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1	On Being Different: Diversity and Multiculturalism in the North American Mainstream more books like this by Conrad Phillip Kottak, Kathryn A Kozaitis add to wishlist An interdisciplinary account of diversity and multiculturalism in the US and Canada and clarifies issues, themes, and topics in the study of diversity, including ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. It also shows how human agency and culture work to organize and change society. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Social problems more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen add to wishlist The best-selling social problems text. With a critical, conflict perspective, this text looks at the social structures and inequalities that contribute to social problems. Taking a conflict approach, Eitzen and Baca Zinn focus on the underlying features of the social world in an effort to help students to understand today's social problems. The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.79! \| first editions \| SVS
3	In Conflict & Order: Understanding Society more books like this by D Stanley Eitzen add to wishlist This introductory text, written from a conflict perspective, emphasizes four themes: diversity, the struggle to achieve social justice, economic and global transformations in the U.S., and a global perspective. In Conflict and Order studies the forces that lead to both stability and change in society. As they examine the standard topics in an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Dimensions of Human Behavior: Person and Environment more books like this by Dr. Elizabeth D Hutchison add to wishlist 'Elizabeth Hutchison's latest edition of "Dimensions of Human Behavior" is a powerful text that captures our changing and developing lives as we each journey through our own distinct life course. The books calls our attention to the importance of the interactions of time, people, and environment as our ongoing life story is played out. As social ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $49.14! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society more books like this by Jurgen Habermas add to wishlist This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general interest. In analysing the historical transformations of this sphere, Habermas recovers a concept which is of crucial significance for current debates in ... see all copies from $18.87! new only from $21.33!
6	The ritual process: structure and anti-structure more books like this by Victor Witter Turner add to wishlist Victor Turner here examines the rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his concept of aCommunitas,a which he characterizes as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure. The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and ... see all copies from $4.93! new only from $15.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Dimensions of Human Behavior: The Changing Life Course more books like this by Dr. Elizabeth D Hutchison add to wishlist Organized around time, the Third Edition of Dimensions of Human Behavior: The Changing Life Course helps students understand the relationship between time and human behavior. Using a life course perspective, author Elizabeth D. Hutchison shows how the multiple dimensions of person and environment work together with dimensions of time to produce ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.73! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Crime and the American Dream more books like this by Steven F Messner add to wishlist Using the basic ideas, insights, and conceptual tools of sociology, Steven Messner and Richard Rosenfeld present a provocative introduction to alternative ways of thinking about crime. They provide both a comprehensive analysis of the Anomie tradition as well as other existing theories while offering a theoretical perspective to explain the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.99!
9	Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory more books like this by Bruno LaTour add to wishlist Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a ... see all copies from $25.37! new only from $25.37!
10	The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration more books like this by Anthony Giddens add to wishlist Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In "The Constitution of Society" he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $21.49! \| SVS
11 view cover	The consequences of modernity more books like this by Anthony Giddens add to wishlist In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the ... see all copies from $13.54! new only from $16.23! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Structure of Social Stratification in the United States more books like this by Leonard Beeghley add to wishlist Stratification structure refers to the hierarchy of social classes in society. This book describes the class structure in the United States, focusing on the way people's class location influences their opportunities. To do this, Beeghley emphasizes three themes. The first theme is that power influences the distribution of resources in the United ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	As the Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History more books like this by Jo-Ann Shelton (Editor) add to wishlist This is the second edition of the sourcebook on Roman social history. The selections, all in English translations prepared by the author, are drawn from a wide array of documents - letters, manuals, recipes, graffitti, and inscriptions as well as literary sources - and together they offer an insight into family life, housing, entertainment, health ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $54.15! \| SVS
14 view cover	Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes more books like this by Martin N Marger add to wishlist This text provides an introduction to key concepts, current research findings, and theories in social inequality. While focusing on social class and theories, it also deals broadly with other forms of social inequality, including racial/ethnic, gender, and political. In dealing with the various dimensions of inequality, the book explains how they ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.75! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Inequality & Stratification: Race, Class, and Gender more books like this by Robert A Rothman add to wishlist For undergraduate courses in Social Stratification, Race, Class, and Gender, and Introduction to Gender Studies. Using a concise and easy-to-understand style, this guide provides an integrated approach to the implications of social class, race and ethnicity, and gender-explaining how each relates to economic, social, and political inequality. Its ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.92! \| SVS
16 view cover	Inequality and Society: Social Science Perspectives on Social Stratification more books like this by Jeff Manza (Editor), Michael Sauder (Editor) add to wishlist Designed for undergraduate courses on inequality, this reader is the first and only one to incorporate political inequality into the discussion of social stratification. see all copies from $32.00! new only from $38.92! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up more books like this by Liao Yiwu, Wen Huang (Translator) add to wishlist This compilation of extraordinary oral histories opens a window on the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. From a professional mourner to a feng shui master and many others, these interviews capture each person's dignity, humor, and humanity. see all copies from $2.58! new only from $5.47! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age more books like this by Anthony Giddens add to wishlist This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional reflexivity. In the current period, the globalising tendencies of modern ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $19.71! \| SVS
19 view cover	Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity more books like this by Professor Ulrich Beck add to wishlist This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This first English edition has taken its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial and current debates about the social dimensions of the postmodern. Underpinning the analysis is the notion ... see all copies from $24.95! new only from $25.42! \| SVS
20 view cover	Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in the High School more books like this by Penelope Eckert add to wishlist Dr. Eckert shows how the school's institutional environment fosters the formation of opposed class cultures in the student population, which in turn serve as a social tracking system. see all copies from $7.77! new only from $18.95! \| SVS
21 view cover	Ancient Society more books like this by Lewis Henry Morgan add to wishlist In this text, Victorian intellectual Lewis Henry Morgan defines three major stages in the cultural and social evolution of mankind. In his introduction, Robin Fox reviews Morgan's thesis in the light of what we have learned in the 20th century. see all copies from $2.96! new only from $27.39! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class: Readings for a Changing Landscape more books like this by Marcia Texler Segal (Editor) add to wishlist This incisive, accessible collection of readings is arranged to highlight and underscore some of the most intriguing and cutting-edge thinking on the discussion of gender, race, and class. While other anthologies often separate race, class, and gender into distinct components, this anthology frames each reading within an analysis of all three ... see all copies from $3.90! new only from $9.62!
23 view cover	Seeing the Social Context: Readings to Accompany Social Problems more books like this by James M Henslin add to wishlist This brief and economical reader, edited by Jim Henslin, is a good choice for any social problems course--in combination with Henslin' Social Problems: A Down-to-Earth Approach, another social problems text, or by itself. Seeing the Social Context can be ordered separately or value-packed with Social Problems: A Down-to-Earth Approach, Eighth ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $28.16! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order more books like this by Professor Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Scott Lash add to wishlist The theme of reflexivity has come to be central to social analysis. In this book three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of 'reflexive modernization' for social and cultural theory today. Ulrich Beck's vision of the 'risk society' has already become extraordinarily influential. He offers a new elaboration of his basic ideas, ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $24.41!
25 view cover	Character and social structure: the psychology of social institutions more books like this by Hans Heinrich Gerth, C. Wright Mills add to wishlist A synthesis of biology and psychology that examines man's institutional structures, and the interaction of the individual and society. see all copies from $4.45! new only from $19.36! \| first editions \| SVS

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