Sociology and anthropology

Sex pervades our culture, going far beyond the confines of the bedroom into the workplace, the church, and the media.

In these stormy times, voices from all fronts call for change.

The eighteenth century saw the second Iron Age.

How to Fight Sexism in the ChurchDespite the real progress that has been made in recent years, women continue to be silenced, wounded, and relegated to the sidelines in our churches.

In Nigerian Journalism and the Digital Age, Adeyanju Apejoye, Andrew Danjuma Dewan, and Seamus Simpson explore the extent to which a globally accessible online communication environment may be poised to provide the conditions for Nigeria to adopt, strategically, elements of 21st-century online mass communication with the potential for significant political and social development.

Un libro pensado para familias con adolescentes que buscan pautas educativas y de comportamiento con las que hacer frente a ese periodo de la vida en el que los hijos inician el tránsito hasta la vida adulta.

How do we live ethical lives alongside others?

'Top-notch'Good Housekeeping - BEST PARENTING BOOKS'Helen has a way to take big ideas and convey them with warmth and wisdom' Dr Rangan Chatterjee'A well researched study injected with humour and humanity' Mail on Sunday*Featured on The Happiness Lab with Dr Laurie Santos*After a decade of living in Denmark and raising a family there, Helen Russell noticed that Nordic children are different.

Etnografía e historia de la antropología en México.

Adolfo F.

Here is the first social history devoted to the common soldier in the Russian army during the first half of the 19th-century--an examination of soldiers as a social class and the army as a social institution.

A distinguished Japanese scholar counterbalances the current preoccupation among sociologists with childhood socialization by exploring the changes in values and attitudes among adults in Japan before and after World War II.

Dusty Ray Spencer was seventy-four years old.

The main contribution of this book lies in its focus on real alternatives in future population growth.

Launching a new series, Monographs in Behavior and Ecology, this work is an intensive study of five species of New World monkeys--all omnivores with a diet of fruit and small prey.

Welcome to Death Incorporated — the only organization with a 100% membership rate, a 0% resignation policy, and a perfect delivery record since the beginning of recorded time.

This handbook introduces the concept of transformational wisdom as the missing component to build a more sustainable future and address the world’s most pressing challenges.

Professor Walens shows that the Kwakiutl visualize the world as a place of mouths and stomachs, of eaters and eaten.

The receding of the ice in the last Pleistocene Ice Age, the resulting dessication, and the emigration of peoples into river valleys and other places where control of water required new forms of civilization are here seen as the chief causes of the origin of the seven primary societies-Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indian, Cretan, Chinese, Middle American, and Andean.

The Roadmap for an Islamic RevolutionHow can a fragmented Ummah rise again to establish the global socio-political justice of Islam?

There is a man who wakes up one morning as the only person left on Earth who can speak his own native language.

This treatise on the demography of sub-Saharan Africa contains materials on age and sex composition, fertility, and mortality.

This sequel to the first volume of Ritual Kinship (Princeton, 1980) completes a comprehensive account of one of the most pervasive and significant of Latin American institutions.

This study of a northern Spanish community shows how the residents of Santa MarAa del Monte have acted together at critical times to ensure the survival of their traditional forms of social organization.

Using the assumptions of rationality and self-interest common to economic analysis, Professors Frohlich, Oppenheimer, and Young develop a profit-making theory of political behavior as it pertains to the supply of collective goods-defense, law and order, clean air, highways.

Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "e;cargo cults"e; of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s.

In 1962, the author got into Cuba and interviewed workers on the subject of the Revolution.

Focusing on the evolution of one border kibbutz from 1938 to the present, Paula Rayman explores the dynamics between internal community organization and external national and international forces.

Relates data on age at marriage, occupation, etc.

A wide range of expert opinion on current demographic problems is presented in this book, based on the proceedings of the 1949 meeting of the Population Association of America.

The prevailing view of the state of Philippine society is bleak: the Philippines, it is alleged, is suffering from unsatisfactory economic growth, mounting corruption, increasing lawlessness, and declining morale.

During the last quarter century, peasant participation in politics has increased markedly in parts of Latin America and Asia.

Switzerland today is faced with a profound dilemma-its village life is dying, a casualty of the collision between communal norms and the need for national survival in an industrial, urbanizing world.

Michael Burns charts the rural impact of the two political watersheds"e; of fin-de-siecle France--Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair.

Based on the day-to-day record of an American sociologist imprisoned for three years in a Japanese concentration camp in the seaport town of Bacolod, Negros Island, Philippines, this book deals with the relations between people in a situation of stress.

The New World primates have radiated widely in tropical America, evolving a variety of adaptations to cope with different ways of life.

In this compelling narrative of antisemitism in German thought, Paul Rose proposes a fresh view of the topic.

Lebanon, with large Christian communities, is a relatively modern country compared with others in the Moslem fertile crescent, and an interesting microcosm for studying fertility changes in this area.

Demonstrating that the reaction of the Anglo-Jewish community to modern Jewish nationalism was far more complex than conventionally thought, Stuart A.

This study opposes the prevailing view that Indian villages have little social solidarity and points out the relationship between village solidarity and the potentially centrifugal factors of caste, conflict, and power.

The author examines classic American community studies written during the past fifty years, such as Robert Park on Chicago, the Lynds on Muncie (Middletown), Lloyd Warner on Newburyport, to formulate a theory of American community development.

Professor Main's conviction is that an understanding of political history in Colonial America depends on a knowledge of the country's underlying social structure.

Building on the theory of the demographic transition, Michael S.

In this study of one group of the new nobility, Jonathan Dewald argues that the origin, attitudes, and behavior of the noblesse de robe were in fundamental ways similar to those of the old nobility.

One striking feature of modern political and social development has been the construction of social systems encompassing more and more groups.

The book traces growing state intervention in the rural areas of Tunisia and Libya in the middle 1800s and the diverging development of the two countries during the period of European rule.

In 1870 the Welsh ironmaster John James Hughes left his successful career in England and settled in the barren and underpopulated Donbass region of the Ukrainian steppe to found the town of Iuzovka and build a large steel plant and coal mine.

This book takes an entirely new approach to the evolution of cities and of societies in premodern periods.

In 1955 the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems conducted a survey to determine the number of pregnancies and births wives had had, the number of children wanted expected etc.

Initially published in Moscow in 1950 following the author's death, this book contains the first chapters of a large monograph Krylov planned entitled The foundations of physical statistics,"e; his doctoral thesis on "e;The processes of relaxation of statistical systems and the criterion of mechanical instability,"e; and a small paper entitled "e;On the description of exhaustively complete experiments.