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In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State by Charles Murray Publisher Comments Murray offers a plan to eliminate all federal welfare programs and to substitute a $10,000 annual cash grant for everyone age 21 to 50.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Unmasking Administrative Evil by Guy B. Adams Synopsis Although social scientists generally do not discuss "evil" in an academic setting, there is no denying that it has existed in public administration throughout human history. Hundreds of millions of human beings have died as a direct or indirect... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Social Capital and Poor Communities (Ford Foundation Series on Asset Building) by Susan Saegert Book News Annotation Twenty-three American academics and specialists from a variety of fields contribute 12 chapters to this text funded by the Ford Foundation, exploring the strengths and policy relevance of the asset- building approach to poverty alleviation. Coverage... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price $27.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives by Todd Gitlin Publisher Comments “A balanced yet biting critique . . . Gitlin is a savvy guide to our increasingly kinetic times.”—San Francisco Chronicle   In this original look at our electronically glutted, speed-addicted world, Todd Gitlin evokes a reality of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Annual Review of Sociology, Vol 27 by Karen Cook Book News Annotation Cook (Stanford U.) and Hagan (Northwestern U.) have assembled 19 essays on diverse topics by specialists, almost all of whom work in American universities. Individual papers consider the following topics: sociological miniaturism, consequences of... (read more) Your price $7.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890-1960 (Architecture, Landscape and American Culture) by Abigail Van Slyck Publisher Comments Since they were first established in the 1880s, children's summer camps have touched the lives of millions of people. Although the camping experience has a special place in the popular imagination, few scholars have given serious thought to this... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich Powells.com Staff Pick Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society (Sociology for a New Century) by George Ritzer Publisher Comments This innovative text focuses on an American icon, central to United States culture, that is rapidly becoming a global expression of prosperity - the credit card. George Ritzer explains what the credit card tells us, both good and bad, about the essence... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $5.94 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age by Kay S Hymowitz Publisher Comments Kay Hymowitz explores the predicament of a generation growing up in a world where adults lavish them with material possessions but don't know how to provide them with the ordinary truths that give life meaning. She takes the measure of a young generation... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences #102: Typologies and Taxonomies: An Introduction to Classification Techniques by Kenneth D Bailey Publisher Comments How do we group different subjects on a variety of variables? Should we use a classification procedure in which only the concepts are classified (typology), one in which only empirical entities are classified (taxonomy), or a combination of both? Kenneth... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $11.00 (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   Gendering Organizational Analysis by Albert J Mills Publisher Comments Gender is a central though still relatively unexamined force in organizational life. This groundbreaking book brings together the most influential work in the field to map the terrain of an organizational analysis in which the role of gender is fully... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Religion Vs. Television: Competitors in Cultural Context (Media & Society) by Jay Newman Publisher Comments The subject of competition between religion and television has, if only indirectly, received considerable attention, particularly from religionists disturbed by the threat posed by television programming to traditional religious beliefs, values, and... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture by Shelton Waldrep Publisher Comments ABBA, Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Wayne's World I and "II. David Bowie. Blaxploitation. Platform shoes. Bathhouses. "The Brady Bunch. "The Brady Bunch Movie. "Boogie Nights.<BR> Not only were the '70s filled with cultural icons and phenomena... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America's Golden State by Joe Domanick Publisher Comments From an award-winning journalist comes an investigative look, through the stories of people on both sides of the law, at the development and impact of the three strikes legislation in California.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Welfare & Work Experiences in Six Cities by Christopher T King Book News Annotation This volume summarizes data from six large urban areas to identify changes in welfare participation and labor market involvement of female welfare recipients from the early 1990s through 1999. King and Mueser (Upjohn Institute for Employment Research)... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Working with Custodial Grandparents by Bert Hayslip Publisher Comments Moving beyond simply describing the differences between custodial and noncustodial grandparents, this volume places helping efforts with grandparents in theoretical, empirical, and pragmatic contexts. Stressing the importance of theoretically grounded... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Spirit of Community by Amitai Etzioni Publisher Comments A regular guest on "The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour" and NPR, Etzioni explores the rapidly growing grass-roots political movement that calls for a new balance between individual rights and social responsibilty. "Shows us . . . how a philosophy based on... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $1.99 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The City as a Human Environment (Only One Earth Series) by Duane G Levine Publisher Comments This is a response to the need for up-to-date information about three major challenges posed by urbanization: buildings, transportation, and land use. Planning the built environment involves integrating all aspects of human life so that an esthetic... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sampling and the Census: A Case Against the Proposed Adjustments for Undercount by Kenneth Darga Publisher Comments In an attempt to address an inaccuracy at the national level, sampling would seriously undermine the reliability of census data at the state and local levels.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments The New York Times This meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape. Kotlowitz's story informs the heart. San Francisco Chronicle Amid the darkness and ever-present despair,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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