Blue-collar Aristocrats
Title | Blue-collar Aristocrats PDF eBook |
Author | E. E. LeMasters |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780299065546 |
"Notes"--Page 205-215. Index.
The Blue Collar Aristocracy
Title | The Blue Collar Aristocracy PDF eBook |
Author | Leevi Etelamaki |
Publisher | |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Iron mines and mining |
ISBN |
Perfecting a Piece of the World
Title | Perfecting a Piece of the World PDF eBook |
Author | David Rounds |
Publisher | Addison Wesley Publishing Company |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
This timely and insightful volume examines people making it right in the transportation industry--about good, hardworking people doing well. Their stories, united by the legacy of Arthur Imperatore's engaging and charismatic personality, are told by a ingenius writer.
Discipling the City
Title | Discipling the City PDF eBook |
Author | Roger S. Greenway |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2000-12-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1579105521 |
Talking about Politics
Title | Talking about Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Cramer Walsh |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2010-03-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0226872211 |
Whether at parties, around the dinner table, or at the office, people talk about politics all the time. Yet while such conversations are a common part of everyday life, political scientists know very little about how they actually work. In Talking about Politics, Katherine Cramer Walsh provides an innovative, intimate study of how ordinary people use informal group discussions to make sense of politics. Walsh examines how people rely on social identities—their ideas of who "we" are—to come to terms with current events. In Talking about Politics, she shows how political conversation, friendship, and identity evolve together, creating stronger communities and stronger social ties. Political scientists, sociologists, and anyone interested in how politics really works need to read this book.
The Business of Professional Sports
Title | The Business of Professional Sports PDF eBook |
Author | Paul D. Staudohar |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780252061615 |
Beyond the highly publicized heroics and foibles of players and teams, when the grandstands are empty and the scoreboards dark, there is a world of sport about which little is known by even the most ardent fan. It is the business world of sport; it is characterized by a thirst for power and money, and its players are just as active as those on the professional teams they oversee. In this collection, some of the best scholars in the field use examples from baseball, football, basketball, and hockey to illuminate the significant economic, legal, social, and historic aspects of the business of professional sports. Contributors: Dennis A. Ahlburg, Rob B. Beamish, Joan M. Chandler, James B. Dworkin, Lawrence M. Kahn, Charles P. Korr, John J. MacAloon, David Mills, Roger G. Noll, Steven A. Reiss, Gary R. Roberts, Stephen F. Ross, Peter D. Sherer, Leigh Steinberg, and David G. Voigt,
Social Status in the City
Title | Social Status in the City PDF eBook |
Author | Bernice Neugarten |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 411 |
Release | 2017-12-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351489518 |
"Social Status in the City presents a scientific method for measuring social status in urban settings - the Index of Urban Status (IUS). The authors show how the index and the concepts of status on which it is based were derived by describing the procedures used in studying the social structure of a particular Midwestern city. Richard P. Coleman modified the IUS when he was employed in commerce research studies of social class phenomena in American cities.A social class is a group of people who are judged by members of the community as equal to one another in social prestige. They are believed to be either superior or inferior in prestige and acceptability to other groups who constitute the social classes that are below or above them. By this definition, Yankee City, Deep South, Jonesville, Kansas City - and presumably every community in the U.S. - can all be described as having social class systems. This book is a case study aimed at larger theoretical importance.The study should be considered in the context of sociology's concerns with problems of urban stratification, the characteristics of various social class groups, and the ways these groups change over time. In this context, the book makes a contribution to social science methods as well as observation. The authors have followed in the tradition of W. Lloyd Warner and others who have attempted to understand the status structures of whole communities. This classic volume has brilliantly stood the test of time."