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Despite the recent growth of research on social problems facing the people of sub-Saharan Africa, there remains a critical lack of conceptual, epistemological, and empirical research and documentation.

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Globalization dramatically changed the way business is conducted in the apparel manufacturing industry. This title combines an analysis of apparel manufacturing with a discussion of how social responsibility can influence corporate strategy and decisions made throughout the global supply chain.

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In a variety of ways the contributors to this volume address the issue of how biological factors may interact with social experiences to affect social stratification.

Chapters 1 and 2 present a detailed review of the issues surrounding how social stratification is defined and subdivided.

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This is the second volume of a two volume work on biosocial approaches to social stratification and human inequality. The contributors explore topics that environmentalists shun, and discuss how the effect of biological variables on social stratification may have evolutionary consequences.

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Examines the relationship between institutional structures and community integration.

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This book explores the many ways that digital communication media, such as online forums, social networking sites, and mobile applications, enhance and constrain social support in health-related contexts.

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The first collection dedicated to analysing the casual, social, and mobile gaming movements that are changing games the world over.

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This book addresses the major challenge for HIV prevention: that is, to reach beyond the limitations of biomedical approaches to disease and to design prevention strategies informed by and connected with the social realities of peoples lives.

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Careful followers of reform movements within Communist bloc countries will profit from this new work by a specialist on Hungarian politics.

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Through the lens of a neologism, sociocide, the killing of society, Keith Doubt provides persuasive evidence of the social, political, and human consequences of todays wars, focusing on war crimes, scapegoating, torture, and capitalism.

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The book examines the world of sociology and its global features and trends. It coversthemes such as: sociologies in the world, major research areas in sociology, collaborationand interdisciplinarity, and contemporary challenges, pertinent issues and debates.

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This book offers a series of critical discussions of how sociology is responding to the challenges of globalization, to local counter-reactions to them, to the many ways the global impacts our lives, and to the new questions about research this poses.

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In this book, Karsten examines the consequences of American military life from the Revolutionary War to the present. A long introduction, containing the author's survey and general conclusions, comprises the first section. The rest of the book is made up of source material--graphs, tables, and first-hand contemporary accounts.

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Drawing on in-depth interviews, archived oral histories, and ethnographic observation, this book highlights the struggle of a key group of Black and women longshore workers who fought against and struggled with racism and sexism in the ports of Southern California.

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Drawing on in-depth interviews, archived oral histories, and ethnographic observation, this book highlights the struggle of a key group of Black and women longshore workers who fought against and struggled with racism and sexism in the ports of Southern California.

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"One of Africa's greatest writers" (San Francisco Chronicle) makes an impassioned plea for the resurrection of African language--and African culture itself

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A tell-it-like-it-is look at black, middle-class women's tumultuous search for love and partnership.

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