William Graham Sumner is remembered primarily as an opponent of government intervention in social and economic issues. Focusing on Folkways (1906), this book examines Sumner's fundamental work as a comparative ethnographer with an appreciation for the rules and rituals that regulate everyday behavior.In Folkways, Sumner developed classifications and an array of sociological concepts that continue to influence the discipline today. This new book presents key excerpts from Folkways as well as three of Sumner's other classic essays. It also includes five original essays by contemporary authorities that explain and explore Sumner's importance and influence. By linking Sumner's work to contemporary research about social control, the sociology of law, and sociological theory, these new essays confirm his status as a foundational thinker in the field.Sumner offers an elegant conceptual schema with which to analyze the moral codes of in- and out-groups. His extensive use of comparative anthropological data demonstrates a qualitative methodology that can easily be applied to the analysis of contemporary American society. This volume includes contributions by Jonathan B. Imber, Howard G. Schneiderman, and A. Javier Trevino.

A comprehensive ethnohistory of the earliest people to settle the Mariana Islands. Maps, line drawings, glossary, bibliography, and index.

This extraordinary prescient work by Ferdinand Toennies was written in 1887 for a small coterie of scholars, and over the next fifty years continued to grow in importance and adherents. Its translator into English, Charles P. Loomis, well described it as a volume which pointed back into the Middle Ages and ahead into the future in its attempt to answer the questions: "What are we? Where are we? Whence did we come? Where are we going?" If the questions seem portentous in the extreme, the answers Toennies provides are modest and compelling. Every major field from sociology, to psychology, to anthropology, has found this to be a praiseworthy book. The admirable translation by Professor Loomis did much to transfer praise for the Toennies text from the German to the English-speaking world. Now, outfitted with a brilliant new opening essay by John Samples, the author of a recent full-scale biographical work on Toennies, 'Community and Society' is back in print; a welcome reminder of the glorious past of German social science.

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REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing for exams, doing homework and will remain a lasting reference source for students, teachers, and professionals. Sociology reviews sociological perspectives, methods of research, socialization and self-formation, cultures, society, theories of societies, social structure and the social process, social groups and organizations, deviance, law and crime, the family, social stratification, gender and sexuality, ethnicity and race, aging and the elderly, health care, collective behavior, social movements and social change.

""Richard Cox's book emerges, green and refreshing, as an oasis in a desert planted with cactus or downright fake trees of spiritual reading . . . Readers will have a remarkable experience . . . and they will be sorry to come to the last page . . . A book for all seasons by a man for all seasons."" --Eugene Kennedy Author, syndicated columnist, Professor Emeritus, Psychology Loyola University, Chicago ""Issues of the Soul is a book that I'd encourage everyone to read . . . presented in a spiritual and psychological context [that provides the reader with] the potential for achieving a richer, fuller life."" --Gordon Johnson President/CEO Jane Addams Hull House Association ""What Richard Cox shares is not dry erudition but vital insights illuminated by an abundance of personal and very relevant anecdotes. This is by no means just another book."" --Vernon Grounds Chancellor Denver Seminary ""Richard Cox has written a masterpiece in Issues of the Soul. It is all together fitting and proper that he has written this book, and made his wisdom, wit, and insight available to a broad audience."" --Herbert H. Franks President Illinois State Bar Association ""Comparing life to a cake that is best savored slice by slice, and written by a man who lived, endured and ultimately exulted in every slice of what life offered him, Issues of the Soul is a refreshing, challenging, and a down-to-the-very-groundedness-of-human-existence commentary on contemporary life and its sociological perceptions and misperceptions."" --Unula Anderson, MD author of Immunology of the Soul Richard H. Cox, author, psychologist, physician, and theologian is President Emeritus/Professor of the Forest Institute, an accredited graduate school of professional psychology. He is a charter member of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (retired) and ordained Presbyterian (USA) minister.

A good introduction to crime types and criminology to provide students with a grounding to the start of their studies.