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"This book is a collection of critical engagements with Andrew Sayer, one of the foremost postdisciplinary thinkers of our times, with responses from Sayer himself. Sayer's ground-breaking contributions to the fields of geography, political economy and social theory have reshaped the terms of engagement with issues and debates running from the methodology of social science through to the environment, and industrial development to the ethical dimensions of everyday life. Transatlantic scholars across a wide range of fields explore his work across four main areas: critical realism; moral economy; political economy; and relations between social theory, normativity and class. This is the first full-length critical assessment of Sayer's work. It will be of interest to readers in sociology, economics, political economy, social and political philosophy, ethics, social policy, geography and urban studies, from upper-undergraduate levels upwards"--

The Teaching Writing series publishes user-friendly writing guides penned by authors with publishing records in their subject matter. Infused with multidisciplinary examples, humor, and a healthy dose of irreverence, Fallon helps emerging researchers successfully navigate the intellectual and emotional challenges of writing quantitative research reports. After reinforcing foundations in methodology, statistics, and writing in the first section of the book, emerging researchers work through a series of questions to construct their research report. The final section contains sample papers generated by undergraduates illustrating three major forms of quantitative research—primary data collection, secondary data analysis, and content analysis. Writing up Quantitative Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences is appropriate for research methods classes in communication, criminology or criminal justice, economics, education, political science, psychological science, social work, and sociology. Individual students and novice researchers can also read the book as a supplement to any course or research experience that requires writing up quantitative data

10 yrs experience as Ed-in-Chief of a magazine that tries to present sociol to the layman is described. Ideological, editorial, & practical problems of Transaction are recounted & the growth of the magazine as a public voice is traced. Various shifts & changes are noted, eg, the changeover from a predominantly sociol'al to an interdisciplinary soc sci focus, the growing stress on topics of pol, sex, & religion, change in ownership, & the journal's penetration into mass book publication. As a business, Transaction has to please its readers. But soc sci is more than a business; it is an ideology & it has needs & makes representations of its own. "It is the driving passion for a world of peace & reason to which all soc sci must ultimately dedicate itself, despite the absence of any logical, formal mandate to do so." The magazine tries to bridge the gap between the mass COMM world & the elite sci'fic community by presenting "the big picture, as lived by small people." M. Maxfield.

A doctrine with roots in eighteenth century thought, liberalism emerged in the nineteenth century as the prevailing ideology of Western capitalist societies and democracies. Philosophically, liberalism consists of a commitment to the ideals of equality, liberty, individuality, and rationality. However, liberals have divided over their social and political implications. Some liberals have believed these values to be inscribed within the very fabric of modern societies, reflecting the innovative technologies, social differentiation and free movement of labor, goods, and capital characteristic of the commercial and industrial age and its aftermath. Others have thought the links between the two are fortuitous and contingent, and that these and other related social changes, such as the growth of bureaucracy, potentially threaten liberalism. Politically united against traditional and hierarchical societies, liberals have differed, therefore, over whether liberalism requires various kinds of political support, such as the state regulation of markets, or merely the absence of any interference by either the state or others to the spontaneous and autonomous social activities of individuals. Meanwhile, critics of liberalism have either blamed it for all contemporary social ills or regarded it as a transitory phase to be replaced by superior forms of social organisation. However, contemporary liberals seem increasingly critics themselves of the inequality and abuse of rights found in modern societies, although how far their proposals can be made a reality remains uncertain.

Übersichtsbericht über den Forschungsstand zu Sozialen Bewegungen mit Bibliographie. Beschrieben wird die Entwicklung dieser Forschungsrichtung, ausgehend von der Untersuchung der Studentenrevolte bis hin zum Konzept der "Neuen Sozialen Bewegungen", mit dem Phänomene der Frauenbewegung, Bürgerinitiativen, Antikernkraftbewegung und sonstiger "alternativer" Bewegungen zu erfassen versucht wird. Es wird festgestellt, daß die Erforschung Sozialer Bewegungen zwar erst relativ spät in Deutschland einsetzte, sich aber jetzt zu einem wichtigen Feld innerhalb der klassischen Soziologie entwickelt und damit eine Tendenz zum Professionalismus einsetzt, die den bisherigen Schwerpunkt politischen Aktivismus ablöst. (psz)