Life Chances, Education and Social Movements (Key Issues in Modern Sociology) 9781783089956, 9781783089949, 1783089946, 1783089954

Education and Society: An Introduction to Key Issues in the Sociology of Education 9780520968301

Drawing on current scholarship, Education and Society takes students on a journey through the many roles that education

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Social Justice: Theories, Issues, and Movements 9780813541686

An eye for an eye, the balance of scales--for centuries, these and other traditional concepts exemplified the public

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Key Issues in Corrections 9781447318811

Key Issues in Corrections critically analyzes the most important challenges affecting the correctional system in the USA

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Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America 9780812200089

Neighborhood and Life Chances brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to demonstrate that place matters

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Analyzing Inequality: Life Chances and Social Mobility in Comparative Perspective 9780804767569

Analyzing Inequality summarizes key issues in today's theoretically guided empirical research on social inequality,

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Social Research Matters: A Life in Family Sociology 9781529208580

From the vantage point of forty years in social research and the study of families, Julia Brannen offers an invaluable a

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Positivism and Sociology: Explaining Social Life 1317651383, 9781317651383

Any serious attempt to explain social life has to come to terms with sociology's positivist legacy. It is a heritag

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Social Movements, Memory and Media: Narrative in Action in the Italian and Spanish Student Movements (Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology) [1st ed. 2018] 9783319685519, 9783319685502, 3319685503

Cultural factors shape the symbolic environment in which contentious politics take place. Among these factors, collectiv

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Sociology and Management Education 9781000529111

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Deepening Democracy?: The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru 9781503617117

As a wave of transitions from authoritarian rule swept across Latin America in the 1980's, the idea of "deepen

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