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Crisis in the Professions

The New Dark Age

By: Kevin T Leicht,Mary L. Fennell

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Crisis in the Professions

The New Dark Age

By: Kevin T Leicht,Mary L. Fennell

Crisis in the Professions: The New Dark Age presents a wide, panoramic view into the state of modern professional work in the United States. Struggling labor markets, growing inequalities, and increasing amounts of cultural and political mistrust are but a few major changes undermining the people seen as essential in society and needed to compete in a globalized, highly skilled world. The authors explore this profound dilemma through a variety of methods, each one allowing them to identify significant areas of change and concern. They address macro-level social, political, and economic forces at the root of these changes and pair these explanations with illustrative vignettes of young, would-be professionals to paint a comprehensive, albeit complicated picture of professional work in the 21st century. Amid a backdrop of increasing globalization, technological advance, and cultural devaluation of expertise, the authors point attention to the mounting implications these shifts have for new generations of professionals and consider alternative models to address signs of precarity and instability within the professions. With piercing insight and compelling evidence, Crisis in the Professions probes deeply enough to stimulate scholars and researchers invested in the sociological study of work and provides a valuable, versatile read for advanced students in these areas as well.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000846792

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9781000846799

Middle Class Meltdown in America

Causes, Consequences, and Remedies

By: Kevin T Leicht,Scott T Fitzgerald

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Middle Class Meltdown in America

Causes, Consequences, and Remedies

By: Kevin T Leicht,Scott T Fitzgerald

In accessible prose for North American undergraduate students, this short text provides a sociological understanding of the causes and consequences of growing middle class inequality, with an abundance of supporting, empirical data. The book also addresses what we, as individuals and as a society, can do to put middle class Americans on a sounder footing.

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195

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Routledge

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1134631561

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9781134631568

Exploring Social Change

America and the World

By: Charles L. Harper,Kevin T. Leicht

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Exploring Social Change

America and the World

By: Charles L. Harper,Kevin T. Leicht

For one semester junior/senior and beginning-level graduate courses in Social Change. An introduction to social change that highlights theories on key topics including social change, innovation, social movements, and revolutions. Exploring Social Change: America and the World 6e is a comprehensive introduction to social change. The last part of the book shifts explicitly to the global level to analyze population and environmental issues and globalization. Within this framework, the book discusses topics about change and its problems familiar in sociology and social science.

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483

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Routledge

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1317348400

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9781317348405

Analyzing the Labor Force

Concepts, Measures, and Trends

By: Clifford C. Clogg,Scott R. Eliason,Kevin T. Leicht

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Analyzing the Labor Force

Concepts, Measures, and Trends

By: Clifford C. Clogg,Scott R. Eliason,Kevin T. Leicht

With the passing of Clifford Collier Clogg at the age of 45 on May 7th 1995, the world lost a talented sociologist, demographer, and statistician all at once. In addition to being a considerable talent in each of these three disciplines, and perhaps more importantly, Cliff was the type of person who brought to gether diverse elements and scholars from all three. Cliff was also a consum mate mentor, nurturing ideas and students and always striving to bring out the best in both. Perhaps nothing illustrates the stature, impact, and respect others held for Cliff more than the fact that never before-and never since has an individual been honored at the time of his death with ceremonies from the national associations of all three of these disciplines. The purpose of this book is to introduce to a broad constituency of social scientists and their students some of the basic ideas in the study of the labor force that Cliff and his colleagues had grappled with. At the time of Cliff's death, he was perhaps better known for his methodological contributions to sociology and demography than he was for his substantive contributions to the study of social stratification and the labor force. Our goal is to highlight Cliff's substantive contributions to sociology and demography by telling the cumulative story of his research and adding updated analysis that advances the story beyond the early 1980s to the mid-1990s.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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030646537X

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9780306465376

Exploring Social Change

America and the World

By: Charles L. Harper,Kevin T. Leicht

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Exploring Social Change

America and the World

By: Charles L. Harper,Kevin T. Leicht

Exploring Social Change provides a compelling analysis of theories that explain social change, innovation, social movements, and revolution, and concludes with reflections about how individuals do and should live in an uncertain and rapidly changing world. Written in a personal and clear manner, the authors provide definitions of key terms and analysis of theories and ideas from the study of social change. The seventh edition includes updated examples reflecting the social changes that have occurred in the world around us, including new discussions on the environmental and social landscapes, as well as updated methods and discussions that reflect that changing field of social change study.

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440

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Routledge

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1351679937

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9781351679930

Postindustrial Peasants

The Illusion of Middle-Class Prosperity

By: Kevin Leicht,Scott Fitzgerald

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Postindustrial Peasants

The Illusion of Middle-Class Prosperity

By: Kevin Leicht,Scott Fitzgerald

By most accounts the economic vigor of the United States is unprecedented. Despite this collective wealth, the American middle class is struggling to live the American dream. Indeed, there are many similarities between the modern middle class, peasants in feudal societies, and sharecroppers in agrarian societies. Postindustrial Peasants describes the current plight of the middle class, then offers a multi-level recommendation designed to encourage an active response to the development of the modern "postindustrial peasant." This new work can used in a variety of classes, including Intro to sociology, social problems, culture, history, and American studies.

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260

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Macmillan

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0716757656

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9780716757658

Book's by Kevin T. Leicht

Crisis in the Professions

Crisis in the Professions

Middle Class Meltdown in America

Middle Class Meltdown in America

Exploring Social Change

Exploring Social Change

Analyzing the Labor Force

Analyzing the Labor Force

Exploring Social Change

Exploring Social Change

Postindustrial Peasants

Postindustrial Peasants

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