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Part 1 Part I: IntroductionChapter 2 The Crisis in Contemporary American Sociology: A Critique of the Discipline's Dominant ParadigmChapter 3 The Bureaucratization of Sociology: Its Impact on Theory and ResearchChapter 4 Ethnicity and Gender: The View from Above versus the View from BelowPart 5 Part II: IntroductionChapter 6 Bureaucratic Secrets and Adversarial Methods of Social ResearchChapter 7 Sociologist as Citizen-Scholar: A Symbolic Interactionist Alternative to Normal SociologyChapter 8 The Rise of the Wisconsin School of Status-Attainment ResearchChapter 9 Academic Labor Markets and the Sociology TemporaryChapter 10 Ideology and the Celebration of Applied SociologyChapter 11 Western Sociology and the Third World: Asymmetrical Forms of Understanding and the Inadequacy of Sociological DiscourseChapter 12 The Rise and Fall of The American Sociologist

Bringing critical theory to bear on questions of gerontology, Maugans corrects gerontology's traditional leanings. Aging Parents, Ambivalent Baby Boomers includes reflections on the society rather than just the individual and looks at qualitative as well as quantitative methods.

With summaries, review questions and suggested projects with each chapter and a broad and balanced view of the field, Child Maltreatment makes a splendid text for courses in child abuse.

Today's criminal justice system is the product of adjustments and reappraisals of policies and practices of the past. The Past Present, and Future of American Criminal Justice highlights how criminal justice has changed and how it continues to change.

Interactionism: Exposition and Critique offers a balanced overview of symbolic interactionism from its earliest precursors to its latest proponents and critics.