The Second Sex and the Chicago School: Women's Accounts, Knowledge, and Work, 1945-1960 Mary Jo Deegan Postscript Helena Znaniecka Lopata Appendix One: Ph.D. Degrees in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, 1946-1965 Appendix Two: Faculty in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago, 1946-1960 Contributors Index
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The University of Chicago Press Difficult Reputations Collective Memories of the
Book SynopsisPresenting essays on America's most reviled traitor, its worst president, and its most controversial literary ingenue (Benedict Arnold, Warren G. Harding, and Lolita), among others, the author analyzes negative, contested, and subcultural reputations.
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University of Chicago Press Healing Powers
Book SynopsisFocusing on medical norms and practices and on competing philosophies of the mind, the body, reality, and rationality across radically different belief systems, Fred Frohock clarifies the social and legal dilemmas represented by scientific medicine and alternative care.
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The University of Chicago Press Dislocating China
Book SynopsisGladney locates China and Chinese culture not in some unchanging, essential "Chinese-ness", but in the context of historical and contemporary multicultural complexity.
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The University of Chicago Press Foreign News Exploring the World of Foreign
Book SynopsisForeign News gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Ulf Hannerz also compares the way correspondents and anthropologists report from one part of the world to another.
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The University of Chicago Press Portrait of a Green Imagination An Ethnographic
Book SynopsisPart biography and part ethnography, this study aims to contextualize the life of Nenedakis, who endured persecution, exile, imprisonment and torture. It examines the Greek author's novels and recollections as historical accounts, and shows how different perspectives shape the historical record.Table of ContentsPreface 1: Anticipations 2: Provincial Beginnings 3: Crete, Athens, the World 4: Disillusionments of Exile 5: Sentence of Death, Rebuilding the Life 6: Hand to Mouth: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman 7: Sordid Power: Colonels and Exiles 8: From the Cretan War to a Battle of Books 9: Painting an Ethnographic Portrait References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Character Scene and Story New Tools from the
Book SynopsisWill Dunne first brought the workshop experience down to the desk level with The Dramatic Writer's Companion, offering practical exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters work through the problems that arise in developing their scripts. Now writers looking to further enhance their storytelling process can turn to Character, Scene, and Story. Featuring forty-two new workshop-tested exercises, this sequel to The Dramatic Writer's Companion allows writers to dig deeper into their scripts by fleshing out images, exploring characters from an emotional perspective, tapping the power of color and sense memory to trigger ideas, and trying other visceral techniques. The guide also includes a troubleshooting section to help tackle problem scenes. Writers with scripts already in progress will find they can think deeper about their characters and stories. And those who are just beginning to write will find the guidance they need to discover their best starting point. The guide is filled with
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The University of Chicago Press Big House on the Prairie Rise of the Rural
Book SynopsisFor the past fifty years, America has been extraordinarily busy building prisons. Since 1970 we have tripled the total number of facilities, adding more than 1,200 new prisons to the landscape. This building boom has taken place across the country but is largely concentrated in rural southern towns. In 2007, John M. Eason moved his family to Forrest City, Arkansas, in search of answers to key questions about this trend: Why is America building so many prisons? Why now? And why in rural areas? Eason quickly learned that rural demand for prisons is complicated. Towns like Forrest City choose to build prisons not simply in hopes of landing jobs or economic wellbeing, but also to protect and improve their reputations. For some rural leaders, fostering a prison in their town is a means of achieving order in a rapidly changing world. Taking us into the decision-making meetings and tracking the impact of prisons on economic development, poverty, and race, Eason demonstrates how groups of elit
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The University of Chicago Press Neoliberal Apartheid PalestineIsrael and South
Book SynopsisIn recent years, as peace between Israelis and Palestinians has remained cruelly elusive, scholars and activists have increasingly turned to South African history and politics to make sense of the situation. In the early 1990s, both South Africa and Israel began negotiating with their colonized populations. South Africans saw results: the state was democratized and black South Africans gained formal legal equality. Palestinians, on the other hand, won neither freedom nor equality, and today Israel remains a settler-colonial state. Despite these different outcomes, the transitions of the last twenty years have produced surprisingly similar socioeconomic changes in both regions: growing inequality, racialized poverty, and advanced strategies for securing the powerful and policing the racialized poor. Neoliberal Apartheid explores this paradox. After a decade of research in the Johannesburg and Jerusalem regions, Andy Clarno presents here a detailed ethnographic study of the precariousn
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University of Chicago Press The Practical Imagination The German Sciences of
Book SynopsisDrawing on the work of Foucault and Bourdieu, this book sets out to illuminate the practical imagination as it was exhibited in the transformation of the political and social sciences during 19th-century Germany. Using information from many sources, it examines the learned disciplines of the time.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: A Theoretical Framework 1: The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Background: Classification 2: The French Revolution and Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815: Assimilation 3: The Sciences of State at Their Height, 1815-1840: Deliberation 4: A Period of Transition, 1840-1866: Variation 5: A Truncated Revival, 1866-1890: Organized Research and Charisma 6: The Wilhelminian Era, 1890-1914: Specialization and Clarification Epilogue Appendix: The Data from University Catalogues Abbreviations Bibliography Index
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University of Chicago Press General Education in the Social Sciences
Book SynopsisHigher education's most vibrant and contentious issues--common and specialized learning in the curriculum, conceptions of general and liberal education, the design of common core sequences, the merits of classic texts and contemporary research, Western and non-Western course materials, the place of undergraduate teaching in scholarly careers--have for decades been debated by the faculty of the College of the University of Chicago. At the College, they have become embodied in educational programs of sufficient historical depth to reveal patterns of intellectual and pedagogical continuity amidst changing social and institutional circumstances. Social Science 2 holds the place of honor among these educational projects. For more than half a century, Soc 2 has been one of the most influential courses in American undergraduate education. This unique, year-long course, the oldest and most distinguished of its kind at any American university, has served as an ongoing experiment in how the social sciences can be taught and learned in the general education context. In this collection John MacAloon has gathered essays by fourteen eminent social scientists--such as David Riesman, Michael Schudson, and F. Champion Ward--who as either teachers or students were profoundly shaped by Soc 2. Their multifarious and selective memories--full of dissonances and harmonies of recollection, judgment, and voice--create a compelling biography of a course and a college that have survived tumultous change through sustained and committed argument. This book will be of great interest to anyone interested not only in the theory but the practice of higher education.
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University of Chicago Press General Education in the Social Sciences
Book SynopsisHigher education's most vibrant and contentious issuescommon and specialized learning in the curriculum, conceptions of general and liberal education, the design of common core sequences, the merits of classic texts and contemporary research, Western and non-Western course materials, the place of undergraduate teaching in scholarly careershave for decades been debated by the faculty of the College of the University of Chicago. At the College, they have become embodied in educational programs of sufficient historical depth to reveal patterns of intellectual and pedagogical continuity amidst changing social and institutional circumstances. Social Science 2 holds the place of honor among these educational projects. For more than half a century, Soc 2 has been one of the most influential courses in American undergraduate education. This unique, year-long course, the oldest and most distinguished of its kind at any American university, has served as an ongoing experiment in how the social sciences can be taught and learned in the general education context. In this collection John MacAloon has gathered essays by fourteen eminent social scientistssuch as David Riesman, Michael Schudson, and F. Champion Wardwho as either teachers or students were profoundly shaped by Soc 2. Their multifarious and selective memoriesfull of dissonances and harmonies of recollection, judgment, and voicecreate a compelling biography of a course and a college that have survived tumultous change through sustained and committed argument. This book will be of great interest to anyone interested not only in the theory but the practice of higher education.
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The University of Chicago Press Trustees of Culture Power Wealth and Status on
Book SynopsisWhy do wealthy people choose to serve on the boards of fine arts institutions? How do they exercise their influence as trustees, and how does this affect the way arts institutions operate? This study, based on trustee interviews, addresses these, and other issues.Trade Review"With shrewd insights into the tensions between the social elites who serve as trustees and the professionals who administer these major cultural institutions, Ostrower has useful observations about the many challenges now facing the cultural sector: motivating donors, reconciling the conflicts between fund-raising and governance duties, recruiting more diverse boards, building new audiences, and sustaining artistic innovation and excellence." - James Allen Smith, former board president, Center for Arts and Culture
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The University of Chicago Press After a California Earthquake Attitude and
Book SynopsisShortly before the Loma Prieta earthquake devastated areas of Northern California in 1989, Risa Palm and her associates had surveyed 2,500 homeowners in the area about their perception of risk from earthquakes. After the quake they surveyed the homeowners again and found that their perception of risk had increased but that most respondents were fatalistic and continued to ignore self-protective measures; those who personally experienced damage were more likely to buy insurance. A rare opportunity to analyze behavior change directly before and after a natural disaster, this survey has implications for policy makers, insurance officials, and those concerned with risk management.
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The University of Chicago Press Sect Ideologies Social Status
Book SynopsisIn this penetrating study of urban religion, Gary Schwartz examines the nature of the relationship between religious belief and the social order. He shows how a person's experience in the social hierarchy shapes his response to competing religious ideologies and, in turn, how commitment to a particular sect ideology colors his attitude toward mundane affairs. The author studied and compared a Pentecostal group and a Seventh-day Adventist group in preparation for this work. The question which stimulated the investigation can be stated as a paradox. In the Adventist case, why should persons who firmly believe that God is soon to destroy the world work so diligently and against formidable odds to improve their own secular fortunes? In the Pentecostal case, why should persons who believe that God is available for direct aid in every human contingency not use this power for their own advancement? In theorizing about the relationship between an individual's position in the socioeconomic syst
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University of Chicago Press Durkheims Philosophy of Science and the Sociolo
Book SynopsisThis text demonstrates the link between philosophy of science and scientific practice. Durkheim's sociology is examined as more than a collection of general observations about society, since the constructed theory of the meanings and causes of social life is incorporated.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments I: Creating a Niche 1: Interpreting Durkheim 2: Durkheim on the Division of Intellectual Labor II: The Explanation Goals and Methods of Inquiry of Durkheim's Research Program 3: Social Facts and Collective Representations 4: Durkheim's Concept of Sociological Explanation 5: Durkheim on Method III: An Analysis of Durkheim's Major Empirical Works 6: The Division of Labor in Society 7: Suicide 8: The Elementary' Forms of the Religious Life IV: An Evaluation of Durkheim's Sociological Research Program 9: Conclusion Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Durkheims Philosophy of Science and the Sociology
Book SynopsisThis text demonstrates the link between philosophy of science and scientific practice. Durkheim's sociology is examined as more than a collection of general observations about society, since the constructed theory of the meanings and causes of social life is incorporated.
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The University of Chicago Press Culture Wars
Book SynopsisThis lively and controversial work critiques the conservative efforts in the 1970s and 1980s to undo the educational reforms of the 1960s, to reestablish control over the curriculum, and to change the nature of the debate and the goals of education. An outstanding work of educational theory and history.--John Coatsworth, University of Chicago
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The University of Chicago Press When Formality Works
Book SynopsisIn this exploration of the concept of formality, or governing by abstraction, Arthur Stinchcombe breathes life into an idea that scholars have all but ignored.
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The University of Chicago Press The Art of Surrender Decomposing Sovereignty at
Book SynopsisExplores the ritual concessions as acts of warfare, performances of submission, demonstrations of power, and representations of shifting, unstable worlds. The author considers the limits of sovereignty at conflict's end, showing how the ways we concede loss can be as important as the ways we claim victory.
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MIT Press Ltd Knowledge Justice Disrupting Library and
Book SynopsisBlack, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color--reimagine library and information science through the lens of critical race theory.In Knowledge Justice, Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color scholars use critical race theory (CRT) to challenge the foundational principles, values, and assumptions of Library and Information Science and Studies (LIS) in the United States. They propel CRT to center stage in LIS, to push the profession to understand and reckon with how white supremacy affects practices, services, curriculum, spaces, and policies.
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MIT Press Ltd Whos Laughing Now Feminist Tactics in Social
Book SynopsisExploring feminist social media tactics that use humor as a form of resistance to misogyny, the affective dynamics of shame, shaming, and shamelessness.Online sexism, hate, and harassment aim to silence women through shaming and fear. In Who's Laughing Now? Jenny Sundén and Susanna Paasonen examine a somewhat counterintuitive form of resistance: humor. Sundén and Paasonen argue that feminist social media tactics that use humor, laughter, and a sense of the absurd to answer name-calling, offensive language, and unsolicited dick pics can rewire the affective circuits of sexual shame and acts of shaming.Using laughter as both a theme and a methodological tool, Sundén and Paasonen explore examples of the subversive deployment of humor that range from @assholesonline to the Tumblr “Congrats, you have an all-male panel!” They consider the distribution and redistribution of shame, discuss Hannah Gadsby's Nanette, and describe tact
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MIT Press Ltd The Monopoly of Man Insubordinations Italian
Book SynopsisA key text by a leading figure in Italian socialist feminism that remains relevant today, addressing the exploitation of women in the workplace and at home.Anna Kuliscioff (ca. 1854-1925) was a prominent figure in the revolutionary politics of her era, advocating for socialism and feminism. One of the founding members of the Italian Socialist Party, she actively contributed to the late-nineteenth-century flourishing of the Socialist International and the emergence of Italian socialism. For the last decades of her life, Kuliscioff's public militancy revolved around the woman question. She viewed feminism through the lens of class struggle, addressing the double exploitation of women--in the workplace and at home. Kuliscioff fought a twofold battle: as a socialist, she unmasked the sexism of her colleagues; as a feminist, she criticized liberal-bourgeois feminism. In this key text, she makes her case for a socialist feminism. Originating as a lec
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MIT Press Ltd Riding the New York Subway The Invention of the
Book SynopsisA history of New York subway passengers as they navigated the system's constraints while striving for individuality, or at least a smooth ride.When the subway first opened with much fanfare on October 27, 1904, New York became a city of underground passengers almost overnight. In this book, Stefan Höhne examines how the experiences of subway passengers in New York City were intertwined with cultural changes in urban mass society throughout the twentieth century. Höhne argues that underground transportation--which early passengers found both exhilarating and distressing--changed perceptions, interactions, and the organization of everyday life.
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University of Washington Press The Sikh Diaspora
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University of Washington Press Singing Story Healing Drum
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