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Product Description: This provocative book offers a probing account of the erosion of privacy in American society, that shows that we are often unwitting, if willing, accomplices, providing personal data in exchange for security or convenience. The author reveals that in today's "information society," the personal data that we make available to virtually any organization for virtually any purpose is apt to surface elsewhere, applied to utterly different purposes...read more
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9780195307832 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 25, 2007, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: A thought-provoking study reveals that legal uses of our personal information by the government and private industry are more widespread and more dangerous to our interests than we would ever suspect, in an incisive analysis of the erosion of privacy in American society.
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9780195394368 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 11, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This provocative book offers a probing account of the erosion of privacy in American society, that shows that we are often unwitting, if willing, accomplices, providing personal data in exchange for security or convenience.
Product Description: What is the role of sociology in society? How can - and should - sociology contribute with insights relevant and useful to the outside world? Is sociology attuned to accommodate the demands of the wider public and of surrounding society? Who benefits from the knowledge produced and provided by sociology? What are the social implications and cultural effects of the knowledge sociology provides and creates? All of these questions, and many others, concern and centre on sociology's relationship to the surrounding society, in short to the ôpublicô...read more
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9788773079331 | Aalborg Universitetsforlag, April 10, 2008, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: What is the role of sociology in society?
Product Description: Is any image in modern times more evocative of social change than the computer? Popular mythology ascribes extraordinary powers to computers in the ordering of human affairs. Computers are seen as instruments of social transformation and economic change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780765801418 | Transaction Pub, August 1, 2002, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: Is any image in modern times more evocative of social change than the computer?
Product Description: This work attacks questions that have long troubled social scientists--questions of the cumulative nature of social inquiry. Does the knowledge generated by the study of social, political, and economic life grow more comprehensive over time? Do today's social scientists in any meaningful sense know more than their intellectual ancestors about such perennial concerns as the origins of war and peace, or the causes of economic growth, or the forces shaping social stratification, or origins of civil upheaval? These questions go to the heart of social scientists' soul-searching as to whether they are indeed engaged in "science...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521573658 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This work attacks questions that have long troubled social scientists--questions of the cumulative nature of social inquiry.
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9780521574945 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $44.99
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9780520067967 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, August 1, 1989), cover price $14.00
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9780195023930 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1978, cover price $8.95 | also contains American Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative: Cases and Commentary (From American Criminal Procedure: Cases and Commentary, Ninth Edition)
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9780805235425 | Schocken Books, April 1, 1974, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Reveals the operations of five information systems in the United States and Great Britain that collect and dispense personal data
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