Author: William Isaac Thomas (ed)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Source Book for Social Origins
Author: William Isaac Thomas (ed)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Source Book for Social Origins
Author: William Isaac ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social history
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Source Book for Social Orgins
Author: William Isaac ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social history
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
Author: Michael MannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521313490
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies - ideological, economic, military and political - 'The Sources of Social Power' traces their interrelations throughout human history. Volume 2 deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War.
The Social Origins of Modern Science
Author: P. ZilselPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401141428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Here, for the first time, is a single volume in English that contains all the important historical essays Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) published during WWII on the emergence of modern science. It also contains one previously unpublished essay and an extended version of an essay published earlier. This volume is unique in its well-articulated social perspective on the origins of modern science and is of major interest to students in early modern social history/history of science, professional philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science.
Source Book in Anthropology
Author: Alfred Louis KroeberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Outlines of Social Origin
Author: J. L. GillinThe Sources of Social Power: Volume 2, The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914
Author: Michael MannPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107031184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 845
Book Description
This second volume deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War.
History and Economic Life
Author: Georg ChristPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429015445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
History and Economic Life offers students a wide-ranging introduction to both quantitative and qualitative approaches to interpreting economic history sources from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Having identified an ever-widening gap between the use of qualitative sources by cultural historians and quantitative sources by economic historians, the book aims to bridge the divide by making economic history sources more accessible to students and the wider public, and highlighting the need for a complementary rather than exclusive approach. Divided into two parts, the book begins by equipping students with a toolbox to approach economic history sources, considering the range of sources that might be of use and introducing different ways of approaching them. The second part consists of case studies that examine how economic historians use such sources, helping readers to gain a sense of context and understanding of how these sources can be used. The book thereby sheds light on important debates both within and beyond the field, and highlights the benefits gained when combining qualitative and quantitative approaches to source analysis. Introducing sources often avoided in culturally-minded history or statistically-minded economic history courses respectively, and advocating a combined quantitative and qualitative approach, it is an essential resource for students undertaking source analysis within the field.
The Source of the River
Author: Douglas S. MasseyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691125978
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
African Americans and Latinos earn lower grades and drop out of college more often than whites or Asians. Yet thirty years after deliberate minority recruitment efforts began, we still don't know why. In The Shape of the River, William Bowen and Derek Bok documented the benefits of affirmative action for minority students, their communities, and the nation at large. But they also found that too many failed to achieve academic success. In The Source of the River, Douglas Massey and his colleagues investigate the roots of minority underperformance in selective colleges and universities. They explain how such factors as neighborhood, family, peer group, and early schooling influence the academic performance of students from differing racial and ethnic origins and differing social classes. Drawing on a major new source of data--the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen--the authors undertake a comprehensive analysis of the diverse pathways by which whites, African Americans, Latinos, and Asians enter American higher education. Theirs is the first study to document the different characteristics that students bring to campus and to trace out the influence of these differences on later academic performance. They show that black and Latino students do not enter college disadvantaged by a lack of self-esteem. In fact, overconfidence is more common than low self-confidence among some minority students. Despite this, minority students are adversely affected by racist stereotypes of intellectual inferiority. Although academic preparation is the strongest predictor of college performance, shortfalls in academic preparation are themselves largely a matter of socioeconomic disadvantage and racial segregation. Presenting important new findings, The Source of the River documents the ongoing power of race to shape the life chances of America's young people, even among the most talented and able.