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Youth Gangs in American Society by Randall G Shelden Publisher Comments This comprehensive survey of the literature on gangs and gang activities in America includes theoretical perspectives on why gangs exist, gang typologies, descriptions of gang activities, and various intervention strategies for dealing with gangs.... (read more) Your price $45.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Elements of Social Theory by Barry Barnes Publisher Comments Over the past quarter century, social theory has moved in diverse and often seemingly incompatible directions, exaggerating differences of approach that existed even in earlier periods. In a strikingly original book, Barry Barnes uses this intellectual... (read more) List Price $52.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shut Out Low Income Mothers & Higher Edition by Valerie Polakow Publisher Comments "Shut Out exposes in vivid detail the economic, educational, and existential struggles that poor single mothers confront in light of current Welfare-to-Work policies. According to the editors, these mandates strip women of their educational rights by... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Social Sciences and Modern States: National Experiences and Theoretical Crossroads (Advances in Political Science) by Peter Wagner Publisher Comments In this book, leading specialists in the field analyze both the development and failings of policy-oriented social science.... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $50.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Islands in the Street by Martin Sa Jankowski Publisher Comments "Vivid, lively, and yet theoretically informed, a triumph of patient and sustained fieldwork. . . . Jankowski presents the gang and its members not as pathological departures from social norms, but as shrewd and resourceful operators."--Michael Lipsky... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $3.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, 1966-1999 by Ray Suarez Publisher Comments "Life in the city, for the millions who lived it, was once something less than the sum of their lifestyle choices: they woke up, they ate, they shoveled coal, loved, hated, prayed, mated, reproduced, died. For most, the home was not a display object but... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Writing With Style Apa Style for Soc 3RD Edition by Lenore T Szuchman Publisher Comments Learn to prepare professional literature with WRITING WITH STYLE: APA STYLE FOR SOCIAL WORK. The authors' easy "learning through modeling" method guides you through the writing process step by step. Sample outlines, title pages, abstract pages and a... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $23.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Between Security and Insecurity by Ivan Klima Synopsis A discussion of the changes in thinking and behaviour at the turn of the millennium. It considers the main values in human society that must be preserved and tries to identify the people who are seeking to transform consumer values into genuine values... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Competition & Control at Work: A New Industrial Sociology by Stephen Hill Publisher Comments andquot;The central problem facing modern business is the impossibility of abolishing the conditions which create conflicts in the workplace without destroying the present form of the economy.andquot;This is the author's controversial conclusion to a... (read more) Your price $4.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Virtuality Check: Power Relations and Alternative Strategies in the Information Society by Francois Fortier Publisher Comments Fortier looks at information technologies in society, uncovering a relationship that subjugates workers, manipulates consumers and extends media monopolies...but also offers democratic alternatives.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Sociology on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication by Gunther Kress Publisher Comments Multimodal Discourse outlines a new theory of communication for the age of interactive multimedia. Kress and Van Leeuwen show how two kinds of thought processes interact in the design and production of communicative messages: "design thinking" and... (read more) Your price $34.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Americas Top Rated Cities 11TH Edition Volume 3 by Grey House Publishin Publisher Comments "America's Top-Rated Cities provides current, comprehensive statistical information and other essential data in one easy-to-use source on the 80 "top" cities that have been cited as the best for business and living in the U.S. Each city report... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $16.65 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology by Wiebe E Bijker Publisher Comments The impact of technology on society is clear and unmistakable. The influence of society on technology is more subtle. The 13 essays in this book draw on a wide array of case studies from cooking stoves to missile systems, from 15thandAcirc;andshy;century... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Surviving the Breakup: How Children and Parents Cope with Divorce by J Wallerstein Publisher Comments Based on the Children of Divorce Project, a landmark study of sixty families during the first five years after divorce, this enlightening and humane modern classic altered the conventional wisdom on the short- and long-term effects of family dissolution.... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Home Front: Implications of Welfare Reform for Housing by Sandra J Newman Publisher Comments The recent welfare reform debate has shaped a new standard for safety net programs -- not only must they redress problems, they must help move people toward economic self-sufficiency. But, until recently, government housing programs have been left out of... (read more) Your price $3.85 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit by Kerry Max Cook Publisher Comments Kerry Cook is an innocent man who wrongly served two decades in Texas's notorious death house for the brutal 1977 rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards. His struggle for freedom is said to be one of the worst cases of police and prosecutorial... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In the Desert of Desire: Las Vegas and the Culture of Spectacle by William L Fox Publisher Comments Las Vegas, says William Fox, is pay-as-you-play paradise that succeeds through its collective ability to fantasize our desire for vast wealth and the excesses of pleasure and consumptin that go with it. In this context, he examines how the city's culture... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Abandoned in the Wasteland: Children, Television, & the First Amendment by Newton Minow Publisher Comments Winner of the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association Two well-known experts-Newton N. Minow is a former chairperson of the FCisuggest bold new ways to think about television and its influence on American life and, most urgently, on... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Long Baby Boom: An Optimistic Vision for a Graying Generation by Jeff Goldsmith Publisher Comments In 2006, the first baby boomers turned 60, unleashing a veritable tidal wave of gloomy punditry, advertising for financial services, and forecasts of impending national bankruptcy. In The Long Baby Boom, Jeff Goldsmith counters the predictions of such... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Treating the Mentally Ill (At Issue) by Kyla Stinnett Publisher Comments Despite centuries of study and experimentation, scientists and health professionals have not found any perfect cures for mental disorders. In the twenty-first century the controversy over the best way to treat mental illnesses remains heated. In this... (read more) List Price $28.70 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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