Author: Liah Greenfeld
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: sociological, american, association, rose, art, monographs, choice, worlds, study, taste, different, success
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1989-01-27
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0521360641
ISBN-13: 9780521360647

Using a wealth of data collected in Israel, this study depicts a complete system in which art is created and evaluated--the scale of Israeli society allowing for a comprehensive and detailed description of all the agents involved in the production and consumption of modern art. The author analyzes the patterns of social relations and behavior created around two art worlds--the world of abstract avant-garde art and the world of traditional figurative painting. She argues that the two worlds differ radically both in terms of the factors that affect the formation of taste, the process of evaluat

Author: Harvey Warren Zorbaugh
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: sociological, chicago, north, university, series, study, coast, slum, gold
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 1983-07-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0226989453
ISBN-13: 9780226989457

"This is a book about Chicago. It is also, and for that very reason, a book about every other American city which has lived long enough and grown large enough to experience the transformation of neighborhoods and the contact of cultures and the tension between different types of individual and community behavior. . . . Here is a type of sociological investigation which is equally marked by human interest and scientific method."—Christian Century

Author: Yu Xie
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: methodology, sociological
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2009-10-27
List price: $149.95
ISBN-10: 1444332937
ISBN-13: 9781444332933

The 2009 volume of Sociological Methodology continues a 41-year tradition of providing cutting-edge methodology for sociological research.  Under the editorship of Yu Xie, three features are prominent in this volume:·         Appropriate and practical methodological tools for substantive research.·         Interdisciplinary dialogues on methodological issues between sociologists and non-sociologists.·         Dedication to publishing purely methodological work in sociology.

Authors:Heather Johnson, Heather Johnson,
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: children, youth, sociological, studies, amp, themselves, speak
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2010-03-23
List price: $134.95
ISBN-10: 1849507341
ISBN-13: 9781849507349

The theme of this volume is an outgrowth of one of the Section sponsored sessions at the 2006 ASA meetings in Montreal; ’Children and Youth Speak for Themselves’. The volume is a collection of articles from scholars who pay particular attention to children and/or adolescents’ voices, interpretations, perspectives, and experiences within specific social and cultural contexts. Contributions include research stemming from a broad spectrum of methodological and theoretical orientations. This is a cutting-edge compilation of the most current child-centred scholarship on the sociol

Author: R. Stones
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: thinkers, sociological, key
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0814781160
ISBN-13: 9780814781166

Despite the fact that most of us think often about society and social life, few of us have had extensive schooling in how to organize or structure such thought. Guided by the belief that the sociological imagination is impoversihed if accessible only to a handful of specialists, Key Sociological Thinkers provides the lay reader with a clear and manageable overview of the major sociological developments from Marx to the present day.Twenty-one concise, thorough chapters introduce the key thinkers in the field; their driving impulses, issues central to their work, substantive examples of the the

Author: George Ritzer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: theory, sociological
Number of Pages: 840
Published: 2007-07-23
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073528188
ISBN-13: 9780073528182

The seventh edition of Sociological Theory by George Ritzer, one of the foremost authorities on sociological theory, gives readers a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought. Key theories are integrated with biographical sketches of theorists, and theories are placed in their historical and intellectual context. This helps students to better understand the original works of classical and modern theorists as well as to compare and contrast the latest substantive theories.

Author: Robert Nisbet
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: tradition, sociological
Number of Pages: 349
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1560006676
ISBN-13: 9781560006671