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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough...

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Slavery in the United States clarifies the institution of slavery in its historical context. Filler avoids the all too prevalent literary attitude of either treating slavery as an unmitigated nightmare from the past, or regarding it as a way of life which warmly repaid slave and slaveholder. He does not reduce the issue to one of fact and figures, nor does he inject endless hypotheses and analogues. Rather, this finely etched volume encompasse...

Identity as a concept is as elusive as everyone's sense of his own personal identity

This volume's authors point out what is ordinarily termed the psychiatric hospital's "social structure" is derived from 3 sources: the number and kinds of professionals who work there, the treatment ideologies and professional identities of these professionals, and the relationships of the institution and its professionals to outside communities

Specchi e maschere. La ricerca dell'identità" è un incubatore di idee, riflessioni e categorie sociologiche, che consente ad Anselm Strauss di sviluppare nuovi concetti come quelli di mondi sociali, immagini urbane, consapevolezza e negoziazione e, in particolar modo, quello di identità. I problemi che Strauss affronta riguardano l'importanza del linguaggio nell'agire umano, il valore simbolico dell'appartenenza a un gruppo, il rapporto tra ge...

This book contains a major statement by one of America's most preeminent sociologists on what remains an important problem in American history and social analysis: the nature and extent of movement within American society from one status to another

The French writer Arnold van Gennep first called attention to the phenomena of status passages in his Rites of Passage one hundred years ago

Reflecting the contributions of M. Brewster Smith to social psychology and personality study, this selection includes not only his best known essays but also previously unpublished material

Con i tre saggi qui tradotti Anselm Strauss introduce il concetto di mondo sociale, una nozione su cui ritornerà nel corso di tutta la sua carriera. Un mondo sociale, afferma, è costituito da un gruppo di individui che interagendo creano un apparato di relazioni relativamente stabili. Rispetto ad altri concetti interazionisti, la nozione di mondo sociale sposta l'attenzione dall'individuo al gruppo, alle negoziazioni e alle convenzioni che vi ...

Originally published in 1961, Images of the American City examines how Americans dealt with the rapid shock of urbanization as it evolved from an agricultural nation. Working from the framework of a social psychologist, Anselm L. Strauss offers a deeper look into the sociological, psychological, and historical perspectives of urban development. He describes how the cultural changes of a space ultimately develop urban imagery by looking towards...

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The most important images of mobility involve self-improvement by changing location (going to the frontier, coming to the big city), and by changing social class (second-generation immigrants). Almost all sociological and historical analysis has been limited to these themes. In The Contexts of Social Mobility Strauss extends the concept to a wide range of ideologies, institutional contexts, and social movements, his analysis is based on a form...

Professions, Work and Careers addresses some of the central themes that preoccupied the eminent sociologist Anselm Strauss. This collection is directed at sociologists concerned with the development of theory and graduate and undergraduate students in the sociology of work and the sociology of medicine. His approach is both thematic and topical.Straus examines organization, profession, career, and work, in addition to related matters such as s...

Identity as a concept is as elusive as everyone's sense of his own personal identity. It is connected with appraisals made by oneself and by others. Each person sees himself mirrored in the judgments of others. The masks he presents to the world are fashioned upon his anticipations of judgments. In "Mirrors and Masks, "Anselm Strauss uses the notion of identity to organize materials and thoughts about certain aspects of problems traditionally ...

The French writer Arnold van Gennep first called attention to the phenomena of status passages in his "Rites of Passage". This title examines movement of individuals and groups in contemporary society from one status to another in the light of Gennep's original theory. It demonstrates that society emerges as a comparative order.

The teaching of qualitative analysis in the social sciences is rarely undertaken in a structured way. This handbook is designed to remedy that and to present students and researchers with a systematic method for interpreting 'qualitative data, ' whether derived from interviews, field notes, or documentary materials.

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The authors of this volume point out that what is ordinarily termed the psychiatric hospital's "social structure" is principally derived from three sources: the number and kinds of professionals who work there, the treatment ideologies and professional identities of these professionals, and the relationships of the institution and its professionals to outside communities, both professional and lay. They describe hospitals as sites where ideolo...