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Three major social theories - mass society, pluralism and bureaucracy - are often employed to interpret and explain modern societies. This text seeks to clarify the background, context and major arguments of the theories, and assess the claims and validity of each.

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Max Weber is widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences. This book provides details about Weber's visit to the United States in 1904 with his wife Marianne - what he did, what he saw, whom he met and why, and how these experiences profoundly influenced Weber's thought on immigration, capitalism, science, and culture.

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This collection of essays focuses on Weber's political ideology as well as his political sociology. In the first section on ideology, scholars question whether Weber's political predictions were based on a realistic appraisal of social development or if his objectivity was compromised by events in Weimar Germany.

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Addresses how funerals may be created which are not only relevant for the bereaved, but which also have theological integrity. This book addresses how funerals may be created which are not only relevant for the bereaved, but also have theological integrity.

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Taking as its starting point the 'problem' of how the family has been mediated in popular film, television, literature and social policy over the last 50 years, this book explores the ways in which struggles over sexuality, identity, gender and power have informed the conceptualisation and representation of the family as an institution.

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This book is a collection of mortality abstracts based on recent follow-up studies on the results of health disorders from the abstracts and articles appearing recently in the Journal of Insurance Medicine.

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What role does sports medicine play in today's society This book analyzes the relationship between sport, medicine and health from the mid-19th century to today. It looks at both history of medicine and the history of sport to give a balanced view of the role of medicine in sport and how this has evolved over the past two centuries.

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From the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation can be--snarled traffic, polarized politics, overexploited resources, social problems that go ignored. The benefits to oneself of a free ride on the effo

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This new installment in the popular Seal educational series focuses on salient issues pertaining to why men are critical to the feminist movement

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Lewis A. Coser takes readers from the coffeehouses of 18th-century London to the mass-culture industries of today in search of a definition for "the intellectual". Describing the settings where intellectuals thrive and exploring the nature and contributions of various well-known groups, he discusses the various roles intellectuals play in society and why they matter.

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The author examines not only the imbalance in the marital fortunes of men and women but its effect on the roles of women in the community. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton Universi

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This collection contains thirteen essays by researchers studying children, adolescents, youth, and adults in a service organization family context, including the military, the State Department, international educators, and non-governmental organizations.

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This in-depth examination reviews fundamental changes of the past decade that have reduced homelessness in the United States and other Western democracies.

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This comprehensive book focuses on the history, geography, sociology, economics, and technological advancements of different sports played around the world.

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Argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This title provides information from societies representing 70 percent of the world's population.

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This book is a potpourri of the best, most usable, fun advice on how to be the kind of mother a daughter will want to be when she grows up and has a little girl of her own.

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The epidemic of scandals unleashed by the Savile Scandal highlights the precarious status of relations of trust. The rapid escalation of this crisis offers insights into the relationship between anxieties about childhood and the wider moral order. This book explains why western society has become so uncomfortable with the exercise of authority.

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Offers a window into gray zones through its look at the manufacture and exchange of illegal goods called homers, tolerated in a French aeronautic plant. This book argues that when patrolled, gray zones like the production of homers offer workplaces balanced opportunities for supervision as well as expression.

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The strange, startling, disturbing and utterly fascinating stories behind the world's most notorious celebrity deaths.