The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm. With a substantive new introduction on Freire's life and the remarkable impact of this book by writer and Freire confidant and authority Donaldo Macedo, this anniversary edition of Pedagogy of the Oppressed will inspire a new generation of educators, students, and general readers for years to come.

    Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the “new technical order” as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts “modern” and “traditional” functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of nonfunctional or “marginal” objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the “schizofunctional.” Finally, Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit and advertising for the commodification of everyday life.The System of Objects is a tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard, who emerges in retrospect as something of a lightning rod for all the live ideas of the day: Bataille's political economy of “expenditure” and Mauss's theory of the gift; Reisman's lonely crowd and the “technological society” of Jacques Ellul; the structuralism of Roland Barthes in The System of Fashion; Henri Lefebvre's work on the social construction of space; and last, but not least, Guy Debord's situationist critique of the spectacle.

    A reflective, moving account in which, with grace and clarity, Dr. Du Bois revised and incorporated his earlier works and added new sections.

    This definitive, magisterial study of football and society profiles includes interviews with all-time greats like Bobby Charlton, George Best, Alf Ramsay, Stanley Matthews, Matt Busby and Nat Lofthouse. It is a snapshot of a pivotal era in sporting history; changes and decisions were made in the sixties that would create the game we know today.

    Adorno in May-July 1968, the last lecture series before his death in 1969. Captured by tape recorder (which Adorno called "the fingerprint of the living mind"), these lectures present a somewhat different, and more accessible, Adorno from the one who composed the faultlessly articulated and almost forbiddingly perfect prose of the works published in his lifetime. Here we can follow Adorno's thought in the process of formation (he spoke from brief notes), endowed with the spontaneity and energy of the spoken word. The lectures form an ideal introduction to Adorno's work, acclimatizing the reader to the greater density of thought and language of his classic texts.Delivered at the time of the "positivist dispute" in sociology, Adorno defends the position of the "Frankfurt School" against criticism from mainstream positivist sociologists. He sets out a conception of sociology as a discipline going beyond the compilation and interpretation of empirical facts, its truth being inseparable from the essential structure of society itself. Adorno sees sociology not as one academic discipline among others, but as an over-arching discipline that impinges on all aspects of social life.Tracing the history of the discipline and insisting that the historical context is constitutive of sociology itself, Adorno addresses a wide range of topics, including: the purpose of studying sociology; the relation of sociology and politics; the influence of Saint-Simon, Comte, Durkheim, Weber, Marx, and Freud; the contributions of ethnology and anthropology; the relationship of method to subject matter; the problems of quantitative analysis; the fetishization of science; and the separation of sociology and social philosophy.

    Black Rage tells of the insidious effects of the heritage of slavery; describes love, marriage, and the family; addresses the sexual myths and fears of blacks and whites; chronicles how the schools fail the black child; examines mental illness among black people and the psychic stresses engendered by discrimination; and, finally, focuses on the miasma of racial hatred that envelops this country, why it exists, and what will surely happen if it is not soon dispelled.

    In a new Foreword, Francis Fukuyama assesses Huntington’s achievement, examining the context of the book’s original publication as well as its lasting importance.“This pioneering volume, examining as it does the relation between development and stability, is an interesting and exciting addition to the literature.”—American Political Science Review“’Must’ reading for all those interested in comparative politics or in the study of development.”—Dankwart A. Rustow, Journal of International Affairs

    Hailed by Martin Luther King Jr. as a "physician’s warning of approaching death, with a prescription for life," this historic study was produced by a presidential commission established by Lyndon Johnson, chaired by former Illinois governor Otto Kerner, and provides a riveting account of the riots that shook 1960s America. The commission pointed to the polarization of American society, white racism, economic inopportunity, and other factors, arguing that only "a compassionate, massive, and sustained" effort could reverse the troubling reality of a racially divided, separate, and unequal society. Conservatives criticized the report as a justification of lawless violence while leftist radicals complained that Kerner didn’t go far enough. But for most Americans, this report was an eye-opening account of what was wrong in race relations. Drawing together decades of scholarship showing the widespread and ingrained nature of racism, The Kerner Report provided an important set of arguments about what the nation needs to do to achieve racial justice, one that is familiar in today’s climate. Presented here with an introduction by historian Julian Zelizer, The Kerner Report deserves renewed attention in America’s continuing struggle to achieve true parity in race relations, income, employment, education, and other critical areas.

    

    Cornet Domhoff. He received Psychology degress from Duke University (BA), Kent State University (MA) & University of Miami (PhD). He's a Research Professor in psychology & sociology at the Univ. of California, Santa Cruz. His 1st book, Who Rules America?, was a controversial 1960s bestseller which argued that the USA is dominated by an elite ownership class both politically & economically. Domhoff was an assistant professor of psychology at Los Angeles State College in the early sixties. In 1965, he became an assistant professor at the University of California, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, where he's now professor of psychology & sociology. He's author of Who Rules America? (1st ed. 1967, most recent edition 2009) & many other well-known books in sociology & power structure research, as well as Finding Meaning in Dreams (1996) & The Scientific Study of Dreams (2003).

     The book is organized in four parts, each examining the one of the four major theoretical approaches to peace. The first part covers peace theory, exploring the epistemological assumptions of peace. In Part Two conflict theory is examined with an exploration of nonviolent and creative handling of conflict. Developmental theory is discussed in Part Three, exploring structural violence, particularly in the economic field, together with a consideration of the ways of overcoming that violence. The fourth part is devoted to civilization theory. This involves an

    During the 1840s he observed, documented, and described the state of working people. Mayhew's articles are unique for their remarkable level of detail, statistical analysis, and candid interviews with many colourful characters from London's working class. Volume 1 concerns itself primarily with the life of working class people plying their trade on the streets: Costermongers, market workers, refuse sellers, patterers, minstrels, pickpockets, widow and orphan street workers; their markets, entertainments, living conditions, etc. Reprint of 1861-1862 edition published by Griffin, Bohn, and Company with an added introduction by John. D. Rosenberg.

    That the concept of charisma is crucially important for understanding the processes of institution building is implicit in Weber's own writings, and the explication of this relationship is perhaps the most important challenge which Weber's work poses for modern sociology. Max Weber on Charisma and Institution Building is a volume in "The Heritage of Sociology," a series edited by Morris Janowitz. Other volumes deal with the writings of George Herbert Mead, William F. Ogburn, Louis Wirth, W. I. Thomas, Robert E. Park, and the Scottish Moralists—Adam Smith, David Hume, Adam Ferguson, and others.

    ForewordIntroductionThe Upanishads --Gautama --Shin Ichi Hisamatsu --The Bible --Heraclitus --Empedocles --Sophocles --Socrates and Plato --Aristotle --Lucretius --Epictetus --Plotinus --Sextus Empiricus --Saint Gregory of Nyssa --Saint Augustine --Saint Thomas Aquinas --Meister Eckhart --Nicolaus Cusanus --Marsillo Ficino --Pietro Popponazzi --Giovanni Pico della Mirandola --Erasmus of Rotterdam --Martin Luther --Thomas More --Juan Luis Vives --Paracelsus --Saint Teresa of Avila --Saint John of the Cross --Michel de Montaine --Rene Descartes --Baruch Spinoza --Blaise Pascal --Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz --Francis Bacon --Thomas Hobbes --John Locke --David Hume --Giambattista Vico --Jean-Jacques Rousseau --Immanuel Kant --Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel --Johann Gottfrid Herder --Jeremy Bentham --Arthur Schopenhauer --Auguste Comte --Ralph Waldo Emerson --Ludwig Feuerbach --Karl Marx --Soren Kierkegaard --Friedrch Nietzsche --William James --John Dewey --Sigmund Freud --Carl Gustav Jung --Henri Bergson --Edmund Husserl --Alfred North Whitehead --Miguel de Unamuno --Antonio Machado --Max Scheler --Nicolas Berdyaev --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin --Jose Ortega y Gasset --Martin Heidegger --Francisco Romero --Lewis Mumford --Erich Fromm --Jean Paul Sartre --Simone Weil --Edith Stein --Adam Schaff --David RiesmanBibliography

    

    Born is one of the founders of quantum mechanics, a major intellectual accomplishment of the twentieth century, comparable to such other feats in scientific thought as the Newtonian philosophy and the Darwinian revolution. For his contributions to quantum mechanics, Born was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics. One learns that Born did not become involved in nuclear fusion and its applications to the atomic bomb. This enables him to consider the ethical and political questions connected with the bomb from an objective viewpoint. It is to these questions that most of the essays in the volume are addressed. Born is concerned with two major questions: Can human affairs be regulated without the use of force? Can the current decline of ethics and morality be reversed? More simply stated, Is there hope for man's future? His position ranges from darkest pessimism and despair to optimism and hope. In the moving final essay he exhorts: "But we must hope!" He speaks of hope as "a moving force", for he is convinced: Only if we hope do we act in order to bring fulfillment of the hope nearer." It is Born's dedication as a teacher and his deep insight into the material universe enlightened by philosophical understanding that makes this collection of writings so profound. And it is his social conscience that makes the essays so relevant and so significant

    A widely influential analysis, the book applied the sociological insights of Max Weber to interviews Schurmann conducted in Hong Kong with refugees and wide reading in Chinese newspapers and documents. The book demonstrates how Mao Zedong's "dialectical conception of Chinese society" structured his organizational approach to the Chinese Communist Party and the government. The book argued that a "consistent yet changing ideology" created a web of organization which covered and penetrated all aspects of Chinese society, building from the 1930s.

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    For the author has lifted the lid of secrecy from this controversy-charged, closely guarded subject to allow public scrutiny for the first time..."—inside cover, 1968

    The author's analysis continues to be a useful model for students and policy-makers today.

    

    Nisbet considers such subjects as power, community, culture, and the university. He deals directly with the values of authority, tradition, hierarchy, and community on the one hand, and individualism, secularism, and revolt on the other. Nisbet's underlying argument is that there is a close historical relationship between the distribution of power in democratic society and the displacement of social class, kinship, neighborhood, and the church. The book challenges concerned Americans to understand and address the basic conflicts confronting contemporary society.In his introduction, Robert G. Perrin shows how the chapters in this volume reflect Nisbet's sociological vision exemplified throughout his career. Perrin notes that when these writings first appeared, they stimulated and informed debate on a broad range of topics such as value conflict, leadership, community, sociology, social class, technology, and the university. They also foreshadowed works yet to come in Nisbet's long and distinguished intellectual journey.Originally published in 1968, Tradition and Revolt was greeted with thoughtful reviews in leading sociology journals. Writing in the American Journal of Sociology, Joseph R. Gusfield called it "so welcome a publication," one containing "remarkable contributions to the analysis of modern society." Nisbet's vision of Western social life as shaped by the struggle between the dialectically opposed values of tradition and modernity illuminates contemporary issues. Tradition and Revolt will be of particular value to sociologists, cultural historians, and political theorists.Robert A. Nisbet (1913-1996) was Albert Schweitzer Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at Columbia University, and before that, dean of the School of Humanities at the University of California at Riverside. Among his many books are History of the Idea of Progress, The Sociological Tradition, The Degradation of the Academic Dogma, and Teachers and Scholars, all available from Transaction.Robert G. Perrin is professor of sociology and director of graduate studies at the University of Tennessee.

    It comprises four essays: 'Illicit Distillation', 'Ether Drinking in Ulster', 'Illegitimacy before the Famine' and 'Catholicism and Marriage in the Century after the Famine'. As a historian Professor Connell had a highly individualistic style, avoided generalizations and scrupulously documented his assertions. Much of his wealth of documentation was drawn from the parliamentary papers, but he also used the invaluable material for social history collected by the Irish Folklore Commission, as well as the conclusions drawn by various commentators on the Irish social scene in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

    Crowd behavior, panics, fads, crazes are all forms of collective be­havior. The common definitive characteristic of such phenomena is a spontaneous response of a number of people in a situation in which there is no common cultural definition of what is appropriate. What occurs, therefore, is an emergent social form whose qualities can often be specified only after they develop. In most cases, the response is an active one, the collectivity does something with refer­ence to some element in the situation -- they lynch the prisoner, run from the fire, buy the presumed valuable commodity, and so on.The form of collective behavior represented by the case analyzed in this volume is somewhat different from most other forms. It is generally called "hysterical contagion," and it consists of the dissemi­nation within a collectivity of a symptom or set of symptoms for which no physical explanation can be found. In such cases, people get sick from "gas" but no gas can be found; they get "food poisoning" but no toxic element can be found in the food; or, as in our case, they suffer from "poisonous insect bites" but no poisonous insect can be found. The noteworthy phenomenon, therefore, is not an active response to some element in the situation; it is a passive experience. The actors do not do something so much as something happens to them. In fact, we are more likely to think of them as victims rather than actors.Although it can safely be said in general that there have not been many empirical studies of collective behavior, it is even more true that studies of hysterical contagion are hard to find. This fact made the prospect of carrying out the study reported here both more exciting and more fearsome. There was little to go on, and there was even basis for doubting that anything of value could be done. Since the study could be made only after the event occurred, and since there seemed to be little order to the series of events that constituted the contagion, the usual tools of behavioral science seemed less than adequate for the task. And yet the challenge of coming to grips with such an amorphous but significant social phenomenon is great, and we present the analysis of this single case in the hope that it will stimulate further research in this area of inquiry. It will be apparent that we have not solved all of the problems of such research, but if what follows indicates that these problems are worthy of continued systematic investigation, the effort will have been justified.The book has been organized to reflect the kind of problem faced in undertaking this study. Part I consists of two chapters which report what was "given" at the time the study got under way. Chap­ter 1 provides an outline of the external facts of the epidemic as reported by the various mass media and as reconstructed during our initial contacts with officials who had been involved. It thus relates what we knew about this particular case when we planned the field work. Chapter 2 is a summary of what we saw as the most relevant ideas current in the literature at the time and represents the con­ceptual framework with which we approached the investigation. Part II reports the outcome of our efforts within this context. It con­sists of seven chapters which present our solutions to the problems of research design and analysis (Chapter 3), the findings relevant to the major dimensions investigated (Chapters 4 through 7), and sum­mary and concluding statements (Chapters 8 and 9).This book owes its existence to the generous support of two organizations. Funds from the Office of Naval Research ( Group Psychology Branch) through Contract Nor 181 C11 (Project NR177-470) made it possible to act promptly when our suspicion of extensive hysterical contagion was aroused through local news­paper reports. A grant from the National Science Foundation ( NSFGS-89) enabled us to carry out the study. We want to express hereour special appreciation to the responsible administration, LuigiPetrullo of ONR and Robert L. Hall of NSF, for the flexibility and promptness with which they responded to our needs and without which it would not have been possible to take advantage of this unique situation for scientific purposes.Like other research projects of this magnitude, this study owes much to help of colleagues, staff, and participants in the field. We recognize especially the contribution of Norman Miller in the early stages of the research, in the initial contacts with plant management, the design of the study and construction of the questionnaire.We appreciate the excellent interviewing by the field staff of the National Opinion Research Center under the direction of Galen Gockel. The further processing of the data was aided materially by a group of research assistants at Duke: A. Clarke Davis, Carl Hirsch, Patricia B. Frazer, Robert H. Roth, and Frank D. Bean, assisted in coding by Frances Anderson and Mary Sargent. The computations were conducted by Duke University Computation Center which is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.Mary L. Brehm undertook the demanding task of the final editing of the manuscript and preparation of the index, and we are grateful for this essential contribution. We also wish to acknowledge the skillful typing of the manuscript by Ann Boneau and Susan Wright.We have also profited from comments on earlier versions of the manuscript by Arlene Daniels, Kurt Lang, and Guy E. Swanson.Finally, we must acknowledge, by necessity anonymously, our gratitude to the workers and officials of Montana Mills (especially "Hiram L. Lamont," the personnel manager who cooperated so splendidly with the research group), to "Dr. Joseph R. John" of the Communicable Diseases Center who gave us valuable first-hand medical information, and to those associated with the various media of mass communication who have permitted us the use of their re­ports in order that the immediate impact of the incident can be portrayed.A. C. K.K. W. B.