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Economics both describes the way economic forces work and studies the efficiency, or inefficiency that results. This book presents thumbnail sketches describing the growth of our awareness of social problems over the past century.

Between 1936 and 1938, some 3,000 young Americans sailed to France and crossed the Pyrenees to take part in the brutal civil war raging in Spain. Virtually all joined the International Brigades, formed under the auspices of the Soviet-led Comintern and largely directed by Communists.

Analyzes Austrian soldiers who were active in resistance at the end of the World War II. This book summarizes POW treatment on the Eastern front. It deals with the increasingly difficult life on the Austrian homefront.

Shows how survey research came to be perhaps the single most important development in twentieth-century social science. This title traces the beginnings of survey research in the practical worlds of politics and business, where elite groups sought information so as to influence mass democratic publics and markets.

Criminology is in a period of much theoretical ferment. Older theories have been revitalized, and newer theories have been set forth. This collection begins with an assessment of three perspectives that have long been at the core of criminology: social learning theory, control theory, and strain theory.

Gives a basic introduction to a small but trend-setting European country. This title is also a basic outline of Austria's political history, shedding light on economic and social trends as well. It can serve as a textbook in courses on Austrian, German and European history, as well as in comparative European politics.

Social welfare has a three-thousand-year history in Western society. This book offers a sociological framework that provides conceptual order to the countless details of that history, while highlighting its essentials. It explores charity, based on a relationship between private donors and recipients.

Examines how American society responded to complex problems arising out of mental illness in the nineteenth century. This work attempts to interpret the mental hospital as a social as well as a medical institution and to illuminate the evolution of policy toward dependent groups such as the mentally ill.

Presents a bold and persuasive attack on the delusion that the law is a bastion of predictable and logical action. This controversial thesis is that the decisions made by judge and jury are determined to an enormous extent by powerful, concealed, and highly idiosyncratic psychological prejudices that these decision-makers bring to the courtroom.

What skills must we master, especially when there is a need to make not only elementary decisions, but also decisions that affect the existence, health, and even lives of people? That book focuses on this concept. It writes that we should acquire the skill of gaining knowledge.

Consists of discussions of the works of scholars who have contributed to the cumulative development of the sociology of law. This work surveys the major traditions of legal sociology but is not wedded to any one particular theoretical approach. It also features key sociological and legal concepts, that are presented in bold print and italics.

Offers a semiotically informed ethnographic study of contemporary culture in Rajasthan and India. This book adapts the methodology of analyzing cultures found in Roland Barthes' semiotic portrait of Japanese culture, "Empire of Signs". It considers tourism from both an anthropological and sociological level.

Spurred on by financial and accreditation issues, litigation to assure compliance with court decisions, equal higher education opportunity for all citizens, and the role of race in admissions decisions, accomplishments, and future of Historically Black Colleges and Universities has been renewed. This volume touches upon these issues.

For his time, the thirties through the fifties, Llewellyn offered fresh approaches to the study of law and society. Although these writings might not seem innovative today, because they have become widely applied in the contemporary world, they remain a testament to the ideas he advanced many decades ago. This work compiles many of his writings.

The United Nations remains a unique institutional hope for addressing and resolving the world's major environmental, developmental, and humanitarian problems. This work explores how the UN can establish global norms to reinforce a doctrine of internal and external political responsibility.

Survey's public perceptions of deviant behavior cross-culturally: in India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Yugoslavia and the United States. This work discovers that the strength of religious belief and urban rural background accounted for major differences in the perception of deviance - when differences were identified.

Offers discussions of the main concepts found in semiotic, historical, anthropological, psychoanalytic, Marxist, and sociological analysis. This title provides practical descriptions of the working methods of each discipline and demarcates their special areas of investigation.

Investigates the permanent changes of Austrian voting behavior over the past forty years and analyzes causes and consequences for party competition and the electoral process in Austria during the first decade of the 21st century. This work analyzes electoral strategies and the rise and fall of Austrian right wing populism from 1986 to 2006.

Presents a history of geopolitical thought and applies its classical analyses to Cold War and post-Cold War international relations. This book emphasizes on traditional geopolitical theories in explaining the outcome of the Cold War.

Surveys the entirety of American political thought.

Reviews the historical development of higher education for the Native American community from the age of discovery. This book fills a gap while at the same time opening the field of Native American higher education to continuing exploration. It is useful for educators and historians, and readers interested in Native American culture.

Features a case study of a successful program using case aide volunteers to deinstitutionalize mental patients. This volume provides a "quick prescription" formula for how this volunteer program was made viable and how these techniques can be adapted to other programs. It also tells about "whatever happened to..." the case aides in this program.

Walter Lippmann is arguably the most influential journalist in American history. This work is a result of his assignment by Wilson's Secretary of War Baker, to a project for studying possible terms of peace and ways to influence the world in a liberal-democratic direction. It ends with an admiration for the peaceful nature of democracies.

What is the symbolic impact of the Vietnam War Memorial? How does television change our engagement with the past? Can the efforts to wipe out Communist legacies succeed? Should victims of the Holocaust be celebrated as heroes or as martyrs? This work shares ideas and concerns across such divides. It is of interest to historians, and sociologists.

Seeks to acquaint students with a basic understanding of the process of human communication. This book describes the process of communication as it unfolds in face-to-face environments. It examines the organization of communicative acts and shows why human interactions tend to become more synchronous over time.

Reviews the social science literature showing the place of ethological methods and concepts, and aspects of the evolution and physiology of dominance and affiliation. This book introduces the emotional underpinnings of dominance and affiliation, and applies these concepts in a summary of the literature on interpersonal signaling.

Traces the development of fundamental rights from the early days of American jurisprudence through twentieth-century cases involving the right to privacy, racial discrimination, voting rights, censorship, and abortion laws. This work argues that values, rights, liberties, and privileges need to be placed in a hierarchical order.

Presenting an account of political culture, this work shows how the variety of cultural preferences creates the foundations of communication theory. Using the work of Aaron Wildavsky, it shows how individualism, egalitarianism, collectivism, and fatalism form the basis of culture in complex societies.

The Polynesian island of Tahiti is in the imagination an island paradise, an idyllic world inhabited by noble savages, carefree and uncomplicated. Tahiti separates myth from reality. This title describes and analyzes the forces of change that have confronted Tahiti and its inhabitants in the modern world.

A historical treatise, which aims to demonstrate "that the development of economic ties between Russia and China is the logical outcome of a centuries old friendship between these neighboring peoples, a friendship which accords with their fundamental interests and is of general benefit to all mankind."