Sociology
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Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social WorldSex/Gender presents a relatively new way to think about how biological difference can be produced over time in response to different environmental and social experiences.This book gives a clearly written explanation of the biological and cultural underpinnings of gender. Anne Fausto-Sterling provides an introduction...
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Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals CommunicateThe signs and signals of criminal communication How do criminals communicate with each other? Unlike the rest of us, people planning crimes can't freely advertise their goods and services, nor can they rely on formal institutions to settle disputes and certify quality. They face...
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The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal RemainsThe meaning of our concern for mortal remains--from antiquity through the twentieth century The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became...
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Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital AgeAn innovative and accessible guide to doing social research in the digital age The rapid spread of social media, smartphones, and other digital wonders enables us to collect and process data about human behavior on a scale never before imaginable, offering entirely new approaches...
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Walking Words: With Woodcuts by Jose Francisco Borges"Walking Words" is a brilliant feat of storytelling in the tradition of Italo Calvino's "Italian Folktale." In it, Eduardo Galeano, author of the acclaimed "Memory of Fire" trilogy, draws on the folklore of the rural and urban Latin America to discover and retell "the...
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African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920"Rarely has a short book accomplished so much as Terborg-Penn's seminal work. With the utmost attention to detail Terborg-Penn examines the contributions of black suffragist stalwarts . . . It undoubtedly will become the definitive work on African American women's involvement in the mainstream...
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Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies" . . . this is no doctrinaire tract but rather a concerted attempt to look at important cultural problems from a fresh perspective. . . . Chow's book is an excellent example of its type."--Discourse & Society"I believe that Rey Chow has written...
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Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature" . . . provides readers with a much-needed cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective on ecofeminist activism and scholarship." --Iris" . . . a very important contribution to the literature on ecological feminism." --Ethics"I think the unique collection of so many different perspectives will help...
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Interpreting Folklore" . . . Dundes has produced a work which will be useful to both students and teachers who wish to broaden their understanding of modern folklore." --Center for Southern Folklore Magazine"It is impossible ever to remain unimpressed with [Dundes'] excursuses, however much one...
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Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class ParenthoodMothering While Black examines the complex lives of the African American middle class--in particular, black mothers and the strategies they use to raise their children to maintain class status while simultaneously defining and protecting their children's "authentically black" identities. Sociologist Dawn Marie Dow shows...
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Christians Under Covers: Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the InternetChristians under Covers shifts how scholars and popular media talk about religious conservatives and sex. Moving away from debates over homosexuality, premarital sex, and other perceived sexual sins, Kelsy Burke examines Christian sexuality websites to show how some evangelical Christians use digital media to...
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American Jihad: Islam After Malcolm XAmerican Jihad is the only popular book available about the religious experience of Muslims, both black and white, in America. With over one billion faithful worldwide, and over six rnillion in the United States alone, Islam is the world's fastest-growing religion. In fact, the...
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Health Care Social Work: A Global PerspectiveHealth Care Social Work aims to directly empower health care social workers around the world by providing valuable new information about the breadth and depth of the profession's health care contributions, legislative and policy influences upon practice, and implications for future practice and growth...
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Honour, Family and Patronage: A Study of Institutions and Moral Values in a Greek Mountain CommunityAuthor: John K. CampbellPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 11/15/1973Pages: 416Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 8.55h x 5.59w x 1.02dISBN: 9780195197563This title is not returnable
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Insect MythologyAuthor: Gene KritskyPublisher: iUniversePublished: 12/13/2000Pages: 156Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.04w x 0.47dISBN: 9780595150175This title is not returnable
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The Descent of ManWhat does it mean to be male in the 21st Century? Award-winning artist Grayson Perry explores what masculinity is: from sex to power, from fashion to career prospects, and what it could become--with illustrations throughout. In this witty and necessary new book, artist Grayson...
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The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom UpThe Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a...
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Survey MethodologyPraise for the First Edition "The book makes a valuable contribution by synthesizing current research and identifying areas for future investigation for each aspect of the survey process." --Journal of the American Statistical Association "Overall, the high quality of the text material is matched...
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Deviant BehaviorNOTE: This ISBN is for a Pearson Books a la Carte edition: a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf text. In addition to the flexibility offered by this format, Books a la Carte editions offer students great value, as they cost significantly less than a bound textbook....
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The Moral Basis of a Backward SocietyLooking at how nepotism and family-centric societies sacrifice the public good, Edward C. Banfield uses a study of the people of southern Italy to argue how self-interested families can lead to poverty. Analyzing families in southern Italy in 1955, Moral Basis of a Backward...
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