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Author
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
xi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"What can sociological theory tell us about the basic forces that shape our world? With clarity and authority, leading theorist Jonathan H. Turner seeks to answer this question through a brief, yet in-depth examination of twelve major sociological theories. Readers are given an opportunity to explore the foundational premise of each theory and key elements that make it distinctive. The book draws on biographical background, analysis of important works,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
1 online resource (x, 320p.).
Description
An assessment of the scholarship on cities that has developed within Marxism in the past quarter of a century to show how some of the most important weaknesses in Marxism as a social theory can be remedied by forcing it to engage seriously with cities and spatial concerns.
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
xvii, 429 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
The fifth edition of this text presents a balanced review of the ecological arguments that the urban arena produces unique experiential and urban-based cultural effects while exploring the broader political and economic contexts that produce and modify the urban environment. In addition to examining the urban dimensions of such topics as community formation and continuity, minority and majority dynamics, ethnic experience, poverty, power, and crime,...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file (49 min., 24 sec)) : sound, color.
Description
The first documentary in the collection plots the course of the river, from its source to its delta. In a succession of spectacular images we see the extraordinary geographical route that the Mekong takes, from the Tibetan plateau, down the mountains of the Yunnan Province in China, then through the tropical valleys and virgin forests of Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand before reaching the green plains of Vietnam. In the tropical forest, nature...
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 online resource (2 v.) : ill.
Description
'21st Century Sociology' provides a forum through which the vast array of knowledge accumulated can be organised into a definitive resource. The two volumes focus on the knowledge garnered in traditional areas of sociological inquiry, as well as document the general orientation of the emerging areas of sociological inquiry.
Pub. Date
[2005], c2000
Physical Desc
1 streaming video file (55 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Description
In 1900, 6% of America's children graduated from high school; by 1945, 51% graduated and 40% went on to college. This program recalls how massive immigration, child labor laws, and the explosive growth of cities fueled school attendance and transformed public education. Also explored are the impact of John Dewey's progressive ideas as well as the effects on students of controversial IQ tests, the "life adjustment" curriculum, and Cold War politics....
Series
Pub. Date
[2005], c2005
Physical Desc
1 streaming video file (117 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Description
Amidst a gloomy climate of failing schools and the stringent No Child Left Behind legislation, some communities have created a small revolution, achieving gains with children others had given up on - with implications for schools nationwide. In this penetrating documentary, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith travels from inner city to rural town to observe how some districts and reform models are making a difference: the Success for All...
Pub. Date
[2005], c1992
Physical Desc
1 streaming video file (40 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Description
This program with Bill Moyers compares the everyday experiences of two New York City middle school students and contrasts political rhetoric with the reality of American schooling. A profile of the two students and their different schools points out the inequalities of our current system and how disproportionate funding affects the quality of education. The program also features advocates for educational reform, who debate what the Democratic and...
12) Failing Grade
Pub. Date
[2010], c2005
Physical Desc
1 streaming video file (22 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Description
Use this ABC News program to explore links between a wide range of educational issues: school safety, overcrowding, privatization, and poor academic performance. The video takes viewers inside Chester High, a Pennsylvania school racked with security, staffing, and financial problems; in fact, Chester's difficulties are so great that the company hired to run the school has pulled out. With commentary from many sectors of the community-including students,...
Pub. Date
[2006], c1999
Physical Desc
1 streaming video file (53 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Description
Plato's academy was the first formal arena for education, where young men were tutored in the rigors of logic, philosophy, and mathematics. Prior to this, societies transmitted knowledge from one generation to the next orally, and after the advent of writing, through texts. Although education throughout history has been predominantly a privilege of the elite, universal education is currently seen as a basic right, necessary for a country's prosperity....
Pub. Date
[2005], c2000
Physical Desc
1 streaming video file (55 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Description
In 1983, the Reagan Administration's report, A Nation at Risk, shattered public confidence in America's school system and sparked a new wave of education reform. This program explores the impact of the "free market" experiments that ensued, from vouchers and charter schools to privatization-all with the goal of meeting tough new academic standards. Today, the debate rages on: do these diverse strategies challenge the founding fathers' notions of a...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2014
Physical Desc
1 streaming video file (27 min.) : sd., col.
Description
This program is geared to students just starting out in Sociology and sets out to make the subject more accessible by illustrating what's meant by a sociological problem, culture, socialization and identity. It looks at how societies not only shape how we behave but also how we see the world and takes apart the age old accusation that sociology is just 'common sense.'
Pub. Date
[2005], c2000
Physical Desc
1 streaming video file (55 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Description
In the aftermath of the Revolution, a newly independent America confronted one of its most daunting challenges: how to build a united nation out of thirteen disparate colonies. This program profiles the passionate crusade launched by Thomas Jefferson and continued by Noah Webster, Horace Mann, and others to create a common system of tax-supported schools that would mix people of different backgrounds and reinforce the bonds of democracy. A wealth...
