Author: Leonard Plotnicov
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2010-11-23
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0822975815
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essays in this volume represent trends in social stratification studies undertaken in major culture areas of the world. The empirical data of the chapters are set with special reference to the dynamics of processes within these diverse traditions and heritages as sources of comparison with one another and with the experiences of western societies.
Author: Michael Garfield Smith
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Norman E. Whitten
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 9780253211941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shows regional Black history.
Author: Colin Brock
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-17
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0429994907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published in 1985. Cultural identity is a key factor in shaping educational policy. In many countries there are significant minority groups who require educating in a certain way in order to meet their specific cultural needs. Also, in countries which are trying to change direction politically, reshaping education is an important factor in bringing about this change. In many countries tension arises and reforms are required because educational policy fails to cater correctly for cultural needs. This book examines many facets of the problem in many important countries of the world. It looks at policies designed for ethnic minorities and at policies aimed at bringing about far-reaching societal and cultural change. It discusses the tensions caused by policies and the pressures for reform.
Author: M.G. Smith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1351525700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Few would doubt that social science is in serious need of a new conceptual framework for the study of human organizations. For some time now such a framework has been sought in the notion that societies are functional systems, in which the individual sectors--economy, religion, government and so on--can be seen as subsystems dependent on each other and integrated within a whole. But in spite of the major advances in research which modern systems theory has brought about, it is based inevitably on a priori assumptions which are often at variance with the facts, or require the facts to be interpreted in a special way to fit the theory. In this book Smith puts forward an alternative framework, by developing the concept of the corporation. While most people nowadays think of corporations as large industrial enterprises, Smith employs the term in its older, Common Law sense of an established social unit. By studying the components of social life in this way, as discrete entities rather than as parts of a cohering system, corporation theory is able to treat social phenomena empirically and so avoid the unverifiable ideology-laden postulates of the traditional system-model. Corporations and Society is made up principally of key articles written by Smith over several decades. To these have been added three newly written, unpublished pieces of which the last--a penetrating essay on the Caribbean--is one of the longest in the book. Covering such wide-ranging topics as lineage systems, government, stratification, law, race relations and pluralism, these essays by a distinguished anthropologist show how extensively, and with what power of analysis, the theory can be applied.
Author: Jorge Heine
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2010-11-23
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0822974479
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Twelve essays address the political and cultural features of the Grenada experience, in light of the 1979 uprising that toppled Prime Minister Eric Gairy, and the subsequent U.S. invasion of 1983. The contributors discuss theoretical issues that go to the heart of dilemmas faced by many small, developing societies.
Author: Judith A. Nagata
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1975-01-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9789004042452
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Liah Greenfeld
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2020-09-25
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 1789903440
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Assembling scholarship on the subject of nationalism from around the world, this Research Handbook brings to the attention of the reader research showcasing the unprecedented expansion of the scholarly field in general and offers a diversity of perspectives on the topic. It highlights the disarray in Western social sciences and the rise in the relative importance of previously independent scholarly traditions of China and post-Soviet societies. Nationalism is the field of study where the mutual relevance of these traditions is both most clearly evident and particularly consequential.