Sociology and anthropology

Disproportionate attention has long been paid to males in human and other social systems.

Although psychologists by training, John and Elizabeth Newson have more aptly been described as pioneers in social ecology; they work from the conviction that the causes and the consequences of child-rearing attitudes can fruitfully be investigated only in the framework of the total social environment in which they occur.

Infant Care and Motherhood in an Urban Community investigates the behavior and attitudes of 709 mothers towards their year-old babies.

Innerworldly Individualism looks to colonial history, in particular, seventeenth-century New England, to understand the sources of modern nation building.

Innerworldly Individualism looks to colonial history, in particular, seventeenth-century New England, to understand the sources of modern nation building.

What is "e;too fat"e;?

How to Observe Morals and Manners is the first systematic and substantive treatise on the methodology of sociological research.

Since the early 1950s, the "e;decline of ideology"e; hypothesis has commanded a great deal of attention in the intellectual community at large.

This book analyzes Talcott Parsons' largest-scale effort to overcome the relativism and subjectivism of the social sciences.

Originally published in 1961, Images of the American City examines how Americans dealt with the rapid shock of urbanization as it evolved from an agricultural nation.

The criminal justice system has driven a wedge between black men and their children.

The criminal justice system has driven a wedge between black men and their children.

The republication of this book is eminently fitting at this time.

Challenging many of the assumptions scholars have made about the Cuban Revolution's impact on healthcare, this volume recounts one anthropologist's quest to discover the truth behind the complicated relationship between Cuba's revolution, politics, and healthcare system.

Challenging many of the assumptions scholars have made about the Cuban Revolution's impact on healthcare, this volume recounts one anthropologist's quest to discover the truth behind the complicated relationship between Cuba's revolution, politics, and healthcare system.

"e;Kingsley Davis (1908-1997) was one of the pioneers in social demography, and was particularly identified with the theory of the demographic transition.

"e;Kingsley Davis (1908-1997) was one of the pioneers in social demography, and was particularly identified with the theory of the demographic transition.

The goal of this book is to investigate why there are two distinct notions of liability in the legal and ethical systems of different societies; the relationship between two sets of criteria of liability and the individual's evolution from childhood adolescence.

The goal of this book is to investigate why there are two distinct notions of liability in the legal and ethical systems of different societies; the relationship between two sets of criteria of liability and the individual's evolution from childhood adolescence.

From the sociological point of view, adolescence traditionally has been described as a period of physical maturity and social immaturity.

"e;The most profound and enduring social theorist of sociology's classical period, Max Weber speaks as cogently to concerns of the new century as he did to those of the past.

This work is a meditation on the shaping of time and its impact on living with and understanding atrocity in South Africa in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

Life courses, both professional and personal, are often directed by unplanned experiences.

Professor Kriesberg explores in this book the many myths about the poor, the welfare dependents, and the husbandless mothers.

This book is about state socialism, not as a political system, but as an "e;ecosystem"e; of interactions between the state and the citizens it sought to control.

This book is about state socialism, not as a political system, but as an "e;ecosystem"e; of interactions between the state and the citizens it sought to control.

This volume is a revised edition of The Institute for Contemporary Study's report on national health insurance.

This volume is a revised edition of The Institute for Contemporary Study's report on national health insurance.

Morality was a dominant theme in the 1990s, but concerns about morality seem omnipresent in the first years of the third millennium.

Conflicting journalistic voices that were raised in the past have become such a jumble that merely identifying them is difficult.

Research on parenting through the life course has developed around two separate approaches.

Review essays and statements written for special occasions may reveal as much about the writer as those written about; this is the presumption undergirding this collection of thirty-five years of criticism and commentary by Irving Louis Horowitz.

Several contributions in this volume focus on the modern Middle East, with other articles examining justifications for war, the return of war veterans, white nationalists, and the activities of the Moral Majority.

Professor Slocum uses the concept of career as the central integrating idea for a wide range of information about contemporary work and occupations from current social science research, from historical sources, and from his own considerable personal experience and that of his students.

All people suffer instances of personal loss that cause distress.

Politics of Social Research addresses itself to the question of the behavior appropriate for social scientists conducting research sponsored by or otherwise involving government agencies-our own and those of other countries.

This path-breaking text deals with the effects of federal civil rights legislation on the behavior and attitudes of the inhabitants of a single county in Mississippi--Panola County.

This path-breaking text deals with the effects of federal civil rights legislation on the behavior and attitudes of the inhabitants of a single county in Mississippi--Panola County.

With a few notable exceptions, sociological studies of poor, native-born, non-ethnic whites in rural areas are rare.

With a few notable exceptions, sociological studies of poor, native-born, non-ethnic whites in rural areas are rare.

This volume examines the roots of pragmatist imagination and traces the influence of American pragmatism in diverse areas of politics, law, sociology, political science, and transitional studies.

Principles of Scientific Sociology represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought.

This book describes and analyzes, from an interdisciplinary point of view, those problems of youth that are currently objects of remedial action on both community and national levels.

Public Sociology features a wide-ranging discussion of the controversial model of a social science that reaches out to non-academic audiences, including both average citizens and policymakers.

Childhood in America has changed, and not for the better.

A core interest of social science is the study of stratification--inequalities in income, power, and prestige.

The sociology of knowledge is generally seen as part of the sociology of cultural products.

The sociology of knowledge is generally seen as part of the sociology of cultural products.

Most sociologists of religion describe a general decline in religious faith and practice in Europe over the last two centuries.

During the past several years the mass media in the United States has been awash with reports of priestly pedophilia, ecclesiastical cover-up, and clerical intimidation or financial settlements intended to silence victims.