Best of
Social-Science
1975
Ethnic America: A History
Thomas Sowell - 1975
This classic work by the distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups -- the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans.
Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
Raymond Williams - 1975
Now revised to include new words and updated essays, Keywords focuses on the sociology of language, demonstrating how the key words we use to understand our society take on new meanings and how these changes reflect the political bent and values of society.
Whole Child, Whole Parent
Polly Berrien Berends - 1975
This fourth edition includes new material for contemporary parents on anger, children's dreams, maintaining individual and family life, marital as well as parental life, and many new personal anecdotes. It is the perfect guide "not merely for parents who want to raise their children in the best manner possible, it is for all people, including adults who want to raise themselves." (M. Scott Peck, from the foreword).Whether exploring love and discipline or bedtime and storybook reading, Berends shows the practical relevance of spiritual insights to the most ordinary parental tasks.
Unmasking the Face: A Guide to Recognizing Emotions from Facial Clues
Paul Ekman - 1975
The authors of UNMASKING THE FACE explain how to identify these basic emotions correctly and how to tell when people try to mask, simulate, or neutralize them. It features several practical exercises that help actors, teachers, salesmen, counselors, nurses, law-enforcement personnel and physicians -- and everyone else who deals with people -- to become adept, perceptive readers of the facial expressions of emotions.
Platform for Change
Stafford Beer - 1975
His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know." Dr Russell L Ackoff, The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania. USA. This is a highly original book both in content and format. It presents thirteen `arguments for change', these are linked by a personal commentary, and by a deeper, `metalinguistic', commentary. Platform for Change is completely self-contained, does not deal at all with the nature of viable systems, but is directed towards the hope that our planet may yet remain viable--and the human race survive.
An Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences
Charles A. Lave - 1975
The book describes models of individual choice, exchange, adaptation, and diffusion. Throughout, student participation in analytical thinking is encouraged. Originally published in 1975 by HarperCollins Publishers.
Conflict Sociology: A Sociological Classic Updated
Randall Collins - 1975
The first edition represented the most powerful and comprehensive statement of conflict theory in its time. Here, Sanderson has retained the core chapters and added discussions on Collins's and others' work in recent years. An afterword summarizes Collins's latest forays into microsociological theorizing and attempts to demonstrate how his newer microsociology and older macrosociology are connected.
Implicit Meanings: Selected Essays in Anthropology
Mary Douglas - 1975
This book provides a splendid answer as to why anthropology goes on mattering and also to why no surgery can separate it from sociology '-The Economist from the reviews of the first edition This new edition of a classic work provides an excellent introduction to the thought of anthropologist Mary Douglas. First published to great acclaim in 1975, Mary Douglas has now revised the text to include additional chapters and a new introduction.Implicit Meanings includes writings on the key themes which are associated with Mary Douglas's work and which have had a major influence on anthropological thought, such as: *food *pollution *risk *animals *myth. Among the new pieces inluded in this edition are: The Lele of the Kasai * Techniques of Socrcery Control in Central Africa * The Lele Revisited * Obituary of Godfrey Lienhardt * The Depolitzation of Risk * Rightness of Categories
Twilight of Authority
Robert A. Nisbet - 1975
Now we are not so sure.” So wrote Robert Nisbet in the first edition of
Twilight of Authority
, published by Oxford University Press in 1975. “The centralization and, increasingly, individualization of power is matched in the social and cultural spheres by a combined hedonism and egalitarianism, each in its own way a reflection of the destructive impact of power on the hierarchy that is native to the social bond,” he writes.Robert Nisbet (1913–1996) taught at Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, Smith College, and the University of Bologna.Robert G. Perrin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Cultural Anthropology
Paul G. Hiebert - 1975
This introduction to the field of cultural anthropology from a Christian perspective exposes students to the excitement and significance of human history and culture.
Instant Cities: Urbanization and the Rise of San Francisco and Denver
Gunther Barth - 1975
Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications
Oliver E. Williamson - 1975
Beyond the Cross and the Switchblade
David Wilkerson - 1975
This follow-up account includes stories about the people who are well-known through the pages of the first book, and about himself and his wife Gwen. Gwen, for example, had a severe bout of cancer, but through it they grew closer together.David Wilkerson also tells about what happened to his work after publication of "The Cross and the Switchblade", about the film, and Pat Boone's role in it. This is more than a gossipy behind-the-scenes story. In each chapter there are accounts of spiritual adventures. "It took me years to discover the premier lesson, that God has a timing all His own, and that I must not be impatient when His timing doesn't coincide with mine.""The spirit of God is still seen changing lives and transforming hopeless cases into triumphant witnesses." — Methodist Recorder