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Book Synopsis Delinquency and Opportunity by : Richard A. Cloward
Download or read book Delinquency and Opportunity written by Richard A. Cloward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. This is Volume VI of the twelve in the Sociology of Youth and Adolescence series and focuses on delinquent subcultures and theories around masculine identification, adolescence and lower-class culture, alienation and illegitimate means. This study is an attempt to explore two questions: (l) Why do delinquent norms, or rules of conduct, develop? (2) What are the conditions which account for the distinctive content of various systems of delinquent norms such as those prescribing violence or theft or drug-use?
Book Synopsis Choosing Colleges by : Patricia M. McDonough
Download or read book Choosing Colleges written by Patricia M. McDonough and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the everyday experiences of high school seniors as they choose their colleges and demonstrates that college choice is a more complex social and organizational reality than has been previously understood.
Book Synopsis On Social Structure and Science by : Robert K. Merton
Download or read book On Social Structure and Science written by Robert K. Merton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-09-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert K. Merton is unarguably one of the most influential sociologists of his time. A figure whose wide-ranging theoretical and methodological contributions have become fundamental to the field, Merton is best known for introducing such concepts and procedures as unanticipated consequences, self-fulfilling prophecies, focused group interviews, middle-range theory, opportunity structure, and analytic paradigms. This definitive compilation encompasses the breadth and brilliance of his works, from the earliest to the most recent. Merton's foundational writings on social structure and process, on the sociology of science and knowledge, and on the discipline and trajectory of sociology itself are all powerfully represented, as are his autobiographical insights in a fascinating coda. Anchored by Piotr Sztompka's contextualizing introduction, Merton's vast oeuvre emerges as a dynamic and profoundly coherent system of thought, a constant source of vitality and renewal for present and future sociology.
Book Synopsis Out of the Closets and Into the Courts by : Ellen Ann Andersen
Download or read book Out of the Closets and Into the Courts written by Ellen Ann Andersen and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006-09-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 30 years, the gay rights movement has moved from the margins to the center of American politics, sparking debate from bedroom to boardroom to battlefield. Out of the Closets and into the Courts analyzes recent gay rights cases and explores the complex relationship between litigation and social change. “An excellent book, enlightening and well-written. Out of the Closets and into the Courts should be highly useful in the classroom and of interest to a broad audience.” --Evan Gerstmann, Loyola Marymount University “A detailed historical analysis of changes in the law surrounding gay and lesbian relationships, Out of the Closets and into the Courts also breaks fresh ground in thinking about how and when law can be used to affect social change. The concept of a legal opportunity structure, which complements the concept of political opportunity structure, proves to be very useful in analyzing judicial changes in the law. A very impressive analysis.” --Mayer Zald, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan “Ellen Andersen's book integrates sophisticated sociolegal theory and thorough empirical research into a compelling, insightful analysis of legal mobilization campaigns led by the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. This study makes a significant contribution to scholarship about struggles over gay rights in the U.S. and about legal reform politics in general.” --Michael McCann, University of Washington Ellen Ann Andersen is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
Book Synopsis Continuous Discovery Habits by : Teresa Torres
Download or read book Continuous Discovery Habits written by Teresa Torres and published by Product Talk LLC. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you haven't had the good fortune to be coached by a strong leader or product coach, this book can help fill that gap and set you on the path to success." - Marty Cagan How do you know that you are making a product or service that your customers want? How do you ensure that you are improving it over time? How do you guarantee that your team is creating value for your customers in a way that creates value for your business? In this book, you'll learn a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery that will help you answer each of these questions, giving you the confidence to act while also preparing you to be wrong. You'll learn to balance action with doubt so that you can get started without being blindsided by what you don't get right. If you want to discover products that customers love-that also deliver business results-this book is for you.
Book Synopsis The Structure of Schooling by : Richard Arum
Download or read book The Structure of Schooling written by Richard Arum and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2015 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive reader in the sociology of education examines important topics and exposes students to examples of sociological research on schools. Drawing from classic and contemporary scholarship, the editors have chosen readings that examine current issues and reflect diverse theoretical approaches to studying the effects of schooling on individuals and society.
Book Synopsis Moving Out of Poverty by : Deepa Narayan
Download or read book Moving Out of Poverty written by Deepa Narayan and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. While covering a vast body of conceptual and empirical knowledge about economic and social mobility, it takes the reader on compelling journeys of multigenerational accounts of three villages in Kanartaka, India, twelve years in the life of a street child in Burkina Faso, and much more. Leading development practitioners and scholars from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology critically examine the literature from their disciplines and contribute new frameworks and evidence from their own works. The 'Moving Out of Poverty' series launched in 2007 is under the editorial direction of Deepa Narayan, Senior Advisor of the World Bank and former director of the pathbreaking 'Voices of the Poor' series. It features the results of new comparative research across more than 500 communities in 15 countries to understand how and why people move out of poverty, and presents other work which builds on interdisciplinary and contextually grounded understandings of growth and poverty reduction.
Book Synopsis Structural Holes by : Ronald S. Burt
Download or read book Structural Holes written by Ronald S. Burt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronald Burt describes the social structural theory of competition that has developed through the last two decades. The contrast between perfect competition and monopoly is replaced with a network model of competition. The basic element in this account is the structural hole: a gap between two individuals with complementary resources or information. When the two are connected through a third individual as entrepreneur, the gap is filled, creating important advantages for the entrepreneur. Competitive advantage is a matter of access to structural holes in relation to market transactions.
Book Synopsis Moving Out of Poverty by : Deepa Narayan
Download or read book Moving Out of Poverty written by Deepa Narayan and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no peace with hunger. Only promises and promises and no fulfillment. If there is no job, there is no peace. If there is nothing to cook in the pot, there is no peace. - Oscar, a 57-year-old man, El Gorri n, Colombia They want to construct their houses near the road, and they cannot do that if they do not have peace with their enemies. So peace and the road have developed a symbiotic relation. One cannot live without the other. . . . - A community leader from a conflict-affected community on the island of Mindanao, Philippines Most conflict studies focus on the national level, but this volume focuses on the community level. It explores how communities experience and recover from violent conflict, and the surprising opportunities that can emerge for poor people to move out of poverty in these harsh contexts. 'Rising from the Ashes of Conflict' reveals how poor people s mobility is shaped by local democracy, people s associations, aid strategies, and the local economic environment in over 100 communities in seven conflict-affected countries, including Afghanistan. The findings suggest the need to rethink postconflict development assistance. This is the fourth volume in a series derived from the Moving Out of Poverty study, which explores mobility from the perspectives of poor people in more than 500 communities across 15 countries.
Book Synopsis Inequality: Structures, Dynamics and Mechanisms by : Arne L. Kalleberg
Download or read book Inequality: Structures, Dynamics and Mechanisms written by Arne L. Kalleberg and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-12-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aage Sorensen was an influential intellectual presence who was one of the world's leading authorities on social stratification and the sociology of education. His research sought to understand the structures, dynamics and mechanisms that underlie inequalities in industrial societies by focusing on how individuals' attainments are shaped by characteristics of a society's or organization's opportunity structure, on the one hand, and individuals' education, experience and other human capital resources, on the other. He emphasized inequalities associated with education and schooling, class, and stratification outcomes such as income and occupational status. Within these general foci, he tackled the study of phenomena as diverse as rates of learning in elementary school reading groups and promotion patterns in large industrial corporations. The chapters of this volume illustrate some of the major themes that characterized Aage's research; these topics are also likely to constitute important concerns for future efforts to understand structured social inequality in society. These themes include: the development of explicit dynamic models to account for observed patterns of education, career, and labor market outcomes; aspects of educational inequality such as school effects and learning opportunities; issues related to intragenerational mobility and careers; and the role of rents in generating structural inequality.
Book Synopsis Limits and Opportunities of a Matrix Organization by : Jasmine Shahani
Download or read book Limits and Opportunities of a Matrix Organization written by Jasmine Shahani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the functioning of contemporary matrix organizations based on a case study of a German leading commercial vehicle manufacturer. It creates a framework for research of matrix organizations and demonstrates empirically how a contemporary MNC can promote lateral coordination through the use of a matrix organization. The significant issues of decision-making and conflict in matrix structures, as well as the role of organizational cultures is analysed. The importance of boundary spanning as well as the boundary spanning skills needed and developed by a matrix organization have been identified. This work brings significant empirical understanding of matrix organizations thanks to a rich research field combined with a novel framework for analysis of matrix organizations.
Book Synopsis Conceptualising Women’s Working Lives by : Wendy Patton
Download or read book Conceptualising Women’s Working Lives written by Wendy Patton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theoretical work on the career development of women has travelled a journey from critique to creation. Early work responded to and criticised a literature that focused on theorising male roles in a workplace that was conceptualised as providing vertical career paths primarily for middle class males. More recently theorists are creating new constructions and frameworks to enable a more holistic understanding of career, applicable to both women and men. These constructions include broadening the discussion from women’s careers to women’s working lives. This is the fifth book in the Sense Publishers Career Development Series. It features the vibrant work of contributors from around the world writing in the field of women’s working lives. It emphasises the need to explore theoretical connections and understandings in order to facilitate a more holistic and inclusive understanding of women’s working lives. The writers in the current volume acknowledge the changing roles of women, in both public and private spheres. Women’s roles in paid work are changing both in their nature and type of engagement. In addition, with an ageing population, women’s roles in care work are increasingly being extended from child care to aged care. This book provides a history of theorising about women's careers, in addition to presenting a focus on current empirical and theoretical work which contributes to understandings of women's working lives. It’s contributions both map the current discourse and challenge future work to extend the boundaries of that discourse.
Book Synopsis The Structure of Digital Partner Choice by : Andreas Schmitz
Download or read book The Structure of Digital Partner Choice written by Andreas Schmitz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work approaches the modern phenomenon of online dating, examining the ways people make use of its technical and social potential. In particular, the users' mate preferences, choices, strategies, and interactions are analyzed using the innovative method of click-stream observations and web-questionnaire data. For the purpose of these analyses, two major theories are used - an explicit theory of individual mate choice, and the more general relational theory developed by Pierre Bourdieu, which helps to highlight the social structures both underlying and resulting from mating online. Results show that online dating is not a partner marker free from social structure, but that the traditional social conditions found offline are also reproduced in this virtual setting. In contrast to the picture drawn by media discourse and advertising, online dating represents a partner market which fulfills the promise of happiness in a socially differential way.
Book Synopsis Career Development and Systems Theory by : Wendy Patton
Download or read book Career Development and Systems Theory written by Wendy Patton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 3rd edition of this classic book offers practitioners, researchers and students a comprehensive introduction to, and overview of, career theory; introduces the Systems Theory Framework of career development; and demonstrates its considerable contemporary and innovative application to practice.
Book Synopsis Opportunities and Diversification - Expansion of Business by Analyzing the Structural Capital of Engineering Service Firms by : Roberto Cabezas
Download or read book Opportunities and Diversification - Expansion of Business by Analyzing the Structural Capital of Engineering Service Firms written by Roberto Cabezas and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Introduction: The future of many firms in the aerospace sector is uncertain. Factors like the financial crisis have made the industry unstable. Companies that are unable to adapt to different markets have difficulties to survive. Hence, engineering products nowadays demand to acquire a knowledge-based perspective of work like peer production or mass collaboration , to promote open management standards and to focus on services with more value-added, which means that companies need to reeducate itself and to make constant investments in intangible resources. Furthermore, the new competitive landscape [ ] demands that companies are aware of emerging driving forces like globalization, more sophisticated customers and competitors, increased technological capabilities, shortening of product life cycles and diversification. These issues emphasize the demand of flexibility and speed in responding to fast-changing environments. In addition, one of the biggest problems that the firm where I worked for one and a half year, and to which this study is dedicated, are facing is the asymmetrical changes affecting service markets. This firm turned from being highly competitive, based in quality management and technical expertise to be unable to deploy its expertise in other segments. Many competitors acknowledged earlier that the market is changing and achieved to seize a better position. Consequently, the firm was prejudiced. This master thesis aims to build a framework for a systematic assess of professional service markets, using the engineering approach of Bornemann and Reinhardt. It is based on the theory of the structural capital and a strategic process to appropriate required capabilities in the target markets. At the present, what this company lacks are not the physical resources or technical competences, but capabilities that enable the firm to leverage new competences to address new markets. Service industries, including engineering services providers (hereafter ESP), have the particularity that the core competences and the critical success factors are based on intangible assets. Hence, this thesis shall contribute to a development of a strategic view of intangibles. Building this framework will help managers to understand the process of developing and formulating an effective strategy, which meets the industry demands, and consequently, it will show how to react to new business paradigms. As a starting point it can be stated, [...]
Book Synopsis Rethinking Social Movements by : Jeff Goodwin
Download or read book Rethinking Social Movements written by Jeff Goodwin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition.. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides--as well as the efforts to bridge them--closely parallel those in the social sciences at large. This book aims to further the dialogue between these two distinct approaches to social movements and to show the broader implications for social science as a whole as it struggles with issues including culture, emotion, and agency. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Book Synopsis Women as Candidates in American Politics by : Susan J. Carroll
Download or read book Women as Candidates in American Politics written by Susan J. Carroll and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second edition, Susan Carroll updates her pioneering study of women candidates and their campaigns in the aftermath of the "Year of the Woman." Although in many regards the political climate has become vastly more favorable for female candidates, opportunities are still limited by the political structure. Carroll examines a number of possible reforms and actual developments which may eventually mean larger numbers of women being elected to public office.
