Professor of Sociology David Mason's Books

Negotiating Family Responsibilities

By: Janet Finch

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Negotiating Family Responsibilities

By: Janet Finch

Negotiating Family Responsibilities provides a major new insight into contemporary family life, particularly kin relationships outside the nuclear family. While many people believe that the real meaning of 'family' has shrunk to the nuclear family household, there is considerable evidence to suggest that relationships with the wider kin group remain an important part of most people's lives. Based on the findings of a major study of kinship, and including lively verbatim accounts of conversations with family members concepts of responsibility and obligation within family life are examined and the authors expand theories on the nature of assistance within families and argue that it is negotiated over time rather than given automatically.

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1134888260

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9781134888269

Faith in the Halls of Power : How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite

How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite

By: Religion and Urban Life Rice University D. Michael Lindsay Assistant Professor of Sociology and Assistant Director and Faculty Fellow at the Center on Race

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Faith in the Halls of Power : How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite

How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite

By: Religion and Urban Life Rice University D. Michael Lindsay Assistant Professor of Sociology and Assistant Director and Faculty Fellow at the Center on Race

Evangelicals, once at the periphery of American life, now wield power in the White House and on Wall Street, at Harvard and in Hollywood. How have they reached the pinnacles of power in such a short time? And what does this mean for evangelicals--and for America? Drawing on personal interviews with an astonishing array of prominent Americans--including two former Presidents, dozens of political and government leaders, more than 100 top business executives, plus Hollywood moguls, intellectuals, athletes, and other powerful figures--D. Michael Lindsay shows first-hand how they are bringing their vision of moral leadership into the public square. This riveting volume tells us who the real evangelical power brokers are, how they rose to prominence, and what they're doing with their clout. Lindsay reveals that evangelicals are now at home in the executive suite and on the studio lot, and from those lofty perches they have used their influence, money, and ideas to build up the evangelical movement and introduce it to the wider American society. They are leaders of powerful institutions and their goals are ambitious--to bring Christian principles to bear on virtually every aspect of American life. Along the way, the book is packed with fascinating stories and striking insights. Lindsay shows how evangelicals became a force in American foreign policy, how Fortune 500 companies are becoming faith-friendly, and how the new generation of the faithful is led by cosmopolitan evangelicals. These are well-educated men and women who read both The New York Times and Christianity Today, and who are wary of the evangelical masses' penchant for polarizing rhetoric, apocalyptic pot-boilers, and bad Christian rock. Perhaps most startling is the importance of personal relationships between leaders--a quiet conversation after Bible study can have more impact than thousands of people marching in the streets. Faith in the Halls of Power takes us inside the rarified world of the evangelical elite--beyond the hysterical panic and chest-thumping pride--to give us the real story behind the evangelical ascendancy in America.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198043767

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9780198043768

The Politics of Expertise in Congress

The Rise and Fall of the Office of Technology Assessment

By: Bruce Allen Bimber,Associate Professor of Political Science Bruce Bimber

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The Politics of Expertise in Congress

The Rise and Fall of the Office of Technology Assessment

By: Bruce Allen Bimber,Associate Professor of Political Science Bruce Bimber

Examines the relationship between technical experts and elected officials, challenging the prevailing view about how experts become politicized by the policy process.

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SUNY Press

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0791430596

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9780791430590

Pulling Strings

Biculturalism in Israeli Bureaucracy

By: Brenda Danet,Professor of Sociology and Communication Brenda Danet

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Pulling Strings

Biculturalism in Israeli Bureaucracy

By: Brenda Danet,Professor of Sociology and Communication Brenda Danet

This is a book about the use of personal influence, protektzia, in Israel. All over the world, in both democratic and socialist societies, there exists some degree of recognition of the rights of citizens to complain about unjust treatment in organizational encounters. While the goals and actual functioning of complaint-handling devices may vary, bureaucratic role relations are ideally governed by the principles of universalism, specificity, and affective neutrality. In fact, patterns of actual behavior frequently differ dramatically from this model, giving rise to practices from bribery and embezzlement to nepotism, patronage, and what is referred to in the United States as "pulling strings." In Israel, protektzia is widespread. This book is a major contribution to the systematic sociological study of this phenomenon. Drawing on the literature on the functioning of public administration around the world, Danet develops a theory about the conditions under which deviations from universalistic norms occur, distinguishing four patterns of organizational culture. The theory is then tested in a case study of bureaucratic encounters in Israel. Danet's fascinating study brings new insights to the debate regarding the cultural contradictions that continue to confront the still-emerging Israeli society. The conclusions and classifications of her theory prove invaluable as well to all those interested iorganizational culture, comparative public administration, and dispute-processing in general.

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SUNY Press

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0887067883

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9780887067884

Bishops, Wives and Children

Spiritual Capital Across the Generations

By: Dr Mathew Guest,Professor Douglas J. Davies

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Bishops, Wives and Children

Spiritual Capital Across the Generations

By: Dr Mathew Guest,Professor Douglas J. Davies

Christianity as a cultural force, whether rising or falling, has seldom been analysed through the actual processes by which tradition is transmitted, modified, embraced or rejected. This book achieves that end through a study of bishops of the Church of England, their wives and their children, to show how values fostered in the vicarage and palace shape family, work and civic life in a supposedly secular age. Davies and Guest integrate, for the first time, sociological concepts of spiritual capital with anthropological ideas of gift-theory and, alongside theological themes, use these to illuminate how the religious professional functions in mediating tradition and fostering change. Motifs of distant prelates, managerially-minded fathers in God and rebellious clergy children are reconsidered in a critical light as new empirical evidence offers unique insights into how the clergy family functions as an axis of social power in an age incredulous to ecclesiastical hierarchy. Bishops, Wives and Children marks an important advance in the analysis of the spirituality of Catholic, Evangelical and Liberal leaders and their social significance within a distinctive Christian tradition and all it represents in wider British society.

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401

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409477304

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9781409477303

Music Asylums: Wellbeing Through Music in Everyday Life

By: Professor Tia DeNora

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Music Asylums: Wellbeing Through Music in Everyday Life

By: Professor Tia DeNora

Taking a cue from Erving Goffman’s classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Adopting a holistic, interactionist focus, Music Asylums reconnects states of wellness and wellbeing to encounters with others and - critically - to opportunities for aesthetic experience. The book presents music as an active ingredient of action, identity, capacity and consciousness. Intended for scholars and practitioners in psychiatry and psychology, palliative care, socio-music studies, music psychology and the allied health professions, Music Asylums showcases music's role in the existential project of being and staying well, mentally and physically.

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179

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472455983

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9781472455987

Color and Money

Politics and Prospects for Community Reinvestment in Urban America

By: Gregory D. Squires,Professor of Sociology Public Policy and Public Administration Gregory D Squires,Sally O'Connor

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Color and Money

Politics and Prospects for Community Reinvestment in Urban America

By: Gregory D. Squires,Professor of Sociology Public Policy and Public Administration Gregory D Squires,Sally O'Connor

A case study of Milwaukee, Wisconsin exploring how lending practices and access to capital are shaped by race.

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0791449513

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9780791449516

Classroom Pedagogy and Primary Practice

By: David McNamara,Professor David Mcnamara

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Classroom Pedagogy and Primary Practice

By: David McNamara,Professor David Mcnamara

In this provocative book, David McNamara argues that a `teacher-centred' approch to teaching in the primary school, especially in the later years is actually in the best interests of the children - that the teacher must be seen to have ultimate responsibility for what and how children learn. He attempts to define the distinctive professional expertise of the primary teacher - the application of subject knowledge within the special circumstances of the classroom - and to show how this expertise can be articulated to establish a body of educational knowledge which is both derived from practice and practically useful to others. At a time when increasing emphasis is being placed on the role of the practising teacher as a mentor in intitial teacher education, this book will help teachers at all levels to define their own role in the creation of educational knowledge.

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Routledge

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1134889607

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9781134889600

From Homicide to Slavery : Studies in American Culture

Studies in American Culture

By: David Brion Davis Sterling Professor of History Yale University

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From Homicide to Slavery : Studies in American Culture

Studies in American Culture

By: David Brion Davis Sterling Professor of History Yale University

For more than twenty years David Brion Davis has been recognized as a leading authority on the moral and ideological responses to slavery in the Western world. From Homicide to Slavery, Davis's first book of collected essays, brings together selections reflecting his wide-ranging interests in colonial history, Afro-American history, the social sciences, and American literature. The essays are interconnected by Davis's central concern with violence, irrationality, and the definition of moral limits during a period when Americans believed they were breaking free from historical constraints and acquiring new powers of self-perfection. Topics range from a socially revealing murder trial in 1843 to debates over capital punishment, movements of counter-subverison, the iconography of race, the cowboy as an American hero, the portrayal of violence in American literature, the historiography of slavery, and the British and American antislavery movements.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198021127

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9780198021124

They Never Said It : A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions

A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions

By: Paul F. Boller Jr. Emeritus Professor of History Texas Christian University,Oklahoma John George Jr. Professor of Political Science and Sociology Central State University

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They Never Said It : A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions

A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions

By: Paul F. Boller Jr. Emeritus Professor of History Texas Christian University,Oklahoma John George Jr. Professor of Political Science and Sociology Central State University

Abraham Lincoln never said, "You cannot fool all the people all the time." Thomas Jefferson never said, "That government is best which governs least." And Horace Greeley never said, "Go west, young man." In They Never Said It, Paul Boller, Jr., and John George examine hundreds of misquotations, incorrect attributions, and blatant fabrications, outlining the origins of the quotes and revealing why they should be consigned to the historical trashcan. Many of the misquotes are quite harmless. Some are inadvertent misquotes that have become popular (Shakespeare actually said, "The best part of valor is discretion"), others, the inventions of reporters embellishing a story (Franklin Roosevelt never opened a speech to a DAR group with the salutation, "My fellow immigrants"). But some of the quotes, such as Charles Darwin's supposed deathbed recantation of evolution, are blatantly dishonest and falsify the historical record. And others are chillingly vicious, filled with virulent racial and religious prejudices that completely distort the views of the person supposedly quoted and spread distrust and hatred among the gullible. These include the forged remarks attributed to Benjamin Franklin that Jews should be excluded from America, and the fabricated condemnation of Catholics attributed to Lincoln. An entertaining and yet thought-provoking book, They Never Said It sorts out a great deal of history and sets it right, going beyond a mere catalog of popular misconceptions to reveal how conservatives and liberals, atheists and evangelists, all have at times twisted and even invented the words of eminent figures to promote their own ends. It is the ultimate debunking reference, a perfect complement to handbooks of quotations.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198022220

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9780198022220

American Lawyers

By: Los Angeles Richard L. Abel Professor of Law University of California

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American Lawyers

By: Los Angeles Richard L. Abel Professor of Law University of California

This detailed portrait of American lawyers traces their efforts to professionalize during the last 100 years by erecting barriers to control the quality and quantity of entrants. Abel describes the rise and fall of restrictive practices that dampened competition among lawyers and with outsiders. He shows how lawyers simultaneously sought to increase access to justice while stimulating demand for services, and their efforts to regulate themselves while forestalling external control. Data on income and status illuminate the success of these efforts. Charting the dramatic transformation of the profession over the last two decades, Abel documents the growing number and importance of lawyers employed outside private practice (in business and government, as judges and teachers) and the displacement of corporate clients they serve. Noting the complexity of matching ever more diverse entrants with more stratified roles, he depicts the mechanism that law schools and employers have created to allocate graduates to jobs and socialize them within their new environments. Abel concludes with critical reflections on possible and desirable futures for the legal profession.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198021852

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9780198021858

The Social Condition of Humanity

By: IRVING. BRYM ZEITLIN (PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY ROBERT J.),Robert J. Brym,Irving M. Zeitlin

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The Social Condition of Humanity

By: IRVING. BRYM ZEITLIN (PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY ROBERT J.),Robert J. Brym,Irving M. Zeitlin

This stimulating introduction to the sociological perspective now in its first Canadian edition acquaints students with the classic foundations of sociological analysis. Informed throughout by sociological theory and historical background, the book addresses controversial issues and key questions concerning the human condition. The Social Condition of Humanity is a critical yet generous and even-handed treatment of classical and modern theorists that constitutes a vigorous and satisfying presentation of sociology as a discipline. This new Canadian edition updates the text and discusses Canadian research, providing new material on subjects such as race and ethnicity, the family, economic development, cities, crime, and social stratification, particularly concerning Canadian society, as well as a new final chapter on the most pressing social issue of the day: the environmental crisis.

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Torotno : Oxford University Press

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019540811X

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9780195408119

The Christmas Tree Book

A Collection of Fantasy Trees by Famous People

By: Professor in Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of Sociology Sharon Hays

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The Christmas Tree Book

A Collection of Fantasy Trees by Famous People

By: Professor in Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of Sociology Sharon Hays

A new holiday classic has arrived that answers the question: What reveals more about one's personality than how he or she decorates their Christmas tree? This is the first-ever photographic gallery of the Christmas trees of our most treasured entertainers. Whether or not there is a star on top, there's a star behind the scenes of nearly every tree pictured -- Paul Newman, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson, Liza Minnelli, Leonard Bernstein, Burt Reynolds, Yoko Ono, Keith Haring, Vincent Price, Sharon Stone, Harold Lloyd, Cher, Shirley MacLaine, Bette Midler, Barbara Eden, Vanna White, Goldie Hawn, and Jane Seymour are only a few of the contributors. Also showcased are famous trees from such noted places as Rockefeller Center, the Museum of Modern Art, and the White House. From the extravagant to the beautifully simple, each tree glitters and each design demonstrates the power of individual expression. Surely an inspiration when creating your own tree, this book belongs under trees as well A portion of the proceeds will go the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program.

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100

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Stoddart

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1575441063

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9781575441061

Movies and Money

Financing the American Film Industry

By: Professor Janet Wasko

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Movies and Money

Financing the American Film Industry

By: Professor Janet Wasko

This volume is the first in-depth study of the relationship between Hollywood and its financiers from the early film entrepeneuers who established the trade at the turn of the century, through the present day multinational, diversified film coporations that dominate the communication/entertainment industry of the world. Specific case studies are drawn from primary sources and crucial questions of financial control and corporate power are examined in light of their broader implications for media production and distribution.

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Praeger

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0893911313

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Negotiating Family Responsibilities

Negotiating Family Responsibilities

Faith in the Halls of Power : How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite

Faith in the Halls of Power : How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite

The Politics of Expertise in Congress

The Politics of Expertise in Congress

Pulling Strings

Pulling Strings

Bishops, Wives and Children

Bishops, Wives and Children

Music Asylums: Wellbeing Through Music in Everyday Life

Music Asylums: Wellbeing Through Music in Everyday Life

Color and Money

Color and Money

Classroom Pedagogy and Primary Practice

Classroom Pedagogy and Primary Practice

From Homicide to Slavery : Studies in American Culture

From Homicide to Slavery : Studies in American Culture

They Never Said It : A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions

They Never Said It : A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions

American Lawyers

American Lawyers

The Social Condition of Humanity

The Social Condition of Humanity

The Christmas Tree Book

The Christmas Tree Book

Movies and Money

Movies and Money

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