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A distinctive and accessible introductory text that presents social theory not as a specialist subject, but as a relevant resource for anyone wanting to explain social phenomenon. The text actively encourages those who are new to social theory, as well as more advanced students, to develop and practice their own capacities for social explanation.

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Its a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Rene C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide insight on enduring-and pressing-issues of geopolitics, epidemics, aging, friendship and humanitarian action and on the meaning and meaningfulness of teaching and writing.

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Its a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Rene C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide insight on enduring-and pressing-issues of geopolitics, epidemics, aging, friendship and humanitarian action and on the meaning and meaningfulness of teaching and writing.

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For teachers, the detailed analysis of texts and the method for determining realization rules will help in guiding students who must understand and produce research articles.

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Fables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties in the modern United States.

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This book provides a comprehensive examination of the human face, providing fascinating information from biological, cultural, and social perspectives.

Our faces identify who we arenot only what we look like and what ethnicities we belong to, but they can also identify what religions we practice and what personal ideologies we have.

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This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and classed inequalities. -- .

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This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and classed inequalities. -- .

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Families have become an increasingly important source of support for the elderly, and gerontologists are directing more and more attention to older adults and their families.

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An in-depth and multifaceted examination of the contemporary American family, this introductory handbook is the only one of its kind and presents a solid, authoritative overview.

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This volume will be of interest to those concerned with family studies and family history, global environmental history, and the history of disease, as well as those concerned with demographic history.

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Representing new approaches to the study of the family and historical demography, this collection of essays analyzes the relationships of demographic processes in different population groups to household structure and family organization, and their implications for family behavior. Emphasizing dynamic rather than structural factors, the essays thus

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This analysis is based upon a study of 1,165 couples, all of whom had two children by the time of the interviews and lived in one of the Standard Metropolitan Areas. Its findings shed new light on the relationship between fertility-planning behavior and such variables as socio-economic status, social mobility aspirations, adherence to traditional v

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Mrs. St. Ehrlich, a leading Yugoslav sociologist, seized the opportunity just before World War II to examine objectively the fast-vanishing style of life of Yugoslav peasants and villagers. This book, based on a widely distributed questionnaire and many interviews, provides a new picture, based on sympathetic understanding of family relationships a

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Americans were acutely aware of the need to create a stable and cohesive society firmly founded on the family and traditional family values. The roles of all family members are defined and information on daily family life, the role of the family in society, and the ever-changing definition of family are discussed.

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Chapter one covers population dynamics, with a focus on general population characteristics and trends in population growth through fertility, mortality, and migration.