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This short text, ideal for Social Problems and Criminal Justice
courses, examines the American prison system, its conditions, and
its impact on society. Wehr and Aseltine define the prison
industrial complex and explain how the current prison system is a
contemporary social problem. They conclude by using California as a
case study, and propose alternatives and alterations to the prison
system.
This short text, ideal for Social Problems and Criminal Justice
courses, examines the American prison system, its conditions, and
its impact on society. Wehr and Aseltine define the prison
industrial complex and explain how the current prison system is a
contemporary social problem. They conclude by using California as a
case study, and propose alternatives and alterations to the prison
system.
Kevin Wehr inquires into the relations between society & its
natural environment by examining the historical discourse around
several cases of state building in the American West - the
construction of three high dams from 1928 to 1963.
Hermes on Two Wheels shows the dynamic world of the bicycle
messenger through a sociological lens, based on a five-year
participant observation study. Beginning with the experiences of
messengers themselves and moving to describe the structural
settings of those experiences, the research shows how messengers
work within a political-economic system that devalues semi-skilled
labor and strips people of emotional fulfillment. The voluntary
risk-taking of messengers becomes a means of achieving such
emotional fulfillment as well as making a living, while their
stylistic expressions pay dividends in cultural scrip rather than
money. Through their work, messengers help to reproduce and
maintain the structures of society while also constructing a
vibrant, rebellious, politicized subculture that has come to
represent the new urban hipster, an image continually under threat
of co-optation.
This book inquires into the relations between society and its
natural environment by examining the historical discourse around
several cases of state building in the American West: the
construction of three high dams from 1928 to 1963.
From the driveway mechanic to the backyard gardener, many diverse
people are "doing it themselves" by building or repairing the stuff
of their daily lives without the aid of experts. Do It Yourself
uses Habermas's colonization of the lifeworld as a frame and
mobilizes Marx's concepts of alienation and mystification to
examine how social behaviors can be a conscious reply to a complex
and fast-moving world, a nostalgia for simpler times past, or a
just an economic impulse. Each main chapter is anchored by an
extended empirical example: back-to-the-land, home-schooling, and
self-government.
From the driveway mechanic to the backyard gardener, many diverse
people are "doing it themselves" by building or repairing the stuff
of their daily lives without the aid of experts. Do It Yourself
uses Habermas's colonization of the lifeworld as a frame and
mobilizes Marx's concepts of alienation and mystification to
examine how social behaviors can be a conscious reply to a complex
and fast-moving world, a nostalgia for simpler times past, or a
just an economic impulse. Each main chapter is anchored by an
extended empirical example: back-to-the-land, home-schooling, and
self-government.
Green Culture: An A-to-Z Guide explores the on-going paradigm shift
in culture and lifestyles toward promoting a sustainable
environment. After years of discussion about the environment dating
back to the 1960s counter-culture, the recent explosion of green
initiatives has induced the general public to embrace all things
green, from recycling in the home to admiring green celebrities.
This volume assesses the green cultural transformations by
presenting some 150 articles of importance to students of
sociology, history, political science, communications, public
relations, anthropology, literature, arts and drama. Presented in
A-to-Z format, the articles include appealing topics from green
Hollywood to green spirituality, green art, and green restaurants.
This work culminates in an outstanding reference available in both
print and electronic formats for academic, university, and public
libraries. Vivid photographs, searchable hyperlinks, numerous cross
references, an extensive resource guide, and a clear, accessible
writing style make the Green Society volumes ideal for classroom
use as well as for research.
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