A stimulating appraisal of a crucial contemporary theme, this comprehensive analysis of globalizaton offers a distinctively cultural perspective on the social theory of the contemporary world. This…
In Getting Beyond Race, Richard Payne takes the practical approach that race relations are ultimately about ordinary people interacting with each other. Payne argues that confrontation, blaming, an…
This survey originally appeared in N. L. Gage (Editor), Handbook of Research on Teaching, published by Rand McNally & Company in 1963, under the longer title "Experimental and Quasi-Experimental De…
"Excellent and insightful. Aburdene and Naisbitt show how women are revolutionizing American society." U.S. REPRESENTATIVE PAT SHROEDER As women assume power in all facets of public and private l…
The notion that if people would just get to know one another they would be friends and everything would be all right is as dan- gerous as it is sentimental. Getting to know people is a necessary pr…
The Asian financial crisis has distracted attention from the realities of a growing affluent class in Asia. this latest volume in the New Rich in Asia series the authors examine the cultural reconf…
Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies hum…