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Stigmatization, Tolerance and Repair
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 41.00A thorough examination of how peoples responses to deviant conditions are dependent on their individual backgrounds. more...
Understanding Social Inequality
SAGE Publications 2006; US$ 50.00Moving beyond the traditional dichotomies of social theory, Understanding Social Inequality brings the study of social stratification and inequality into the 21st century. Starting with the widely agreed "fact" that the world is becoming more unequal, this book pulls together the "identity of displacement" in sociology and the "spaces of flow" of... more...
Class, Ethnicity, Gender and Latino Entrepreneurship
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 44.95Drawing on surveys and in-depth interviews, this book examines the social and economic relations of first-generation Latino entrepreneurs. Verdaguer explores social patterns between and within groups, situating immigrant entrepreneurship within concrete geographical, demographic and historical spaces. Her study not only reveals that Latinos' strategies... more...
De beste de baas?
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 44.85This provocative study shows the downside of meritocracy, the equality ideology embrassed by western Europen countries more...
The Speech
Nation Books 2011; US$ 13.00On Friday, December 10, 2010, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders walked on to the floor of the United States Senate and began speaking. It turned out to be a very long speech, lasting over eight and a half hours. And it hit a nerve. Millions followed the speech online until the traffic crashed the Senate server. A huge, positive grassroots response... more...
Compassion for Annie
Hillcrest Media Group, Inc. 2011; US$ 9.99Borderline personality disorder can be a labyrinth with no clear way out. In this book, the many challenges of BPD are explored through the stories of Annie and Fred, a fictional married couple. Although Annie and Fred are products of author Marilyn Dowells mind, their behavior is based on careful research of the disorder. In each chapter, some... more...
Social Stratification
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 124.95Social Stratification: Trends and Processes brings together a range of thematically organised case-studies comprising empirical and methodological analyses addressing the challenges of studying trends and processes in social stratification. Discussing key themes of social stratification, this volume will be of interest to students, academics and policy... more...
The Age of Dualization
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 39.99Poverty, increased inequality, and social exclusion are back on the political agenda, not only as a consequence of the Great Recession of 2008, but also because of a seemingly structural trend towards increased inequality in advanced industrial societies that has persisted since the 1970s. Policies in labor markets, social policy, and political representation... more...
The Matthew Effect
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 27.99The old saying does often seem to hold true: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, creating a widening gap between those who have more and those who have less. The sociologist Robert K. Merton called this phenomenon the Matthew effect, named after a passage in the gospel of Matthew. Yet the more closely we examine the sociological effects... more...
Facilitating the Moral Growth of College Students
Wiley 2012; US$ 29.00Moral development is a powerful task of young adulthood, and attending to that development is a mandate expected of institutions of higher education. Liddell and Cooper offer a practical approach to understanding how moral learning occurs as well as the role of mentors and educators in facilitating that learning. Using Rest's Four Component Model--moral... more...









