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C. Wright Mills was a radical, critical of United States society and of sociology as practiced in this country. His criticisms were especially provocative given the ideological atmosphere of the 1950s and 1960s. His writings on stratification were very influential, with several of them having a mass readership. Mills viewed the United States as a society dominated by irresponsible elites and alienated masses. Sociology, he felt, had abdicated its responsibility for showing how larger social forces shape individual lives. While pessimistic about the possibility of fundamental social changes, Mills nevertheless urged intellectuals to use their skills to bring about a society where reason and democracy would prevail. Though marginalized within the profession during his life, he helped inspire the development of a critical perspective within sociology.

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1990.tb00153.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

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This study examines the effects of religion on preference for a patriarchal family, one in which the husband makes decisions while the wife is subservient to him. The effects of both religious fundamentalism and personal religiosity are considered using a survey of adults in a Southwestern city. The analysis reveals a strong positive direct effect of adherence to a fundamentalist doctrine on support for the patriarchal family, but no direct effect of personal religiosity. An interaction effect of these two variables, reported in some other studies of the effect of religion on other family issues, is not found. The effect of religious fundamentalism is equal in magnitude to the effect of age, and greater than the effects of education, gender, family income, head of household occupational prestige, subjective class identification, race and rural background. With the exceptions of age and gender, religious fundamentalism serves as a crucial intervening variable in the relationships between these variables and endorsement of patriarchal norms in the husband‐wife relationshi

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1990.tb00154.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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Many recent signs, empirical and analytic, raise questions about dependency/worldsystems theory. The difficulties are not new warnings but reminders that the theory has always had problems stemming from the close and logically unavoidable connections among three major beliefs or tenets: (1) the unchallenged omnipotence of the North Atlantic metropole throughout the world; (2) the neglect of indigenous variables as possible explanations of development; and (3) the implied assumption that growth and development are the normal state of affairs. It is argued that the first, and defining, tenet of dependency theory cannot be sustained unless the other two are also true and that this is the source of an increasingly ill‐fitting correspondence between the theory and major characteristics of the Third Worl

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1990.tb00155.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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Some macroecologists study population characteristics using a single variable, while others specify a system of interrelated variables. The purpose of this paper is to offer an ecological model which is theoretically appropriate and correctly bounded. Based on population (P), information (I), space (S), technology (T), organization (O), and level of living (L), or PISTOL, it is argued that the addition of two variables to the most famous ecological model (POET), namely L and I correctly bounds the POET model since each component is theoretically important.

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1990.tb00156.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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This study deals with the factors which determined the odds of Israeli immigrants becoming proletariat during the first decade of statehood. It is suggested that the factors which determine whether immigrants enter the proletariat or not are structural. Immigrants trom lesser‐developed, non‐industrialized countries are more likely than others to become or to remain proletariat. Class positions in the countries of immigration and emigration are compared, and various factors are examined as causes of the proletariat position. Such factors include conditions of production in the country of emigration, level of eduratirin, and year of immigrat

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1990.tb00157.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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This study offers an interpretation of driving signs used in interpersonal communication. Questionnaires were administered in a university setting to faculty members to assess the manner in which “parking” is used. Religious affiliations of the respondents are related to social identities, and the results suggest that religion serves as a direct influence on motorists who park off the road to communicate with other drivers. The findings further suggest that within the specific cultural milieu described, parking connotes respect for family memb

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1990.tb00158.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper analyzes the influence of television sports media on the socialization of the black male youth by integrating data drawn from the comprehensive literature on both subjects. It is argued that sports media creates mistaken illusions for impressionable black youths and produces a false sense of potential career success. As a consequence of the media's distortion, the emphasis that blacks pay to athletics tends to impede their socialization and academic performance.

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1990.tb00159.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:A Social‐Contract Theory of Organizations. Michael Keeley. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988, 245 pp. plus references and index.Disturbing the Nest: Family Change and Decline in Modern Societies. David Popenoe. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1988, 390 pages, $49.95, hardback, $24.95, cloth.Advancing Communication Science: Merging Mass and Interpersonal Processes. Edited by Robert P. Hawkins, John M. Wieman, and Suzanne Pingree. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1988, 312 pp., paperback.On the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents, 2nd ed. William Chambliss. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988, 301 pages.Methodology and Epistemology for Social Science. Donald T. Campbell. Selected papers edited by E. Samuel Overman. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988, 609 pages, $62.50, cloth.Technology and Justice. George Grant. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986, 133 pages, paperback.Emile Durkheim and the Reformation of Sociology. Stjepan G. Mestrovic. Totawa, NJ: Rowan and Littlefield, 1988, 156 pp.Certainties and Doubts: Collected Papers, 1962–1985. George Caspar Homans. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1987, 420 pages, $34.95, hardback.Strong Mothers, Weak Wives. Miriam Johnson. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988, 347 pp.Jürgen Habermas. Michael Pusey. London: Tavistock Publications, 1987, 128 pages, paperback; and New York: Routledge, 1988, $22.50, cloth, Can. $31.50; $8.95, paperback, Can. $13.00.The World We Created at Hamilton High. Gerald Grant. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988, 2825 pages, $24.95, har

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DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1990.tb00160.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0038-0245    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1990.tb00161.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY