This book uses the Puritan settlement in 17th-century Massachusetts as a setting in which to examine several ideas about deviant behavior in society. Combining sociology and history, Erikson draws on the records of the Bay Colony to illustrate the way in which deviant behavior fits in the texture of social life generally. The main argument of ...
Sociologist Kai Erikson visited seven man-made disasters around America including: a mercury spill which displaced a Native American tribe from its homeland; Three Mile Island, where nearby residents feared exposure to radiation; and Yucca Mountain, Nevada, where the American government proposes to build a vast nuclear waste dump. Unlike ...
Sociologist Kai Erikson visited seven man-made disasters around America including a mercury spill which displaced a Native American tribe from its homeland; Three-Mile Island, where nearby residents feared exposure to radiation; and Yucca Mountain, Nevada, where the American government proposes to build a vast nuclear waste dump. He discovered ...
This engaging book presents a series of word portraits by and about some of the notable figures of our time. In each chapter, a well-known person recalls a memorable encounter with another famous individual who is no longer living.
The nature of work in America is changing in important ways. Blue-collar jobs are being eliminated because of increased competition from countries where wages are lower, while a greater economic role is being assumend by professional, technical, and clerical workers involved in developing complex technologies, providing services, and processing ...
Sociological Visions brings together a remarkable set of essays written by some of today's most influential figures, including William Julius Wilson, Daniel Bell, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Jeane Bethke Elshtain, Charles Tilly, Robert K. Merton, Vivian Zelizer and many others. Each essay details the authors vision of the social problems and ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York
Date Published: 1966
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. D/J has minor shelf wear w/small edge tears otherwise looks good. B/C has very light shelf wear to almost no wear. Inside has clean crisp, tight pages w/no writing. read more
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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
