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This work takes a look into the ways communards, or people who live in communes, maintain, modify, use, and otherwise live with their convictions while they attempt to get through the problems of everyday life. It raises important questions regarding sociological theory.

How Western are the Austrians? This is an analysis of trends toward Americanization and Westernization in Austria throughout the 20th century. The essays seek to demonstrate that "Americanization", "Westernization" and "globalization" need to be defined before generalizations can be made.

A history of the troubled region of South Tyrol during the 20th century. It covers the period from the division of Tyrol to the march on Bozen; the "Option" of 1939; the resettlement and so-called reunification from 1943-1945; South Tyrol's role as a bargaining chip in the Cold War; and more.

This is the enduring work of 19th-century legal historian Henry Sumner Maine. His narrative spans the ancient world, in which individuals were bound by status to traditional groups, and the modern one, in which individuals are free to make contracts with whomever they choose.

This study seeks to clarify both the meaning and the implications carried by the application of the expression "mental disease". It aims to discourage its use in conditions that provide the victims of such diseases with an excuse for failing to perform what would be their imperative duties.

Highlights the range of variables that stimulate or impede the development of militant Islam in Southeast Asia. It offers through four central case studies an insight into the workings of these factors in producing particular developments with regard to Islam and suggests likely short- and medium-term prognoses for the future.

This work examines various mid-sized cities such as Duluth, Minnesota and Springfield, Illinois and assesses how they adapted to change during the period after World War II through to the Nixon years. The role of federal and state governments as instruments of change is also investigated.

This work presents a history of the debates among ecologists over what constitutes good forestry. It offers a critique of contemporary strategies of preservation, including the Endangered Species Act and examples of conservation strategies successful and unsuccessful.

Challenges the conventional understanding of environmental justice within the context of globalization. The authors consider the links between expanded patterns of environmental injustice and the structures and forces underlying and shaping the political international economy.

This work explores the various social phenomena generated by transplantation and dialysis. Within this context, the authors study individuals involved and the workings and the atmospheres of some of the medical centres.

The northern Rocky Mountains and adjacent high plains were the last American West. This book tells the history of the region through the lives of 16 men and women - each of whom left behind his or her own unique written record or oral history.

Between 1934 and 1941, Robert Redfield and Sol Tax developed lines of research that anticipated and guided anthropological investigations of people living in peasant and urban communities. This book traces the development of their ethnological hypotheses and theoretical statements.

Herbert Gold first travelled to Haiti 50 years before the publication of this volume. The journey was a turning-point in his life. Here, he explores the secret life of this vibrant, volatile, violent land. He covers the questions of aid to Haiti, and foreign participation in the Haitian crisis.

Tracks the development and impact of various diversity policies through consultant gatherings, business and professional literature, and case studies. Lynch profiles author consultants, analyzes benefits and drawbacks of a range of approaches, and offers samples of seminars and conferences.

This title is a treatise that seeks to explain the law as a social force. It makes two fundamental points: law can and must be studied by sociology, and law is a combination of socio-ethical and imperative coordination of human behaviour.

A sequel to William A. Donohue's "The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union", but with a marked change in emphasis. Instead of challenging the ACLU's non-partisan reputation, he now seeks to demonstrate why and how recent ACLU policy undermines the process of liberty.

An examination of the American liberal arts college as an institution, from its role in the lives of students, to its value as a form of education. It explores the threats they face as well as the transformative role, both positive and negative, that IT will play in their future development.

The Social-Cost Benefit Analysis (SCBA) is a technique used in formulating, appraising and evaluating projects for funding developing countries. This is a comprehensive view of cost-benefit analysis in its theoretical and applied dimensions. Both theory and case studies are presented.

This volume presents a periodic overview of the most significant developments and trends in the field of social security have become a firm commitment for the International Social Security Association. This book presents the outcome of such a review.

Traces the evolution of covert action and counterintelligence through US history from the end of World War II: the successes and failures; the products and the processes; and the organizations. The book is an examination of the gap between current US practice and ideal capabilities and performance.

The author identifies some major forms of pleasure - sex, food, drugs, pets, plants, power and more - and explores their variations now and in the past. Pleasure, says Tiger, is not a luxury but an evolutionary entitlement that deserves to be taken seriously.

This volume reviews the shortcomings of how to control state crime, developing a preliminary model to do so. The hope is that governmental and non-governmental organizations will reflect upon the methods they advocate or use to minimize state transgressions.

This text attempts to reverse the self-destruction of modern liberalism by showing that true tolerance is not only consistent with taking stands, but requires doing so. It offers a view of true tolerance that assumes a relationship with older liberal traditions and codependence with other virtues.

Explains the primary forms of law as a social, political and normative phenomenon. The authors illustrate the fundamental difference between repressive law, riddled with raw conflict and the accommodation of special interests, and responsive law, the reasoned effort to realize an ideal of polity.

This text presents a comprehensive and succinct discussion of the impact of Marxist and Leninist doctrines for the development of China.

A systematic assessment of the trend toward targeting in seven countries representing a range of industrialized welfare states. It examines the extent to which each country has adopted measures to focus social benefits on specific population groups and social welfare programme areas.

What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience in an increasingly secular world. In the introduction to the new Transaction edition of his memoir, Goodheart addresses the themes of social justice, Zionism, chosenness, messianism, and alienation from a secular Jewish perspective. The story takes the reader from Goodhearts coming of age in Brooklyn to his higher education at Columbia College in the early fifties and beyond to his varied career as university teacher and literary critic.

Male bonding characterizes human groups as varied as the Vatican Council, the New York Yankees, the Elks and Masons the secret societies of Sierra Leone and Kenya. The power of Tiger's book is its identification of the powerful links between men and the impact of females and families on essentially male groups

This exploration of the tensions of politics and religion in the United States, from its earliest settlement to contemporary times, is a coherent history of American religious thought and practice within the context of politics.

For nearly half a century, social scientists have made claims that there is a "therapeutic ethos" with extensive influence upon numerous aspects of American society. In 'Therapeutic Culture', 12 authors address the implications of this ethos and its effects on a wide range of social institutions.