Resultados de búsqueda: SOCIOLOGY from Chilton Books

Harmondsworth: Pelian Books, 1953.. 1st Penguin ed. A critical survey of the history, present conditions and prospects of the middle classes, from whom come most of the nation's brains, leadership and organizing ability. Pp. 256/1(ad). Toning to pages. P/b. G+.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1912.. 1st edition. Birmingham Studies in Social Economics and Adjacent Fields Volume I. (Edited by Professor W.J.Ashley). Pp.x/100, signed by the editor Walter Ashley to front free endpaper, a few light spots. Blue stiff card covers rubbed with wear to spine. G+.

London: IEA Health and Welfare Unit. 1993.. A book which is permeated with a feeling for how life is, and not by wishful thinking......A book that opens out argument, rather than just dishes it out". Pp 132. P/b. VG.

Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 1988.. 1st edition. "The first third of the collection focuses on cross-cultural and historical material, looking at the issues of alternative conceptualizations of the family and at the universality of the family as a structure, as well as the family in foraging societies, feudalsim and early capitalism. The remander deals with issues that pertain to contemporary families: gender society socialization, love, sexuality, child bearing, child rearing, housework, two-career marriages, divorce and family violence. in each case readings have been chosen that illuminate the issues while provoking the student to rethink his or her prejudices and naive understanding of family life." Pp.536, owner's name to title page and final page, spotting to closed page edges (not affecting pages internally). Paperback. G+.

London: IEA Health and Welfare Unit. 1993.. 1st ed. "Examines the proper social value of the bourgeois family, and its role in the emergence of Western civilisation". Pp 109. P/b. VG.

Middx. Penguin Books, Pelican Original, 1968.. Rep. "The fullest ouline there has yet been of the social history of the family in Britain". Pp. 258. Inscrip. to fep. Underlining to p. 130/131. Toning to pages. P/b. Illustd. cover. G.

London: The Study Commission On The Family, 1980.. Mrs Irvine visited Israel in 1950, and while working at the Lasker Centre for Mental Hygiene and Child Guidance she gathered information about child-rearing in kibbutzim for John Bowlby....she has returned to Israel serveral times.." Pp.34. Pbk. VG.

Boston: Ginn & Company, 1913.. Revised edition. Contents include: I. Fundamental Notions of the Folkways and of the Mores; II. Characteristics of the Mores; III.The Struggle for Existence; IV. Labor, Wealth; V. Societal Selection; VI. Slavery; VII. Abortion, Infanticide, Killing the Old; VIII. Cannibalism; IX. Sex Mores; X. The Marriage Institution; XI. The Social Codes; XII. Incest; XIII. Kinship, Blood Revenge, Primitive Justice, Peace Unions; XIV. Uncleanness and the Evil Eye; XV. The Mores can make Anything Right and Prevent Condemnation of Anything; XVI. Sacral Harlotry, Child Sacrifice; XVII. Popular Sports, Exhibitions, Drama; XVIII. Asceticism; XIX. Education, History; XX. Life Policy, Virtue vs Success. Pp.viii/692, portrait frontispiece, owner's name to front free endpaper, toning to closed page edges. Green cloth, gilt title to front and spine, wear to top and tail of spine and edges, boards a little rubbed. Good.

Illinois: Tyndale House Pub, 1977.. Rep. "This book is dedicated to the achievement of personal peace,prosperity, and progress of men as individuals, family leaders, and builders of society." Pp.236,inkstamp to verso front cover. P/b, spine sunned. G+.

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin (Pelican), 1970.. Continuing the long-term survey on child-rearing first described in their book 'Infant Care in an Urban Community', the authors now investigate the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four. Parents are interviewed in their homes ... and the open-ended questions allow them to produce a detailed study of how parents treat their children and ... how children treat their parents." Pp.606, toning to pages. P/b with illustrated cover. G+.

London: The Pilot Press, 1948.. 1st ed. "The book aims to remove the barriers to free expression in work, and in so doing, aims to increase industrial effectiveness." Pp.170, 8 figure illustrations. Cream cloth, rubbed. G.

London: Demos, 1995.. Drawing on extensive new data from the British Household Panel Study and MORI Socioconsult, this report descrbes in detail the lifestyles and values of the generation born in the 1960s and 1970s, including everything from violence to ambition, equal opportunities to political activism etc." Pp.160, owner's name to fep. P/b. G+.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd., 1980.. 1st Penguin ed. "For both those who live in the countryside and those who only visit it, it explains what is currently happening in rural England - and what is likely to happen in the future." Pp. 301/1 (ad), cartoon frontis, 5 cartoons, slight toning to pages. Illustrated p/b (illustrated by Norman Thelwell). G+.

London: SCM. 1943.. 1st ed. "This pamphlet is the outcome of very widespread enquiries. It is the work of the Department of the British Council of Churches dealing with Social Responsibility". Pp 64. P/b, indentation to rear cover, staples rusting. G+.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.. 1st.ed. "Shows the way to end one of the most tragic of national scandals." Pp. 286, toning to pages. P/b. G+.

London: Unwin Hyman, 1989.. 1st ed. Written by the former leader of the GLC Housing Group from 1977-1981. "George Tremlett focuses on the St Mungo hostels, set up in the mid 1960's to provide accommodation and support for the single homeless in London...The second part of the book is made up of the author's interviews with a handful of St Mungo's residents." Pp.12(introduction by Ken Livingstone)/160, occasional b/w photo portrait plates. Black cloth, d/w. VG/VG.

New York: Frederick A Stokes Company, 1904.. The Story of the Experiences of a Disguised American and his Wife studying the Immigration Question. With Sixty-Six Illustrations from Photographs by the author. Pp.303, sixty-six black & white photographs by the author. Blue cloth, gilt title to front and spine, inset photo illustration to front board slightly rubbed, spine dulled with wear to top and tail of spine and corner tips. Scarce. G+.

London: SCM, 1981.. 1st ed. A study of technology from the point of view of people. Pp. 5/119. Occasn. marks to margins. P/b. Illustd. cover. VG.

London: Family Policy Studies Centre. 1987.. The rhetoric surrounding the family is prolific and the interpretations of what is happening to it are as varied as they are many. There are those, for example, who view the institution of 'The Family' as being in a state of crisis". Pp 83. P/b. VG.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966.. 1st.ed. "The work of a sociologist who has specialized in education and delinquency. Stresses the present inadequacies in the passage leading from school to work." Pp. 239. 1 b/w illustration to back of verso front cover. 1 b/w illustration to fep. Page edges toned. P/b. Spine slightly scuffed. Illustrated cover. G+.