This work highlights the importance of sociology for understanding the complex and rapidly changing modern world. Containing suggestions for classroom projects and seminar activities, this book considers a range of issues from the emergence of global society to migration, tourism, and crime.
For beginning design students and students of other disciplines, coming to understand the scanning, prepress, and printing process involves a lot of frustrating trial and error. Let Sandee Cohen and Robin Williams explain to students the mysteries of professional document production without any confusing jargon. These tips, techniques, and ...
Anyone who has vacationed in the beautiful Catskill Mountains knows the village of Ellenville, and no visit to Ellenville was complete without a stop in Cohen's Quality Bakery, "Home of the World Famous Raisin Pumpernickel." Cohen's Bakery owners Ruby and Reginia Cohen struggled together for over fifty years to build a lasting legacy for their ...
This extensive survey of migration in the modern world begins in the sixteenth century with the establishment of European colonies overseas, and covers the history of migration to the late twentieth century, when global communications and transport systems stimulated immense and complex flows of labour migrants and skilled professionals. In ninety ...
Understanding the ancient and long sidelined concept of cosmopolitanism has suddenly found a fresh impetus and urgency. Globalization, international migration, multiculturalism and global social movements, as well as atrocities committed by those with narrow religious and ethnic identities, have led to reposing of two basic cosmopolitan questions: ...
In this key work, Robin Cohen shows how the preferences, interests, and actions of global capital, migrant labour and national politicians intersect and often contradict each other. Does capital require subordinated labour? Is it possible for capital to move to labour rather than labour to capital? Can trade substitute for migration? Cohen ...
The continuum of lessons presented in this book is based on a simple, effective premise: Introduce and reinforce essential literacy skills starting in Kindergarten, then build on these skills in each successive year, and children will be reading and writing at grade level by the end of grade 3. More important, students will have the foundation ...
Although the other reindeer laugh at him because of his bright red nose, Rudolph proves his worth when he is chosen to lead Santa Claus's sleigh on a foggy night.
This arresting and original analysis shows how the British as a people are constantly defined and redefined through their interactions with several 'frontiers of identity'.
Considers the extent to which popular demands for democracy are both subverting and enriching African political structures. The book explores a wide range of topics, including economic democracy, the state and civil society, the impact of the economic crisis on women, and agrarian reform.
This collection represents the coming of age of a new & vigorous stand of scholarship. The contributors are black social scientists working inside the old "liberal" universities which have successfully turned against the apartheid planners who created them. (AFRICAN DISCOURSE SERIES, 2)
This collection includes articles and papers documenting and analysing the political impact of migration since World War II. It looks at class conflict and politics in the host country; strategies adopted by the state to manage the demands of the new community; and anti-immigrant far right parties.
The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat focuses on one of the richest, most complex and visually stunning monuments of classical antiquity. Contributing to a vast tradition of scholarship, which dates back to the discovery of the Mosaic in 1831, Cohen here engages with, but departs from, a core of positivist assumptions that ...
Italy's residents are a migratory people. Since 1800 well over 27 million left home, but over half also returned home again. As cosmopolitans, exiles and "workers of the world", Italians transformed their homeland and many of the countries where they worked or settled. But did they form a diaspora? Migrants maintained firm ties to native villages, ...
The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat focuses on one of the richest, most complex and visually stunning monuments of classical antiquity. Contributing to a vast tradition of scholarship, which dates back to the discovery of the Mosaic in 1831, Cohen here engages with, but departs from, a core of positivist assumptions that ...
This collection of articles, dating from 1979 to 1992, covers themes in the sociology of migration, such as: the peculiarity of migrant labour; the dynamics of international labour migration; women migrants; migration and social structure; refugees and displaced persons; enclaves and labour markets; the effects of remittances and return migration ...
As history has shown, remote islands or small states can be flashpoints for international crises. This collection of commissioned essays examines African countries that, because of their seeming insignificance, have been passed over in recent scholarship. The essays focus on current political and economic issues. Why do such states find it ...
Understanding the ancient and long sidelined concept of cosmopolitanism has suddenly found a fresh impetus and urgency. Globalization, international migration, multiculturalism and global social movements, as well as atrocities committed by those with narrow religious and ethnic identities, have led to reposing of two basic cosmopolitan questions: ...
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