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"Network Persistence and the Axis of Hierarchy" shows how networks, modestly redefined as a strong, yet imperfect tendency for pairings to recur day after day, that is, stickiness, imply a singular axis of stratification. This is contrary to the nearly universal insistence that stratification is multidimensional. Reanalysis of three central mobility data sets sustains the novel claim.

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Census decennial enumerations are utilized to achieve two useful estimates: (l) Annual series of estimates of births, birth rates, and fertility rates for the white population of the U.S. from 1855 to the present (the first set of data on an annual basis); (2) Adjusted single-year age distributions of native white population and estimated undercoun

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This is the first book in anthropology to provide strategies for the collection of qualitative and comparative data about aging, representing state-of-the-art techniques including cross-cultural and life-cycle studies of aging.

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Becoming a parent is a life changing experience and, like all major changes, parenthood can also be a source of strain. This title offers practical ideas to help get back some normality and restore the relationship.

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She let me go and disappeared ... without a backward glance. And I, I turned away, sick at heart, but not knowing ... that I had said goodbye to her forever. Now I wish, as much as I have ever wished for anything ... that I had been able to cage those precious minutes within the nets of gold I could not recognise as such.

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The book offers accessible explanations of some of Norbery Elias' key ideas. The book considers Elias' theories in relation to contemporary topics, and also seeks to 'locate' his work in relation to that of other key figures in modern sociology.

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The book offers accessible explanations of some of Norbery Elias' key ideas. The book considers Elias' theories in relation to contemporary topics, and also seeks to 'locate' his work in relation to that of other key figures in modern sociology.

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Richard Pells not only shows how the Europeans have resisted and altered American culture to fit their own needs and tastes, but how Americans were attracted to Europe's fashions and consumer goods just as Europeans were influenced by America's technology and mass entertainment.

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This book aims to explore the lived experience of workers suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from about one hundred peasant-workers. -- .

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Raising happy, successful children is a goal of every parent of gifted children. In On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children, the nation's leading authority on the psychology of gifted children offers advice and encouragement for both parents and teachers.

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On Their Own is meant to serve as a clarion call not only to policymakers, but to all Americans who care about the future of our young people.

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One striking feature of modern political and social development has been the construction of social systems encompassing more and more groups. The increase in social complexity, the authors of this volume contend, has reached a point where accepted concepts fail to describe social and political phenomena adequately. The studies in this book reevalu

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In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in peoples lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.

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In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in peoples lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.

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"The 12 community types that make up our nation"--Front cover.