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When remarried couples bring their families together, they face unique challenges. Maxine Marsolini points to biblical solutions to the conflict commonly found in divorce and remarriage situations. "Growth and Application" questions make this an excellent resource for small groups or Christian counseling

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Theoretical Orientation -- 1 Social Order and Social Control: An Introduction -- Ironies of Social Structure -- Social Order -- Informal Social Control -- The Organization of the Book -- 2 The Solidaristic Theory of Social Order -- How Social Order Emerges as an Unintended Consequence of Group Solidarity -- How Groups Produce Solidarity -- Conclusion -- Part Two: Social Institutions -- 3 The Education System: Social Initiation -- Dependence and Normative Obligations -- Visibility, Monitoring, and Sanctioning -- Conclusion -- 4 Work: A Continuation -- Dependence and Normative Obligations -- Visibility, Monitoring, and Sanctioning -- Conclusion -- 5 The Family -- Division of Labor -- Family Patterns -- Relationship to Social Control -- Conclusion -- 6 Crime -- Theories of Crime -- The Japanese Social Structure and Its Relationship to Crime -- Conclusion -- Part Three: Nonintuitive Consequences -- 7 Crime Revisited: White-Collar Crimes -- Refining Our Concept of White-Collar Crime -- Companies as Subcultures -- Examples of White-Collar Crime in Japan -- Conclusion -- 8 The Religious Landscape of Japan -- Religion in Japan -- The Japanese Social Structure and Its Impact on Religion -- Empirical Support -- Conclusion -- 9 Trust -- Are Japanese Group-Oriented? -- Generalized Trust -- Redefining a Culture of Collectivism -- Conclusion -- Part Four: Speculations and Conclusions -- 10 The Emergence of Cooperative Social Institutions -- What Are Cooperative Social Institutions? -- How Do Cooperative Social Institutions Emerge? -- How Did the Unique Cooperative Institutions Emerge Only in Japan? -- Conclusion -- 11 Conclusion -- References -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 A Comprehensive History of the South African Struggle -- The Indigenous African Struggle Against Colonialism and Black Working-Class Resistance to Industrial Capitalism -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Why Apartheid Changed Its Character in 1990 -- Capitalism Promotes Post-Apartheid -- Black Resistance: Pressure for Post-Apartheid Rhetoric -- Post-Apartheid: The Politics and Economics of Survival for the White Capitalist Class -- Negotiations and Post-Apartheid: A Black-Consciousness Critique -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Neocolonial Political Economy in South Africa -- Neocolonialist Capitalism and the Black Elite Class -- Black Working-Class Responses to the Post-Apartheid Economy -- The "Free Market" Economy: South African Style -- Land, Housing, and Economic Dependency -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 A Pan-Africanist/Black Working-Class Critical Perspective on "Independent" African Political Economies -- South Africa and "Independent Africa -- Some Neocolonial Political Economies in "Independent Africa, -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Pan-Africanism and the Struggle Against Colonialism and Neocolonialism -- Historical Pan-Africanist Struggle and South Africa: The Pan-African Congress in Manchester, 1945 -- The Obstacle to Pan-African Working-Class Unity: Neocolonialism -- Revolutionary Pan-Africanism: A Radical Response to Black Oppression -- The Role of Revolutionary Ideology -- Black Revolution and the Environment -- Revolutionary Transformation and Indigenous African Spirituality -- Language Policy and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Black Union Praxis and Worker Culture: Revolutionary Prospects and Limitations

Ch7-Women Policies in Asiach8-Democratic Consolidation and Gender Politics in South Korea; ch9-Contradictory Implications of Socialism and Capitalism Under "East Asian Modernity" in China and Taiwan; ch10-The Limits of Democratization for Women in East Asia; Part3-Conclusion; ch11-Democracy and "Softening" Society; References; The Contributors; Index; About the Book

Livia examines a broad corpus of written texts in English and French, concentrating on those texts which problematize the traditional functioning of the linguistic gender system. They range from novels and prose poems to film scripts and personal testimonies, and in time from the 19th century to the present. Some withhold any indication of gender; others have non-gendered characters. Livia's goal is two-fold; to help bridge the divide between linguistic and literary analysis, and to show how careful study of the manipulation of linguistic gender in these texts informs larger concerns. This fre

In this rich, surprising portrait of the world of lesbian and gay relationships, Christopher Carrington unveils the complex and artful ways that gay people create and maintain both homes and "chosen" families for themselves. "Carefully separating stereotype from reality, Carrington investigates family in the gay and lesbian community. Relying upon interviews and observation, the author analyzes the loves and routings of 52 diverse lesbian, gay, and bisexual couples in the Bay area. . . . [He] closes the work with a discussion of the raging same-sex marriage debate and posits an enlightened solution to this dilemma." -Library Journal.

Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Overview -- Chapter 1. Images and Paths of Change in Economics, Political Science, Philosophy -- Literature, and City Planning: 1950-2000 -- Part II. Images Of City-Planning Practice Collage -- Chapter 2. Planning Shapes Urban Growth and Development -- Chapter 3. Challenge and Creativity in Post-Modern Planning -- Chapter 4. Merging Place-Making and Process in Local Practice -- Chapter 5. City Planning in Small and Medium-Size Cities -- Chapter 6. Notes on Planning Practice and Education -- Chapter 7. Planning Practice in America s Largest Cities -- Chapter 8. Town Planning: Limits to Reflection-in-Action -- Chapter 9. Planning Education for an Expanding Civic Sector -- Chapter 10. Nonprofits: New Settings for City Planners -- Chapter 11. Looking Back, Looking Forward -- Chapter 12. Equity Planning: Problems and Roles -- Chapter 13. The Planning Profession and Reform -- Part III. Images Of City-Planning Practice Sectors -- Chapter 14. How City-Planning Practices Affect Metropolitan-Area Housing Markets, and Vice Versa -- Chapter 15. Education for Transportation Planning in a New Century -- Chapter 16. Urban Transportation Planning -- Chapter 17. U.S. Urban Environmental Planning -- Chapter 18. Environmental Planning: The Changing Demands of Effective Practice -- Chapter 19. Economic Base Studies for Urban and Regional Planning -- Chapter 20. Changes in Theorizing and Planning Urban Economic Growth -- Chapter 21. Further Notes on Changes in Theorizing -- Part IV. The Public Image And The Leadership Role Of The Profession -- Chapter 22. The Planner as Urban Designer: Reforming Planning Education in the New Millennium -- Chapter 23. Where Have All the Planners Gone? -- Chapter 24. Where Are the Planners? -- Chapter 25. Urban Design for Urban Development

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Caregiver Health Behavior: Review, Analysis, and Recommendations for Research -- Recreation Programs for Caregivers of Older Adults: A Review and Analysis of Literature from 1990 to 1998 -- Family Obligation, Caregiving, and Loss of Leisure: The Experiences of Three Caregivers -- Rural vs. Urban Caregivers of Older Adults with Probable Alzheimer's Disease: Perceptions Regarding Daily Living and Recreation Needs -- Leisure Education with Caregiver Support Groups -- Innovative Family and Technological Interventions for Encouraging Leisure Activities in Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer's Disease -- Index.