Search Results: Sociology from Diatrope Books

Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (NRISD), 1995. Library Binding. Good. Ex-library, in a perma-bond folder with a clear cover. Text appears unmarked. 40p. Report includes the agenda for the meeting. Participants included Dharam Ghai, Hazel Henderson, Peter Townsend, Frances Stewart, Caroline Moser, Carl Riskin, and others.

PPC Editorial, 2005. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Text in Spanish, 300p. French flaps. Bumped corner. Examines the "big structures" of contemporary society and analyzes their relationships and functioning in terms of Christian life.

University of California Press, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Focuses on the rising inequality in American society and the need for a progressive, multiracial political coalition to combat it. 163p. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Measures 5.75x8.5 inches.

Stanford University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. Unmarked text. Chipping and tears on dust jacket. Topics include the worst case scenario of California in 2030, the best case scenario of California is 2030, the age-ethnic gap, employment and income, education, health care and more. References, Appendix. Index. 196p. Tables, charts, graphs, etc. The bulk of the book deals with Latino demographic, social, and economic characteristics: labor force participation, income, education, health, and political participation.

Spectre, 2012. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Foreword by Doug Henwood. Explores the culture of fear so prevalent in today's politics, economic climate, and religious extremism. 163p. Notes and Index.

Yale University Press, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket under clear mylar cover. 37 tables. Bibliography. Index. 228p. A candid and sympathetic analysis.

Ford Foundation, 1989. Paperback. Good. Unmarked. 101p. References. Policy Recommendations of the Executive Panel, Ford Foundation Project on Social Welfare and the American Future. Offers insight into 20th century social policies.

Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1961. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. B/W Illustrations. Topics include social insurance, social provisions, public health, emigration, labour, and more. 94p. Bibliography. Foldout map inside back cover.

Basic Books, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket. Notes. Index. Integrating everyday examples with incisive conjecture on their significance, a thoughtful study of integrity.

HICCS, 2010. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Offprint. Examines a creativity workshop that helps to develop new ideas of how to support elderly people to live in their own home for as long as possible. 10p. Illustrated.

Cambridge University Press, 1975. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Spot on title page. Illustrated in black-and-white. Measures 8x8.25 inches. 48pp. Ninth printing. Covers the peasant and his home; Church and people; law and order; and the village and the outside world.

Harper and Row, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Clipped dust jacket with some chipping under clear mylar cover. This study shows what happens when magic proves inadequate and when prophecy fails. Bibliography. 547p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. First US edition.

Cambridge University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket with edge wear. Index. Topics include the classless society, the future of capitalism, trade unions, industrialism, pluralism, and more. 138p. Clark Kerr delivered these Marshall Lectures in Cambridge in 1968. Measures 5.25x8.25 inches.

Athenaum Verlag, 1965. Paperback. Good. Text in German. Unmarked. 88p. Age toning on cover. Weber (1864-1920) was a German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist whose ideas profoundly influenced social theory and social research.

UMI, 1983. Paperback. Good. PhD thesis. Unmarked text. Topics include the growth of nonfamily households, old age correlates of living alone, etc. Figures/Tables. Bibliography. Appendices. 222p.

Western Rural Development Center, 1992. Paperback. Good. Unmarked text. Bumped Spine. Topics include American Indians today, the New Mexico rural economy, information technologies and rural economic development, etc. 100p. Bibliographic references.

Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1961. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. B/W Illustrations. Reprint from the Digest of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. 17p. Bibliography.

Ford Foundation, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Mailing label on back cover. A late twentieth century look at the demographic, technological, and educational causes of youth and adult unemployment and at some program responses of the Ford Foundation.

University Press of Mississippi, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket has chipping and bends on the edges. Contributors from many fields (geography, landscape architecture, anthropology, economics, etc.) consider what happens when the apparently paradoxical concept of small town and change come together. Illustrated. 199p.

The Radical Papers, Dissent Publishing Associates, 1965. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. A League for Industrial Democracy pamphlet. 24p.