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Book Society Organized  an Allegory  in Verse

Download or read book Society Organized an Allegory in Verse written by William Augustus Gordon HAKE and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Self and Social Organization

Download or read book On Self and Social Organization written by Charles Horton Cooley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This te×t presents a collection of Charles Horton Cooley's work, a contribution to the history of ideas - especially to the origin of modern sociological theory - but also to the late-1990s public debate on civil society, community, and democracy.

Book Ants at Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deborah Gordon
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780393321326
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Ants at Work written by Deborah Gordon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ants have long been regarded as the most interesting of the social insects. With their queens and celibate workers, these intriguing creatures have captured the imaginations of scientists and children alike for generations. Yet until now, no one had studied intensely the life cycle of the ant colony as a whole. An ant colony has a life cycle of about fifteen years--it is born, matures, and dies. But the individual ants that inhabit the colony live only one year. So how does this system of tunnels and caves in the dirt become so much more than the sum of its parts?Leading ant researcher Deborah Gordon takes the reader to the Arizona desert to explore this question. The answer involves the emerging insights of the new science of complexity, and contributes to understanding the evolution of life itself.

Book Migration and Organized Civil Society

Download or read book Migration and Organized Civil Society written by Dirk Halm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migrant organizations are of vital importance for countries of residence and countries of origin, but the empirical and theoretical knowledge of the cross-border character of migrant organizations remains incomplete. It is clear that migrant transnationalism challenges the governance of nation-states on the local and national levels. This book, the outcome of an ECPR joint session, systematically and empirically analyzes the differing roles that transnational migrant organizations play in their countries of residence and origin. Drawing on research conducted in Belgium, England, Germany, Holland, Poland and Portugal, it focuses on the relations between migrant organizations and the state. Offering an opportunity for comparative analysis, it also examines why migrants and their organizations engage in different forms of border crossing activities, and how various political systems influence, and are influenced by these forms of engagement. Migration and Organized Civil Society will be of strong interest to students and researchers of political science, political sociology, migration studies, transnationalism, and Diaspora studies.

Book The Credential Society

Download or read book The Credential Society written by Randall Collins and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall Collins’s claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but rather created a cycle of credential inflation, has proven remarkably prescient. Collins shows how credential inflation stymies mass education’s promises of upward mobility. An unacknowledged spiral of the rising production of credentials and job requirements was brought about by the expansion of high school and then undergraduate education, with consequences including grade inflation, rising educational costs, and misleading job promises dangled by for-profit schools. Collins examines medicine, law, and engineering to show the ways in which credentialing closed these high-status professions to new arrivals. In an era marked by the devaluation of high school diplomas, outcry about the value of expensive undergraduate degrees, and the proliferation of new professional degrees like the MBA, The Credential Society has more than stood the test of time. In a new preface, Collins discusses recent developments, debunks claims that credentialization is driven by technological change, and points to alternative pathways for the future of education.

Book A Society Organized for War

Download or read book A Society Organized for War written by James F. Powers and published by . This book was released on 1988-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Organized Crime  Prison and Post Soviet Societies

Download or read book Organized Crime Prison and Post Soviet Societies written by Alain Touraine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. The "Red Mafia" in Russia have become the subject of increasing international interest and considerable misinterpretation. After well-received editions in Russian, French and Italian, Anton Oleinik's study of Russian prisons, in which he explores the social roots of organized crime in post-Soviet societies, is now published in English. This English edition includes a postscript on the Moscow terrorist crisis of 2002. Oleinik's analysis reveals prison society as a mirror of broader Russian society - characterized by the absence of the state as an organizer of social practices. He builds on this to make a central distinction between two types of societies - the modern "large" society and the "small" society, like Russia, that has only been partially modernized, and in which the world of everyday life, experiences and relationships remains entirely separated from the official aims of modernization and efficiency. Oleinik is interested in the void between these two separate worlds, a void he sees being filled in Russia by the Mafia.

Book Social Organization  a Study of the Larger Mind

Download or read book Social Organization a Study of the Larger Mind written by Charles Horton Cooley and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Organized Secularism in the United States

Download or read book Organized Secularism in the United States written by Ryan T. Cragun and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a dramatic increase in the percentage of the US population that is not religious. However, there is, to date, very little research on the social movement that is organizing to serve the needs of and advocate for the nonreligious in the US. This is a book about the rise and structure of organized secularism in the United States. By organized secularism we mean the efforts of nonreligious individuals to build institutions, networks, and ultimately a movement that serves their interests in a predominantly religious society. Researchers from various fields address questions such as: What secularist organizations exist? Who are the members of these organizations? What kinds of organizations do they create? What functions do these organizations provide for their members? How do the secularist organizations of today compare to those of the past? And what is their likely impact on the future of secularism? For anyone trying to understand the rise of the nonreligious in the US, this book will provide valuable insights into organized efforts to normalize their worldview and advocate for their equal treatment in society.

Book The Organization of Society

Download or read book The Organization of Society written by Paul E. Mott and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conceptual tools of sociology; The urbanization and industrialization of societies; Organizational integration and change in American Society; The centralization of influence and the emergence of the total society.

Book The Organizational Society

Download or read book The Organizational Society written by Robert Vance Presthus and published by New York : Vintage books. This book was released on 1962 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an interdisciplinary analysis of big organizations and their influence upon the individuals who work in them. Conceptually, the analysis operates at three distinct but interrelated levels: society as a whole; the big, rational organization; and the individual. Organizations are defined as "miniature societies" in which the dominant values of society are inculcated and sought in a more structured, spatially restricted context. A major object is to show how individuals work out an accommodation in this milieu, and to develop a theory of organizational behavior that posits three ideal types of accommodation to big organizations: "upward-mobiles," "indifferents," and "ambivalents""--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).

Book Organized Society  From dream to action

Download or read book Organized Society From dream to action written by Viktor Petrovych Andrushchenko and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russian Organized Crime

Download or read book Russian Organized Crime written by Phil Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. During the 1990s transnational criminal organizations of all kinds have received increased scrutiny from law enforcement agencies, intelligence analysts, and academic researchers. While there are many differences of both interpretation and assessment regarding a whole range of issues, divisions are particularly acute in the area of Russian organized crime. This title gives a brief history of Russian Organized Crime before exploring recent trends, major mafia gangs and their relationship overseas.

Book Organized Social Complexity

Download or read book Organized Social Complexity written by Todd R. La Porte and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One striking feature of modern political and social development has been the construction of social systems encompassing more and more groups. The increase in social complexity, the authors of this volume contend, has reached a point where accepted concepts fail to describe social and political phenomena adequately. The studies in this book reevaluate traditional assumptions. Part One defines organized social complexity and discusses the effects of technological change. Part Two assesses national planning and systems analysis, approaches supposed to provide direct control over social matters. Part Three describes methodological aspects and research applications, and Part Four provides retrospective and prospective views of theories on social complexity. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Organized Miracles

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Tull Richardson
  • Publisher : Transaction Publishers
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9781412830317
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Organized Miracles written by James Tull Richardson and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Excellent study which moves back and forth between theory and empirical observations. It looks at religious groups from several different theoretical positions as well as raises a number of significant issues about the conduct of fi eld research." --Russell R. Dynes, American Sociological Association

Book The Tribune Almanac and Political Register

Download or read book The Tribune Almanac and Political Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Organized Labor and Civil Society for Multiculturalism

Download or read book Organized Labor and Civil Society for Multiculturalism written by Joon K. Kim and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For its lessons on the possibilities of collaboration between organized labor and immigrant workers, Organized Labor and Civil Society for Multiculturalism: A Solidarity Success Story from South Korea is of keen interest to practitioners worldwide working within projects dedicated to promoting labor solidarity and multiculturalism.