Social Stratification in Contemporary China raises and debates major sociological issues of modern and present-day China from a historical perspective. Such topics as "equality and inequality"and "acc
Investigating the significant role of qualitative research in expanding and refining the understanding of crime and justice, criminologists discuss the relationship between methodology and theory, and
The 12 articles in this volume describe China's nonprofit sector and its progress and key challenges. Chinese and US researchers in social sciences, philanthropy, education, and other areas examine it
For students, scholars, and film enthusiasts, Clapp (planning and urban affairs, San Diego State U.) examines the relationship between cities and the cinema and their reciprocal influence. He draws on
Migration, Prostitution, and Human Trafficking examines the nature, magnitude, and gravity of prostitution and sex trafficking—and the relationship between them—in contemporary China. By researching t
This pioneering effort links history and personality by pairingintellectual friends, most notably Lionel Trilling and Irving Howe, butalso Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill, D. H. Lawrence and Bertr
While some social scientists and philosophers claim that sociology and philosophy are disjoint fields of inquiry and others ponder how to trace the boundary between them, Bunge (foundations and philos
Published in 1790, Maurice Benyovszky’s posthumous memoir was an instant sensation. A tale of exploration and adventure beginning with his daring escape from a Siberian prison and ending with his coro
In his final work, Donald N. Levine, one of the great late twentieth century sociological theorists, brings together diverse social thinkers. Simmel, Weber, Durkheim, Parsons, and Merton are set into
Nothing is more synonymous with the twenty-first century than the image of a child on his or her smart phone, tablet, video game console, television, and/or laptop. But with all this external stimulat
"Having been exposed early in life to the dangers of extreme nationalism, journalist and historian Walter Laqueur chose to align his thinking with Victor Hugo's ideal of a "European Brotherhood" where
Somewhere in the world, in the next forty seconds, a person is going to commit suicide. Globally, suicides account for 50 percent of all violent deaths among men and 71 percent for women. Despite suic
Interpreting Visual Art explores the psychological and cognitive mechanisms that underlie one's interpretation of art. After the brain encodes visual information, this encoding is then processed by pe
In the 1960s, America set out to end poverty. Policy-makers put forth an unprecedented package of legislation, funding poverty programs and empowering the poor through ineffectual employment-related e
"The start of the new millennium will be remembered for deadly climate-related disasters--the great floods in Thailand in 2011, Super Storm Sandy in the United States in 2012, and Typhoon Haiyan in th
The First Amendment is perhaps the most important - and most debated - amendment in the US Constitution. It establishes freedom of speech, as well as that of religion, the press, peaceable assembly an
We are living in a cyber society. Mobile devices, social media, the Internet, crime cameras, and other diverse sources can be pulled together to form massive datasets, known as big data, which make it
There have been many analyses of leisure, drawing on the social, historical, cultural, temporal, and geographical contexts in which acts of leisure are pursued. Yet these studies lack a theoretical fr
Out of My Great Sorrows is the story of Philadelphia artist Mary Zakarian, whose life and work were shaped by the experiences of her mother, a survivor of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Written by Mary Z
The presidential-congressional relationship is the most important and vivid of all the inter-branch relationships. It defines presidential activities, priorities, and successes. No president, from Eis
Modernity tends to be considered a mostly Western, chronologically recent concept. Looking at locations in Brazil, Java, India, Georgia, and Yugoslavia, among others, Across Space and Time provides ar
Bold political elites and unique forms of social order brought the West to world dominance, but both are weakening dramatically in the contemporary period. The Endangered West makes the case for the c
Social Work with the Aged and Their Families presents the functional-age model (FAM) of intergenerational treatment, an integrative theoretical framework for social workers practicing with older adult
Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, and historian. As one of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, he exerted tremendous influence on the social sciences. He was
Throughout its history the Catholic Church has taken positions on many subjects that are in one sense political, but in another sense are primarily moral, such as contraception, homosexuality, and div
This social science history of South Korea for advanced students, scholars, and researchers contains a wealth of data on contemporary conditions, presented in chart and table form so that readers d
This collection brings together essays by sociologist and New York Intellectual Nathan Glazer on ethnicity, race, social policy, urbanism and architecture, and sociology, as well as autobiographica
The author uses Maurice Merleau-Ponty's arguments about phenomenology to defend it against criticisms by Vincent Descombes in Modern French Philosophy and argue for his position of embodied phenomenol
Jesuit scholastic philosophy of Francisco Suarez (1548–1617) is known to have exerted significant influence over scholastic theology in the 17th and 18th centuries. However, the historic philosophical
In 'The War on Error', historian and political analyst Martin Kramer presents a series of case studies, some based on pathfinding research and others on provocative analysis, that correct misinformati
"There is a widely held notion that, except for the elections of 1928 and 1960, the Irish have primarily influenced only state and local government. However, The Irish and the American Presidency reve
Redner presents the fourth and final volume in his tetralogy. This work is more closely concerned with ideas, ideologies, ideologues, and intellectuals in general. Collectively they portray the contem
Sociology has tackled some of the most formidable problems that confront contemporary society: inequality, homelessness, violence, gender, and many more. Sociologists assert that hypotheses can be for
The author examines emotions from Kenneth Burke's perspective that humans use and create symbols and that emotions are subject to linguistic labeling and classification. He draws on the ideas of B
The author collects her previously published academic writings between 1976 and 2006 on the disappearance of the American Dream, contending that population growth driven by mass immigration has caused
Taking a traditional view on the family, gender roles, and sexuality, the author compares four accounts of the family: sociobiological and categorical, which view the family as normative and a natural
Ayres, a former editor of a magazine about the challenges of environmental degradation and a destabilized climate, contends that technology could destroy human civilization because it creates weakness
Love is a little word with a universe of meanings and has engaged people’s interest throughout human history. The need to give and receive love lies deep within human nature. Philosophers, poets, theo
Europeanization has generated a galaxy of regimes, laws, organizations, new actors, and networks that have diluted institutional barriers to interaction across national borders. Many nation-based poli
Editors Airaksinen and Gasparski present readers with a collection of academic essays examining the concept of desire from different perspectives in a variety of contemporary contexts. The editors hav
