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Unlike most introductory texts that take a topical approach to studying sociology, this smart, challenging, and accessibly written text looks at the core principles of the discipline, making links to a contemporary context. The second edition of this award-winning book has been substantially revised, making more direct connections between Generation Z, Mills's concept of the sociological imagination, and the challenges students face in higher education today. The section on popular culture contains a new chapter on the history of popular music from early rock 'n' roll to contemporary pop and R&B. New chapter objectives, end-of-chapter review and reflection questions, key terms, and glossary, as well as an instructor's manual, make this text much more useful in the classroom

This book examines how joint ventures work in practice. Drawing on extensive personal experience and using case study examples where appropriate the author analyses the various stages, discusses the problems of partner selection, implementation and control and points out the various benefits and pitfalls. He draws out the implications for improving practice and discusses how the experience of joint ventures affects the theory of the multinational enterprise.

Vom Moment des Ablegens im Heimathafen bis zur Ankunft am Zielhafen folgt dieses Buch den Schiffspassagen durch das Britische Imperium des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Studie beleuchtet, wie eine solche Überfahrt ans "andere Ende der Welt" von den Passagieren erlebt und beschrieben wurde. Johanna Beamish stützt sich dabei auf eine bisher nahezu vergessene Quellengattung: auf Schiffszeitungen, die die Passagiere in ihrer monatelangen Isolation selbst für sich und ihre Mitreisenden verfassten.

On the basis of a data set developed from the Canadian Olympic Association's team handbooks for the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Olympiads, this paper presents a socio-cultural profile of Canada's high performance athletes. The study shows that Canada's Olympic athletes are mature in age and have demonstrated abilities at the international level. The data also indicate that when the ratio of female to male events is held constant, women are not under represented on Canada's Olympic teams as a whole. Despite some conjecture to the contrary, this study shows that athletes are proportionately represented from Canada's major regions. At the same time, the data show that Canadian teams are overwhelmingly comprised of Canadian born athletes. Finally, the data indicate that in the minds of an increasing number of high performance athletes, international level sport has become a full time occupation. In presenting this profile, several of the issues related to the data patterns are discussed and avenues for future research indicated.