Authors:Matthew Tuite, Roger Chisholm, Michael Radnor,
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: making, decision, interorganiational
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2007-06-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0202309266
ISBN-13: 9780202309262

As organizations have grown in scale and scope of activities, so have social pressures on every aspect of organizational activity from personnel policies to waste disposal practices. This volume is a rare example of a multidisciplinary approach to an important theoretical problem-the proper means of interorganizational decision making in light of these new pressures. This complex subject is here attacked by nineteen prominent behavioral scientists from a variety of disciplines.

Authors:Donna Maurer, Jeffery Sobal,
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: social, socialprlblems, issues, thinness, management, weight, interpreting, fatness
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1999-06
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0202305783
ISBN-13: 9780202305783

What is "too fat"? What is "too thin"? Interpretations of body weight vary widely across and within cultures. Meeting weight expectations is a major concern for many people because failing to do so may incur dire social consequences, such as difficulty in finding a romantic partner or even in locating adequate employment. Without these social and cultural pressures, body weight would only be a health issue. While socially constructed standards of body weight may seem immutable, they are continuously re-created through social interactions that perpetuate or transform expectations about

Author: Robert Manners
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: julian, steward, honor, essays, pattern, culture, process
Number of Pages: 443
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0202361349
ISBN-13: 9780202361345

This festschrift commemorates Julian H. Steward. The essays were contributed by former students, colleagues, and other anthropologists whose research or thinking has been influenced by him. There was no preconceived attempt to give the volume any greater sense of unity or to impose upon the contributors any restrictions as to subject matter. On the contrary, each author was urged to write on an anthropological topic of greatest current interest to himself. Many of the essays could be placed just as handily within a division other than the one to which they have arbitrarily been assigned in the

Author: Gilbert Geis
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: professions, business, offender, criminal, collar
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2006-11-30
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0202308952
ISBN-13: 9780202308951

In his presidential address to the American Sociological Society more than a quarter of a century ago, Edwin H. Sutherland advanced the idea that crime was being perpetrated by members of society that were considered "normal," "affluent," and "well-adjusted". This notion of a new criminal class played havoc with the traditional theories of crime causation and directed considerable research away from the criminal at war with society to the criminal nestled snugly in society’s lap. Since then the concept of "white-collar crime" has become even more important for the understanding not only

Author: Eliot Freidson
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: medical, care, structure, social, dominance, professional
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2006-12-31
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0202308553
ISBN-13: 9780202308555

In the United States today we are confronted by a number of serious social problems, not the least of which concern the character of our basic human services. In each of the broad public domains of welfare, education, law, and health there are crises of public confidence. Each in its own way is failing to accomplish its essential mission of alleviating material deprivation, instructing the young, controlling and righting criminal and civil wrongs, and healing the sick. The poor, the student, the offender and the victim, the sick-all have in some way protested the failure of the institutions re

Author: Richard P. Barth
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: modern, applications, social, work, second, research, welfare, challenge, policy, practice, child
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2000-10-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0202361268
ISBN-13: 9780202361260

Like the enormously successful first edition, this newly revised and updated edition of The Child Welfare Challenge and strengthening families. The authors believe that the task of child welfare is best viewed as a product of the three major foci of the textbook: policy, practice, and research. Accordingly, each chapter includes examples of the interrelationships of these three elements. The thorough updating in this second edition includes key information about recent federal legislation such as TANF and AFSA as well as policy-related outcomes research in addresses a broad array of issues in

Author: George Farkas
Publisher: Aldine Transaction
Keywords: social, capital, district, change, school, institutions, groups, cultural, ethnicity, poverty, human, urban
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1996-12-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0202305244
ISBN-13: 9780202305240