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The collection of essays in The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes defi nes borders and borderlands to include territorial interfaces, marginal spaces (physical, sociological and psychological) and human consciousness. From theoretical and conceptual presentations on social ecology and its agencies and representations, to case studies and concrete projects and initiatives, the contributing authors uncover a thread of contemporary thought and action on this important emerging fi eld. The essays aim to defi ne the territories of social ecology, to investigate how social agencies can activate ecological processes and systems, and to understand how the interactions of people and ecosystems can create new sustainable landscapes across tangible and intangible territorial rifts

In all settings of society, migration is an important factor for the development and growth of population. To understand its consequences, it is fundamental to know the quality of the available data, the measurement instruments for analyzing migration, and to have an appropriate demographic framework for studying the demographic effects of migration. Whereas the first section focuses on analysis, the second part deals with the different demographic behaviours of migrants compared to residents. Further it demonstrates the motives and explanations for migration. The final section analyzes geographic and economic aspects. The authors combine demographic analysis, interdisciplinary research, and international illustrations to explore current trends in migration patterns and processes. This book is valuable reading for an interdisciplinary academic audience as well as for regional planners and policy makers.

The Sexual Offences Act, 1967, which made private homosexual behaviour between consenting males over the age of 21 years legal in England, marked a significant stage in the gradual change of social attitudes on this topic. A substantial body of opinion, including perhaps most of those personally affected, now takes the line that homosexuality is a common and relatively minor variant from the normal, that its occurrence is inevitable and that it is about time that the community learned to live and let live, recognizing that many ordinary folk, as well as many outstanding citizens, are unalterably homosexual.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Body Weight as a Social Problem -- Part II Historical Foundations -- 2 Children and Weight Control: Priorities in the United States and France -- 3 Fat Boys and Goody Girls: Hilde Bruch's Work on Eating Disorders and the American Anxiety about Democracy, 1930-1960 -- Part III Medical Models -- 4 Constitutional Types, Institutional Forms: Reconfiguring Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches to Obesity in Early TwentiethCentury Biomedical Investigation -- 5 Defining Perfect and Not-So-Perfect Bodies: The Rise and Fall of the "Dreyer Method" for the Assessment of Physique and Fitness, 1918-26 -- Part IV Gendered Dimensions -- 6 Ideal Weight/Ideal Women: Society Constructs the Female -- 7 Dieting Women: Self-Surveillance and the Body Panopticon -- 8 Fleshing Out the Discomforts of Femininity: The Parallel Cases of Female Anorexia and Male Compulsive Bodybuilding -- Part V Institutional Components -- 9 Commodity Knowledge in Consumer Culture: The Role of Nutritional Health Promotion in the Making of the Diet Industry -- 10 Meanings of Weight among Dietitians and Nutritionists -- Part VI Collective Processes -- 11 Too Skinny or Vibrant and Healthy?: Weight Management in the Vegetarian Movement -- 12 The Size Acceptance Movement and the Social Construction of Body Weight -- Biographical Sketches of the Contributors -- Index

Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in explaining such crucial forms of economic behavior as cooperation, innovation, and action under conditions of uncertainty--phenomena he identifies as the proper starting point for a sociology of economic action. Beckert levels an enlightened critique at neoclassical economics, arguing that understandin

Machine generated contents note: List of Contributors. -- Introduction by the Editors (Peter K. Smith and Craig Hart). -- Part 1 Historical Overview. -- 1. Historical perspectives on contemporary research in social development (W. Andrew Collins). -- Part II Disciplinary Perspectives on Social Development. -- 2. Behavioral genetics (Alice M. Gregory, Harriet A. Ball, Tanya M. M. Button). -- 3. Conceptual development and emotion: A neuropsychological perspective (Steven Woltering, Marc D. Lewis). -- 4. Evolutionary perspectives on social development (David F. Bjorklund, Anthony D. Pellegrini). -- 5. Historical reframing of childhood (Willem Koops). -- 6. Cultural psychological perspectives on social development in childhood (Heidi Fung). -- 7. Sociological perspectives on social development (Gerald Handel). -- Part III Ecological Contexts For Social Development. -- 8. Culture and social development (Xinyin Chen, Janet Chung, Rachel Lechcier-Kimel, and Doran French). -- 9. The social development of immigrant children: A focus on Asian and Hispanic children in the U.S. (Charissa S.L. Cheah and Christy Yeung). -- 10. Children's interpersonal skills and school-based relationships (Gary W. Ladd, Becky Kochenderfer-Ladd, Ann-Margret Rydell). -- 11. Environmental psychology (Christopher Spencer, Kate Gee). -- Part IV Child and Contextual Factors in Social Development. -- 12. Temperament and social development (Ann Sanson, Sheryl A. Hemphill, Bilge Yagmurlu, Sandee McClowry). -- 13. Children's social development within the socialization context of child care and early childhood education (Carollee Howes). -- 14. The interplay between parents and peers as socializing influences in children's development (Stephanie M. Reich and Deborah Lowe Vandell). -- 15. Sex differences in social behavior (Vickie Pasterski, Susan Golombok, and Melissa Hines). -- 16. Ethnicity, race, and children's social development (Stephen M. Quintana). -- Part V Family Context. -- 17. Parent-child attachment in early and middle childhood (Laura E. Brumariu and Kathryn A. Kerns). -- 18. Parent-child relationships and influences (Alan Russell). -- 19. Sibling relationships in early and middle childhood (Nina Howe, Hildy S. Ross, and Holly Recchia). -- Part VI Peer group. -- 20. Social status among peers: From sociometric attraction to peer acceptance to perceived popularity (Shelley Hymel, Leanna M. Closson, Simona C. S. Caravita, and Tracey Vaillancourt). -- 21. Social skills and social competence in interactions with peers (Antonius H. N. Cillessen, Amy D. Bellmore). -- 22. Emotions and social development in childhood (Susanne Denham, Heather Warren, Maria von Salisch, Oana Benga, Jui-Chih Chin, and Elena Geangu). -- 23. Social withdrawal and shyness (Kenneth H. Rubin, Robert J. Coplan, Julie C. Bowker, and Melissa Menzer). -- Part VII Play, cooperation, competition, aggression, bullying. -- 24. Social play (Thomas G. Power). -- 25. Cooperation and competition (Barry H. Schneider, Joyce Benenson, Marta Fulop, Mihaly Berkics, and Monica Sandor). -- 26. Aggression in children (Sarah M. Coyne, David A. Nelson, and Marion Underwood). -- 27. Bullying (Christina Salmivalli, Katlin Peets, and Ernest V. E. Hodges). -- Part VIII Cognition, helping, moral reasoning. -- 28. Social cognition (Charlie Lewis and Jeremy Carpendale). -- 29. Prosocial behavior (Joan E.Grusec, Paul Hastings, and Alisha Almas). -- 30. Children's social and moral reasoning (Charles C. Helwig and Elliot Turiel). -- 31. Children's understanding of society (Martyn Barrett and Eithne Buchanan-Barrow). -- Part IX Intervention and Social Development. -- 32. Intervening in childhood social development (Mary Ellen Voegler-Lee and Janis B. Kupersmidt ). -- 33. The development of social competence in children with disabilities (Karen E. Diamond, Hsin-Hui Huang and Elizabeth Steed). -- 34. Interventions for development of social skills among children in the developing countries (Suman Verma and Rajani Konantambigi)

The article presents empirical data from qualitative interviews with leaders and representatives of Russian ethnic group nongovernmental organizations conducted inthe cities of Vilnius, Klaipėda and Kaunas in 2016–2017. The analysis of aspects of social justice in civic participation of the Russian ethnic minority group is presented in the article. The author applies the definition of Nancy Fraser (1996, 2007), who distinguishes three dimensions of social justice: economic, cultural and political, associated with redistribution, recognition policy and political representation. It is discussed if and how the motives, goals and activities of the Russian nongovernmental organizations are linked or related to these mentioned dimensions. The study revealed that the field of activity of the Russian nongovernmental organizations mainly focuses on cultural activities and cultural aspects related to the policy of recognition of ethnic groups. The empirical data is collected in the framework of the research project which addresses the experiences of social and historical justice by different generations of Lithuanians and Lithuanian Russians. The research project is funded by the Research Council of Lithuania and conducted by a group of researchers from the Lithuanian Social Research Centre (the number of this project is LIP-031/2016).