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The Research Act: A Theoretical Introduction to Sociological Methods

... common-sense terms only validate and reinforce what is known. The Definition Behind most concepts is a definition that permits the sociologist to move from the concept to a single case or instance of it. Definitions intervene between ...

The Subdivision and Site Plan Handbook

... parking spaces for residents and their units, and 400 feet between parking for visitors and the units.75 HUD recommends closer placement: 200 ... SIZE OF SPACES The standard parking stall size has traditionally been 10 ... cars has led some ...

Rumors, Race, and Riots

Hundreds of pertinent rumors are documented from local newspapers and investigative accounts. An exhaustive, systematic inquiry is made into the series of disorders that occurred between 1967 and 1970.

Race, Class, and Political Symbols: Rastafari and Reggae in Jamaican Politics

... symbols of the Rastafarians include , most notice- ably , the long , uncombed locks by which they are readily identified . The reasons given for the locks are first that the laws of the Nazarites in the Book of Numbers ( 6 : 1-7 ) ...

Praxiphanes of Mytilene and Chamaeleon of Heraclea: Text, Translation, and Discussion

There follow ten essays that clarify material presented in the text translation. The volume closes with an index listing the ancient sources that are referred to the preceding essays.

Political Terrorism: A New Guide To Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, And Literature

... books , theses , and other university papers , conference proceedings , reports , and journals accumulated since ... words which can be arranged to make the search as narrow or as broad as desired . By combining key words ( e.g. , RAF ...

Social Learning and Social Structure: A General Theory of Crime and Deviance

A General Theory of Crime and Deviance Ronald L. Akers. association theory and that, although operant terminology was used, the theory was actually closer to social learning perspectives such as Bandura's. As I noted in the Introduction ...

Memory, History, Nation: Contested Pasts

... memory , fear , and war ' , both in Representations 69 , Winter 2000 , special issue ' Grounds for remembering ' . 30 This point is also made by Klein , ' On the emergence of Memory ... Simon Schama , Landscape and Memory , London , Harper ...

Environmental Consciousness: The Roots of a New Political Agenda

... Simon Schama's Landscape and Memory Bill Schwarz There are few historians in Britain who could regard themselves as celebrities . Simon Schama , resident in North America , comes close . His books arrive with all the hype one has come ...

Old Souls: Aged Women, Poverty, and the Experience of God

... BOOK IS ABOUT This is a book about older women and their subjective experience of chronic poverty . The case studies used in this book came from a research study entitled , " Chronic Poverty and the Self in Later Life . " The National ...

Egypt Revisited

This volume represents a new departure in the examination of Egypt's place in the African context.

Plant Closings: Worker Rights, Management Rights, and the Law

... Otis Elevator Case16 This case has a curious procedural history — similar , in some ways , to Milwaukee Spring . A decision against the company was handed down by the Carter Board in March 1981. " it found Otis guilty of refusal to ...

Media and Public Life

... proposal to raise the salaries of the Washington political and judicial ... TV talk shows , which usually stay away from political topics . Those who see society from the top down and perceive bystanders as sheep decided that the opposition ...

Control Theories of Crime and Delinquency

... self-reports of their own children. For present purposes, a major ... spanking, and shaking often presuppose instantaneous reaction by an adult ... techniques that remain may not be particularly important in and of themselves (Rutter ...

Legal Foundations of Land Use Planning: Textbook-Casebook and Materials on Planning Law

... Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County (the Board) adopted a new Annandale Master Plan. That plan, comprehending the ... errata sheet prepared by staff (never formally approved by the Board) at Falcon Street. On December 28, 1970, at the ...

Beyond Words: The Story of Sensitivity Training and the Encounter Movement

... I Never Promised You a Rose Garden stands in contrast to the other two books . 14 Here the protagonist is not successful ; on the con- trary , she is a psychotic teen - ager being treated in a mental hospital . She represents the ...

Encounter With Anthropology

... blood ? Next to color , this has the most emotional significance , it seems . " Mixed blood " is looked on in some circles with horror , while " true blood " —or even , for some reason , " blue blood " —is the metaphor for a person's ...

Russian View of U.S. Strategy: Its Past, Its Future

... star wars" programme in its exposed form is extremely aggressive. It is a desperate attempt on the part of US ... allies, to check the course of history in one stroke, take social revenge worldwide, and destroy socialism. In practical ...

New World Primates: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

... informative from the perspective of precursors to human speech and language . An animal might have a very complex syntax but not make functional use of it , or an animal might be able to use a relatively ... animals , Is Speech Special ? 85.

The Art of Comedy Writing

Arthur Asa Berger. sers, misanthropes, sex-starved women and men, gluttons ... funny and interesting comedies: Plautus's Miles Gloriosus Shakespeare's Twelfth ... application of those techniques to some of the greatest comedies of world ...

The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City, Volume 2: The Chinese City in Comparative Perspective

... Persepolis is contained in two magnificent volumes by Erich F.Schmidt ... 2 (1957), pp.123~30, and 'Persepolis - considered as a ritual city', Zeki ... Book II, nos.3 and 4. 128. Westheim, op. cit., pp.115—18; K. Th. Preuss, 'Kosmische ...

Slavery in the United States

... Black Codes " were expressions often used inter- changeably , though one ... Christian era , and among a people boasting their pure religion and their ... CODES " AND THE NEGRO 89 In Mississippi , 88 7: "Codes" and the Negro: Their ...

Investing in Cuba: Problems and Prospects

Problems and Prospects Jaime Suchlicki, Antonio Jorge. empresa mixta , establecerá las normas disciplinarias ... reglamento de primas aplicabale a los trabajadores que laboren en dicha empresa , en el marco de lo dispuesto en el ...

The Trauma of Freud: Controversies in Psychoanalysis

... between stools , alienating people who each suspect different sorts of professional impurities . In trying to evolve a common method for psychoanalysts and historians , Erikson highlighted the way a clinician necessarily interacts with ...

Crusade Against Slavery, the

... slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and un— just enactments ... tempest uproots a pine on your hills, it looks green for months-——a year or ... Slavery History of the John Brown Year . . . (New York, 1861), p. 121 ...

In gods we trust

... series of books containing enthusiastic descriptions of the organization and endorsements of Amway by current distributors, although he is not himself a distributor. His books are widely read and distributed in Amway circles, he has ...

The Greeks

... Spartan state but at the creation of the ideal citizen. It was a narrow ideal, but for all that it was an ideal. The Greeks admired this: the laws of Sparta did so thoroughly what the Greek thought was the highest function of law. Our ...

From Child Abuse to Permanency Planning: Child Welfare Services Pathways and Placements

... sample of 496 children drawn from 1,369 adoptions in the California Long ... agreement under the Relinquishment Adoption Program of California . ( The other children in the sample were typically ... Adoption and Adoption Legalization 163.

The Democratic Imagination: Dialogues on the Work of Irving Louis Horowitz

... say it muscularly energetic work by my favorite American sculptor, David ... (tyranny of any kind). Perhaps instead of a rock I need to change the ... does not understand that this is at the core of Irving Horowitz's being cannot ...

A Profile of Economic Plants

... Code ( s ) : 164 Summary hay . : Big bluestem is a prairie grass of North ... fungus , and waterlogging . It is suited for marshes and wet grasslands but ... Japanese Barnyard Millet , Japanese Millet ( See Cereal ) Birdsfoot Trefoil ...

Politics in the Bible

... according to one story she later converts to Joseph's religion (Joseph and Aseneth and TheMarriage and Conversion ofAseneth).12 She and ... Political Implications: According to the biblical account, Joseph transforms Egyptian 19 Genesis.

Troubling Children: Studies of Children and Social Problems

... Spanking is said to offer an antidote to the youth problem , release ten ... spanked children . Critics counter that spanking ironically pro- motes , rather than ... professional , scientific , religious , and political con- texts have no ...

Adoption Resources for Mental Health Professionals

... spanking procedures . He would limit the number of reasons which merit spanking . He would also think before he spanks , spank only one time with the bare hand and will not curse while doing so . Both parents would read and discuss ...

Social Problems: Constructionist Readings

... spanked children. Critics counter that spanking promotes, rather than deters, misbehavior. They contend that it is usually ... professional, scientific, religious, and political contexts have no doubt prompted and shaped these changing ...

Russia's Revolution from Above 1985-2000: Reform, Transaction, and Revolution in the Fall of the Soviet Communist Regime

... platform , only 25 percent supported the CC platform . His critique of the ... Grebennikov was for- merly USSR deputy chief state arbitrator . Izvestiya ... Viktor Yaroshenko , was appointed RSFSR Foreign Economic Relations minister ...

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