Sociology
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Alexander Rosenberg [Rosenberg, Alexander]

CHAPTER NINE Holism and Antireductionism in Sociology and Psychology Among social scientists there is a long tradition of insisting that the distinctive subject matter of their sciences are facts that ...
( Category: Methodology April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Ira M. Lapidus [Lapidus, Ira M.]

European trade, naval power, and empire These social conditions were amplified by economic and technological development. By the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the towns of Italy, Flanders, and the Baltic ...
( Category: Islam April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:David L. Ulin

is the ability of the retail band to carry the residential band. Old buildings did it in a very neat way. New buildings are flat, so the developer saves money. ...
( Category: Pacific April 6,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Wendell Berry [Berry, Wendell]

* She did continue to do “housework,” of course. But we must ask what this had come to mean. The industrial economy had changed the criterion of housekeeping from thrift ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays April 5,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-02 | Author:Devery S. Anderson

Some of these people in the Till saga would live long enough to see the case reemerge in the public consciousness after the mid-1980s. None, however, could have predicted a ...
( Category: African-American Studies April 3,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Paul Ormerod [Ormerod, Paul]

FIGURE 7.1 Change in average GDP growth and profit share: OECD economies, 1974–95 on 1960–73 The interpretation is as follows. Japan is marked on the chart in the lower left-hand ...
( Category: Theory April 3,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-26 | Author:Stoker, John [Stoker, John]

What Supports Our Fear? All our fears of the consequences are the product of our thinking. Neuroscientists believe that we have approximately 60,000 thoughts a day, and 80 percent of ...
( Category: Communications April 3,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bauman, Zygmunt;

The global hierarchy of mobility Let us recall once more what Michel Crozier pointed out many years ago in his trail-blazing study of The Bureaucratic Phenomenon: all dominance consists in ...
( Category: History & Theory March 31,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-20 | Author:Harriet Bradley [Bradley, Harriet]

Defining Terms: ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Nationality Discussion of racial inequality has often become bogged down in debates about the appropriate usage of the key concepts of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ and ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 30,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joseph E. Stiglitz

Enact a financial transactions tax Short-term financial transactions can contribute to economic volatility without providing any larger benefit to the economy as a whole. These transactions also point the financial ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 1993-06-30 | Author:Jim Keith [Keith, Jim]

155. Hold Hands, p. 146. 156. “Brother Forced to Go to Jonestown,” LAT, 11/27/78 (kill whole family threat); Personal interview with Guyanese present, 1980 (bound and gagged). 157. Journey to ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-04 | Author:Zakia Salime [Salime, Zakia]

It seems as though women joined the Casablanca march under a pretext of internal gender struggles within al-‘Adl wa-l-ihsāne. Nadia Yassine articulated this struggle as “women’s respect for the majority ...
( Category: Feminist Theory March 26,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Clarence Lusane

Condoleezza Rice, March 1, 2005 As president, Bush mostly evaded the issue, primarily because he had very little to say beyond conservative clichés and bromides. When asked about his civil ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Sheldon Solomon

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: THE LASH AND THE BACKLASH The September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center and ensuing events poignantly illustrate how death fears ...
( Category: Death March 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Leon Grunberg

John Lorie Because of the loss of pride in the company, because if you think, “Oh, I’m just a number here, I’m here just to get paid. I’m doing my ...
( Category: Infrastructure March 23,2016 )