A VILLAGE IN INDIA: AN APPLICATION OF THE THEORY OF INCREASING SCALE OF SOCIETAL ORGANIZATION

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The Missing Safety Net and Families: A Progressive Critique of the New Welfare Legislation

This is an overview essay on the 1996 welfare legislation and its consequences. The paper is divided into five parts: (1) The basic elements of the legislation; (2) The conservative assumptions undergirding this legislation and the progressive responses to them; (3) The consequences of the legislation for individuals and families; (4) The missing elements in the new welfare legislation; and (5) The progressive solution to welfare

Bacterial Toxins and the Nervous System: Neurotoxins and Multipotential Toxins Interacting with Neuronal Cells

Toxins are potent molecules used by various bacteria to interact with a host organism. Some of them specifically act on neuronal cells (clostridial neurotoxins) leading to characteristics neurological affections. But many other toxins are multifunctional and recognize a wider range of cell types including neuronal cells. Various enterotoxins interact with the enteric nervous system, for example by stimulating afferent neurons or inducing neurotransmitter release from enterochromaffin cells which result either in vomiting, in amplification of the diarrhea, or in intestinal inflammation process. Other toxins can pass the blood brain barrier and directly act on specific neurons

In Conflict and order understanding society

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Conflict and Order: Implications for a Research Agenda

Mysociological activities may appear to the untrained eye as scattered and unfocused. The subjects investigated have included status inconsistents, youth, terrorists, athletes, coaches, racial minorities, governments, multinational corporations, banks, and universities. I have written textbooks for introductory sociology,social problems, criminology, family, and sport. And,I have penned essays on ethics, values, violence, crime, the Superbowl,the Olympics,and the structural transformation of the economy. Despite the seeming disparity in these topics and the variety of social categories studied, there is a strong theoretical thread that brings coherence to these works--the conflictparadigm. This paper examines the implications of this paradigm that guide my current research agenda

A CONFLICT MODEL FOR THE ANALYSIS OF MAJORITY-MONORITY RELATIONS

The sociological study of majority-minority relations has been handicapped by the lack of models which stress the elements of power and conflict. The model presented in this paper begins with the assumptions that: (1) majority-minority relations are power relations, and (2) conflict and struggle are inherent in all power relations. The relationship between any majority and minority is viewed as a conflicting, changing relationship between two parties--one with the power and the other desiring a fair share of that power and the rewards that come as a result of power holding.http://web.ku.edu/~starjrn

In conflict and order: understanding society/ Eitzen

xvi, 637 hal.: ill.; 23 cm

In conflict and order: understanding society/ Eitzen

xvi, 637 hal.: ill.; 23 cm

In conflict and order: understanding society/ Eitzen

xvi, 637 hal.: ill.; 23 cm