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Provides an account of the Polish experience in America and how some cultural bonds loosened. This book explains historical reasons that led Polish people to come to America, the experience of the first wave of immigrants, the identity problem of second-generation Poles, and the kind of institutions that Polonia established in America.

The essential polarity between democracy and autocracy has now taken on historical dimensions that has now taken on larger, deeper dimensions in different political economic, and ecological terrain of our day is civilization versus barbarism. This second volume is a sober, deeper response to such a challenge.

Explores the possibility of connecting all countries to the global economy while defusing the social tensions and managing the security risks that can result from exposure to a turbulent international system. This title draws the implications of emerging threats to global peace and prosperity for development policy and practice.

A collection of critical writings on different aspects of social research. It is organized in sections that detail the methods of a typical experimental research program - design, data collection, and data analysis. It includes displays of philosophical under-pinnings of different methodological styles and important issues in research design.

Robert A. Taft has been neglected by some historians and political theorists and vilified by others. Vigorously and impartially written, this book analyzes the ideas and influence of a great U

Opens a window on the search for personal expression of a woman caught up in the oppressive dynamics of her polygamous households (parental and marital), and the travails of national liberation and nation-building in Turkey, in which she played an active role. This book focuses on the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish nation.

In the past, African American aspirations for political offi ce were assumed to be limited to areas with sizeable black population bases

The social learning theory of crime integrates Edwin H Sutherland's differential association theory with behavioral learning theory. It is a widely accepted and applied approaches to criminal and deviant behavior. This title discusses the background, concepts, development, modifications, and empirical tests of social learning theory.

From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, The Last Puritan

Human interaction with the natural environment has a dual character. By turning increasing quantities of natural substances into physical resources, human beings might be said to have freed themselves from the constraints of low-technology survival pressures. However, the process has generated a new dependence on nature in the form of complex "socionatural systems", as Bennett calls them, in which human society and behavior are so interlocked with the management of the environment that small changes in the systems can lead to disaster. Bennett's essays cover a wide range: from the philosophy of environmentalism to the ecology of economic development; from the human impact on semi-arid lands to the ecology of Japanese forest management. This expanded paperback edition includes a new chapter on the role of anthropology in economic development. Bennett's essays exhibit an underlying pessimism: if human behavior toward the physical environment is the distinctive cause of environmental abuse, then reform of current management practices offers only temporary relief; that is, conservationism, like democracy, must be continually reaffirmed. Clearly presented and free of jargon, Human Ecology as Human Behavior will be of interest to anthropologists, economists, and environmentalists.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union few people thought of Marxism, at least in its classical formulation by Laski in the 1930s, as a political alternative. This work explains the nature of the modern state by examining its characteristics, as revealed by its history.

Andre Gide once said that Feodor Dostoevsky "lost himself in the characters of his books, and, for this reason, it is in them that he can be found again." This title approaches Dostoevsky psychoanalytically, not as a "patient" to be analyzed, but as a fellow psychoanalyst.

The causal problem has become topical once again. This book analyzes the function of the causal principle in science, touching on such subjects as scientific law, scientific explanation, and scientific prediction. In so doing, it offers an education to layman and specialist alike on the history of a concept and its opponents.

Since the publication of Herbert Spencer's Principles of Sociology in 1875, the use of social structure as a defining concept has produced a large body of creative speculations, insights, and intuitions about social life

A study written by researcher on family violence, Murray A. Straus. He describes the extent to which parents in the United States use corporal punishment (such as spanking and slapping) and its effects on their children, linking corporal punishment with subsequent violence and other problems.

Ever since the first contacts between Europe and Africa, African people have been confined to the fringes of Eurocentric experience in the Western mind. This volume reviews the past in order to evaluate the present and move ahead with appropriate policies for the future.

Although there is little that scientists can do about war and its prevention, or about social unrest and upheaval, or about strikes and other confrontations there are a number of questions to which they can give tentative answers. This book deals with some of these questions, and finds some of the answers.

This study of the Israeli-Arab conflict sheds new light on the historic background of the contemporary Palestinian problem. Unlike other books that treat the political issues of this confl ict, this volume traces the spread of Jewish settlements over the seventy year period before the establishment of the State of Israel, in order to see how it affected the existing Arab community's economy and its social and cultural institutions.

Even before Max Weber achieved fame, he had done important work in economic and legal history and had taught economic theory as the incumbent of one of the most famous chairs in Germany. This book features his essays written in the years between 1903 and 1917, the most productive years of Max Weber's life.

Analyzing how Russian society operated on a day-to-day level, this book contrasts the integration of different social groups: the descendents of the pre-revolutionary upper classes, the industrial working class, or the ethnically marginalized Russian Jews. It examines in turn the implications of relationships, and the suppression of religion.

Recreates the controversy surrounding the founding and early years of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The period of Muslim occupation in Spain represents the only significant contact Islam and Europe was ever to have on European soil

Howard S. Becker is a leading contemporary sociologist who interprets society as collective action and sociology, therefore, as the study of collective action. This volume explores the theory and methods necessary to study collective action and social interaction

Developmental and life-course criminology aims to provide information about how offending and antisocial behavior develops, about risk and protective factors at different ages, and about the effects of life events on the course of development. This volume advances knowledge about these theories of offender behavior.

Some planners limit discussions of ethics to simple, though important, questions about the propriety of their daily activities

The author's greatest concern, as expressed in his writings, is how people manage to live together. This concern may at first appear to have little to do with the study of budgeting, but for the author budgeting made living together possible. Here, he argues if you cannot budget, you cannot govern.

An examination of working-class housing issues in Victorian London. Using local archives, vestry reports, and contemporary photographs and drawings, Anthony S. Wohl studies the housing reform movement and shows what it was really like to live in such appalling conditions.

Frederick Lewis Allen was one of the pioneers in social history

Offering a unique theoretical foundation to understanding the lived experience of the active alcoholic, Denzin asserts that alcoholism is a disease in which negative emotions divide the self into warring, inner factions, fueled and distorted by alcoholic intoxication

Re-examines globalization in light of the traditions from which human civilizations have evolved. This book traces the history of the concept of citizenship and its transformation through the ages to modern times. It raises the problem of identity and advocates the assumption of global identity, responsibility, and citizenship.