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• Author(s): Raymond A. Bauer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe focus of this volume is nothing less than the entire set of social indicators--statistics, statistical series, and all other forms...

• Author(s): Sheila Fitzpatrick | Lynne Viola • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - GeneralThe Stalin era has been less accessible to researchers than either the preceding decade or the pos...

• Author(s): James H. Collier • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: EpistemologyOffers a vital, unique and agenda-setting perspective for the field of social epistemolog...

• Author(s): Karl Mannheim • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesKarl Mannheim was one of the leading sociologists of the twentieth century. Essays on the Sociology of...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Paul F. Lazarsfeld | Neil W. Henry • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MethodologyA lucid, stimulating introduction to a wide range of mathematical techniques, their usefulness in thinking, and their applic...

• Author(s): Kory P. Schaff • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyThis bookexplores a timely topic for philosophers, social scientists, and ...

• Author(s): Joaquin Jay Gonzalez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Human Services There are more senior citizens in the U.S. today than ever before. Public services for seniors are rapidly...

• Author(s): Naomi Zack | Ruth Sample • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: SocialZack addresses current upheavals with a new conception of the relationship between citi...

• Author(s): William G. Staples • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: CriminologyEveryday Surveillance is a provocative exploration of the myriad ways we are watched eac...

• Author(s): Christine Greenhow | Julia Sonnevend | Colin Agur • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Distance, Open & Online EducationLeading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, inc...

• Author(s): Andrew Parker • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralOriginally published in 1992, Nationalisms and Sexualities addresses questions of how notions of identity are shaped by discus...

• Author(s): Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralAn elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships ...

• Author(s): Karen Tranberg Hansen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialDistant Companions tells the fascinating story of the lives and times of domestic ...

• Author(s): Marilyn D. Button | Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poverty & Homelessness This collection of all new essays seeks to answer a series of question...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): Allyson Jule • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Women's StudiesIn this revised and updated 2nd edition of her pioneering textbook, Allyson Jule offers fresh insight in...