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Through Values to Social Interpretation: Essays on Social Contexts, Actions, Types, and Prospects
by Howard Becker. 341 pgs.
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Title Page
Editorial Note
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Chapter I: Values as Tools Of Soclogical Analysis
Chapter II: Constructive Typology in The Social Sciences
Chapter III: Prospects of Social Change As Viewed by Historian And Sociologist
Chapter IV: Interpretative Sociology And Constructive Typology
Chapter V: Sacred and Secular Societies Retrospect and Prospect
Chapter VI: Supreme Values and The Sociologist, Or, Our Roles And Their Loyalties
Chapter Bibliographies
Name Index
Subject Index
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For a Science of Social Man: Convergences in Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology
by Howard Becker, John Gillin, A. Irving Hallowell, George Peter Murdock, Theodore M. Newcomb, M. Brewster Smith. 298 pgs.
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Chapter I Grounds for a Science of Social Man
Chapter 2 Sociology and Anthropology
Chapter 3 Anthropology and Psychology
Chapter 4 Psychology and Sociology
Chapter 5 Anthropology and Sociology
Chapter 6 Psychology and Anthropology
Chapter 7 Sociology and Psychology
Chapter 8 The Forward View
The Authors
Readings
Index of Names
3 .
German Youth: Bond or Free
by Howard Becker. 290 pgs.
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Preface
Part One
Chapter I: Myth: the Linden Tree
Chapter II: Nostalgia: "Once in the Dear Dead Days"
Chapter III: Revulsion: in Rimmon's House
Chapter IV: Proclamation: "He Spoke as One Having Authority"
Chapter V: Decision: "Come Ye Out from Among Them And Be Ye Separate"
Part Two
Chapter VI: Confusion: Tumult of the 'twenties
Chapter VII: Cunning: the Accomplishment of Perversion
Chapter VIII: Possession: "Down a Steep Place"
Chapter IX: Premonitions: "What of the Night?"
Epilogue: Aftermath, Omens, and Portents
Bibliography
Index
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Georg Simmel, 1858-1918: A Collection of Essays, with Translations and a Bibliography ("On Simmel's Philosophy of Money" by Howard Becker begins on p. 121)
by Kurt H. Wolff. 396 pgs.
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Preface
Analyses
Preface to Georg Simmel's Fragments, Posthumous Essays, and Publications Of His Last Years
The Structure of Simmel'S Social Thought
Form and Content in Simmel'S Philosophy of Life
Formal Sociology
Simmel's Image of Society
Some Aspects of Simmel's Conception Of the Individual
Simmel's Sociology of Power: The Architecture of Politics
The Time and Thought of The Young Simmel
A Note on Simmel's Anthropological Interests
Simmel in German Sociology
Georg Simmel's Influence On Japanese Thought
On Simmel's Philosophy of Money
A Note from A Student of Simmel'S
Translations
A Letter from Simmel to Marianne Weber
The Adventure
The Handle
The Aesthetic Significance of the Face
On the Nature of Philosophy
The Problem of Sociology
How Is Society Possible?
Bibliography of Writings On Georg Simmel
Bibliography of Simmel's Books In German and His Writings Which Are Available in English
Notes on the Contributors
Index
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Man, Work, and Society: A Reader in the Sociology of Occupations (Becker's "The Career of the Schoolteacher" begins on p. 321)
by William H. Form, Sigmund Nosow. 618 pgs.
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Chapter I: The Development Of Occupational Sociology
Chapter II: The Meanings of Work
2. Work and the Changing American Scene ·
3. the Function and Meaning of Work And the Job ·
Notes
5. Work and Retirement ·
Notes
Chapter III: Economic, Industrial, And Occupational Systems
2. Effects of Technological Change On Occupational Structure: A Case Study ·
Notes
Notes
Notes
Chapter IV: Industrial Change And Occupational Trends
1. the Attributes of an Industrial Order ·
Notes
Chapter V: The Structure Of The Labor Market
Conclusion
2. Interpersonal Relations in The Building Industry · Richard R. Myers
Summary and Conclusions
3. Wages and Worker Solidarity ·
4. the Conflict of Caste and Class In an American Industry ·
Notes
Chapter VI: Occupational Associations
B. Historical Perspectives · Joseph H. Foth
C. Regulation and Control ·
Notes
4. the Present Position of American Unionism · George H. Hildebrand
Notes
5. Why White-Collar Workers Can't Be Organized · Dick Bruner
Chapter VII: Professions
Notes
3. Contingencies of Professional Differentiation ·
Notes
Chapter VIII: Social Status of Occupations
Notes
3. Prestige of Occupations ·
Notes
4. an Empirical Scale of Prestige Status of Occupations · Mapheus Smith
6. Prestige Ratings of Occupations ·
Chapter IX: Career Patterns
Conclusions
2. Job Plans and Entry into the Labor Market · Seymour M. Lipset, Reinhard Bendix, And F. Theodore Malm
Conclusions
3. Occupational Mobility Of Professional Workers ·
Notes
Notes
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Chapter X: Occupational Mobility
Notes
3. Measuring Trends in Occupational Mobility ·
Notes
4. an Evaluation of Some Recent Studies in Occupational Mobility ·
Chapter XI: Occupations and Social Power
Notes
3. the Theory of the Managerial Revolution ·
4. the Labor Leader
5. the Power Elite
Note
Chapter XII: Ideologies of Occupational Groups
2. Business Orientations in American Society · Francis X. Sutton, Seymour E. Harris, Carl Kaysen, and James Tobin
3. Political Identifications Of Occupational Strata · Oscar Glantz
5. the Impact of Technological Change on Ideologies
Notes
Chapter XIII: Personal Adjustment In The World of Work
Notes
3. Bureaucratic Structure And Personality
Notes
Notes
Note
Chapter XIV: Profiles
Notes
Attitudes of '"Progressive" Trade- Union Leaders · Alvin W. Gouldner
Chapter XV: Interrelationships Between Occupations And The Wider Community
3.Work and the Family ·
Conclusions
Note
Notes
Bibliography
Sources and Acknowledgments
Index
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The Development of Modern Sociology: Its Nature and Growth in the United States ("Becker" begins on p. 62)
by Gisela J. Hinkle. 74 pgs.
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Chapter One: The Foundation of American Sociology (1905-1918)
Chapter Two: The Quest to Make Sociology Scientific (1918-1935)
Chapter Three: Reciprocity of Theory, Research, And Application (1935-1954)
Chapter Four: Retrospect and Prospect
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Essential Criminology ("Becker's Interactionist Theory: Social Reaction and Master Status" begins on p.169)
by Stuart Henry, Mark M. Lanier. 354 pgs.
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Essential Criminology
Contents
Tables and Figures
Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter One: What is Criminology?
Chapter Two: Defining Crime
Chapter Three: Measuring Crime
Chapter Four: Classical, Neoclassical, and Rational Choice Theories
Chapter Five: Born to Be Bad
Chapter Six: Criminal Minds
Chapter Seven: Learning Criminal Behavior
Chapter Eight: Failed Socialization
Chapter Nine: Crimes of Place
Chapter Ten: The Sick Society
Chapter Eleven: Capitalism as a Criminogenic Society
Chapter Twelve: Critical Criminologies for the Twenty-First Century
References
Index
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Family, Marriage and Parenthood
by Howard Becker, Reuben Hill. 832 pgs.
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Contributors
Preface
Contents
Illustrations
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Part I Contexts of Family Life
Chapter One: Interpreting Family Life in Context
Selected Readings
Chapter Two: The Variety of the Human Family
Selected Readings
Chapter Three: Ancient Past and Living Present
Selected Readings
Chapter Four: Family Carry-overs of Western Christendom
Summary
Selected Readings
Chapter Five: American Families Today: Development and Differentiation of Types
Conclusion
Selected Readings
Chapter Six: Producing Marriageable Personalities
Part II Preparation for Marriage
Selected Readings
Chapter Seven: Steps in Love and Courtship
Selected Readings
Chapter Eight: How Mates Are Sorted
Selected Readings
Chapter Nine: The Engagement: Thinking about Marriage
Selected Readings
Chapter Ten: Taking Physical Factors into Account
Selected Readings
Chapter Eleven: Getting Along in Marriage
Part III Marriage Interaction
Selected Readings
Chapter Twelve: Discords in Marriage
Selected Readings
Chapter Thirteen: Financing the Marriage
Selected Readings
Part IV Problems of Parenthood and Family Administration
Chapter Fourteen: Heredity and the Family
Selected Readings
Chapter Fifteen: Caring for Mother and Child: Before and After
Selected Readings
Chapter Sixteen: The Opportunities of Parenthood
Summary
Selected Readings
Chapter Seventeen: Designing the Family Home
Selected Readings
Chapter Eighteen: Running Home and Household
Selected Readings
Chapter Nineteen: What Family Members Should Know
Selected Readings
Chapter Twenty: Religion in Family Life
Selected Readings
Part V Family Crises and Ways of Meeting Them
Chapter Twenty-One: Handling Family Strains and Shocks
Selected Readings
Chapter Twenty-Two: Bereavement: Inevitable but Not Insurmountable
Selected Readings
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Scope and Meaning of Divorce
Selected Readings
Part VI Prospects for the Future
Chapter Twenty-Four: What War is Still Doing to the Family
Selected Readings
Chapter Twenty-Five: Larger or Smaller Families for America?
Conclusion
Selected Readings
Chapter Twenty-Six: Plans for Strengthening Family Life
Selected Readings
Appendix
Index
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