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James M. Potter
The Social Construction of Communities: Agency, Structure, and Identity in the Prehispanic Southwest

2008 y.
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Description: The Social Construction of Communities examines formation of ancient communities in the Southwest, focusing especially on the fundamental theoretical concepts of structure, agency, and identity construction. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0759110085
Book size: —; Page extent: 336.

 

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Francesco Duina
The Social Construction of Free Trade: The European Union, NAFTA, and Mercosur

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0691133786
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Francesco Duina
The Social Construction of Free Trade: The European Union, NAFTA, and Mercosur

2006 y.
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Description: This book offers a compelling new interpretation of the proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) at the end of the twentieth century. Challenging the widespread assumption that RTAs should be seen as fundamentally similar economic initiatives to pursue free trade, Francesco Duina proposes that the world is reorganizing itself into regions that are highly distinctive and enduring. With evidence from Europe, North America, and South America, he challenges our understanding of globalization, the nature of markets, and the spread of neoliberalism. The pursuit of free trade is a profoundly social process and, as such, a unique endeavor wherever it takes place. In an unprecedented comparative analysis, the book offers striking evidence of differences in the legal architectures erected to standardize the worldview of market participants and the reaction of key societal organizations--interest groups, businesses, and national administrations--to a broader marketplace. The… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691123535
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

1967 y.
Publisher: Anchor
Description: This book reformulates the sociological subdiscipline known as the sociology of knowledge. Knowledge is presented as more than ideology, including as well false consciousness, propaganda, science and art. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0385058985
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Terrence Casey
The Social Context of Economic Change in Britain: Between Policy and Performance

— y.
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Description: This important new book examines a period of dramatic economic change in Britain during the Thatcher era. The Conservatives` free market policies generally improved the performance of the economy in Britain, but some parts of the country still did poorly. Terrence Casey argues that this was as a result of variations in social contexts--a combination of institutions, interests and economic culture. Social context is a crucial intervening variable between the policies selected by decision-makers and the performance of economies, thus the key for enhancing prosperity is the proper match between economic policies and the context in which they are implemented. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0719063485
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Rousseau
The Social Contract

2007 y.
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ISBN: 978-1-85326-781-9
Book size: —; Page extent: 160.

 

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Andrea L. Kavanaugh
The Social Control of Technology in North Africa: Information in the Global Economy

— y.
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Description: In order to improve productivity and economic development, developing countries have been expanding their telecommunications infrastructure and integrating advanced information technology into their socioeconomic system. Some scholars argue that new media will be integral to the overthrow of authoritarian regimes and will allow democracy to bloom throughout developing countries. Others claim that new media will strengthen centralized control and further erode social liberty and pluralism. This study of three North African states--Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco--shows that developing countries are able to control the introduction and diffusion of new information technologies, including the Internet, by allowing a careful disbursement of new media privileges to a select minority. By maintaining direct or indirect social control over the market for advanced technologies, governments of North Africa can embrace new media for modernization, economic growth, and integration into the global… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0275948153
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David Dooley, Joann Prause
The Social Costs of Underemployment: Inadequate Employment As Disguised Unemployment

— y.
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Description: Comparing the effects of unemployment and inadequate employment relative to adequate employment, this text studies their effects on self-esteem, alcohol abuse, depression, and birth weight. Using longitudinal methods, it measures controls for reverse causation (selection) and studies a large representative sample of Americans from their late teens in 1979, to their early 30`s in the last decade of the twentieth century through stages of different business cycles. The results point to a rethinking of employment status as a continuum. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521810140
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Gordon Tullock, Charles Kershaw Rowley
The Social Dilemma: Of Autocracy, Revolution, Coup D`etat And War (Selected Works of Gordon Tullock)

2005 y.
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ISBN: 0865975272
Book size: —; Page extent: 383.

 

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John Bryan Davis, John B. Davis
The Social Economics of Health Care (Advances in Social Economics)

— y.
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Description: Issues such as privacy, genetic testing, andt he allocation of organ transplantss require a more sensitive appraoch to the setting of budgets, and so a more socially responsible attitude towards health care economics is emerging. John Davies has gatheredtogether an impressive range of contributors to explore these phenomena. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0415207657
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Taher H. Kanaan, International Monetary Fund
The Social Effects of Economic Adjustment on Arab Countries

— y.
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Description: The papers presented in this volume - the eighth in a series of seminars sponsored by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the Arab Monetary Fund, the IMF, and the World Bank - explore the relationship between economic reforms, growth, employment, and social sector performance. Topics discussed include the political and social dimensions of policies, privatization in the social sectors, social safety nets, poverty and the poor, and women, poverty, and population growth. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1557756058
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Martin Clark
The Social Entrepreneur Revolution: Doing Good by Making Money, Making Money by Doing Good

2009 y.
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ISBN: 1905736428
Book size: —; Page extent: 208.

 

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P.G. Kain
The Social Experiments of Dorie Dilts: Dumped by Popular Demand (The Social Experiments of Dorie Dilts)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 1416935193
Book size: —; Page extent: 272.

 

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P.G. Kain
The Social Experiments of Dorie Dilts: The School for Cool (The Social Experiments of Dorie Dilts)

2008 y.
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ISBN: 1416935207
Book size: —; Page extent: 288.

 

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The Social Influence Processes

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0202361497
Book size: —; Page extent: 442.

 

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Kenneth Allan
The Social Lens: An Invitation to Social and Sociological Theory

2007 y.
Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Description: `The Social Lens: An Invitation to Social and Sociological Theory` covers the key thinkers in Western thought for the past 200 years. Written in a conversational style that is both appealing and provocative, this text uses real life examples to draw readers in and invite them to consider the ideas that have shaped our understanding of society. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1-4129-1410-8, 978-1-4129-1410-9
Book size: 175x255; Page extent: 632.

 

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Brian Cowan
The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse

2005 y.
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Description: What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0300106661
Book size: —; Page extent: 384.

 

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John Seely Brown, P Duguid, Paul Duguid
The Social Life of Information

— y.
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Description: To see the future we can build with information technology, we must look beyond mere information to the social context that creates and gives meaning to it. For years pundits have predicted that information technology will obliterate the need for almost everything-from travel to supermarkets to business organizations to social life itself. Individual users, however, tend to be more skeptical. Beaten down by info-glut and exasperated by computer systems fraught with software crashes, viruses, and unintelligible error messages, they find it hard to get a fix on the true potential of the digital revolution. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid help us to see through frenzied visions of the future to the real forces for change in society. They arguethat the gap between digerati hype and end-user gloom is largely due to the `tunnel vision` that information-driven technologies breed. We`ve become so focused on where we think we ought to be-a place where technology empowers… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0875847625
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Deborah Valenze
The Social Life of Money in the English Past

2006 y.
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Description: In an age when authoritative definitions of currency were in flux and small change was scarce, money enjoyed a rich and complex social life. Deborah Valenze shows how money became involved in relations between people in ways that moved beyond what we understand as its purely economic functions. This highly original investigation covers the formative period of commercial and financial development in England between 1630 and 1800. In a series of interwoven essays, Valenze examines religious prohibitions related to avarice, early theories of political economy and exchange practices of the Atlantic economy. In applying monetary measurements to women, servants, colonial migrants, and local vagrants, this era was distinctive in its willingness to blur boundaries between people and things. Lucid and highly readable, the book revises the way we see the advance of commercial society at the threshold of modern capitalism. Deborah Valenze is Professor of History at Barnard College,… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521617804
Book size: —; Page extent: 324.

 

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The Social Net: Understanding Human Behavior in Cyberspace

2005 y.
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Description: In cyberspace we see examples of the best and the worst aspects of human behavior. The Internet environment is unique - it affects our attitudes, inhibitions, feelings or responsibility, emotions, impressions of others, and relationships. But how dies t achieve this? How does the Internet enable people to express elements of their personality that they cannot express in the real word? This is a topic that extends far beyond psychology. Anyone doing business on the Internet needs to fully understad how people behave online. The Social Net examines the social psychology of the Internet. With chapters from leading psychological researchers, it tackles both the positive and negative aspects of our Internet behavior. With chapters on persuasion ad compliance, personality, prejudice, on-line relationships, and human inhibitions, it presents a fascinating expose of online behavior. The book will be valuable for social psychologists, as well as anyone who wants to better… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0198528760
Book size: —; Page extent: 296.

 

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Randy Hodson, Teresa A. Sullivan
The Social Organization of Work

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0495003719
Book size: —; Page extent: 528.

 

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Michael Herzfeld
The Social Production of Indifference: Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy

— y.
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Description: Herzfeld argues that `modern` bureaucratically regulated societies are no more `rational` or less `symbolic` than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. He suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from local-level ideas about chance, personal character, social relationships and responsibility. `Herzfeld`s book is extremely ambitious and will be of interest to any anthropologist concerned with the study of bureaucracy, organizational and institutionalcontrol, symbols and their power, and social conflict. . . . Thoughtful and challenging.`--Helen B. Schwartzman, American Ethnologist [detailed...]

ISBN: 0226329089
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Richard Bagozzi, Zynep Gurhan-Canli, Joseph R Priester
The Social Psychology of Consumer Behaviour (Applying Social Psychology)

2002 y.
Publisher: Open University Press
Description: * How do consumers process information? * How do they make choices and decisions? * How are decisions translated into actions of consumption? * How can marketing influence and respond to consumers? The Social Psychology of Consumer Behaviour illuminates an area of intense academic and wider interest, bringing together research and practical insights into how theories in social psychology can be applied to consumer behaviour. Core themes include information processing and social cognition,communication processes, attitude models, emotion, social identity theory, and action theory. Within each of the major areas of social psychology, a historical perspective is provided, current knowledge reviewed, theories and findings critiqued, and directions for future research appraised. The Social Psychology of Consumer Behaviour provides a deeper perspective than standard texts which tend to be either atheoretical, overly encyclopedic, or outdated. It considers why consumers buy… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0335207227
Book size: —; Page extent: 224.

 

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John F. Dovidio, Jane Allyn Piliavin, David A. Schroeder, Louis A. Penner
The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior

2006 y.
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Description: Written by four leading researchers in the study of prosocial behavior, The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior examines prosocial behavior from a new multilevel perspective that explores the diverse influences that promote actions for the benefit of others and the ways that prosocial actions can be manifested. The authors expand the breadth of the field, incorporating analyses of biological and genetic factors that predispose individuals to prosocial behavior. They identify both the common and the unique processes that underlie the broad spectrum of prosocial behavior. Each chapter begins with a question about prosocial behavior and ends with a summary that answers the question. The final chapter summarizes the questions and the answers that research provides. Conceptual models that elaborate on and extend the multilevel approach to prosocial behavior are used to tie these findings together. The Social Psychology of Prosocial Behavior addresses the evolution of altruistic… [detailed...]

ISBN: 080584936X
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Steven Sass, Alicia Haydock Munnell, Andrew Eschtruth
The Social Security Fix-It Book

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0615146015
Book size: —; Page extent: 52.

 

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Wallace C. Peterson
The Social Security Primer: What Every Citizen Should Know

— y.
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ISBN: 076560373X
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V.R. Leonard
The Social Security and Medicare Handbook: What You Need to Know Explained Simply

2008 y.
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Description: The Social Security and Medicare Handbook includes the provisions of the Social Security Act, regulations issued under the Act, and recent case decisions (rulings). It is a readable, easy to understand resource for the extremely complex Social Security and Medicare programs and services. Here in this new, groundbreaking, and exhaustively researched book you will learn an overview of the Social Security and Medicare system, how Social Security benefits are currently computed, how to become insured, and how to file a claim. You also will learn about retirement and auxiliary benefits, survivor benefits, disability benefits and protection, evaluating disability, cash benefit rates, employees, employer responsibilities, special coverage provisions, state and local employment, earnings records and tax reports, the administrative review process, supplemental income, other benefit programs, hospital insurance (Part A), medical insurance (Part B), Medicare Advantage plans (Part C),… [detailed...]

ISBN: 1601381328
Book size: —; Page extent: 288.

 

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Leonard Seabrooke
The Social Sources of Financial Power: Domestic Legitimacy And International Financial Orders (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)

2006 y.
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Description: A state`s financial power is built on the effect its credit, property, and tax policies have on ordinary people: this is the key message of Leonard Seabrooke`s comparative historical investigation, which turns the spotlight away from elite financial actors and toward institutions that matter for the majority of citizens. Seabrooke suggests that everyday contests between social groups and the state over how the economy should work determine the legitimacy of a state`s financial and fiscal system. Ideally, he believes, such contests compel a state to intervene on behalf of people below the median income level, leading the state to broaden and deepen its domestic pool of capital while increasing its influence on international finance. But to do so, Seabrooke asserts, a state must first challenge powerful interests that benefit from the concentration of financial wealth. Seabrooke`s novel constructivist approach is informed by economic sociology and the work of Max Weber. This book… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0801443806
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The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology: Innovation, Actors, and Contexts

2004 y.
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Description: This book is a useful text for advanced students of MIS and ICT courses, and for those studying ICT in related areas: Management and Organization Studies, Cultural Studies, and Technology and Innovation. As ICT`s permeate every sphere of society--busines, education, leisure, government, etc.--it is important to reflect the character and complexity of the interaction between people and computer, between society and technology. For example, the user may represent a much broader set of actors than `the ser` conventionally found in many texts: the operator, the customer, the citizen, the gendered individual, the entrepreneur, the `poor`, the student. Each actor uses ICT in different ways. This book examines these issues, deploying a number of methodssuch as Actor Network Theory, Socio-Technical Systems, and phenomenological approaches. Management concerns about strategy and productivity are covered together with issues of power, politics, and globalization. Topics range from… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0199253528
Book size: —; Page extent: 310.

 

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The Social Styles Handbook: Find Your Comfort Zone and Make People Feel Comfortable with You

2004 y.
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Description: This handbook helps you understand yourself and others in a non-judgemental, proven, productive way. When you know your own style and adapt it to others` Social Styles, communication gets easier, conflict lessens, and your influence increases. Many say it`s a life changing experience. [detailed...]

ISBN: 9077256040
Book size: —; Page extent: 160.

 

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Frederic G. Reamer
The Social Work Ethics Casebook: Cases and Commentary

2009 y.
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Description: The Social Work Ethics Casebook-Cases and Commentary is the first ethics casebook, including extensive cases and commentary, published exclusively for social workers. The books realistic ethics cases provide a useful tool for rich discussion of ethical dilemmas and ethical decision making. Following each set of cases, Reamer includes commentary highlighting key ethics concepts and references to relevant standards in the NASW Code of Ethics. The release of Social Work Ethics Casebook highlights ethical issues related to confidentiality and privacy, informed consent, client self-determination, professional paternalism, boundary issues and dual relationships, conflicts of interest, cultural and ethnic diversity, termination of services, administration, collegial impairment, commitments to employers, social work education and training, and more. Each section of the book also includes discussion questions designed to enhance readers understanding and application of important ethics… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0871013835
Book size: —; Page extent: 192.

 

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