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The authors have focused this book on the serious, beginning, qualitative researcher - theoretically rigorous, yet with an understandable perspective.; The book has three main features.

The issues of soundness of qualitative research are examined in this book.

Suggests a new approach to describing both stability and change in social systems by linking the behavior of individuals to organizational behavior.

At a moment when acute disagreement among scholars over the appropriateness of qualitative and quantitative research methods threatens to undermine the validity and coherence of the social sciences

Most writing on sociological method has been concerned with how accurate facts can be obtained and how theory can thereby be more rigorously tested.

This comprehensive and accessible text fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways key economic processes affect environmental outcomes.

Scandal is the quintessential public event. Here is the first general and comprehensive analysis of this ubiquitous moral phenomenon.

How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes.

Housework—often trivialized or simply overlooked in public discourse—contributes in a complex and essential way to the form that families and societies assume.

Servants of Globalization is a poignant and often troubling study of migrant Filipina domestic workers who leave their own families behind to do the mothering and caretaking work of the global econ

In the era after Suffrage, white middle-class housewives abandoned moves toward paid work for themselves, embraced domestic life, and felt entitled to servants.

Freud swore by it. Heidegger swore at it. Kierkegaard swore off it. In our everyday lives we can't live without it. It's just talk. Before media, before the Internet there was talk.

In a gripping reconnaissance into the urban future, Mike Davis, a provocative interpreter of the American metropolis unravels the secret history of disaster, real and imaginary, in Southern Califor

"Nothing seems more far removed from the visceral, bodily experience of emotions than the cold, rational technology of the Internet.

This popular textbook provides the reader with an indispensable guide to criminological theory.