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The New Class Society introduces students to the sociology of class
structure and inequalities as it asks whether or not the American
dream has faded. The fourth edition of this powerful book
demonstrates how and why class inequalities in the United States
have been widened, hardened, and become more entrenched than ever.
The fourth edition has been extensively revised and reorganized
throughout, including a new introduction that offers an overview of
key themes and shorter chapters that cover a wider range of topics.
New material for the fourth edition includes a discussion of "The
Great Recession" and its ongoing impact, the demise of the middle
class, rising costs of college and increasing student debt, the
role of electronic media in shaping people's perceptions of class,
and more.
The idea for this book was formed during the early 1980s when the
author was studying the impact of plant closings on displaced
workers and communities. In one community, workers who were
displaced by a plant closing expected to receive retraining funds
through the Job Training and Partnership Act (JTPA), only to find
that the state had committed all the JTPA funds to train new
workers for a Japanese transplant. Soon it became apparent that
deindustrialization, job loss, and economically depressed
communities were linked with the escalating interstate competition
to provide multi-million dollar incentive packages for businesses
to settle in their state. When Japanese automobile companies
considered coming to the United States, they fueled the interstate
competition for these large projects, which promised thousands of
jobs and economic growth.
The New Class Society introduces students to the sociology of class
structure and inequalities as it asks whether or not the American
dream has faded. The fourth edition of this powerful book
demonstrates how and why class inequalities in the United States
have been widened, hardened, and become more entrenched than ever.
The fourth edition has been extensively revised and reorganized
throughout, including a new introduction that offers an overview of
key themes and shorter chapters that cover a wider range of topics.
New material for the fourth edition includes a discussion of "The
Great Recession" and its ongoing impact, the demise of the middle
class, rising costs of college and increasing student debt, the
role of electronic media in shaping people's perceptions of class,
and more.
Forbes reports that the richest 1 percent of the world's population
owns nearly half the world's wealth, and the gap between the
richest and poorest of the world only continues to increase. Deep
Inequality looks behind these stark statistics to understand not
only wealth inequality but also rising disparities in other
elements of life-from education to the media. The authors argue
that inequality has become so pervasive that it is the new normal.
When we do recognize troubling inequality, we look at individual or
small-scale problems without understanding the broader structural
issues that shape the economy, the global political system, and
more. Only by understanding the structural forces at play can we
recognize the deep divisions in our society and work for meaningful
change. Deep Inequality explains the changing landscape of
inequality to help readers see society in a new way.
Jean Piaget, renowned Swiss developmental psychologist and
epistemologist, is best known for his groundbreaking studies with
children, which led him to develop a landmark theory of cognitive
development. Geldolph A. Kohnstamm's Jean Piaget: Children and the
Inclusion Problem is a critical study of a cornerstone of Piaget's
theory. This theory holds that a child's ability to solve problems
of class inclusion marks the beginning of the period of concrete
(logical) operations at about seven or eight years of age.
Kohnstamm's experiments show, however, that with directive teaching
methods, most children of five can already learn to solve inclusion
problems. His results make him question the basic assumption of
Piaget's theory that logical operations can only develop in firmly
connected groupings of operations, not in isolation. The author
argues that experimenters must therefore show that children who
come to master one kind of operation should also show transference
to other operations of the same grouping. As a result, he questions
the real existence in brain functioning of the hypothesized
groupings of operations in Piaget's theory. This book is a revised
edition of the 1967 original and includes a new introduction and
epilogue. The original book was published in the Netherlands, not
in the United States. Therefore it has reached only a negligible US
audience and has sadly escaped the attention of many interested in
Piaget's developmental theory. This challenge to Piaget's theory is
an invaluable resource for cognitive, developmental, and
educational psychologists.
Jean Piaget, renowned Swiss developmental psychologist and
epistemologist, is best known for his groundbreaking studies with
children, which led him to develop a landmark theory of cognitive
development. Geldolph A. Kohnstamm's Jean Piaget: Children and the
Inclusion Problem is a critical study of a cornerstone of Piaget's
theory. This theory holds that a child's ability to solve problems
of class inclusion marks the beginning of the period of concrete
(logical) operations at about seven or eight years of age.
Kohnstamm's experiments show, however, that with directive teaching
methods, most children of five can already learn to solve inclusion
problems. His results make him question the basic assumption of
Piaget's theory that logical operations can only develop in firmly
connected groupings of operations, not in isolation. The author
argues that experimenters must therefore show that children who
come to master one kind of operation should also show transference
to other operations of the same grouping. As a result, he questions
the real existence in brain functioning of the hypothesized
groupings of operations in Piaget's theory. This book is a revised
edition of the 1967 original and includes a new introduction and
epilogue. The original book was published in the Netherlands, not
in the United States. Therefore it has reached only a negligible US
audience and has sadly escaped the attention of many interested in
Piaget's developmental theory. This challenge to Piaget's theory is
an invaluable resource for cognitive, developmental, and
educational psychologists.
The combative metaphor of Oscience warsO has taken on a predominant
position within the collective conscious, from being featured on
the programs of scientific meetings to being splashed across the
pages of leading national magazines and newspapers. Some in the
scientific community perceive their profession to be under siege by
members of the academic left, radical environmentalists, religious
fundamentalists, eco-feminists, and others. This book, based on
in-depth interviews with sixty members of groups with alleged
Oanti-scienceO attitudes, examines how pervasive and uniform these
critiques are. The research is designed to examine two conflicting
hypotheses: 1) that anti-science attitudes reflect a general
cynicism about all major social institutions, and 2) that
anti-science views are not broadly based but are reflective,
instead, of the particular interests of a given social grouping. In
the final analysis, Perrucci and Trachtman dig at the root of the
so-called Oscience warsO by presenting evidence that the wars are
not the product of an overarching suspicion of the institutions at
the core of our society, but are instead the product of organized
interest groups, which shape the attitudes and beliefs of their
respective members.
In America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring, Robert
Perrucci and Carolyn C. Perrucci identify the broad economic and
technological changes that have led to the loss of high wage jobs,
declining opportunity, and increased income and wealth inequality.
These changes have altered the way that Americans think about
themselves, their future, and the lives of their children and
neighbors. Focusing on the erosion of trust, hope, and caring
between and among Americans and their social institutions, the
authors confront the challenge by proposing policies that will
build hope (through jobs and wages) in order to promote greater
trust of institutions and more caring for the less fortunate.
Examining data from the past thirty-year period, Perrucci and
Perrucci apply a critical sociological lens to view the dominant
economic, political, and cultural institutions that have shaped the
main social problems facing Americans. They challenge Americans to
act on behalf of their individual and collective interests by
becoming informed and involved in developing new solutions to
improve their lives.
In America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring, Robert
Perrucci and Carolyn C. Perrucci identify the broad economic and
technological changes that have led to the loss of high wage jobs,
declining opportunity, and increased income and wealth inequality.
These changes have altered the way that Americans think about
themselves, their future, and the lives of their children and
neighbors. Focusing on the erosion of trust, hope, and caring
between and among Americans and their social institutions, the
authors confront the challenge by proposing policies that will
build hope (through jobs and wages) in order to promote greater
trust of institutions and more caring for the less fortunate.
Examining data from the past thirty-year period, Perrucci and
Perrucci apply a critical sociological lens to view the dominant
economic, political, and cultural institutions that have shaped the
main social problems facing Americans. They challenge Americans to
act on behalf of their individual and collective interests by
becoming informed and involved in developing new solutions to
improve their lives.
The idea for this book was formed during the early 1980s when the
author was studying the impact of plant closings on displaced
workers and communities. In one community, workers who were
displaced by a plant closing expected to receive retraining funds
through the Job Training and Partnership Act (JTPA), only to find
that the state had committed all the JTPA funds to train new
workers for a Japanese transplant. Soon it became apparent that
deindustrialization, job loss, and economically depressed
communities were linked with the escalating interstate competition
to provide multi-million dollar incentive packages for businesses
to settle in their state. When Japanese automobile companies
considered coming to the United States, they fueled the interstate
competition for these large projects, which promised thousands of
jobs and economic growth.
The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2016 provides
accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems
in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those
problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought
together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), it
offers recommendations for action by elected officials, policy
makers, and the public around key issues for social justice,
including a discussion of the role of key issues of sustainability
and technology in the development and timbre of future social
problems. It will be of interest to scholars, practitioners,
advocates, and students interested in public sociology and the
study of social problems.
This study provides a detailed, in-depth analysis of a single
incident rooted in the effort of a group of professional employees
to serve the public welfare It reveals in microcosm the interplay
of political forces, economic interests, personal ambition,
organizational structure, and professional ethics that culminated
in an act of whistle-blowing. The incident took place during the
final construction phase of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
(BART), designed to be America's first attempt at space-age mass
transportation. Three BART engineers, convinced of the lack of
responsiveness of management to their concerns about the system's
safety, were fired for insubordination and other organizational
sins. Based upon repeated interviews with the engineers, with BART
managers and directors, and with the professional societies
involved, as well as upon an extensive body of documents and court
depositions, legislative reports, media reports, and institutional
memoranda. Divided Loyalties sets a theoretical context for the
issues, traces the incident from its beginning, examines the
aftermath of the engineers' dismissal, and concludes with a set of
recommendations that should be considered by public and private
organizations, professional associations, agencies of government,
and individual professional employees.
In 1996, Darius Mehri traveled to Japan to work as a computer
simulation engineer within the Toyota production system. Once
there, he found a corporate experience far different from what he
had expected. Notes from Toyota-land, based on a diary that Mehri
kept during his three years at an upper-level Toyota group company,
provides a unique insider's perspective on daily work life in Japan
and charts his transformation from a wide-eyed engineer eager to be
part of the "Japanese Miracle" to a social critic, troubled by
Japanese corporate practices.Mehri documents the sophisticated
"culture of rules" and organizational structure that combine to
create a profound control over workers. The work group is cynically
used to encourage employees to work harder and harder, he found,
and his other discoveries confirmed his doubts about the working
conditions under the Japanese Miracle. For example, he learned that
male employees treated their female counterparts as short-term
employees, cheap labor, and potential wives. Mehri also describes a
surprisingly unhealthy work environment, a high rate of injuries
due to inadequate training, fast line speeds, crowded factories,
racism, and lack of team support. And in conversations with his
colleagues, he uncovered a culture of intimidation, subservience,
and vexed relationships with many aspects of their work and
surroundings. As both an engaging memoir of cross-cultural
misunderstanding and a primer on Japanese business and industrial
practices, Notes from Toyota-land will be a revelation to everyone
who believes that Japanese business practices are an ideal against
which to measure success.
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