In the early 1980s sociologist John Lofland became actively involved in the American peace movement. He took part in numerous peace campaigns for nuclear disarmament, the test ban, and SANE/Freeze in
This volume addresses three major issues: What are the circumstances in which people elect to protest; what are the forms of such action; and how do people organize to do so? Phrased differently, what
The authorative and richly detailed handbook is divided into three parts: (1) procedures for studying SMOs; (2) propositions or generalizations about them; and (3) perspectives or wider considerations
Davis has undergone a major transformation from the mid-20th century to today, growing from a small college town of about 3,000 residents and 1,500 students to a world-class university city of 80,000
Founded in 1868, Davis?'s history is divided into aninitial ?"village?" period (1860s?-1900s), a middlefour-decade ?"town?" period (1910s?-1940s), and acurrent and on-going ?"city?" period (1950s to p
Lofland (U. of California, Davis) pioneered grounded theory in the sociology of deviance. In the new prologue to this 1969 work (Prentice Hall), Joel Best (U. of Delaware, Newark) notes that Lofland's
Ethnography is one of the chief research methods in sociology, anthropology and other cognate disciplines in the social sciences. This Handbook provides an unparalleled critical guide to its principl
For this fourth edition of a text for students in the social sciences, Lofland (University of California-Davis) adds new examples and methodological materials drawn from more recent qualitative studie
`This wonderful Handbook establishes the central, and complex place ethnography now occupies in the human disciplines. All future work will begin here. This Handbook will soon become required reading
The fortieth-anniversary edition of a classic and prescient work on death and dying.Much of today's literature on end-of-life issues overlooks the importance of 1970s social movements in shaping our u
