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This volume is based on a detailed analysis of change in the law and in the administration of justice affecting juvenile off enders in California in the fifties and sixties

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

Principles of Scientific Sociology represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought

In the Roman Empire, relations between East and West meant connections between the eastern and western parts of a unified structure of empire

Writing in a lively straightforward tone and offering numerous examples, Polansky demonstrates that verbal communication plays a major role in mental health and is essential to preventing and curing emotional disorders

The emergence of America as a metropolitan-urban society has had profound consequences for every phase of national life, but nowhere has its effects been greater than in the domain of government

The future of any society lies in its ability to train and socialize its young

The experimental and highly regarded Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh University was endowed in the late nineteenth century

This book represents an inquiry into an area of human behavior at once fascinating and exasperating

LSD belongs to the class of drugs that, taken orally, can produce dramatic psychological experiences

Focusing on the forces underlying headlines, this volume examines the processes and outcomes of political socialization-the ways in which an individual acquires the attitudes, beliefs, and values of the political culture from the surrounding environment, and takes on a role as citizen within that political framework

This book is an exploration and mapping of the frontiers of research in psychotherapy

Written by a scholar who is a therapist and a psychodiagnostician, this book documents the direct relationship between patient response patterns to a battery of psychological tests, and their subsequent behavior in psychotherapy

Focuses on parents of a sample of newborns in twelve areas of England and Wales during the 1970s. This title discusses the need for a proliferation of different sorts of services: more clinics, an increase in the help and advice given at hospitals, the development of a supportive and integrated home service.

The purpose of this volume is to bring together a number of elements that would be useful in the construction of a coherent and comprehensive theory of biology

Research in the field of clinical neuropsychology has greatly advanced understanding of the complex relationships between brain functions and human behavior

The national committees of the major political parties in the United States are symbols of party government

In this sequel to his widely praised classic study of The Stationary Economy, Nobel Prize winning economist J

Genetic differences in humans, like those between individuals of any animal or plant species and those between species, are all products of the evolutionary development of the living world. This book summarizes the development of evolutionary thinking, and describes how what we know about genetic diversity links up with research on human behavior.

In this unique psychological study, John Kotre provides some startling answers to the questions Catholics are now asking about those who abandon the church, those who remain in it, and those who attempt to create a new church within the church

There are few issues as controversial as where to draw the line between church and state

Theoretical biology is still in its early stages as an academic discipline

How can Jewish relatives who range in residence and occupation from a Scarsdale doctor to a Brooklyn butcher, and who diverge in religiosity from an Orthodox cantor to a ham-eating atheist, maintain close family ties? This book describes how these intimate, spirited, and often contentious family clubs are organized and how they function.

Vietnam is a land whose features change dramatically within short distances--from mountains and high plateaus to coastal plains and inland swamps

Christianity has always been a "creedal" religion in that it has always been theological

Longrigg's attempt has been to offer an objective but informed account of the different nationalities and social forces found in Middle Eastern environments, urban and rural, in terms of the particular circumstances, problems and hopes of the dozen separate and more or less divided states of the region.

From the sociological point of view, adolescence traditionally has been described as a period of physical maturity and social immaturity

This book is the first attempt to validate behavior modification techniques in a carefully controlled experimental treatment environment for emotionally disturbed children

The technological revolution in the social sciences made available a set of research tools and data manipulation techniques that permit the study of complex social processes previously inaccessible or not amenable to our observational powers

Social Encounters is an approach to social psychology that is not what one might expect to find in textbooks on this subject