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  • Comparative Deviance

    Perception and Law in Six Cultures

    by Graeme R. Newman, Marvin E. Wolfgang ...
    "Comparative Deviance" represents a systematic attempt to survey public perceptions of deviant behavior cross-culturally: in India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Yugoslavia and the United States. There is extensive diversity in both law and perception concerning such deviances as taking drugs, homosexuality, and abortion, yet there is evidence for a basically invariant structure in perception of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Collective Violence

    by James F., Jr. Short, Marvin E. Wolfgang ...
    Collective violence has played an important role throughout American history, though we have typically denied it. But it is not enough to repress violence or to suppress our knowledge of it. We must understand the phenomenon, and to do this, we must learn what violent groups are trying to say. Th at some choose violence tells us something about the perpetrators, inevitably, about ourselves and the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Delinquency Careers in Two Birth Cohorts

    by Paul E. Tracy, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Delinquency in a Birth Cohort, published in 1972, was the first criminologi cal birth cohort study in the United States. Nils Christie, in Unge norske lovorertredere, had done the first such study as his dissertation at the University of Oslo in 1960. Professor Thorsten Sellin was the inspiration for the U.S. study. He could read Norwegian, and I could a little because I studied at the University ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Subculture of Violence

    Towards an Integrated Theory in Criminology

    Edited by Franco Ferracuti, Marvin E. Wolfgang ...
    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • Minds Make Societies

    How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

    by Pascal Boyer ...
    A scientist integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies."There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature." Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book.Integrating recent ... Read more

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  • Why Men Rebel

    by Ted Robert Gurr ...
    Why Men Rebel was first published in 1970 after a decade of political violence across the world. Forty years later, serious conflicts continue in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Ted Robert Gurr reintroduces us to his landmark work, putting it in context with the research it influenced as well as world events. Why Men Rebel remains highly relevant to today's violent and unstable world with its ... Read more

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  • The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893-1958

    by Herbert M. Kliebard ...
    Published in 1987, the first edition of The Struggle for**the American Curriculum was a classic in curriculum studies and in the history of education. This new third edition is thoroughly revised and updated, and includes two new chapters on the renewed attacks on the subject curriculum in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the way individual school subjects evolved over time and were affected by ... Read more

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  • Comparative-Historical Methods

    by Matthew Lange ...
    This bright, engaging title provides a thorough and integrated review of comparative-historical methods. It sets out an intellectual history of comparative-historical analysis and presents the main methodological techniques employed by researchers, including:- comparative-historical analysis,- case-based methods,- comparative methods- data, case selection and theory.Matthew Lange has written a ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Ethical Loneliness

    The Injustice of Not Being Heard

    by Jill Stauffer ...
    Ethical loneliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being acknowledged. It is the result of multiple lapses on the part of human beings and political institutions that, in failing to listen well to survivors, deny them redress by negating their testimony and thwarting their claims for justice.Jill Stauffer examines the root causes of ethical ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Social Dominance

    An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression

    by Jim Sidanius, Felicia Pratto ...
    This volume focuses on two questions: why do people from one social group oppress and discriminate against people from other groups? and why is this oppression so mind numbingly difficult to eliminate? The answers to these questions are framed using the conceptual framework of social dominance theory. Social dominance theory argues that the major forms of intergroup conflict, such as racism, ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • Public Opinion

    by Carroll J. Glynn ...
    Public Opinion is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of public opinion in the United States. Drawing on scholarship in political science, psychology, sociology, and communications, the authors explore the nature of political and social attitudes in the United States and how these attitudes are shaped by various institutions, with an emphasis on mass media. The book also serves as a ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Teaching and Learning Difficult Histories in International Contexts

    A Critical Sociocultural Approach

    Edited by Terrie Epstein, Carla Peck ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
    Grounded in a critical sociocultural approach, this volume examines issues associated with teaching and learning difficult histories in international contexts. Defined as representations of past violence and oppression, difficult histories are contested and can evoke emotional, often painful, responses in the present. Teaching and learning these histories is contentious yet necessary for increased ... Read more

    $57.99 USD