Author: M. Yanovsky
Publisher: Aldine Transactio
Keywords: systems, accounting, social
Number of Pages: 237
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0202309029
ISBN-13: 9780202309026

Social accounting grew up as a result of the desire to bring together in a meaningful and comprehensive manner all the available observed facts on the economic and financial activity of a nation. Three social accounting systems of flow have been developed during the last three decades. Each of these systems has been constructed separately and independently. The framework of each system is constructed to tackle specific aspects of the national economy. It is also designed in a manner, which helps in framing policies for future activity. The aim of this book is mainly to describe the anatomy of

Author: Lyn Lofland
Publisher: Aldine Transactio
Keywords: social, theory, order, communication, quintessential, realm, exploring, city, public
Number of Pages: 305
Published: 1998-12-31
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0202306089
ISBN-13: 9780202306087

This book is about the "public realm," defined as a particular kind of social territory that is found almost exclusively in large settlements. This particular form of social-psychological space comes into being whenever a piece of actual physical space is dominated by relationships between and among persons who are strangers to one another, as often occurs in urban bars, buses, plazas, parks, coffee houses, streets, and so forth. More specifically, the book is about the social life that occurs in such social-psychological space and the forces that threaten it.

Author: Edward Greenberg
Publisher: Aldine Transactio
Keywords: socialization, political
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2009-07-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0202363236
ISBN-13: 9780202363233

Focusing on the forces underlying headlines, this volume examines the processes and outcomes of political socialization - the ways in which an individual acquires the attitudes, beliefs, and values of the political culture from the surrounding environment, and takes on a role as citizen within that political framework. "Political Socialization" vividly points out the contradiction currently existing between the optimism found in the traditional literature of this field and the reality of dramatic present-day incidents. This book offers a selection of papers that advance the recognized approach

Authors:Barney G. Glaser, Anselm Strau,
Publisher: Aldine Transactio
Keywords: qualitative, research, strategies, theory, grounded, discovery
Number of Pages: 271
Published: 1967-06-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0202302601
ISBN-13: 9780202302607

This volume is directed toward closing the gap between theory and empirical research and improving social scientists’ capacities for generating theory that is relevant and useful to their research.

Authors:David Bromley, Joel Best, James T. Richardso,
Publisher: Aldine Transactio
Keywords: social, change, institutions, satanism, scare
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1991-12-31
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0202303799
ISBN-13: 9780202303796

Authors:Victor Turner,  Roger Abrahams, Alfred Harri,
Publisher: Aldine Transactio
Keywords: structure, morgan, lectures, henry, anti, process, ritual, lewis
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 1995-12-31
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0202011909
ISBN-13: 9780202011905

The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates in these pages how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. He extends Van Gennep’s notion of the "liminal phase" of rites of passage to a more general level, and applies it to gain understanding of a wide range of social phenomena.

Author: Ned Polsky
Publisher: Aldine Transactio
Keywords: others, beats, hustlers
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2006-04-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0202308871
ISBN-13: 9780202308876

Ranging from pool hustling to pornography, this book analyzes deviant branches of American life, dispels misconceptions about them, and throws new light on sociological theory and method. Each chapter radically dissents from one or more mainstream opinions about deviance. The opening examines the alleged causes for the decline of American poolrooms and finds them wanting, traces the rise and fall of poolrooms to historical changes in America’s social structure, and cogently dissects the recent poolroom revival. The second chapter, reports a field study of a deviant occupation, pool hustl