Frances Chaput Waksler 
Studying The Social Worlds Of Children [PDF ebook] 
Sociological Readings

First Published in 2004. Uncertainty is an aspect of existence among the Maasai in East Africa. They take ritual precautions against mystical misfortune, especially at their ceremonial gatherings, wh …

First published in 2000. Intimacy and Alienation is an examination of contemporary male/female relationships. The authors present a conceptual framework for the types and degrees of estrangement that …

While interest in the relations of power and identity in food explodes, a hesitancy remains about calling these racial. What difference does race make in the fields where food is grown, the places it …

In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow, buy, prepare, present, cook, taste, eat and dispose of food. In light of this, contributo …

Tourism in Cuba – described by Fidel Castro as ”the evil we have to have” – has been regarded both with ambivalence, and as a crucial aspect of development and poverty alleviation. The result is a …

Based on new archival research, G. Williams Domhoff challenges popular conceptions of the 1930”s New Deal. Arguing instead that this period was one of increasing corporate dominance in government af …

Jewish political power exists as a separate agency in the American polity, but before it can be determined whether it is inordinate, historian Henry L. Feingold declares that it first needs to be ide …

Recent field studies of a variety of mammalian species reveal a surprisingly high frequency of infanticide – the killing of unweaned or otherwise maternally dependent offspring. Similarly, studies of …

In the vast anthropological literature devoted to hunter-gatherer societies, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the place of hunter-gatherer children. Children often represent 40 percent …

The human race spends a disproportionate amount of attention, money, and expertise in solving, trying, and reporting homicides, as compared to other social problems. The public avidly consumes accoun …