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This collection brings together a dozen academics from diverse racial, ethnic, and gender perspectives to explore race in a postmodern way.

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Reflects the wide-spread belief that the twenty-first century is evolving in a significantly different way to the twentieth, which witnessed the advance of human rationality and technological progress, including urbanisation, and called into question the public and cultural significance of religion.

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Reflects the wide-spread belief that the twenty-first century is evolving in a significantly different way to the twentieth, which witnessed the advance of human rationality and technological progress, including urbanisation, and called into question the public and cultural significance of religion.

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In this title, Canbrera argues for the inclusion of language in a new model of social history that challenges traditional historiographical theory.

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The third and final book in Stanley's three-volume group for all grade levels, this work simplifies teaching the research process with step-by-step instructions that are adaptable and comprehensive, geared especially for your youngest students.

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Tackles the critical question of how people of diverse cultures confront the common problems that arise with global integration. This book reveals these impacts on an urban US community, on Mandalay rice cultivators, on Mayan and Andean peasants and miners. It is for anthropologists and other social scientists engaged in ethnographic research.

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Providing a conceptual and historical framework for the practice of applied sociology, this work profiles a variety of practicing sociologists and offers case studies in the fields of education, organizational development, work and labour and programme evaluation.

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Providing a conceptual and historical framework for the practice of applied sociology, this work profiles a variety of practicing sociologists and offers case studies in the fields of education, organizational development, work and labour and programme evaluation.

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Ole Bruun's work depicts the life of a community of Mongolian livestock herders as they begin to adjust to life outside of their contained Soviet-style collectives. The author identifies and addresses the most essential conditions for their continued existence in the age of the market the adaptability of their own culture and working strategies, government policy, and international attention.

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Developing directly from Fuller's recent book Humanity 2.0, this is the first book to seriously considerwhat a 'post-' or 'trans'-' human state of being might mean for who we think we are, how we live, what we believe and what we aim to be.

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This "inspiring, informative, mind-opening book" (New York Times) provides a new vision on aging, retirement, and the role of older Americans in the 21st century

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Offering an overview of economic sociology, this book advances the field theoretically by highlighting, in one analysis, the crucial economic roles of both interests and social relations. It examines the range of economic institutions and explicates the relationship of the economy to politics, law, culture, and gender.

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This volume focuses on the questions raised by diversity in America, the social problems that result from that diversity, and the issues and debates among scholars with regard to it. The book is intended for those already familiar with the cultural diversity of America.

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This volume focuses on the questions raised by diversity in America, the social problems that result from that diversity, and the issues and debates among scholars with regard to it. The book is intended for those already familiar with the cultural diversity of America.

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Illuminates the cultural processes through which sentiments, desires, and commitments motivate and shape capitalist family firms. This book shows how flexible specialization is produced through the cultural dynamics of capital accumulation, management succession, firm expansion and diversification, and the reproduction and division of firms.

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This book looks at the routine taken-for-granted features of work as experienced by professional women in bureaucratic environments.

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Organization theories have given only brief attention to the role of professionals in the workplace. She also found that many professionals within an organization had as much in common with staff from other disciplines as they had with professional colleagues.

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Chapters 4 through 6 propose two alternative hypotheses for ethnic stratification in Israel and test them by examining the attainment process in the two main Jewish ethnic groups.

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This collection of essays by prominent lawyers, theologians, social scientists, policy makers, and activists examines the reasons why the once-treasured institution of marriage has been steadily displaced by a culture of divorce and unwed parenthood in the United States of America.