Sociology, 03/04
By: editor, Kurt Finsterbusch
Contributors: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Edition: 31st ed.
Series: Annual editions
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780072838671
Subjects: Social conditions; Sociology
Other titles: Annual editions :; Sociology, 2003-2004
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture : [Part A. Modern, traditional, and unusual cultures] Modernization's challenge to traditional values, who's afraid of Ronald McDonald? / Ronald Inglehart; Mountain people / Colin M. Turnbull; [Part B. American culture and cultural change] More moral / David Whitman; American culture goes global, or does it? / Richard Pells; What's so great about America? / Dinesha D'Souza; title: Socialization and social control : [Part A. Childhood and influences on personality and behavior] Boys will be boys / Barbara Kantrowitz; Born to be good? / Celia Kitzinger; [Part B. Crime, law enforcement, and social control] Preventing crime, the promising road ahead / Gene Stephens; Pedophilla / John Cloud; title: Groups and roles in transition : [Part A. Family, marriage, and divorce] American family / Stephanie Coontz; Divorce and cohabitation, why we don't marry / James Q. Wilson; Should you stay together for the kids? / Walter Kim; [Part B. Sex, gender and genderroles] Now for the truth about Americans and sex / Philip Elmer-Deweitt; Shades of Gay / John Leland; When careers collide / Susan Caminiti; [Part C. City and community] Where everyone's a minority / Ron Stodghill; title: Stratification and social inequalities : [Part A. Income inequalities] Still the land of opportunity? / Isabel V. Sawhill; Great CEO pay heist / Geoffrey Colvin; [Part B. Welfare and welfare reform] Corporate welfare / Donald L. Barlett; From welfare to work / Isabel Sawhill; [Part C. Racial and ethical issues in inequalities] Racism isn't what it used to be / Ed Marciniak; Why we hate / Margon Monteith; Melting pot, [part 1], are we there yet? / Anne Wortham; [Part D. Sex inequalities] Past and prologue / Judy Olian; Violence against women / Toni Nelson; title: Social institutions, issues, crises, and changes : [Part A. Political sphere, power, politics, and administration] Who rules America? / G. William Domhoff; Where the public good prevailed / Stephen L. Isaacs; [Part B. Economic sphere, consumption, corporations, and workers] In corporate America, it's cleanup time / Jerry Useem; Work, work, work, work! / Mark Hunter; [Part C. Social sphere, education, abortion, health and religion] Schools that develop children / James P. Corner; Future of humanity / Colin Tudge; Seeking abortion's middle ground / Frederica Mathewes-Green; Future of religion in America / Andrew M. Greeley; title: Social change and the future : [Part A. Population, environment, and society] Sixteen impacts of population growth / Lester R. Brown; Feeling the heat, life in the greenhouse / Michael D. Lemonick; [Part B. Technology for better or worse] Secret nuclear war / Eduardo Goncalves; Grains of hope / J. Madeleine Nash; [Part C. New crisis, terrorism] New strategy for the new face of terrorism / L. Paul Bremer III / Why don't they like us? / Stanley Hoffman; [Part D. Reshaping of the world] Between two ages / William Van Dusen Wishard; Community building, steps toward a good society / Amital Etzionl.