Complete Catalogue Spring Summer 2002 UBCPressand Agencies

Sociology · Social Psychology
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Families, Labour and Love
Family Diversity in a Changing
World
Maureen Baker
This book identifies the ways in which family and personal
life in three “settler” societies – Canada,
Australia, and New Zealand – have been shaped by
colonization, globalization, demographic changes,
law, and policy. Maureen Baker outlines the diversity
of families and the ways in which they are shaped by
historical and cultural forces.
Maureen Baker is Professor of Sociology, University
of Auckland, New Zealand.
2001
316 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4"
ISBN 0-7748-0848-9
hardcover, $80.00
ISBN 0-7748- 0849-7
paper, $24.95
North American rights only
Intimate Appraisals
A Thomas Cottle Social Reader
Thomas J. Cottle
This volume includes selections from many of
Cottle’s published books and papers. It adds some
previously unpublished papers to provide the first
overview and guide to his very special contribution to
social analysis.
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND
April
320 pages, 6 x 9”
ISBN 1-58465-142-3
paper, $33.95 CRO
Veblen and Modern America
Revolutionary Iconoclast
Michael Spindler
Thorstein Veblen is a key figure in American intellectual
history and his work is frequently compared with
that of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber for its breadth
and insight.
This study sets Veblen’s work in its social and intellectual
context, delineating its main concepts and
tensions and re-establishing the extent of his influence.
Spindler evaluates the usefulness and the
limitations of Veblen’s views for an understanding of
American culture by considering Veblen not just as
an economist or a sociologist but as a seminal analyst
and critic of modern American culture, whose
influence and importance have been underplayed
and whose radicalism has been blunted by postwar
commentators.
Michael Spindler teaches American Studies at De Montfort
University.
PLUTO PRESS
June
160 pages, 6 x 9”
ISBN 0-7453-0959-3
paper, $36.95 CRO
Childhood and Society
Growing Up in an Age of
Uncertainty
Nick Lee
Charts the emergence of the conceptual and institutional
divisions between adult “human beings” and
child “human beings” over the course of the modern
era.
OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS
January
192 pages, 6 x 9”
ISBN 0-335-20608-5
paper, $41.95 CRO
Social Research
Issues, Methods and Processes
Tim May
With its clear writing style, chapter summaries, questions
for reflection, and suggestions for further
readings, this book is the ideal companion to social
research in all areas of social science.
OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS
January
288 pages, 6 3/4 x 9 1/2"
ISBN 0-335-20612-3
paper, $38.95 CRO
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