Product Description: This eighth volume in the series discusses such topics as comparative historical studies of occupation, social change and occupational and professional transformations, and creators interacting in art worlds.

Product Description: Using multiple methods, the authors of this classic text, now in its Second Edition, present a broad historical and systematic model showing the interaction of the various social, legal, economic, political and organizational factors which ultimately lead to the evening network fare in the United States...read more

Product Description: Media, Audience, and Social Structure presents an integrated overview of current sociological research on mass media and society. Specific questions addressed include the media's role in various social processes; how and why media organizations operate as they do; the relationships between media and special audiences; how to conceptualize and measure media effects and their impact on public opinion; and how to analyze (both qualitatively and quantitatively) media content...read more

Product Description: A comprehensive survey of the history, the means of production, the content and the impact on audiences of soap operas. A sociologist and a specialist in women's studies combine to review the content of soap operas, and the way in which they are produced...read more