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ISBN: 9780971242760
Published by : Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publications
Series: Foundations of Sociology
In this book Allan Horwitz views mental illness within a sociological framework of deviance and social control and evaluates communal and individualistic styles of therapeutic control. His new prologue updates the work in the context of significan... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780975273838
Published by : Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publications
Series: Foundations of Sociology
David Rogers uses competing sociological models of "mass society" to analyze the New York City school system, which he describes as a "sick bureaucracy." In his new prologue, the author discusses the divisive school decentralization crisis of t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780971242753
Published by : Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publications
Series: Foundations of Sociology
In this famous study, selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the most important social science books of 1971, the author argues that the familiar correlation between educational training and job performance is a myth and that the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780971958708
Published by : Percheron Press/Eliot Werner Publications
Series: Foundations of Sociology
This volume focuses on the nature of schooling and its links with the family, occupations, and politics. Robert Dreeben emphasizes the relationship between school structure and learning outcomes, the importance of these outcomes to other social in... .... Learn More