Product Description: The novels of David Lodge and Robertson Davies offer amusing insights into the bumbling brilliance of university life, but in their quest to entertain they often leave unanswered questions about the interplay between the life of a university and the social setting in which it either thrives or withers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume aims to take a socio-legal perspective as a general guideline, and from this point of view to focus on the reciprocal interrelations between totaliterian systems and their legal structures. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Social Engineering is a landmark attempt to develop both theory and a paradigm for planned social action. In this collection of articles, Podgórecki's work is a linchpin for debate among social policy practitioners and theorists from Europe and North America...read more

Product Description: Podgorecki presents his own participant observation of the political and organizational pressures that were exerted upon sociologists to produce dogmatically proper results to give a false diagnosis of social reality. He analyzes the roles of Polish sociologists as dissenters, observers, conformists, or eager agents of the rapid and imposed changes designed to bring about an alien communist utopia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Podgorecki examines oppression that results from pressures inside social groupings, large and small, effected by different normative and conformity-inducing mechanisms designed to regulate human behavior. Podgorecki provides a critical examination of the empirical findings in the most important and imaginative experimental studies of various types of oppression (including those by Milgram and Zimbardo), as well as data collected in natural settings like asylums or concentration camps...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A very good hardcover copy with bright spine lettering. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. Very good jacket; some fading. NOT ex-library. Indexed. 302pg. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Law; ISBN: 0710079834. ISBN/EAN: 9780710079831. Inventory No: 018233.