Reflections on Community in Advanced Industrial Society
Author: Sharon E. Myrick
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 266
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Author: Sharon E. Myrick
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ronald Inglehart
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-06-05
Total Pages: 503
ISBN-13: 069118674X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEconomic, technological, and sociopolitical changes have been transforming the cultures of advanced industrial societies in profoundly important ways during the past few decades. This ambitious work examines changes in religious beliefs, in motives for work, in the issues that give rise to political conflict, in the importance people attach to having children and families, and in attitudes toward divorce, abortion, and homosexuality. Ronald Inglehart's earlier book, The Silent Revolution (Princeton, 1977), broke new ground by discovering a major intergenerational shift in the values of the populations of advanced industrial societies. This new volume demonstrates that this value shift is part of a much broader process of cultural change that is gradually transforming political, economic, and social life in these societies. Inglehart uses a massive body of time-series survey data from twenty-six nations, gathered from 1970 through 1988, to analyze the cultural changes that are occurring as younger generations gradually replace older ones in the adult population. These changes have far-reaching political implications, and they seem to be transforming the economic growth rates of societies and the kind of economic development that is pursued.
Author: Ted K. Bradshaw
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James A. Beckford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-19
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0429679149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 1989, demonstrates that sociologists have much to gain from a strengthening of the connections between general theories about the changing character of modern western societies and specific studies of religion. It combines an exegesis of sociological classics in the study of religion, and a history of their influence upon the subject’s development; a criticism of Talcott Parson’s attempt to synthesise classical viewpoints into a single theory of modernity; a discussion of post-Parsonian theories of religion’s declining importance; and an argument that some quasi-Marxist thinkers may offer fresh insights into the place of religion in capitalist societies.
Author: Arthur Joseph Vidich
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Theodore John Kaczynski
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Published: 2020-04-11
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness." Theodore John Kaczynski (1942-) or also known as the Unabomber, is an Americandomestic terrorist and anarchist who moved to a remote cabin in 1971. The cabin lackedelectricity or running water, there he lived as a recluse while learning how to be self-sufficient. He began his bombing campaign in 1978 after witnessing the destruction ofthe wilderness surrounding his cabin.
Author: Rod Purcell
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2005-07-29
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1411651383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA book for all those engaged in working for change in communities. The book explores the nature of community development and social change in a time of globalisation and post modern culture. It proposes, and explores, a Freirian driven participatory model of practice.
Author: Christine Sorrell Dinkins
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2006-07-05
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0299216535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKListening to the Whispers gives voice to scholars in philosophy, medical anthropology, physical therapy, and nursing, helping readers re-think ethics across the disciplines in the context of today's healthcare system. Diverse voices, often unheard, challenge readers to enlarge the circle of their ethical concerns and look for hidden pathways toward new understandings of ethics. Essays range from a focus on the context of corporatization and managed care environments to a call for questioning the fundamental values of society as these values silently affect many others in healthcare. Each chapter is followed by a brief essay that highlights issues useful for scholarly research and classroom discussion. The conversations of interpretive research in healthcare contained in this volume encourage readers to re-think ethics in ways that will help to create an ethical healthcare system with a future of new possibilities. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine
Author: Morris Janowitz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 920
ISBN-13: 1351490478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic study deals with social control in advanced industrial society, especially the United States, and particularly the half-century after World War I. The United States is representative of Western advanced industrial nations that have been faced with marked strain in their political institutions. These nation-states have been experiencing a decline in popular confidence and distrust of the political process, an absence of decisive legislative majorities, and an increased inability to govern effectively, that is, to balance and to contain competing interest group demands and resolve political conflicts.Janowitz uses the sociological idea of social control to explore the sources of these political dilemmas. Social control does not imply coercion or the repression of the individual by societal institutions. Social control is, rather, the face of coercive control. It refers to the capacity of a social group, including a whole society, to regulate itself. Self-regulation implies a set of higher moral principles beyond those of self-interest.Since the end of World War II, the expanded scope of empirical research has profoundly transformed the sociological discipline. The repeated efforts to achieve a theoretical reformulation have left a positive residue, but there have been no new conceptual breakthroughs that are compelling. This book is a concerted and detailed effort organize and to make sense out of the vastly increased body of empirical research.
Author: Arnaud Sales
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2012-08-16
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1446268926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe are living in a turbulent world marked by fast, continuous social changes that affect the lives of individuals, families, communities, organizations, businesses, nation-states, and international networks. This fundamentally commits contemporary sociology to being a science of change. This collection effectively mirrors this diversity and variety of transformations underway in today′s societies and transnational spaces. Written by a group of internationally renowned sociologists, it offers a cutting edge understanding of what is happening in our life worlds, work lives and frames of social existence. Bringing up issues such as political turbulence, cultural and artistic dynamics, family changes, gender roles, migration flows and social movements, it is a timely contribution that discusses transformation and globalization and their consequences in both theoretical and substansive terms. Illuminating and comprehensive, this book will be of immense use for sociology students on all levels, as well as lecturers, researchers and others who are interested in social life and the consequences of human action. Arnaud Sales is Emeritus Proessor of Sociology at the University of Montreal, Canada.