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Social Power and Political Influence מאת James Tedeschi The nature of social power, the ability of individuals to affect the behavior and belief of others, is central to any understanding of the dynamics of change in our society. It is therefore surprising that social scientists, and especially social psychologists, have devoted relatively little attenti...

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The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures) מאת Victor Turner The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates in these pages how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. He extends Van Gennep's notion o...

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Price Theory מאת Milton Friedman Economics is sometimes divided into two parts: positive economics and normative economics. The former deals with how the economic problem is solved, while the latter deals with how the economic problem should be solved. The effects of price or rent control on the distribution of income are problems ...

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Politics without Power: The National Party Committees מאת Cornelius Cotter The national committees of the major political parties in the United States are symbols of party government. They carry forward a national heritage of peaceful change in national politics and administration. National committees are substitutes for party ideologies, yet they are pretty much head...

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The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research מאת Barney G. Glaser This volume is directed toward closing the gap between theory and empirical research and improving social scientists' capacities for generating theory that is relevant and useful to their research....

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Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age מאת Bryan Green Although attitudes toward the aged and their care are inherent in any society, gerontology itself is a relatively recent field of study and practice. Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age applies the methods of discourse analysis and textual analysis to texts and documents in this newly e...

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Toward Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy: Training and Practice מאת Charles Truax The field of counseling and psychotherapy has for years presented the puzzling spectacle of unabating enthusiasm for forms of treatment whose effectiveness cannot be objectively demonstrated. With few exceptions, statistical studies have consistently failed to show that any form of psychotherapy is ...

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The Eastern Orthodox Church: Its Thought and Life מאת Ernst Benz Western European Christendom finds it difficult to comprehend the Eastern Orthodox Church because it knows little about the practice and doctrines of Orthodoxy. Even what is known is overlaid by many strata of prejudices and misunderstandings, partly political in nature. One of the obstacles has bee...

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Social Anarchism מאת Giovanni Baldelli This volume, originally published in 1972, remains a major contribution to anarchist literature. It is one man's vision of an anarchist society based on ethical values - without laws, without political authority, and without concentrations of power. An active anarchist since youth and a contributor ...

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Address Unknown: The Homeless in America מאת James Wright Homelessness in America has grown from a minor problem in isolated areas of a few big cities into a near epidemic. Today, scarcely any American city of any appreciable size lacks homeless people. Homeless shelters and programs have become as essential and as commonplace as police protection or ...

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Client and Agency: Working Class Responses to Casework מאת John Mayer It is a startling and somewhat disturbing fact that social work researchers - as well as research psychiatrists and psychologists - have rarely explored the treatment situation from the standpoint of the client. "Client and Agency", first published in the 1960s, explores by means of free-flowing int...

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Managing Personality מאת Donald Fiske Managing Personality is grounded in the conviction that scientific understanding of personality requires measurement in order to describe phenomena in an objective, systematic fashion and to test theories. Many have argued that science progresses with improvements in instrumentation and methodo...

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The New Pediatrics: A Profession in Transition מאת Dorothy Pawluch When antibiotics became readily available in the 1950s, the danger of life-threatening infectious childhood diseases virtually disappeared. In that era, pediatricians broadened the core professional task of their specialty-the prevention and treatment of such diseases-to incorporate the behavio...

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Status Passage מאת Barney G. Glaser The French writer Arnold van Gennep first called attention to the phenomena of status passages in his "Rites of Passage" one hundred years ago. In "Status Passage", first published in 1971, the movement of individuals and groups in contemporary society from one status to another is examined in the l...

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Religion and the Law: Of Church and State and the Supreme Court מאת Philip Kurland There are few issues as controversial as where to draw the line between church and state. The framers of the Constitution's Bill of Rights began their blueprint for freedom by drawing exactly such a line. The first clauses of the First Amendment provide: "Congress shall make no law respecting an est...

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The View from the Border: Why Catholics Leave the Church and Why They Stay מאת John Kotre In this unique psychological study, John Kotre provides some startling answers to the questions Catholics are now asking about those who abandon the church, those who remain in it, and those who attempt to create a new church within the church. A detailed examination of the borderline between member...

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Ego Psychology and Communication: Theory for the Interview מאת Norman Polansky Writing in a lively straightforward tone and offering numerous examples, Polansky demonstrates that verbal communication plays a major role in mental health and is essential to preventing and curing emotional disorders. He shows why the inability to achieve effective speech reflects neurosis, interf...

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Navajo Infancy: An Ethological Study of Child Development מאת James Chisholm Navajo Infancy describes the major sources of change and continuity in Navajo infant development. It does so by combining concepts and methods of classical ethology with those of social-cultural anthropology. The goal is to establish the relationships between human nature and culture. Buy consi...

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Social Systems and Social Regulations מאת Elaine Cumming Social Systems and Social Regulations, Elaine Cumming describes attitudes of patients and clients toward health and welfare organizations. The focus is on the complex relationships between regulative agents, as revealed by the movement of clients through health and welfare systems. The author o...

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Climate and Agriculture: An Ecological Survey מאת Jen-Hu Chang This summary of what is known about microclimatic environments and the effects of climate on plant growth presents a comprehensive statement on the complex relationship between climate and agriculture. The author covers the theory and data of modern physical geography, meteorology, and agronomy...

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Abnormal Hemoglobins in Human Populations מאת Frank Livingstone Research on abnormal human hemoglobins (protein in blood that carries oxygen), has taught us about the inheritance, biochemistry, and distribution of these traits. This knowledge, coupled with mathematical research using computer models of population genetics, has enabled researchers to marry b...

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Psychological Evaluation in Psychotherapy: Ten Case Histories מאת Leonard Blank Written by a scholar who is a therapist and a psychodiagnostician, this book documents the direct relationship between patient response patterns to a battery of psychological tests, and their subsequent behavior in psychotherapy. Unlike other books in the field, which concentrate on psychodiagnostic...

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Moving into Adolescence: The Impact of Pubertal Change and School Context מאת Roberta G. Simmons From the sociological point of view, adolescence traditionally has been described as a period of physical maturity and social immaturity. Adolescents reach physical adulthood before they are capable of functioning well in adult social roles. The disjunction between physical capabilities and socially...

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Human Behavior Theory: A Diversity Framework מאת Roberta Greene As American society becomes increasingly diverse, social workers must use a variety of human behavior frameworks to understand their clientÂ’s culturally complex concerns. This text applies specific human behavior theories to diversity practice. They show how human behavior theory can be emp...

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Changing Frontiers in the Science of Psychotherapy מאת Allen Bergin This book is an exploration and mapping of the frontiers of research in psychotherapy. The authors make a systematic effort to discover where the science is going; analyzing conceptual problems, trends, and issues; record their interviews with the leaders in the field; and, recommend new directions ...

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Courtship: An Ethological Study מאת Margaret Bastock This concise but thorough study of courtship behavior in fish, birds, and arthropods is the first rigorous examination of the evolutionary origins and mechanisms of courtship and its contribution to biological success. Demonstrating the fruitfulness of an empirically based, inductive approach to und...