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An inquiry into well-being and destitution / by Dasgupta, Partha.(CARDINAL)165989;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 546-625) and indexes.1. The Commodity Basis of Well-Being -- 2. Political Morality and the State -- 3. The Objects of Social Contracts -- 4. Well-Being: From Theory to Measurement -- 5. The Realization of Well-Being -- 6. Resource Allocation Mechanisms -- *6.[2nd]. Public Goods and Common-Property Resources -- 7. Decentralization and Central Guidance -- *7.[2nd]. Real National Income as a Measure of General Well-Being -- 8. Uncertainty, Insurance, and Social Norms -- 9. Land, Labour, Savings, and Credit -- *9.[2nd]. Households and Credit Constraints -- 10. Poverty and the Environmental Resource Base -- *10.[2nd]. Net National Product in a Dynamic Economy -- 11. Food, Care, and Work: The Household as an Allocation Mechanism -- *11.[2nd]. Axiomatic Bargaining Theory -- 12. Fertility and Resources: The Household as a Reproductive Unit -- *12.[2nd]. Strategic Complementarities in Fertility Decisions -- 13. Population and Savings: Normative Considerations -- *13.[2nd]. Classical Utilitarianism in a Limited World.14. Food Needs and Work Capacity -- 15. Adaptation to Undernourishment -- 16. Inequality, Malnutrition, and the Disfranchised -- *16.[2nd]. Analysis of Allocation Mechanisms When Nutrition Affects Productivity -- 17. Incentives and Development Policies.An interdisciplinary study of what is broadly development economics, but encompasses the most recent insights from philosophy, research and empirical work on resource allocation, nutrition science and anthropology. It deals with the problem of poverty - its causes and remedies.1310L

Subjects: Poverty; Quality of life; Resource allocation.; Income distribution; Households; Malnutrition;

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Delinquency, crime, and social process / by Cressey, Donald R.(Donald Ray),1919-1987.(CARDINAL)146808; Ward, David A.(CARDINAL)154570;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Part 1. Crime in America. 1. Crime in America / The President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice -- Part 2. The definition of behavior as "criminal." 1. Plains Indian law in development : the Comanche / E. Adamson Hoebel -- 2. Morals and the criminal law / Richard C. Fuller -- 3. White-collar crime and social structure / Vilhelm Aubert -- 4. Crime and the commercial revolution / Jerome Hall -- 5. Deviance and public policy / Edwin M. Schur -- Part 3. The administration of justice as a selective process. 1. Court records, undetected delinquency and decision-making / Maynard L. Erickson and Lamar T. Empey -- 2. Police encounters with juveniles / Irving Piliavin and Scott Briar -- 3. Police discretion not to invoke the criminal process : low-visibility decisions in the administration of justice / Joseph Goldstein -- 4. Noninvocation of the criminal law by police / Wayne R. LaFave -- 5. White-collar crime and the criminal process / The President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice -- 6. Pleading guilty for considerations : a study of bargain justice / Donald J. Newman -- 7. Acquittal of the guilty to control police enforcement methods / Donald J. Newman -- Part 4. The epidemiology of delinquency and crime. 1. Social structure and anomie / Robert K. Merton -- 2. Affluence and adolescent crime / Jackson Toby -- 3. Illegitimate means, anomie, and deviant behavior / Richard A. Cloward -- 4. Lower class culture as a generating milieu of gang delinquency / Walter B. Miller -- 5. White-collar criminality / Edwin H. Sutherland -- 6. Juvenile delinquency in the middle-class youth culture / Edmund W. Vaz -- 7. Delinquency and community action in nonmetropolitan areas / Kenneth Polk -- 8. Socio-economic class and area as correlates of illegal behavior among juveniles / John P. Clark and Eugene P. Winninger -- 9. Class position, peers and delinquency / Maynard L. Erickson and Lamar T. Empey.Part 5. Crime and delinquency as products of interaction. 1. A sociological theory of criminal behavior / Edwin H. Sutherland and Donald R. Cressey -- 2. Psychoanalysis and crime / David Feldman -- 3. The skills and training of the pickpocket / David W. Maurer -- 4. A vocabulary of motive for law violations / Frank E. Hartung -- 5. Delinquent stereotypes of probable victims / Herman Schwendinger and Julia Schwendinger -- 6. Becoming a marihuana user / Howard S. Becker -- 7. Apprenticeships in prostitution / James H. Bryan -- 8. Criminality theories and behavioral images / Daniel Glaser -- 9. A differential association-reinforcement theory of criminal behavior / Robert L. Burgess and Ronald L. Akers -- 10. Epidemiology and individual conduct / Donald R. Cressey -- Part 6. Societal reactions to deviant behavior. 1. Deviance and the responses of others / Howard S. Becker -- 2. Societal reactions to deviant behavior : problems of theory and method / John I. Kitsuse -- 3. Primary and secondary deviation / Edwin M. Lemert -- 4. The labeling process / Stanton Wheeler and Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr., with the assistance of Anne Romasco -- 5. Delinquency and moral character / Carol Werthman -- Part. 7. The development and maintenance of delinquent subcultures. 1. A general theory of subcultures / Albert K. Cohen -- 2. The evolution of delinquent subcultures / Richard A. Cloward and Lloyd E. Ohlin -- 3. Perceived opportunities, gang membership, and delinquency / James F. Short, Jr., Ramon Rivera, and Ray A. Tennyson -- 4. Violent crime in city gangs / Walter B. Miller -- 5. Delinquent subcultures : theory and recent research / Lamar T. Empey -- 6. The sociology of the deviant act : anomie theory and beyond / Albert K. Cohen -- Part 8. Formal and informal organizations of delinquents and criminals. 1. The differentiation of delinquent subcultures / Richard A. Cloward and Lloyd E. Ohlin -- 2. Patterns of deliquent subculture behavior / Irving Spergel -- 3. Cats, kicks, and color / Harold Finestone -- 4. Worlds of drug use on the street scene / Alan G. Sutter -- 5. Different types of pickpocket mobs / David W. Maurer -- 6. The activities and location of organized criminals / The President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice -- 7. The national and local structures of organized crime / Donald R. Cressey -- 8. The incredible electrical conspiracy / Richard Austin Smith -- Part 9. Symbiotic relationships between criminals and others. 1. The numbers racket / Ted Poston -- 2. Gambling and political corruption / John A. Gardiner, with the assistance of David J. Olson -- 3. The respectables / Robert F. Kennedy -- 4. The business of sex / Columbia Broadcasting System -- 5. The social integration of queers and peers / Albert J. Reiss, Jr. -- 6. The mark / David W. Maurer -- 7. Victim-precipitated criminal homicide / Marvin E. Wolfgang -- Part 10. Loners in a criminal world. 1. Sexual aggression against adult females / Paul H. Gebhard, John H. Gagnon, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Cornelia V. Christenson -- 2. Physician narcotic addicts / Charles Winick -- 3. The behavior of the systematic check forger / Edwin M. Lemert -- 4. The white-collar thief / Frank E. Hartung -- 5. Role theory, differential association, and compulsive crimes / Donald R. Cressey.Book on criminological research studies and theories in the areas of crime, delinquency and social process. The emphasis in this book, however, is not exclusively on the problems of explaining what statistical distributions of crime and delinquency mean and how individuals become criminals and delinquents. The reader should be aware that as one examines statistical distributions of delinquency and crime rates and offender characteristics one must pay close attention to variables that relate to the settings and circumstances under which the statistics were collected. Once social scientists simply analyzed the available statistical facts. The datum for study is the process by which the statistical information is assembled, not just the final assembly. For example, arrest statistics are often used as the basis of generalizations about the social class distribution of delinquency and crime, but there is systematic underreporting of crimes of respectable segments of the society. Thus, among the selections reprinted in this book are research studies, descriptive accounts, and essays devoted to the illegal activities of businessmen, labor union officials, physicians, politicians, policemen, and middle-class youngsters. The theoretical framework of this book is designed to make these violations just as understandable as the criminal violations of persons in the lower socioeconomic class.

Subjects: Crime.; Criminals.; Criminology.;

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Whiplash : how to survive our faster future / by Itō, Jōichi,1966-author.(CARDINAL)550530; Howe, Jeff,1970-author.(CARDINAL)559282;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-312).Introduction -- Emergence over authority -- Pull over push -- Compasses over maps -- Risk over safety -- Disobedience over compliance -- Practice over theory -- Diversity over ability -- Resilience over strength -- Systems over objects -- Conclusion."The future," as the author William Gibson once noted, "is already here. It's just unevenly distributed." WHIPLASH is a postcard from that future. The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, just as billions of strangers around the world are suddenly just one click or tweet or post away from each other. When these two revolutions joined, an explosive force was unleashed that is transforming every aspect of society, from business to culture and from the public sphere to our most private moments. Such periods of dramatic change have always produced winners and losers. The future will run on an entirely new operating system. It's a major upgrade, but it comes with a steep learning curve. The logic of a faster future oversets the received wisdom of the past, and the people who succeed will be the ones who learn to think differently. In WHIPLASH, Joi Ito and Jeff Howe distill that logic into nine organizing principles for navigating and surviving this tumultuous period. From strategically embracing risks rather than mitigating them (or preferring "risk over safety") to drawing inspiration and innovative ideas from your existing networks (or supporting "pull over push"), this dynamic blueprint can help you rethink your approach to all facets of your organization.

Subjects: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory.; Technological innovations; Technological innovations; Technology and civilization.; Digital communications;

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The money illusion : market monetarism, the Great Recession, and the future of monetary policy / by Sumner, Scott,1955-author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: The real problem was nominal -- The value of money. Cognitive illusions in economics ; The value of money and money illusion ; What determines the value of money? ; The quantity theory of money and the Great Inflation ; Money at the extremes: hyperinflation and deflation ; It's (almost) all about expectations -- The dance of the dollar. The Great Depression and the AS-AD model ; One derivative beyond Hume ; Rational expectations and efficient markets -- Never reason from a price change. Themusical-chairs model ; What is monetary policy? ; Nominal and real exchange rates -- How to think about macroeconomics. The path to market monetarism ; I see dead patterns ; Good economists don't forecast, they infer market forecasts ; The secret historyof monetary policy -- The Great Recession. Fed policy in 2008: a case of self-induced paralysis? ; A confession of contractionary effect ; Schadenfreude on the Titanic ; Alternative explanations of the Great Recession -- What does it all mean? Policy implications of market monetarism ; Why should you believe in market monetarism."The Money Illusion is George Mason University economist Scott Sumner's end-to-end case for an evolved, less discretionary approach to monetary policy, which he and his cohort have termed "market monetarism." The nominal use of "market" here is telling: Sumner argues that public confidence in central banking institutions like the Fed is central, and as critical as forecasting, to ensuring the health and stability of the economy. To achieve it, he makes a case that monetary policy should be indexed againsta pre-set growth trajectory (in the form of a steadily increasing nominal GDP), not regulated ad-hoc through interpretations of short-term market changes. As Sumner tells it, the Fed is simultaneously responsible for the Great Recession and our best safeguard against having it happen again. Part of that is a responsibility to chart a course, and to do so with transparency"--

Subjects: Monetary policy; Recessions;

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Requiem for the American dream : the 10 principles of concentration of wealth & power / by Chomsky, Noam,author.(CARDINAL)145847; Hutchinson, Peter,editor.(CARDINAL)421166; Nyks, Kelly,editor.(CARDINAL)340937; Scott, Jared P.,editor.(CARDINAL)340938;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-164) and index.A note on the American dream -- Principle #1: Reduce democracy: Secret proceeding and debates of the Convention assembled at Philadelphia, in the year 1787, and other sources -- Principle #2: Shape ideology: Powell memorandum, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., 1971, and other sources -- Principle #3: Redesign the economy: "An end to the focus on short term urged," Wall Street Journal, Justin Lahart, September 9, 2009, and other sources -- Principle #4: Shift the burden: Henry Ford on why he doubled the minimum wage he paid his employees, and other sources -- Principle #5: Attack solidarity: The theory of moral sentiments, Adam Smith, 1759, and other sources -- Principle #6: Run the regulators: Prosperity economics: Building an economy for all, Jacob S. Hacker and Nate Loewentheil, 2012, and other sources -- Principle #7: Engineer elections: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Supreme Court of the United States, January 21, 2010, and other sources -- Principle #8: Keep the rabble in line: "Ford men beat and rout Lewis union organizers; 80,000 out in steel strike; 16 hurt in battle," New York Times, May 26, 1937, and other sources -- Principle #9: Manufacture consent: Essays, moral, political, literary, David Hume, 1741, and other sources -- Principle #10: Marginalize the population: "Testing theories of American politics: Elites, interest groups, and average citizens," Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, 2014, and other sources.In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts an eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They're simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes, attack the solidarity of the people, let special interests run the regulators, engineer election results, use fear and the power of the state to keep the rabble in line, manufacture consent, marginalize the population. In Requiem for the American Dream, Chomsky devotes a chapter to each of these ten principles, and adds readings from some of the core texts that have influenced his thinking to bolster his argument. Chomsky and his editors, the filmmakers Peter Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, and Jared P. Scott, spent countless hours together over the course of five years, from 2011 to 2016. After the release of the film version, Chomsky and the editors returned to the many hours of tape and transcript and created a document that included three times as much text as was used in the film.

Subjects: Income distribution; Power (Social sciences); American Dream.;

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The end of empathy. Why white protestants stopped loving their neighbors. / by Compton, John W.,1977-author.;

"The End of Empathy develops a theoretical framework capable of explaining both the rise of white Protestant social concern in the latter part of the nineteenth century and its sudden demise at the end of the twentieth. The theory proceeds from the premise that religious conviction, by itself, is rarely sufficient to motivate empathetic political behavior. When believers do act empathetically - for example, by championing reforms that transfer resources or political influence to less privileged groups within society - it is typically because strong religious institutions have compelled them to do so. For much of American history, mainline Protestant church membership functioned as an important marker of social status - one that few upwardly mobile citizens could afford to go without. The socioeconomic significance of membership, in turn, endowed Protestant leaders with considerable authority over the beliefs and actions of their congregations. At key junctures in U.S. history - the Progressive Era, the New Deal, the civil rights movement - the nation's informal Protestant establishment used this authority to mobilize rank-and-file churchgoers on behalf of government programs that increased economic opportunity and promoted civic inclusion. When this pattern of religious authority collapsed in the late 1960s - thanks to a confluence of trends in the labor market, higher education, and residential mobility - it produced a large population of white suburbanites who had little reason to seek out mainline Protestant churches or heed their advice on the burning social questions of the day. The churches that flourished in the new age of personal autonomy were those that preached against attempts by government to promote a more equitable distribution of wealth and political authority"

Subjects: Christianity and politics; Empathy;

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Material world : a global family portrait / by Menzel, Peter,1948-(CARDINAL)318804; Mann, Charles C.(CARDINAL)183729; Mann, Charles.(CARDINAL)743576;

Methodology -- Africa -- Televisions of the world -- Asia -- Latin America -- North America -- Islands -- Meals of the world -- Europe -- Toilets of the world -- Middle East.Photo spreads, with brief commentaries, of possessions of families in more than 50 countries. Awards: SLJ Best Book. Annotation. A fascinating project--sponsored by a number of international organizations--resulting in this richly intriguing book (it will get well-deserved promotion and distribution via all sorts of media). Sixteen photographers traveled to 30 nations to live for a week with families that are "statistically average" for that nation. At the end of each visit, photographer and subjects collaborated on a portrait of the family, outside of its home, surrounded by all of its material possessions--a few jars and jugs for some, an abundance of electronic gadgetry for others. The 360 color photos are accompanied by information about the standard of living in each country, notes by the photographers about their experiences, and profiles of family members and their lives. We are witnessing the emergence of a unified world economy, as exemplified by NAFTA and GATT, that will, in theory, make goods available at cheaper prices, create new jobs throughout the world, raise standards of living, and benefit the average family. However, population growth and resource exploitation will also affect these potential benefits as patterns of consumption change. In stunning photographs and text, Material World demonstrates the present context for the emerging global economy, what it means to be "statistically average," by displaying families in more than thirty nations outside their homes - with all their possessions in view. Among the 350 stunning images are those of a family in lush Samoa juxtaposed with a Kuwaiti family and the two Mercedes-Benzes parked outside their desert home a family in Iceland posing with their treasured string instruments while a family in Sarajevo huddles outside their bullet-ridden apartment. The text describes what it means to be "average" in each of thirty very dissimilar cultures and the impact of each way of life on the local environment. Statistical information about each country accompanies the photo-essays so that readers can easily compare one culture with another.

Subjects: Illustrated works.; Economic development; Families; Families; Material culture; Material culture; Material culture;

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Fair share divorce for women : the definitive guide to creating a winning solution / by Miller, Kathleen,1946-(CARDINAL)528089;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Equitable distribution of marital property; Divorce settlements; Divorced women;

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Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology. / by Ballantine, Jeanne H.(CARDINAL)722341; Roberts, Keith A.(CARDINAL)728694; Korgen, Kathleen Odell,1967-(CARDINAL)645330;

PART I Understanding Our Social World: The Scientific Study of Society Chapter 1: Sociology: A Unique Way to View the World What Is Sociology? Why Does Sociology Matter? The Social World Model Chapter 2: Examining the Social World: How Do We Know? The Development of Sociology Sociology's Major Theoretical Perspectives Ideas Underlying Science How Sociologists Study the Social World PART II Social Structure, Processes, and Control Chapter 3: Society and Culture: Hardware and Software of Our Social World Society: The Hardware Culture: The Software Society, Culture, and Our Social World Theories of Culture The Fit Between Hardware and Software Chapter 4: Socialization Becoming Human and Humane Nature Versus Nurture-or Both Working Together? The Importance of Socialization Socialization and the Social World Development of the Self: Micro-Level Analysis Agents of Socialization: The Micro-Meso Connection Socialization and Macro-Level Issues Policy and Practice Chapter 5: Interaction, Groups, and Organization: Connections That Work Networks and Connections in Our Social World The Process of Interaction: Connections at the Micro Level Groups in Our Social World: The Micro-Meso Connection Organizations and Bureaucracies: The Meso-Macro Connection National and Global Networks: The Macro Level Chapter 6: Deviance and Social Control: Sickos, Weirdos, Freaks, and Folks Like Us What Is Deviance? What Causes Deviant Behavior? Theoretical Perspectives Crime and Individuals: Micro-Level Analysis Crime and Organizations: Meso-Level Analysis National and Global Crime: Macro-Level Analysis Controlling Crime: Social Policy Considerations PART III Inequality Chapter 7: Stratification: Rich and Famous- or Rags and Famine? The Importance of Social Stratification Theoretical Explanations of Stratification Individuals' Social Status: The Micro Level Social Mobility: The Micro-Meso Connection Major Stratification Systems: Macro-Level Analysis Poverty and Social Policy National and Global Digital Divide: Macro-Level Stratification Chapter 8: Race and Ethnic Group Stratification: Beyond "Us" and "Them" What Characterizes Racial and Ethnic Groups? Prejudice: Micro-Level Analysis Discrimination: Meso-Level Analysis Dominant and Minority Group Contact: Macro-Level Analysis Policies Governing Minority and Dominant Group Relations Chapter 9: Gender Stratification: She/He-Who Goes First? Sex, Gender, and the Stratification System Gender Socialization: Micro- to Meso-Level Analyses Gender Stratification: Meso- and Macro-Level Processes Gender Stratification: Micro- to Macro-Level Theories Costs and Consequences of Gender Stratification Changing Gender Stratification and Social Policy PART IV Institutions The Importance of Institutions The Development of Modern Institutions The Interconnections Between Institutions Chapter 10: Family: Partner Taking, People Making, and Contract Breaking What Is a Family? Theoretical Perspectives on Family Family Dynamics: Micro-Level Processes The Family as an Institution: Meso-Level Analysis National and Global Family Issues: Macro-Level Analysis National and Global Family Issues: Macro-Level Analysis Chapter 11: Education: What Are We Learning? State of the World's Education: An Overview The Ins and Outs of Local Schools: Micro-Level Interactions in Educational Organizations After the School Bell Rings: Meso-Level Analysis of Educational Organizations Education, Society, and the Road to Opportunity: The Macro Level Educational and Social Policy Issues Chapter 12: Religion: The Social Meaning of Sacred Meaning What Does Religion Do for Us? Becoming Part of a Faith Community: Micro-Level Analysis Religion and Modern Life: Meso-Level Analysis Religion in Society: Macro-Level Analysis Religion in the Modern World Social Policy: Same Sex Marriage and Gay/Lesbian Clergy Chapter 13: Politics and Economics: Penetrating Power and Privilege What Is Power? Power and Privilege in the Social World Theoretical Perspectives on Power and Privilege Micro-Level Analysis: Individuals, Power, and Participation Meso-Level Analysis: Distributions of Power and Privilege Within a Nation Macro-Level Analysis: National and Global Systems of Governance and Power Chapter 14: Health Care: An Anatomy of Health And Illness Why Is Health a Social Issue? Theoretical Perspectives on Health and Illness The Status and Roles of the Sick Person: Micro-Level Analysis Modern Health Care Systems: Meso-Level Analysis Health Care Issues at National And Global Levels: Macro-Level Analysis PART V: Social Dynamics Chapter 15: Population and Urbanization: Living on Planet Earth Macro-Level Patterns in World Population Growth Meso-Level Institutional Influences on Population Change Micro-Level Population Patterns Urbanization: Movement From Rural to Urban Areas Cities as Micro-Level Living Environments How Did Cities Evolve? Meso-Level Organizational Structures The Urban Environment and Social Policy: Macro-Level Perspectives Chapter 16: The Process of Change: We Can Make a Difference! The Complexity of Change in Our Social World Social Change: Process and Theories Collective Behavior: Micro- to Meso-Level Behavior and Change Planned Change in Organizations: Meso-Level Change Social Movements: Macro-Level Change Technology, Environment, and ChangeLatest edition of this popular undergraduate introduction to sociology. For the Fifth Edition, Kathleen Odell Korgen joins Jeanne Ballantine and Keith Roberts as a co-author to help make the edition more accessible with more contemporary examples, and to further develop the theme of public/practical sociology.

Subjects: Sociology.;

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