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The Truth about Conservative Christians
Ever since the reelection of President Bush, conservative Christians have been stereotyped in the popular media: Bible-thumping militants and anti-intellectual zealots determined to impose their convictions on such matters as evolution, school prayer, pornography, abortion, and homosexuality on the rest of us. But conservative Christians are not as fanatical or intractable as many people think, nor are they necessarily the monolithic voting block or political base that kept Bush in power. Andrew M. Greeley and Michael Hout's eye-opening book expertly conveys the complexity, variety, and sensibilities of conservative Christians, dispelling the myths that have long shrouded them in prejudice a...
Mobility Tables
Explains the most widely used methods for analyzing cross-classified data on occupational origins and destinations. Hout reviews classic definitions, models, and sources of mobility data, as well as elementary operations for analyzing mobility tables. Tabular and graphic displays illustrate the discussion throughout.
Inequalities of the World
A groundbreaking exploration of contemporary global inequality by leading scholars from across the world.
Our Kids
"The bestselling author of Bowling Alone offers [an] ... examination of the American Dream in crisis--how and why opportunities for upward mobility are diminishing, jeopardizing the prospects of an ever larger segment of Americans"--
Social Class
Class differences permeate the neighborhoods, classrooms, and workplaces where we lead our daily lives. But little is known about how class really works, and its importance is often downplayed or denied. In this important new volume, leading sociologists systematically examine how social class operates in the United States today. Social Class argues against the view that we are becoming a classless society. The authors show instead the decisive ways social class matters—from how long people live, to how they raise their children, to how they vote. The distinguished contributors to Social Class examine how class works in a variety of domains including politics, health, education, gender, an...
Brief Therapy with Individuals and Couples
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Brief integrative behavior therapy with individuals and couples 2. Cognitive behavioral strategies 3. Rational emotive family therapy 4. Multimodal strategies with adults 5. Short term therapy for character change 6. Depth oriented brief therapy: Accelerated accessing of the coherent unconcious 7. Object relations brief therapy 8. Adlerian brief therapy: Strategies and tactics 9. Efficient adlierian theapy with individuals and couples 10. Brief reality therapy 11. Stage-Appropriate change oriented brief therapy strategies 12. The satir system: Brief therapy strategies 13. Imago strategies 14. Psychoeducational strategies 15. Solution focused brief counseling strategies 16. EMDR and resource installation: principales and prodecures 17. Biopsychosocial therapy: Essential strategies and tactics.
Inequality by Design
As debate rages over the widening and destructive gap between the rich and the rest of Americans, Claude Fischer and his colleagues present a comprehensive new treatment of inequality in America. They challenge arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. They refute the claims of the incendiary bestseller The Bell Curve (1994) through a clear, rigorous re-analysis of the very data its authors, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, used to contend that inherited differences in intelligence explain inequality. Inequality by Design offers a powerful alternative explanation, stressing that economic fortune depends more on social circu...
Family Transformed
Statistics on the American family are sobering. From 1975 to 2000, one-third of all children were born to single mothers, and one-half of all marriages ended in divorce. While children from broken homes are two to three times more likely to develop behavioral and learning difficulties, two-parent families are not immune to problems. The cost of raising children has increased dramatically, and married couples with children are now twice as likely as childless couples to file for bankruptcy. Clearly, the American family is in trouble. But how this trouble started, and what should be done about it, remain hotly contested. In a multifaceted analysis of the current state of a complex institution,...
The Capitalist Society
This book describes the formation of civilized society from the perspective of the analysis of the role played by language and media and hence explains the formation and evolution of the capitalist society from the perspective of language and media. It argues that linguistic presentations given by using language serve as a basis for humans to define the private property right, to engage in market exchange, to establish wage labor system, to exploit science and technology in production, and to organize socialized production. It clarifies the reason for the distinction between the rich and the poor in the capitalist society in a special way against Marx's theory of surplus value and asserts that the wage labor system is a cooperative system. It also discusses the relations of social classes and the relations between democracy and dictatorship as well as the origin of the state from the perspective of language and media different from Marx's view in these respects. This view may help humans deepen their understanding of capitalism.
Remaking the American Mainstream
In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation--that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment of assimilation since the mid-1960s, it continues to shape the immigrant experience, even though the geography of immigration has shifted from Europe to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Institutional changes, from civil rights legislation to immigration law, have provided a more favorable environment for nonwhite immigrants and their children than in the past. Assimilation is still ...
