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Professor Jarvie examines the nature of the revolution in social anthropology in order to investigate its results. Working within Karl Popper”s radical view of the nature of science, he argues that …

Public relations practitioners are often called upon to help chart their organization”s strategic development, thus functioning as managerial decision makers linking the organization to its larger e …

This volume scrutinizes the questions of conceptualization, method and history in the fields of kinship, social anthropology and structuralism. It puts forward a radical revision of the conventional …

This is Volume XIII of thirteen in the Urban and Regional Sociology series. First published in 1963, this study looks at the sociology of Westrigg, a cheviot parish, in the borders area of Scotland f …

Parenting: What Really Counts? examines the scientific evidence on what really matters for children”s healthy psychological development. The first section considers whether it is necessary to have t …

What role does consumption play in Japanese lives that are more than study, work and shopping? How have those lives changed since World War II as Japan has wrestled with the meaning of white-collar c …

Classroom-tested over many years and filled with fresh examples, Essential Demographic Methods is tailored to beginners, advanced students, and researchers. Award-winning teacher and eminent demograp …

First published in 2001. Understanding and managing global financial flows and their impact of social spaces and people, is one of the most complex and difficult tasks facing politicians and social t …

First published in 1985. The dual-career family is emerging as the modal family form in the United States. Yet, despite its prevalence, traditional orientations and social institutions have not adapt …

Any serious attempt to explain social life has to come to terms with sociology”s positivist legacy. It is a heritage on the one hand from the seventeenth-century political arithmeticians and the lat …