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Based on comprehensive statistical data and detailed analyses of case histories drawn from private practice, maternity homes, and a county hospital, this book examines the societal, familial, and psychological factors in illegitimacy.

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"As different as we all are in situations, needs, and views, we hold the world in common. In this brilliant ethnography, Colin Jerolmack vividly highlights this basic environmental conundrum with his compelling account of the local conflicts over fracking in the countryside around Williamsport, Pennsylvania"--

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Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan were unusually urbanized premodern societies where about one half of the world's urban population lived as late as 1800. Gilbert Rozman has drawn on both sociology and history to develop original methods of illuminating the historical urbanization of China and Japan and to provide a way of relating urban patterns to

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A study of journal-keeping in a university science class. The author attended the class as an observer, took notes, held interviews and analyzed the journal entries made by the students. She examines and considers their journal-keeping activity as the outcome of a socio-political process.

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Illustrates how numbers can be used successfully for research purposes - without you ever having to consider confidence intervals, probability densities, Gaussian distributions, or any of those complicated and generally useless things that appear in treatises on statistics. This guide is useful for educational and social science researchers.

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Why is there such an active and ongoing resistance to mandatory vaccination This book examines why vaccination as a public health measure continues to be highly controversial.

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Why employees of pioneering Internet companies chose to invest their time, energy, hopes, and human capital in start-up ventures.

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This volume presents a balanced survey of children and violence in the United States-specifically those children who commit acts such as murder, rape, and assault.

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This edited reader showcases classic studies on the Black Church and religion by a pioneer of American sociology. Utilizing statistical, ethnographic, literary, and historical data, W. E. B. Du Bois captured the vibrant role the Black Church played in the African American community at the turn of the twentieth century.

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This edited reader showcases classic studies on the Black Church and religion by a pioneer of American sociology. Utilizing statistical, ethnographic, literary, and historical data, W. E. B. Du Bois captured the vibrant role the Black Church played in the African American community at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Wealth, Whiteness, and the Matrix of Privilege reports on interviews with members of exclusive country clubs in the Northeast. The club members explain their exclusive and sometimes sexist practices. Their talk both relies on and reproduces popular discourse. The author shows how club members end up justifying and maintaining their class, race, and gender privileges.

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The development of theorems in logic is generally thought to be a solitary and purely cerebral activity, and therefore unobservable by sociologists. This book challenges this notion by tracing the history of one well-known example in the field of artificial intelligence - a theorem on the foundations of fuzzy logic.

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Since its birth, industrial capitalism has been punctuated by the need to find new ways to develop institutions that make the capitalist production process socially sustainable. These transitions are examined in the contemporary climate by a collection of world renowned thinkers. -- .

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Since its birth, industrial capitalism has been punctuated by the need to find new ways to develop institutions that make the capitalist production process socially sustainable. These transitions are examined in the contemporary climate by a collection of world renowned thinkers. -- .

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This guide for fathers focuses on building the right relationships with their daughters rather than on merely doing the right things.

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America is preoccupied with race statistics--perhaps more than any other nation. Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent social policy, or cloud that reality and confuse social policy Does America still have a color line Who is on which side Does it have a different "race" line--the nativity line--separating the native