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  • Parents Without Papers

    The Progress and Pitfalls of Mexican American Integration

    by Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, James D. Bachmeier, Susan Brown, James Bachmeier ...
    For several decades, Mexican immigrants in the United States have outnumbered those from any other country. Though the economy increasingly needs their labor, many remain unauthorized. In Parents Without Papers, immigration scholars Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, and James D. Bachmeier document the extent to which the outsider status of these newcomers inflicts multiple hardships on their children ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Interaction Ritual Chains

    by Randall Collins ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force: interaction rituals. Interaction Ritual Chains is a major work of sociological theory that attempts to develop a "radical microsociology." It proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Unified Growth Theory

    by Oded Galor ...
    For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic stagnation, experiencing sustained economic growth that led to significant increases in standards of living and profoundly altered the level and distribution of wealth, population, education, and health across the globe. The ... Read more

    $71.29 USD

  • Tomorrow

    by Cyril Dion ...
    Translated by Lisa Davidson ...
    What if highlighting solutions and telling positive stories was the best way to solve the ecological, economic, and social problems our countries are grappling with? In 2012, Cyril Dion learned about a study carried out by twenty-two scientists from around the world that forecasts the extinction of multiple forms of life, and possibly a large part of humanity, by the year 2100. This news barely ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Caribbean City

    by Rivke Jaffe (Editor) ...
    Caribbean cities are a unique yet underexposed phenomenon. Their distinctiveness results from a combination of interrelated factors including a history of slavery, development under the hemispheric hegemony of the United States and spatial limitations imposed by the setting of most Caribbean urban areas. This innovative volume presents a detailed introduction to the spatial, socio-cultural and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • You Had to Be There

    by Robert Collins ...
    They gained their maturity in an age of monumental and unprecedented change – from horse-and-buggy, Model TFord, and crank telephone, to moonwalks, space shuttles, and the Internet. They are better educated, more affluent, more vigorous, and longer-lived than any generation before them, yet obstinately cling to a forthright simplicity no generation is likely to regain. They are proudly “old ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Turkish Immigrants in the European Union

    Determinants of Immigration and Integration

    Edited by Refik Erzan, Kemal Kirisci ...
    This book provides an analytical contribution to the contested issues marking Turkish membership to the European Union.On October 2005 Turkey started the accession process towards EU membership. Currently, many Europeans fear that large numbers of Turkish nationals will flood member countries if Turkey were to become a member, highlighting that many Turkish immigrants have failed to integrate into ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Population and Development

    High and Low Fertility in Poorer Countries

    Edited by Geoffrey Hawthorn ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    First published in 1978, this book explores the vital global issue of high and low fertility in poorer countries through a series of case studies by contemporary experts in the fields of development and demography. These studies examine such issues as: the relations between fertility rates and income distributions in poor societies; the question of whether or not neo-classical macro-economics are ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People

    Edited by M. Geiger, A. Pécoud ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume scrutinizes new developments in contemporary mobility and migration politics and shows that they are based on a mix of traditional coercive interventions and less repressive and indirect practices. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Why Demography Matters

    by Danny Dorling, Stuart Gietel-Basten ...
    Demography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives.'Today we are shaping them and our societies more than ever before. Globally, we have never had fewer children per adult: our population is about to stabilize, though we do not know when or at what number, or what will happen after that. It will be ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Reproductive Decision-Making in a Macro-Micro Perspective

    Edited by Dimiter Philipov, Aart C. Liefbroer, Jane E. Klobas ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides new insights into the significant gap that currently exists between desired and actual fertility in Europe. It examines how people make decisions about having children and demonstrates how the macro-level environment affects micro-level decision-making.Written by an international team of leading demographers and psychologists, the book presents the theoretical and methodological ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Understanding Family Change and Variation

    Toward a Theory of Conjunctural Action

    by Jennifer A. Johnson-Hanks, Christine A. Bachrach, S. Philip Morgan, Hans-Peter Kohler, Lynette Hoelter, Rosalind King, Pamela Smock ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time. Over the last three decades, social demographers have made remarkable progress in documenting these axes of variation, but theoretical models to explain family change and variation have lagged behind. At the same time, our sister disciplines—from cultural anthropology to social psychology to cognitive science and beyond ... Read more

    $89.09 USD