African-Americans in Newport and Saratoga Springs, 1870-1930
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, northern resort towns were in their heyday as celebrated retreats for America's wealthy. ''Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August'' documents the experiences of African Americans in Saratoga Springs, New York, and Newport, Rhode Island--towns that provided a recurring season of expanded ......
This book examines the strengths and weaknesses of four salient epistemological orientations in the field - positivism, relativism, interpretivism, and intersubjectivism - to identify the characteristics of a theoretically-informed epistemology for social science.
How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization
There are people dedicated to improving the way we eat, and people dedicated to improving the way we give birth. A Bun in the Oven is the first comparison of these two social movements. The food movement has seemingly exploded, but little has changed in the diet of most Americans. And while there's talk of improving the childbirth experience, ......
How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization
There are people dedicated to improving the way we eat, and people dedicated to improving the way we give birth. A Bun in the Oven is the first comparison of these two social movements. The food movement has seemingly exploded, but little has changed in the diet of most Americans. And while there's talk of improving the childbirth experience, ......
Larger Cultural Influences and New Theoretical Insights
Despite employee engagement literature spanning more than three decades, persistent challenges remain, and many seem to be permeating organizations from the outside in. Organizations invested in current structures, adhering to larger cultural ideas and taking cues from other organizations compartmentalize engagement as a people problem and ......
What Lies Beneath the Fear of the Thirteenth Migrant
The book features a critical cultural sociological study of attitudes towards migration in Czechia. Based on qualitative research, it looks at the ways the Czech public draws symbolic boundaries between "us" and "them."
Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Ea
In A Great Conspiracy against Our Race, Peter Vellon explores how Italian immigrants, a once undesirable and "swarthy" race, assimilated into dominant white culture through the influential national and radical Italian language press in New York City. Racial history has always been the thorn in America's side, with a swath of injustices-slavery, ......
Italian Immigrant Newspapers and the Construction of Whiteness in the Ea
Explores how Italian immigrants, a once undesirable and swarthy race, assimilated into dominant white culture through the influential national and radical Italian language press in New York City.
