Religion, Race, and Reconstruction

Religion, Race, and Reconstruction

Author: Ward M. McAfee

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1998-07-10

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780791438480

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Religion, Race, and Reconstruction simultaneously resurrects a lost dimension of a most important segment of American history and illuminates America’s present and future by showing the role religious issues played in Reconstruction during the 1870s.


Bulletin

Bulletin

Author: United States. Office of Education

Publisher:

Published: 1913

Total Pages: 960

ISBN-13:

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Social Theory and Human Reality

Social Theory and Human Reality

Author: Pertti Alasuutari

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2004-09-01

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 141293124X

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′This is a smart and compelling book. Difficult ideas are presented in an accessible manner, with plenty of supporting illustrations...Students will enjoy the research material and other supporting material. A definite winner!′- Professor Jay Gubrium, University of Missouri This book gets to the heart of what the social sciences really know about the elusive and contradictory object of research: human reality. Drawing on a wide range of international examples and scenarios, Social Theory and Human Reality examines key sociological concepts that we use to understand human behaviour such as: norms, rules and meanings; language and discourse; ritual; and personality and identity construction. Alasuutari clearly and convincingly demonstrates: - The constant interplay between routines and reflexivity that grounds social order - how the body and our bodily experiences mediate our social reality - that language plays a multi-faceted role as it describes, reflects and constructs human reality Building on the work started by Berger and Luckmann in The Social Construction of Reality, this book is a lucid and contemporary analysis of the premises shared across the social sciences, and of the kaleidoscope of ′human reality′. This important book will be welcomed by students and scholars alike in the fields of Cultural Studies, Sociology and Anthropology.


Keeping the People's Liberties

Keeping the People's Liberties

Author: John J. Dinan

Publisher: University Press of Kansas

Published: 2021-10-08

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 070063147X

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Which branch of government should be entrusted with safeguarding individual rights? Conventional wisdom assigns this responsibility to the courts, on the grounds that liberty can only be protected through judicial interpretation of bills of rights. In fact it is difficult for many people even to conceive of any other way that rights might be protected. John Dinan challenges this understanding by tracing and evaluating the different methods that have been used to protect rights in the United States from the founding until the present era. By examining legislative statutes, judicial decisions, convention proceedings, and popular initiatives in four representative states-Massachusetts, Virginia, Michigan, and Oregon-Dinan shows that rights have been secured in the American polity in three principal ways. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, rights were protected primarily through representative institutions. Then in the early twentieth century, citizens began to turn to direct democratic institutions to secure their rights. It was not until the mid-twentieth century that judges came to be seen as the chief protectors of liberties. By analyzing the relative ability of legislators, citizens, and judges to serve as guardians of rights, Dinan's study demonstrates that each is capable of securing certain rights in certain situations. Elected representatives are generally capable of protecting most rights, but popular initiatives provide an effective mechanism for securing rights in the face of legislative intransigence, and judicial decisions offer a superior means of protecting liberties in crisis times. Accordingly, rather than viewing rights protection as the peculiar province of any single institution, this task ought to be considered the proper responsibility of all these institutions. By undertaking a comparison of these institutional methods across such a wide expanse of time, Keeping the People's Liberties makes a highly original contribution to the literature on rights protection and provides a new perspective on debates about the contemporary role of representative, populist, and judicial institutions.


The Secularization of American Education, as Shown by State Legislation, State Constitutional Provisions, and State Supreme Court Decisions

The Secularization of American Education, as Shown by State Legislation, State Constitutional Provisions, and State Supreme Court Decisions

Author: Samuel Windsor Brown

Publisher: Andesite Press

Published: 2017-08-23

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781376073690

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