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21. | | Title: Passionate uncertainty: inside the American JesuitsAuthor: McDonough, Peter 1939- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Sociology | NeurosciencePublisher's Description: Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus remains the largest and most controversial religious order of men in Catholicism. Since the 1960s, however, Jesuits in the United States have lost more than half of their members, and they have experienced a massive upheaval in what they belie . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | Title: Consuming the romantic utopia: love and the cultural contradictions of capitalismAuthor: Illouz, Eva 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | SociologyPublisher's Description: To what extent are our most romantic moments determined by the portrayal of love in film and on TV? Is a walk on a moonlit beach a moment of perfect romance or simply a simulation of the familiar ideal seen again and again on billboards and movie screens? In her unique study of American love in the . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: Birthing the nation: strategies of Palestinian women in IsraelAuthor: Kanaaneh, Rhoda Ann Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Women's Studies | Medical Anthropology | Sociology | Postcolonial Studies | Middle Eastern History | Sociology | Postcolonial Studies | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: In this rich, evocative study, Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh examines the changing notions of sexuality, family, and reproduction among Palestinians living in Israel. Distinguishing itself amid the media maelstrom that has homogenized Palestinians as "terrorists," this important new work offers a complex, nuan . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: What's the matter with liberalism? Author: Beiner, Ronald 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | Political Theory | Social and Political ThoughtPublisher's Description: In the wake of the revolutions of 1989, the ongoing political turmoil in the Soviet Union, and the democratization of most of Latin America, what is the task of political theorists?Ronald Beiner's invigorating critique of liberal theory and liberal practices takes on the shibboleths of modern Wester . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: A courtship after marriage: sexuality and love in Mexican transnational familiesAuthor: Hirsch, Jennifer S Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Latino Studies | Chicano Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Immigration | SociologyPublisher's Description: From about seven children per woman in 1960, the fertility rate in Mexico has dropped to about 2.6. Such changes are part of a larger transformation explored in this book, a richly detailed ethnographic study of generational and migration-related redefinitions of gender, marriage, and sexuality in r . . . [more]Similar Items | 26. | | Title: Starting at home: caring and social policyAuthor: Noddings, Nel Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | American Studies | Anthropology | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory | Public Policy | Social Problems | Public Policy | Sociology | SociologyPublisher's Description: Nel Noddings, one of the central figures in the contemporary discussion of ethics and moral education, argues that caring--a way of life learned at home--can be extended into a theory that guides social policy. Tackling issues such as capital punishment, drug treatment, homelessness, mental illness, . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: Durable inequalityAuthor: Tilly, Charles Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | History | Politics | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exp . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: It did happen here: recollections of political repression in AmericaAuthor: Schultz, Ruth Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: In this moving book, two skilled oral historians collect the words of Americans who have been victims of political repression in their own country. Disturbing and provocative, It Did Happen Here is must-reading for everyone who cares about protecting the rights and liberties upon which this country . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: Postindustrial possibilities: a critique of economic discourseAuthor: Block, Fred L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Labor Studies | Sociology | Labor Studies | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: While it is often acknowledged that we live in a "postindustrial" age, our economic concepts have lagged far behind our postmodern sensibility. In this incisive new work, the well-known sociologist, Fred Block, sheds obsolete and shopworn economic analysis by presenting a bold, sweeping reconceptual . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | Title: Disrupted lives: how people create meaning in a chaotic worldAuthor: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Medicine | SociologyPublisher's Description: Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor - a flat tire, an unexpected phone call - to the fateful - a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one. In the first book to examine disruption in American life from a cultural rather than a psychological perspective, Gay Becker . . . [more]Similar Items | 31. | | Title: Natural conflict resolutionAuthor: Aureli, Filippo 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Science | Zoology | Psychology | Cultural Anthropology | Politics | SociologyPublisher's Description: Aggression and competition are customarily presented as the natural state of affairs in both human society and the animal kingdom. Yet, as this book shows, our species relies heavily on cooperation for survival as do many others - from wolves and dolphins to monkeys and apes. A distinguished group o . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | Title: China's Catholics: tragedy and hope in an emerging civil societyAuthor: Madsen, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | History | Sociology | ChristianityPublisher's Description: After suffering isolation and persecution during the Maoist era, the Catholic Church in China has reemerged with astonishing vitality in recent years. Richard Madsen focuses on this revival and relates it to the larger issue of the changing structure of Chinese society, particularly to its implicati . . . [more]Similar Items | 33. | | Title: The jail: managing the underclass in American societyAuthor: Irwin, John 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: SociologySimilar Items | 34. | | Title: A generation divided: the new left, the new right, and the 1960sAuthor: Klatch, Rebecca E Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: The 1960s was not just an era of civil rights, anti-war protest, women's liberation, hippies, marijuana, and rock festivals. The untold story of the 1960s is in fact about the New Right. For young conservatives the decade was about Barry Goldwater, Ayn Rand, an important war in the fight against com . . . [more]Similar Items | 35. | | Title: Aging in the past: demography, society, and old age Author: Kertzer, David I 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Sociology | History | DemographyPublisher's Description: Thanks to improved food, medicine, and living conditions, the average age of the population is increasing throughout the modern industrialized world. Yet, despite the recent upsurge of scholarly interest in the lives of older people and the blossoming of historical demography, little historical demo . . . [more]Similar Items | 36. | | Title: The Sabra: the creation of the new JewAuthor: Almog, Oz Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: The Sabras were the first Israelis - the first generation, born in the 1930s and 1940s, to grow up in the Zionist settlement in Palestine. Socialized and educated in the ethos of the Zionist labor movement and the communal ideals of the kibbutz and moshav, they turned the dream of their pioneer fore . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: Authors of their own lives: intellectual autobiographies Author: Berger, Bennett M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Family history, ethnicity, fear, private animosities, e . . . [more]Similar Items | 38. | | | 39. | | | 40. | | Title: Kitchens: the culture of restaurant workAuthor: Fine, Gary Alan Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Popular Culture | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life. He provides a riveting exploration of . . . [more]Similar Items |
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