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As Japan shifted from an agricultural country before 1950 to an industrialized nation in less time than any other developed country, women felt the pressure of the shift.

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How far can an ethnic group in America maintain its identity before it is regarded as un-American The research in this book has been conducted in a metropolitan area among working-class adults. As well as mainstream black and white Americans, several other ethnic groups are included.

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Explores post colonial relationships with "the wild" in the US and Russia, using spaceships, horoscopes and dolphins as examples.

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In Cracking the Freemason's Code, Robert Cooper explains exactly who the Freemasons are and what they do.

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This book looks at schooling in segregated America.

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Landman studies four communally-oriented settings in Washington's urban environment. Landman shows how the participants in these economically related activities are socially bound together in a web of relations considered unusual in large American cities, and how these exceptionally connected urban lives prove very satisfactory.

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A collection of essays which examine responses to the struggle to live, in Southern England during 1740-1850. The responses ranged from, at the most extreme, sheep-stealing and incendiarism to joining in food riots in an attempt to impose a "moral economy".

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This vital book considers the compelling and addictive hold that racism has had on centuries of Americans, explores historical and contemporary norms complicit in the problem, and appeals to the U.S. government to improve race relations, rectify existent social imperfections, and guard against future race-based abuses.

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Leading scholars of the kibbutz update knowledge of this innovative society and draw parallels to changes occurring in the West.

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This book employs critical race theory as a theoretical and analytical framework to unveil how racial stratification shapes the socioeconomic outcomes and racial inequality in the labour market. The pages guide students interested in CRT and investigating racism, discrimination and inequality. -- .

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This book employs critical race theory as a theoretical and analytical framework to unveil how racial stratification shapes the socioeconomic outcomes and racial inequality in the labour market. The pages guide students interested in CRT and investigating racism, discrimination and inequality. -- .

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The various chapters on leadership development as practiced in both developed and developing countries provide valuable insight into the utility of the diversity-collaboration model.

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Can reading make us better citizens Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and Indigenous authors, poets, and performance artists, Crossing borders and queering citizenship theorises how reading can work as a empowering tool in contemporary civic struggles in the North America.

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Can reading make us better citizens Fusing queer theory, citizenship studies, and border studies in its exploration of seven U.S., Canadian, and Indigenous authors, poets, and performance artists, Crossing borders and queering citizenship theorises how reading can work as a empowering tool in contemporary civic struggles in the North America.

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In interviews in cities and towns across the United States, from New York to Los Angeles, and from Madison to Dallas, members of 40 black and white pairs of friends reflect on how they became friends, how racial issues are addressed, and how their friendships have influenced their views and, in some cases, their actions.

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This work explores different aspects of the encounter between males and Swedish sexual and cohabitation culture, and analyses this encounter in relationship to the important elements in the cultural processes and patterns that have shaped immigrant male gender-role socialisation.

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Portrays the crosscurrents created at the interface of urban industrial and rural peasant spheres. This book shows how wage labor was adopted by country folk who maintained ties to small-scale cultivation and indigenous traditions. It examines the cultural issues that animate peasant-worker life.

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In this study, chapter authors examine the growth of gerontology as a discipline, the phenomenon of ageism as a socio-cultural concept, identity politics in which older persons are perceived as belonging to a subculture, and images of the older body in cultural perspective.

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This collection of papers encourages social and biological scientists to question their presentations of African Americans and to recognize that afrocentricity is important in refocusing portrayals of African Americans.

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A companion volume to "Mass Media and Society", this textbook is an introduction to cultural studies, offering a critical guided tour through the key debates raised by feminism, postmodernism, the politics of identity and theories of ideology. It considers the communication circuit in its entirety.