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Jung in Context: Modernity and the Making of a Psychology
Peter HomansIn this new edition, Homans has added an extensive foreword linking the core of Jungian psychology to contemporary works it has shaped—such as those of M. Scott Peck and Clarissa Pinkola Estes—that proclaim the power of Jungian concepts ...
Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in ...
Margaret HomansA reprint of the 1986 work in which Homans (English, Yale) explores the variety of ways in which 19th c. women writers attempted to reclaim their own experiences as paradigms for writing.
Coming to My Senses: The Autobiography of a Sociologist
George Caspar HomansHomans considers academic and intellectual as well as nonacademic influences on his development: personalities of highly idiosyncratic individuals against whose views of culturalism, functionalism, and structuralism he reacted, discussions ...
Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, ...
Margaret HomansHomans considers versions of Victoria in the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Margaret Oliphant, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Julia Margaret Cameron.
AIDS: Responses, Interventions and Care
PreviewPeter Aggleton, Peter Davies, Graham Hart ... 1987), Social Aspects of AIDS (ed. with Hilary Homans, Falmer, 1988), AIDS: Social Representations and Social Practices (ed. with Graham Hart and Peter Davies, Falmer, 1989), AIDS: Individual, ...
Behavioral Theory in Sociology: Essays in Honor of George C. ...
PreviewEssays in Honor of George C. Homans George Caspar Homans, Robert Lee Hamblin, John H. Kunkel. Social. Exchange. Theory. in. a. World. of. Transient. Fact. Kenneth J. Gergen Over a decade has passed since the initial publication of ...
The Body of the Queen: Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, ...
PreviewEric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (Cambridge, 1983). 40. Munich, Queen Victoria's Secrets. 41. Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich, Introduction in Remaking Queen Victoria, eds. Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich ( Cambridge, ...
Real and Imagined Women in British Romanticism
Gaura Shankar NarayanSee also Margaret Homans, "Keats Reading Women, Women Reading Keats" in Studies in Romanticism 29 (Fall, 1990): 341-370. My findings here are clearly at odds with the conclusions of Margaret Homans, who says that Keats writes for an ...
Certainties and Doubts: Collected Papers, 1962-1985
George Caspar HomansCollected Papers, 1962-1985 George Caspar Homans. and u o OLLECTED PAPERS, 1962-1985 George Caspar Homans Certainties and Doubts Collected Papers, 1962-1985 George Caspar Unmans George. Front Cover.
The Human Group
PreviewIn all five cases, Homans selects comparable phenomena for analysis with a contextually different emphasis and elaboration each time.
George C. Homans: History, Theory, and Method
A Javier TreviqoIt is the first volume in over thirty years to offer a reappraisal of the life and work of one of the twentieth century's leading social scientists.
George C. Homans: History, Theory, and Method
A. Javier TreviñoIt is the first volume in over thirty years to offer a reappraisal of the life and work of one of the twentieth century's leading social scientists.
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977
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Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
Laurence J. PeterFrom the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
Dr. Laurence J. PeterFrom the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
The Witch Hazel: Poems of a Lifetime
George Caspar HomansThe volume also includes a few of his translations from Greek, Latin, and Provencal verse. The sheer variety of its subjects adds further interest to the volume.
Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily ...
Margaret HomansThese editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
Remaking Queen Victoria
Margaret HomansAn exploration of the diverse and conflicting meanings Queen Victoria held for her subjects and others.
The Human Group
George C. HomansPublished in 1998, The Human Group is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy.
Sentiments and Activities
George Caspar HomansPublished in 1998, Sentiments and Activities is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy.
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter
Robert SteinerSixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Romanticism
Cynthia ChaseMargaret Homans's Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in NineteenthCentury Women's Writing (1986) makes a strongcase for animportanttenet of feminist criticism: works by women reflect the fact that women necessarily ...
Before I Met You: A Novel
Lisa JewellPeter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
Small Groups: Key Readings
PreviewHolly Arrow When a number of persons have come together to form a group, their behavior never holds to its first pattern. Homans, 1950, p. 109 Holly Arrow, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. This article is ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
Dr. Laurence J. PeterWith the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
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