Author: Jonathan H. Turner
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Author: Marvin Elliott Olsen
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Category : Sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Marvin Elliott Olsen
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Provides a list of WWW sites that access resources for learning about archaeology and anthropology, compiled byJohn W. Hoopes.

Author: James O. Coplien
Publisher: Pearson
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Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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For courses in Advanced Software Engineering or Object-Oriented Design. This book covers the human and organizational dimension of the software improvement process and software project management - whether based on the CMM or ISO 9000 or the Rational Unified Process. Drawn from a decade of research, it emphasizes common-sense practices. Its principles are general but concrete; every pattern is its own built-in example. Historical supporting material from other disciplines is provided. Though even pattern experts will appreciate the depth and currency of the material, it is self-contained and well-suited for the layperson.

Author: Jacques Amyot
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Category : Thailand
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: Lynne G. Zucker
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Author: Ron J. Lesthaeghe
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520335457
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Unlike most Asian and Latin American countries, sub-Saharan Africa has seen both an increase in population growth rates and a weakening of traditional patterns of child-spacing since the 1960s. It is tempting to conclude that sub-Saharan countries have simply not reached adequate levels of income, education, and urbanization for a fertility decline to occur. This book argues, however, that such a socioeconomic threshold hypothesis will not provide an adequate basis for comparison. These authors take the view that any reproductive regime is also anchored to a broader pattern of social organization, including the prevailing modes of production, rules of exchange, patterns of religious systems, kinship structure, division of labor, and gender roles. They link the characteristic features of the African reproductive regime with regard to nuptiality, polygyny, breastfeeding, postpartum abstinence, sterility, and child-fostering to other specifically African characteristics of social organization and culture. Substantial attention is paid to the heterogeneity that prevails among sub-Saharan societies and considerable use is made, therefore, of interethnic comparisons. As a result the book goes considerably beyond mere demographic description and builds bridges between demography and anthropology or sociology. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Author: Bernard S Phillips
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317257391
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Is there a growing gap in today's world between cultural aspirations and their fulfillment, a gap that is increasing social problems of all kinds? If so, what forces are producing that gap? How can these forces be changed? To answer these questions, Phillips and Johnston employ a very broad approach to the scientific method, drawing evidence from a wide variety of data and sources, including sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, historians, philosophers, educators, psychiatrists, and novelists. They find substantial evidence for a widening gap, suggesting an invisible crisis throughout contemporary society. They also find substantial evidence that a simplistic and static metaphysical stance or worldview is largely responsible for that gap, and that an alternative worldview can work to close that gap.

Author: Daniel Sullivan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107096863
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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Bridging cultural and experimental existential psychology, this book offers a synthetic understanding of how culture shapes psychological threat.