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A collection exploring divisions and change within and between the spheres of consumption and production. Topics include the social construction of consumers, housing and social class mobility, health provision, the role of the service class and access to higher education.
The author draws on interviews she conducted with second-generation Chinese and Korean Americans in Boston and Los Angeles who came of age during the 1980s and 1990s to explore the dynamics of race, identity and adaptation within these communities.
The author draws on the experience of three decades as organizational consultant to a variety of institutions, employing approaches drawn from psychoanalysis, systems theory and the group relations movement.
The authors describe a successful community development, action-research project designed to revitalize a southwestern Ontarian town that had lost its core manufacturing, municipal status, and its civic pride.
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The story of thousands of Mennonite women who, having lost their husbands and fathers, assumed altered gender roles in their adopted homeland and created a culture of women refugees with its own distinctive historical narrative.
What happens in a conversation between a committed Atheist and a committed Christian? While agreeing to disagree on almost every detail, Kai Nielsen, Chair of the Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary, and Hendrik Hart, Senior Member in Philosophy at the graduate Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, agree that it is not fruitless.
A study of social transformation in central and eastern Europe after 1989. Focusing on Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Slovakia, the author provides comparative information relating to social structure, mobility, inequality, lifestyle and economic stratification.
A study of social transformation in central and eastern Europe after 1989. Focusing on Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Slovakia, the author provides comparative information relating to social structure, mobility, inequality, lifestyle and economic stratification.
This text addresses the civil and student peace demonstrations in Belgrade during the winter of 1996/97. It analyses the basic empirical findings of the research and examines specific sociological aspects, such as class/intellectual composition, political/social values and rationales.
This study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War claims that neither urban nor rural areas behaved as homogenous units, but that they divided into Royalist and Parliamentarian areas. Stoyle suggests that these divisions reflected deep and enduring splits in local society.
Debora Hogeland interweaves stories and interviews collected from over 17 years of community living. She covers issues such as: realistic and unrealistic expectations for community living; philosopy and ethics of group work; raising children in community and they whys and hows of sharing resources.