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The Civil Sphere

The Civil Sphere

Jeffrey C. Alexander Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology Yale University

Feelings for others--the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power or self-interest--are at the heart of this novel inquiry into the meeting place between normative theories of what we think we should do and empirical ...
The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology

The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology

Jeffrey C. Alexander

Alexander, Jeffrey C. 1998, Winter. “Bush, Hussein, and the Cultural Preparation for War: Toward a More Symbolic Theory of Political Legitimation.” Epoche 21 (1): 1–14. Alexander, Jeffrey C. 2000a. “Theorizing the Good Society: Hermeneutic, ...
The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology

The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology

Jeffrey C. Alexander

A work that will transform the way that sociologists think about culture and the social world, this book confirms Jeffrey Alexander's reputation as one of the major social theorists of our day.
The Culture and Power of Knowledge: Inquiries into ...

The Culture and Power of Knowledge: Inquiries into ...

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Nico Stehr is Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Richard V. Ericson is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada With 4 ...
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Mr. Jeffrey M. Cohen, Yale University; Mr. Charles A. Combs, Jr., General Electric Co., Phoenix, Arizona; Mr. Dale R. ... Kutztown State College; Professor Budmon R. Davis, University of Toledo; Mr. Paul L. Davis, West Virginia University; Mr.
Bulletin of Yale University

Bulletin of Yale University

Yale University

David Emanuel Hunter, M.Phil., Visiting Lecturer in Yale College (Trumbull College). Victor Waldemar Hurst, 3D, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine. Syed Husain, Ph.D., Research Associate in Biology. John Dennis Huston, Ph.D., Assistant ...
Deciphering the Global: Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects

Deciphering the Global: Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects

Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen is Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.
The Cambridge Handbook of Social Sciences in Australia

The Cambridge Handbook of Social Sciences in Australia

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Brian Galligan has been a professor of political science at the University of Melbourne since 1 99S, and previously was a professor in the Research School of ... Riaz Hassan is professor of sociology at the Flinders University of South Australia.
Islam in Historical Perspective

Islam in Historical Perspective

Alexander Knysh

Professor Leila Ahmed of Yale University has pointed out that the former group of verses constitutes “the fundamental message of Islam,” whereas the latter, “even his [the Prophet's] own practices, were the ephemeral aspects of the religion, ...
Decennial Record of the Class of 1896, Yale College

Decennial Record of the Class of 1896, Yale College

Yale University. Class of 1896

He is a son of David Alexander Stewart and Nancy Scott, who were married July 12th, i860, at Pittsburgh, and had altogether four children, three boys and one girl , three of whom lived to maturity. David Alexander Stewart (b. Sept. 23d, 1831 ...
The Old World's New World

The Old World's New World

C. Vann Woodward Sterling Professor of History Yale University (Emeritus)

C. Vann Woodward Sterling Professor of History Yale University (Emeritus). Introduction. For our sampling of European views of America we are dependent on those opinions that found written form and were preserved. Those not written or ...
The Power of Privilege: Yale and America's Elite Colleges

The Power of Privilege: Yale and America's Elite Colleges

Joseph A. Soares

This book is masterful. Joseph Soares has established himself as one of the most promising social critics. Judith Blau, author of Justice in the United States, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina"
Civic discourse and cultural politics in Canada: a cacophony ...

Civic discourse and cultural politics in Canada: a cacophony ...

Sherry Devereaux Ferguson

NEIL GERLACH is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. He holds degrees in sociology, anthropology, law, and education and teaches in the areas of economic ...
Journal

Journal

Association of American Medical Colleges

University of California Medical School Dr. Charles M. Carpenter has been appointed professor and chairman of the ... Edward L. Tatum, Ph.D., professor of microbiology at the Institute of Microbiology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., has ...
The American Woman's Home, Or, Principles of Domestic Science

The American Woman's Home, Or, Principles of Domestic Science

Catharine Esther Beecher

Beecher became a teacher in 1821 at a school in New Haven, Connecticut. Catharine was engaged to marry Professor Alexander M. Fisher of Yale University, but he died at sea before the wedding took place. She never married.
Moral Panics over Contemporary Children and Youth

Moral Panics over Contemporary Children and Youth

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Mary deYoung Mary de Young holds a PhD in Sociology from Western Michigan University. She is Professor of Sociology at Grand Valley State University and a Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress (BCETS). She has presented papers ...
Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth-Century ...

Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth-Century ...

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But many others who were students at Yale rather than faculty there deserve mention as influenced by the “Yale School,” for example Cynthia Chase, a graduate student of de Man's at Yale and now a professor at Cornell, or Ian Balfour, now a ...
The Evolution of Health Services Research: Personal ...

The Evolution of Health Services Research: Personal ...

Odin W. Anderson

Grace Budrys Grace Budrys earned her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago in 1976. I was the chair of her dissertation committee. She is now professor of sociology and director of the Public Service Program at De Paul University, ...
Knowledge and Pedagogy: The Sociology of Basil Bernstein

Knowledge and Pedagogy: The Sociology of Basil Bernstein

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The Sociology of Basil Bernstein Alan R. Sadovnik. C. Roger Rees is Professor of Physical Education at Adelphi University. He has edited Sport and Social Theory (with Andrew Miracle) and several other books on the sociology and social ...
The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness

The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness

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David Pilgrim is Professor of Mental Health Policy in the School of Social Work at the University of Central Lancashire and Visiting Professor, University of Liverpool, UK. He has higher degrees in both psychology and sociology and his career ...
Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent

Alexander Crummell: A Study of Civilization and Discontent

Wilson Jeremiah Moses

Born in New York in 1819, Alexander Crummell was educated at Queen's College, Cambridge, after being denied admission to Yale University and the Episcopal Seminary on purely racial grounds.
A Practical guide to pediatric intensive care

A Practical guide to pediatric intensive care

Jeffrey L. Blumer

... Florida MARTIN EICHELBERGER, M.D. Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics George Washington University Director of ... Ohio CHRISTINE GLEASON, M.D. Assistant Professor Department of Pediatrics Johns Hopkins University Baltimore,  ...
The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its ...

The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its ...

James Jupp

Dr Ian Har.MSTORF was born in Adelaide and is a visiting research fellow in the graduate school of education, University of Adelaide. PROFESSOR Riaz Hassan, fassa, was born in India and is professor of sociology at the Flinders University ...
Delinquency in Society: The Essentials

Delinquency in Society: The Essentials

Professor Emeritus University of Colorado Boulder Robert M Regoli

Professor Emeritus University of Colorado Boulder Robert M Regoli, Robert M. Regoli, John D. Hewitt, Matt DeLisi, Professor Iowa State University Matt Delisi. Robert M. Regoli is Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado.
The Campus Guide: Yale University

The Campus Guide: Yale University

Patrick Pinnell

The Campus Guide: Yale University offers an insider's view of the most historic and interesting buildings on campus and around New Haven, from Connecticut Hall to Ingalls Hockey Rink - fondly known as the "Yale Whale.
The American Quarterly Register

The American Quarterly Register

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Cornelius, Mr. 17% Yale John H. 1810 Hart. James Lyon 1735 Yale Moses 17(11 Yale John 1700 Yale Asa H., Mr. 1777 Dart. WalUr, Mr., and at Yale '82 ... 1833 Yale Christopher It. 1833 Yale John Macclintock 17G1 Harv. —Samuel, N. J. '51 ...
The President's Report to the Board of Regents for the ...

The President's Report to the Board of Regents for the ...

University of Michigan

New appointments in the Department of Art over the past year were as follows. Vincent Castagnacci, assistant professor of art and a painter, studied at the Boston Museum School and is a graduate of Tufts University, and of Yale University ...
Bulletin

Bulletin

Yale University

... Valentine Keesling, Jr. Millard Alexander Kelly Joseph Sutton Kendall, 3d Alexander Carl Kern Willem Elira Keur Sidney Barnes Kieselhorst Robert Clyatt Kimberly Denison Kitchel Anthony Kivic Albert Haines Kline New Haven, Conn.
Property and Power in a City

Property and Power in a City

David McCrone

PROPERTY AND POWER IN A CITY The Sociological Significance of Landlordism DAVID McCRONE Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh and BRIAN ELLIOTT Visiting Associate Professor in Sociology at the University ...
Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate

Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate

Jeffrey C. Alexander

Presenting Jeffrey Alexander's controversial essay that, in the words of Geoffrey Hartman, has already become a classic in the Holocaust literature, and following up with challenging and equally provocative responses to it, this book offers ...

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