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The Changing Academic Market: General Trends and a Berkeley Case Study

Product Description: THE CHANGING ACADEMIC MARKET is the inside story and scholarly analysis of a leading sociology department's search, during the mid-1970s, to fill several faculty positions. This was attempted in the middle of the fundamental changes to the U...read more

By Neil J. Smelser

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9780520037533 | Univ of California Pr, January 1, 1980, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: THE CHANGING ACADEMIC MARKET is the inside story and scholarly analysis of a leading sociology department's search, during the mid-1970s, to fill several faculty positions.

Sociology

Product Description: This edition includes: recent facts and figures on social trends in the US and other parts of the world; theoretical developments and research findings; discussions of social situations and problems in American society; and coverage of comparative and international materials. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Neil J. Smelser

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9780631189152 | Blackwell Pub, May 1, 1994, cover price $65.95 | About this edition: This volume marks the start of a new series of critical surveys of the main areas of contemporary social science, published by Blackwell in collaboration with UNESCO.

9780138208295 | Prentice Hall, March 1, 1981, cover price $46.67 | About this edition: This volume introduces the major methods, theories and findings of sociology and relates them to today's sociolgoical institutions, movements and issues.

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9780130638359 | 5th edition (Prentice Hall, November 1, 1994), cover price $117.40 | About this edition: This edition includes: recent facts and figures on social trends in the US and other parts of the world; theoretical developments and research findings; discussions of social situations and problems in American society; and coverage of comparative and international materials.

9780631189169 | Blackwell Pub, May 1, 1994, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In Sociology Neil Smelser conveys the vital essence of the sociological enterprise today within an international framework, avoiding both the artificial format of the standard textbook and the parochial approach of the country-by-country survey.

9780138181475 | 4 sub edition (Prentice Hall, January 1, 1991), cover price $33.33 | About this edition: This introduction to sociology has been updated to include recent empirical information and references.

Social Structure and Mobility in Economic Development

By Seymour Martin Lipset (editor) and Neil J. Smelser (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780829009101 | Irvington Pub, May 1, 1982, cover price $39.50

Paperback:

9780202307992, titled "Social Structure & Mobility in Economic Development" | Aldine De Gruyter, June 1, 2005, cover price $35.95

Behavioral and Social Science: Fifty Years of Discovery

By Dean R. Gerstein (editor) and Neil J. Smelser

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9780309035880 | Natl Academy Pr, February 1, 1986, cover price $29.50

Behavioral and Social Sciences: Achievements and Opportunities

By Dean R. Gerstein, R. Duncan Luce, Neil J. Smelser and Sonja Sperlich

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9780309037495 | Natl Academy Pr, August 1, 1988, cover price $29.50

Handbook of Sociology

Product Description: The publication of the Handbook of Sociology heralded a new age of sociological thought and practice. This volume synthesizes the field. It provides an orginal and comprehensive look at this vital discipline - which has not had a new Handbook in 25 years ...read more

By Neil J. Smelser (editor)

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9780803926653 | Sage Pubns, August 1, 1988, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: The publication of the Handbook of Sociology heralded a new age of sociological thought and practice.

The Social Importance of Self-Esteem

Product Description: Is the well-being of a society dependent on the well-being of its citizenry? Does individual self-esteem play a causal role in chronic social problems such as child abuse, school drop-out rates, teenage pregnancy, alcohol and drug abuse, welfare dependency?In an attempt to answer these questions, the State of California established a task force on self-esteem and social responsibility in 1987...read more

By Andrew Mecca (editor), Neil J. Smelser and John Vasconcellos

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9780520067097 | Univ of California Pr on Demand, September 1, 1989, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Is the well-being of a society dependent on the well-being of its citizenry?

The Social Importance of Self Esteem

By Andrew M. Mecca, Neil J. Smelser and John Vasconcellos (editor)

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9780520067080 | Univ of California Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $48.00

Leading Edges in Social and Behavioral Science

Product Description: The reach of the social and behavioral sciences is currently so broad and interdisciplinary that staying abreast of developments has become a daunting task. The thirty papers that constitute Leading Edges in Social and Behavioral Science provide a unique composite picture of recent findings and promising new research opportunities within most areas of social and behavioral research...read more

By Dean R. Gerstein (editor), R. Duncan Luce and Neil J. Smelser

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9780871545602 | Russell Sage Foundation, March 1, 1990, cover price $66.00 | About this edition: The reach of the social and behavioral sciences is currently so broad and interdisciplinary that staying abreast of developments has become a daunting task.

Economy and Society: Overviews in Economic Sociology

Product Description: This is the first overview of the interface between economics and sociology. Normally considered quite separately, the volume reconciles the disciplines. Amongst the many questions considered are: the formal relationship between the two disciplines; the distinctive ranges of empirical data which each discipline calls into question; how the substantive findings of one discipline can modify the assumptions of the other...read more

By Alberto Martinelli (editor) and Neil J. Smelser (editor)

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9780803984165 | Sage Pubns Ltd, January 1, 1991, cover price $200.00 | About this edition: This is the first overview of the interface between economics and sociology.

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9780803984172 | Sage Pubns Ltd, January 1, 1991, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This is the first overview of the interface between economics and sociology.

Social Paralysis and Social Change: British Working-Class Education in the Nineteenth Century

Product Description: Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-class education in nineteenth-century Britainâoften paralyzed by class, religious, and economic conflictâstruggled forward toward change...read more

By Neil J. Smelser

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9780520075290 | Univ of California Pr on Demand, October 1, 1991, cover price $73.95 | About this edition: Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written.

Social Change and Modernity

By Hans Haferkamp and Neil J. Smelser (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780520065543 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $85.00

Paperback:

9780520068285 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $19.95

Theory of Culture

Product Description: With the increasing focus on the concept of culture by sociologists and other social scientists, there is now a need for clarifying and developing theoretical perspectives on this issue. The contributors to this volume have answered this call, each adding new insight to the debate over culture, its definition, and its relationship with other basic categories in sociological theory...read more

By American Sociological Association (corporate author), Richard Munch (editor) and Neil J. Smelser (editor)

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9780520075986 | Univ of California Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: With the increasing focus on the concept of culture by sociologists and other social scientists, there is now a need for clarifying and developing theoretical perspectives on this issue.

Theory of Culture

By American Sociological Association (corporate author), Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Soziologie Sektion Soziologische Theorien (corporate author), Richard Munch (editor) and Neil J. Smelser (editor)

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9780520075993 | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: With the increasing focus on the concept of culture by sociologists and other social scientists, there is now a need for clarifying and developing theoretical perspectives on this issue.

Effective Committee Service

Product Description: Drawing on the author's extensive experience in the field, this book demystifies the committee. It explains how to get on certain committees and avoid others, how to get committee work done efficiently, how to ensure that your views are properly represented, how chairing a committee can help direct its outcome, and how to use committees to advance your academic career...read more

By Neil J. Smelser

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9780803948181 | Sage Pubns, August 17, 1993, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: Drawing on the author's extensive experience in the field, this book demystifies the committee.

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9780803948198 | Sage Pubns, August 10, 1993, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Drawing on the author's extensive experience in the field, this book demystifies the committee.

Problematics of Sociology: The Georg Simmel Lectures, 1995

Product Description: These skillfully written essays are based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J. Smelser at Humboldt University in Berlin in the spring of 1995. A distillation of Smelser's reflections after nearly four decades of research, teaching, and thought in the field of sociology, the essays identify, as he says in the first chapter, "...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Neil J. Smelser

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9780520206755 | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: These skillfully written essays are based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J.

The Social Edges of Psychoanalysis

Product Description: For several decades the writings of sociologist Neil J. Smelser have won him a vast and admiring audience across several disciplines. Best known for his work on social movements, economic sociology, and British social history, Smelser's psychoanalytic writings are less familiar to his readers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780520214897 | Univ of California Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $63.00 | About this edition: For several decades the writings of sociologist Neil J.

Theory of Collective Behaviour

Product Description: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By Neil J. Smelser

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9780415177993 | Routledge, May 1, 1999, cover price $410.00 | About this edition: First Published in 1998.

Diversity and Its Discontents: Cultural Conflict and Common Ground in Contemporary American Society

Product Description: Never before has the legitimacy of a dominant American culture been so hotly contested as over the past two decades. Familiar terms such as culture wars, multiculturalism, moral majority, and family values all suggest a society fragmented by the issue of cultural diversity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jeffrey C. Alexander (editor) and Neil J. Smelser (editor)

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9780691004365 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Never before has the legitimacy of a dominant American culture been so hotly contested as over the past two decades.

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9780691004372 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 12, 1999, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Never before has the legitimacy of a dominant American culture been so hotly contested as over the past two decades.

America Becoming: Racial Trends and Consequences in the United States

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By Faith Mitchell (editor), Neil J. Smelser (editor) and William Julius Wilson (editor)

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9780309064958 | Natl Academy Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $49.95

America Becoming Racial Trends and Their Consequences: Racial Trends and Their Consequences

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By Faith Mitchell, National Research Council (U. S.) Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (other contributor), Research Conference on Racial Trends in the United States (corporate author), Neil J. Smelser (editor) and William J. Wilson (editor)

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9780309068390 | Natl Academy Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $49.95

America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences

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By Faith Mitchell (editor), Neil J. Smelser (editor) and William Julius Wilson (editor)

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9780309068406 | Natl Academy Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $24.95

9780309068383 | Natl Academy Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $30.00

Toward a General Theory of Action: Theoretical Foundations for the Social Sciences

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By Talcott Parsons, Edward Albert Shils and Neil J. Smelser (introduced by)

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9780765807182 | Abridged edition (Transaction Pub, May 1, 2001), cover price $36.95

Talcott Parsons Today: His Theory and Legacy in Contemporary Sociology

Product Description: Talcott Parsons Today offers a reappraisalâand extensionâof the work of the most significant and influential twentieth-century sociologist. The volume consists of original essays by prominent Parsons scholars from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Germany...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Willaim Buxton (contributor), Lawrence T. Nichols (contributor), Neil J. Smelser (foreword by) and A. Javier Trevino (editor)

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9780742509580 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, September 1, 2001, cover price $49.00 | About this edition: Talcott Parsons Today offers a reappraisalâand extensionâof the work of the most significant and influential twentieth-century sociologist.

Talcott Parsons Today: His Theory and Legacy in Contemporary Sociology

By Neil J. Smelser (foreword by) and A. Javier Trevino (editor)

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9780742509573 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, September 1, 2001, cover price $119.00 | About this edition: Talcott Parsons Today offers a reappraisalâand extensionâof the work of the most significant and influential twentieth-century sociologist.

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