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Neil J. Smelser has written 41 work(s)
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.
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)
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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.
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)
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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.
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
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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.
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
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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.
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
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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.
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9780520065543 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $85.00
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9780520068285 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $19.95
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
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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.
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
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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.
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
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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.
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9780520067080 | Univ of California Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $48.00
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
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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?
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
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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.
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9780309037495 | Natl Academy Pr, August 1, 1988, cover price $29.50
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9780309035880 | Natl Academy Pr, February 1, 1986, cover price $29.50
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
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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.
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