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Douglas S. Massey is Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of The Source of the River (Princeton) and American Apartheid. He is Past President of the American Sociological Association.
Somewhere in the 1970s liberals in the United States lost their way. After successes like the New Deal, they became arrogant. So argues Douglas Massey in Return of the "L" Word. Faced with the difficult politics of race...
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In this new collection, Kenn Harper shares tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how these came to coexist-and sometimes clash-in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, Anglican and Catholic missionaries came to the North to proselytize among the Inuit, with often unexpected and sometimes tragic results. This collection includes stories of shamans and priests, hymns and ajaja songs, and sealskin churches, drawing on first-hand...
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Rogers Brubaker is professor of sociology and UCLA Foundation Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles.
How the transgender experience opens up new possibilities for thinking about gender and race
In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "outed" by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the media about the fluidity of gender...
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From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the chivalrous planter, white-columned mansions, and even bolls of cotton. In Dreaming of Dixie, Karen Cox shows that the chief purveyors of nostalgia for the Old South were outsiders of the region, playing...
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Our culture and tradition are fading away with great speed. As one of our culture's components and ingredients, the original procedure for customary marriage is seriously on the verge of collapse. The practice of our traditional marriage procedures is diminishing by you and me mainly because of the introduction of western ideologies, and also by self-denial, our idleness, negligence, copy and paste ideology, abandonment of our vernacular, unwillingness...
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A Is for Ally, Advocate, Anti-Racist, Ancestors, and Assembly
Using simple explanations and appealing illustrations in a familiar A-to-Z format, The Young Activist's Dictionary of Social Justice will teach kids the new vocabulary of change.
Vetted by an anti-bias, anti-racism educator, this essential new resource is packed with easily understandable definitions of timely concepts. Each beautifully designed spread represents a letter and provides...
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Most people over 50 are grandparents, but few have preparation for this significant role. In Being Grandma and Grandpa, sociologist Emily Stier Adler and psychologist Michele Hoffnung draw on their professional knowledge, their own experiences as involved grandparents of 10 grandchildren between them, and interviews with more than two hundred active grandmothers and grandfathers, to describe contemporary grandparenthood and offer advice. The authors...
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The Joy of Tippling is a toast to the importance of drinking together, crafted by the ultimate tippler. Like Ray Oldenburg's bestselling The Great Good Place, in which he coined the now-famous term "third places," his latest book is packed with factual information, humor and wit, personal insights, and sound sociological observations. The Joy of Tippling is a celebration of third places, and a call to community. Ray Oldenburg is known internationally...
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San Carlos de Bariloche es una ciudad que supone simultaneidades de prácticas, encuentros, intereses contrapuestos y desigualdades.
Para estudiarla se ponen en juego especificidades disciplinarias y se entraman diálogos, produciendo conocimientos interdisciplinarios que alientan a seguir indagando en gestión ambiental, urbana y de desarrollo local.
San Carlos de Bariloche es un espacio urbano al sur del continente que supone simultaneidades...
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This book deconstructs the case study, describes the case writing process and explains how a good case study is composed. It is a reference book that accompanies case writers on their case writing journey. It serves as a guide for writers to develop case studies for teaching, research, and knowledge-capture. There are illustrations and charts to help writers visualise concepts, signpost ideas, break down complex information and apply techniques...
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Extrait : "On conçoit quel fut l'ébranlement produit par la Révolution de juillet 1830 sur la société parisienne. Ce coup de tonnerre devait soudainement disperser "tous ces oiseaux qui ne chantent pas pendant la tempête," comme dit le poète allemand ; et la perturbation sociale fut d'autant plus forte (il importe de le constater) qu'il y avait encore, à cette époque, des convictions politiques assez ardentes ..."
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A Global Idea outlines how youth-as shown by the Arab Spring uprisings and subsequent state responses-became a prominent social and political category during the first two decades of the twenty-first century in the Middle East. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, interview data, and textual analysis, Mayssoun Sukarieh explains that the spread of youth as an important category is linked to the operation of a "global youth development complex," a diverse...
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The Embrace of Buildings provides an overview of the key factors, topics, and issues in Anglo-American urbanism: the origins and development of the suburban ideal, the role of federal policies and spending priorities in shaping the built environment, the rise of the private automobile as the primary mode of transportation, the effects of functional zoning laws, the relation between the public realm and the quality of civic discourse, the influence...
2354) All Alone in the World
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One in ten American children has a parent under criminal justice supervision-incarcerated, on probation, or on parole. One in thirty-three American children-and one in eight African American children-goes to sleep without access to a parent because that parent is in jail. Despite these staggering numbers, the children of prisoners remain largely invisible to society.
Following in the tradition of the bestseller Random Family, journalist Nell Bernstein...
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Social Sustainability HANDBOOK for Community-Builders clearly describes the two sub-divisions of sustainability. Material sustainability is quantity-object based. Social Sustainability.is quality-value based. Material sustainability is, improved by increasing the quantity available while decreasing usage, reusing, recycling and re-purposing material resources. Social sustainability is, improved by improving the individual's ability to participate...
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The first component of intelligence involves effective adaptation to an environment. In order to adapt effectively, organizations require resources, capabilities at using them, knowledge about the worlds in which they exist, good fortune, and good decisions. They typically face competition for resources and uncertainties about the future. Many, but possibly not all, of the factors determining their fates are outside their control. Populations of organizations...
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This challenges the conventional wisdom about participatory democracy.
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with activists, Francesca Polletta upends the notion that participatory democracy is worthy in purpose but unworkable in practice. Instead, she shows that social movements have...
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Extrait : "Avec les heures avancées de la soirée, dès que le silence s'est fait sur Paris et que lentement, comme à regret semble-t-il, le soleil a disparu derrière les hautes maisons dont il a, un instant, incendié les toits, on dirait que, tout à coup, la ville se transforme ainsi qu'en un changement à vue. Même l'aspect topographique paraît se modifier..."
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Psy-Complex in Question traces a series of key debates in and against the psy-complex through critical reviews of twenty-five key texts over the last twenty-five years, with an emphasis on recent critical psychological, psychoanalytic, and critical social theory contributions to how we think about human agency and subjectivity. The reviews together set out the unfolding context for the debate, and situate the texts under discussion in the crosscutting...
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Conversations About Language & Culture includes the following 5 carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:
1.Babbling Barbarians: How Translators Keep Us Civilized - A Conversation with David Bellos,...
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