Author: William E. Cox, Jr.
Publisher: Marketing Classics Press
ISBN: 1613112033
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 29

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Author: Frederick D. Sturdivant
Publisher: Marketing Classics Press
ISBN: 1613112017
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 151

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Author: John F. Cady
Publisher: Marketing Classics Press
ISBN: 1613112041
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 18

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Author: Loïc Wacquant
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509552197
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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At century’s close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the ghetto: the urban “underclass.” Soon the scarecrow category and its demonic imagery were exported to the United Kingdom and continental Europe and agitated the international study of exclusion in the postindustrial metropolis. In this punchy book, Loïc Wacquant retraces the invention and metamorphoses of this racialized folk devil, from the structural conception of Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal to the behavioral notion of Washington think-tank experts to the neo-ecological formulation of sociologist William Julius Wilson. He uncovers the springs of the sudden irruption, accelerated circulation, and abrupt evaporation of the “underclass” from public debate, and reflects on the implications for the social epistemology of urban marginality. What accounts for the “lemming effect” that drew a generation of scholars of race and poverty over a scientific cliff? What are the conditions for the formation and bursting of “conceptual speculative bubbles”? What is the role of think tanks, journalism, and politics in imposing “turnkey problematics” upon social researchers? What are the special quandaries posed by the naming of dispossessed and dishonored populations in scientific discourse and how can we reformulate the explosive question of “race” to avoid these troubles? Answering these questions constitutes an exacting exercise in epistemic reflexivity in the tradition of Bachelard, Canguilhem and Bourdieu, and it issues in a clarion call for social scientists to defend their intellectual autonomy against the encroachments of outside powers, be they state officials, the media, think tanks, or philanthropic organizations. Compact, meticulous and forcefully argued, this study in the politics of social science knowledge will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, urban studies, ethnic studies, geography, intellectual history, the philosophy of science and public policy.

Author: Frederick D. Sturdivant
Publisher:
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Category : African American consumers
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: Clark Leavitt
Publisher:
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Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Author: David Caplovitz
Publisher:
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Category : Consumers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Wade H. Shafer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 147575776X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences was first conceived, published, and dis seminated by the Center for Information and Numerical Data Analysis and Synthesis, (CINDAS) *at Purdue University in 1957, starting its coverage of theses with the academic year 1955. Beginning with Volume 13, the printing and dissemination phases of the ac tivity was transferred to University Microfilms/Xerox of Ann Arbor, Michigan, with the thought that such an arrangement would be more beneficial to the academic and general scientific and technical community. After five years of this joint undertaking we had concluded that it was in the interest of all concerned if the printing and distribution of the volume were handled by an international publishing house to assure improved service and broader dissemination. Hence, starting with Volume 18, Masters Theses in the Pure and Applied Sciences has been disseminated on a worldwide basis by Plenum Publishing Corporation of New York, and in the same year the coverage was broadened to include Canadian universities. All back issues can also be ordered from Plenum. We have reported in Volume 19 (thesis year 1974) a total of 10,045 theses titles from 20 Canadian and 209 United States universities. We are sure that this broader base for theses titles reported will greatly enhance the value of this important annual reference work. The organization of Volume 19 is identical to that of past years. It consists of theses titles arranged by discipline and by university within each discipline.

Author: American Marketing Association
Publisher:
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Category : Marketing
Languages : en
Pages : 604

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Author: Alan R. Andreasen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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