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This interdisciplinary textbook challenges students to see race as everyone's issue. Drawing on sociology, psychology, history, and economics, Seeing White introduces students to the concepts of white privilege and social power.

The Great Rights of Mankind follows the development of individual rights from the earliest English antecedents through their modern interpretations by the courts. It is arguably the single best short book written on the Bill of Rights.

This book presents a comprehensive method for the schools to working with hard-to-reach parents. Strategies are present to reach out to the parents and create family/school partnerships. The book provides an array of updated best practices to implement the strategies.

This edition retains the ethnographic approach and adds analysis of how managed care and other economic and social forces influence medical practice in 2000.

In this ethnography of women who sell cars, Helene Lawson and the "ladies on the lot" take the reader behind the scenes of one of the last bastions of a predominantly male workplace: the car dealership.

Although living conditions have improved throughout history, protest seems to have increased to the point of becoming a normal phenomenon in modern societies. This volume examines how and why this is the case.

The metaphor of "science wars" has taken on a predominant position within the collective conscious and some in the scientific community perceive their profession under threat. Based on interviews with groups with alleged "anti-science" attitudes, this book examines how powerful these critiques are.

This is a study of tyranny, statesmanship, and civic virtue in three major linked Platonic dialogues, the "Georgias", "Symposium" and "Republic". It explores eros as the key to Plato's understanding of both the depths of human vice and the heights of human aspirations for virtue and happiness.

This text develops and extends the application of Margaret Gilbert's plural subject theory of human sociality, first introduced in her earlier works "On Social Facts" and "Living Together". It presents accounts of social rules, scientific change, political obligation, and collective remorse.

A treatise on Jacques Derrida's "educational texts" - those writings concerned with the ethics and politics of the historico-philosophical structures constituting the scene of teaching. It addresses the importance of deconstruction as a means of analyzing pedagogical institutions and structures.

This new collection of Herbert J. Gans's scholarly and other writings, including excerpts from his most prominent ethnographic books, The Urban Villagers, The Levittowners, and Deciding What's News, will be a thought-provoking resource for social scientists, students, and all those who care about America.

In this period of global crises in differing cultures, a shared environment, and an incresingly globalized political economy, this text provides an articulation of deep democracy that can guide an evolutionary deepening of democratic institutions.

Paul Ricoeur has developed a substantial and distinctive body of political thought. This study looks at the paradoxical character of the domain of politics and provides an approach to topics such as the relationship among politics, economics and ethics.

This book introduces students to the life and thought of one of the giants of 20th-century French intellectual life, and demonstrates the centrality of political reason to Aron's philosophy of history and ideological thinking.

Globalization can be seen as a process of universal standardization under the auspices of market economics, technology and hegemonic power. Resisting this process without endorsing parochial self-enclosure, Dallmayr seeks alternative visions that are rooted in distinct vernacular traditions and facilitate cross-cultural learning in a global arena.

In this innovative study of the philosopher Nagarjuna, Nancy McCagney demonstrates that the concept of space ('akasa') in early Indian Mahayana Buddhism is the root metaphor for Nagarjuna's understanding of 'sunyata', or openness.

In Nature's Religion, distinguished theologian and philosopher Robert S. Corrington weaves together the concept of infinite semiosis with that of the transference to show that the self does have access to something in nature that is intrinsically religious.

This work includes ideas and perspectives for those seeking deeper understanding of the concepts and historical, political, economic, and social force that constitute the "Pacific Rim".

The founder of American pragmatism, C.S. Peirce lived as an eccentric, but thought as a dedicated communitarian. In this reader, Richard Smyth offers different perspectives on Peirce's work.

This ethnographic text examines the attitudes of the Hagen people and analyses the power of women in their male-dominated system. It cites case studies of marriage arrangements, divorce and traditional settlement disputes to illustrate women's status in Hagen society.

Proposes a representation of Durkheim, as the philosopher and moralist who wanted to renovate rationalism, challenge positivism, reform sociology, and extend Schopenhauer's philosophy to the new domain of sociology. Essentially it focuses on his vision of sociology as the "science of morality".

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