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Ethos and Identity asks the ever-puzzling question: What is ethnicity and how is it to be explained? In a new introduction to this work, Athena Leoussi describes Epstein's response to this challenging age-old query, and demonstrates why this classic volume is of continuing importance

Morris Swadesh, one of this century's foremost scientific investigators of language, dedicated much of his life to the study of the origin and evolution of language

First published in 1969, this book addresses itself to the question of the behavior appropriate for social scientists conducting research sponsored by or otherwise involving government agencies. It contains a survey of the problems encountered by research social scientists in each of the major areas outside the United States.

Life as Theater is about understanding people and how the dramaturgical way of thinking helps or hinders such understanding

Based on a study of 12,000 elementary school children in eight large and medium-sized American cities, this book presents the first large-scale study of political attitude formation in children

Harold D. Lasswell is arguably the quintessential face of political science to the larger public of the past century. However, there is a side to Lasswell less well known, but of special importance in this day and age: the place of the profession of politics as an academic activity

When James Mooney lived with and studied the Cherokee between 1887 and 1900, they were the largest and most important Indian tribe in the United States

Written in the midst of World War II, this book makes a strong argument for the crucial importance of education as the solution to the dilemmas with which our Anglo-Saxon culture was nurtured, with particular emphasis on the work of John Dewey and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One of the world's most eminent social anthropologists draws upon his many years of study and research in the field of kinship and social organization to review the development of anthropological theory and method from Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) to anthropologists of the 1960s

This book provides an innovative foundation for looking at human and social behavior u as a system of purposeful (teleological) events

Examining in detail the apparently inexorable polarization of society in such countries as Rwanda, Algeria, and South Africa, the author questions whether current theories correctly explain the past or offer adequate guides for the future

This is a comprehensive analysis of the economics of international aid that provides a systematic framework for understanding, planning, and executing aid programs

Philosophers, social scientists, and laymen have used two perspectives in analyzing social action

Reflecting the many contributions of Muzafer Sherif to social psychology during the past thirty years, this volume presents selections from among Sherif's most widely known essays and provides a systematic overview of his evolving interests, concepts, methods and research findings

Broad in scope and carefully balanced in emphasis, this book is a major treatise on the theory and practice of public finance

In a book written with the poignancy and beauty appropriate to its subject matter, the author opens by reminding us that "the essence of a society is in a sense identical with its history

Cognitive mapping is a construct that encompasses those processes that enable people to acquire, code, store, recall, and manipulate information about the nature of their spatial environment

Gun violence and control are issues of vital importance, but most gun debates leave their participants with their biases intact. Written deliberately to counter an atmosphere of hysteria and extremism, "Point Blank, offers logical argument supported by empirical information.

The Willowbrook Wars is a dramatic and illuminating account of the effort to close down a scandal-ridden institution and return its 5,400 handicapped residents to communities in New York

The twenty-first century presents an increasing number of environmental problems, including toxic pollution, global warming, destruction of tropical forests, extinction of biological diversity, and depletion of natural resources

Framing the Victim illustrates how victims of domestic violence are "framed" by the dominant media perspectives focused on them and falsely blamed for a crime committed by someone else. Berns critiques the stories that emerge when social problems are shaped by guidelines that promote entertainment, victim empowerment, inspiration and politics.

This is a masterful effort to recognize and place the prison and asylums in their social contexts

This text discusses how images of social problems can shape public policy, social services, and how we make sense of ourselves and others. It advocates social change through identity transformation rather than through structural change and emphasizes the role of emotions in this.

Leading scholars in the field of social networks from diverse disciplines present the first systematic and comprehensive collection of current theories and empirical research on the informal connections that individuals have for support, help, and information from other people

Drawing upon both classical insights and more recent writings, Hearn provides a compelling account of social breakdown in the United States

This new paperback comprehensively reviews the research evidence on the links between guns, violence, and gun control, and reports results of the author's own research as well

Violence directed at victimized groups because of their real or imagined characteristics is as old as humankind

Constructionist theory describes and analyzes social problems as emerging through the efforts of claimsmakers who bring issues to public attention

That family violence injures and kills its victims both physically and psychologically was established over two decades ago by early researchers in this field

Crowd behavior is one of the most colorful but least understood forms of human social behavior