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This book presents, for the first time, a detailed transcription of Jacob Viner's Economics 301 class as taught in 1930. These lecture notes provide insight into the legacy of Jacob Viner, whose seminal contributions to fields such as international economics and the history of economics are well known, but whose impact in sparking the revival of Marshallian microeconomics in the United States via his classroom teaching has been less appreciate...

Efforts at coordination between nations are at the heart of the challenges of globalization

This volume offers a compelling perspective on the controversy over humans and their biology. This now-classic study is about the social bonds that hold us together and the antisocial theories that drive us apart. The authors divulge how the evolutionary past of the species, reflected in genetic codes, determines our present and coerces our future. It also give us a direct and intimate look at how we see ourselves. It offers insight into our p...

Beginning with colonial times, the authors t race the development of the college and university system ch ronologically, in terms of men and institutions.

Totalitarianisms are products of the 20th century that go far beyond earlier manifestations of absolutism and autocracy in their effort to completely control political, social, and intellectual life. They were made possible by modern industrialism and technology. Therefore the theme of the book expands to include many other experiences that relate to totalitarian mentalities. In her new introduction, Passerini underlines the fundamental import...

The current political conflicts in Somalia and Russia make the reappearance of this book as relevant as ever. Politics and Culture in International History illumines world politics by identifying the causes of conflict and war and assessing the validity of schemes for peace and unity. Bozeman maintains that political systems are grounded in cultures, thus, international relations are by definition hitercultural relations. She deals exclusively...

Existentialism and Sociology (originally published under the title The Exis tential Sociology of Jean-Paul Sartre) is the fi rst work to systematically and critically analyze the existential ideas of Jean-Paul Sartre and to demon strate their importance and connection to central sociological categories found in the theories of Weber, Durkheim, Freud, Mead, and others.

The author argues that it is religious stori es dealing with the meaning of life that shape human behavio ur in daily terms. He makes a useful connection between poet ry and religion.

This is the story of twelve young people enrolled in a program that aimed to reengage America's youth -- not by serving them, but by asking them to serve others. In the fall of 1990, journalist Suzanne Goldsmith signed on for a year of participant-observation in City Year. This widely praised, Boston-based community service was later drawn upon by President Clinton as a model for his national service program, AmeriCorps. A City Year is an hone...

Gustave LeBon's The Crowd is not only a classic, but one of the best-selling scienti¬c books in social psychology and collective behavior ever written. Here, LeBon analyzes the nature of crowds and their role in political movements. He presents crowd behavior as a problem of science and power, a natural phenomenon with practical implications. Originally published in 1895, LeBon's book was the ¬rst to expand the scope of inquiry beyond criminal...

Throughout history political, religious and other single-issue lobbying groups have attempted to curtail social research projects. In this book, Morton Hunt examines their influence and ability to stifle research from a non-partis an standpoint.

Though the people of Burma, now called Myanmar, are formally Buddhist, their folk religion a type of animism or supernaturalism is so unlike classical Buddhism that it seems contradictory. For years scholars of religion and anthropology have debated the questions: Do these folk beliefs make up a separate religious system? Or is there a subtle merging of supernaturalism and Buddhism, a kind of syncretism? In either case, how exactly does folk r...

Spiro challenges the argument of Bronislaw Malinowski that the matrilineal society of the Trobriand Islands produced a psychological constellation -- a matrilineal complex -- different from Freud's Oedipus complex and the generalization regarding the restrictive provenance of the Oepidus complex to which it gave rise. Spiro undertakes a reanalysis of Malinowski's data and shows that there is enough to suggest the presence of a strong Oedipus c...

Based on a study of the Israeli kibbutz movement, Gender and Culture discusses the differences in male and female orientations to marriage, the family, and work. Spiro describes the counterrevolution in the kibbutz movement as it evolved over a quarter century period. The kibbutz Spiro first studied, Kiryat Yedidim, was thirty years old at the time, and he returned there twenty-five years later. Spiro initially found that the pioneers of the k...

Watson, the father of behaviourism, was an influential figure in 20th century psychology. This classic work explains the aim of the field of behaviourism, which is to be able to, given the stimulus, predict the response, or seeing the reaction, to know the stimulus that produced it.

This is an engrossing account of Greek Americans-their history, strengths, conflicts, aspirations, and contributions. Blending sociological insight with historical detail, Peter C. and Charles C. Moskos trace the Greek-American experience from the wave of mass immigration in the early 1900s to today. This is the story of immigrants, most of whom worked hard to secure middle-class status. It is also the story of their children and grandchildren...

Allan C. Carlson argues that agrarianism is alive and well in twenty-first-century America. He emphasizes the evident bond between the healthy, natural family and an agrarian-like household, where the sexual and the economic merge through marriage and child-bearing and where the family is defined in considerable measure by its material efforts. Carlson notes that natural households see parents as the educators of their young, they celebrate ho...

Political and Military Sociology, Volume 41 explores the social elements and impact of national defense. The origin of government is a response to a society's common interest in security and defense. In recent years, security and defense issues, and government responses, have become increasingly prominent in societies around the world. Despite intermittent pushes for privatization, however, security and defense have remained core functions of ...

One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life shows that the kibbutz thrives and describes changes that have occurred within Israel's kibbutz community. The kibbutz population has increased in terms of demography and capital, a point frequently overlooked in debates regarding viability. Like the kibbutz founders who established a society grounded in certain principles and meeting certain goals, kibbutz newcomers seek to build an idealistic society with sp...

Originally published in 1979 by Regnery Gateway, Inc.