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After The Wizard, What?, Charles Lemert, Audrey Sprenger
After The Wizard, What?, Charles Lemert, Audrey Sprenger
Charles C Lemert
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The Person With Alzheimer's Disease : Pathways To Understanding The Experience, Phyllis Harris
The Person With Alzheimer's Disease : Pathways To Understanding The Experience, Phyllis Harris
Phyllis Braudy Harris
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Social Capital And Electronic Networks: For Profit Vs. For Community Approaches, John Sullivan, Eugene Borgida, Melinda Jackson, Eric Riedel, Alina Oxendine, Amy Gangl
Social Capital And Electronic Networks: For Profit Vs. For Community Approaches, John Sullivan, Eugene Borgida, Melinda Jackson, Eric Riedel, Alina Oxendine, Amy Gangl
Alina Oxendine
"I'M Not A Racist, But...": The Moral Quandary Of Race, Lawrence Blum
"I'M Not A Racist, But...": The Moral Quandary Of Race, Lawrence Blum
Lawrence Blum
Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. "We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing." Use of the word "racism" is pervasive: An article about the NAACP's criticism of television networks for casting too few "minority" actors in lead roles asks, "Is television a racist institution?" A white girl in Virginia says it is racist for her African-American teacher to wear African attire.Blum argues that a growing tendency to castigate as "racism" everything that goes wrong in …
A Tale Of Two Towns: Assessing The Role Of Political Resources In A Community Electronic Network, John Sullivan, Eugene Borgida, Melinda Jackson, Eric Riedel, Alina Oxendine
A Tale Of Two Towns: Assessing The Role Of Political Resources In A Community Electronic Network, John Sullivan, Eugene Borgida, Melinda Jackson, Eric Riedel, Alina Oxendine
Alina Oxendine
Civic Culture Meets The Digital Divide: The Role Of Community Electronic Networks
Civic Culture Meets The Digital Divide: The Role Of Community Electronic Networks
Alina Oxendine
The Might Have Been And Could Be Of Religion In Social Theory, Charles C. Lemert
The Might Have Been And Could Be Of Religion In Social Theory, Charles C. Lemert
Charles C Lemert
Religion may well be the most inscrutable surd of social theory, which began late in the 19th century dismissing the subject. Not even the renewal of interest in religion in the 1960s did much to make religion a respectable topic in social theory. It is possible that social theory’s troubles are, in part, due to its refusal to think about religion. Close examination of social theories of Greek religion suggest, for principal example, that religion is perfectly able to thrive alongside the profane provided both are founded on principles of finitude, which in turn may be said to be the …