Sociology in
a Changing World: Challenges and Perspectives
Edited by Gregory Katsas
ISBN:
978-960-6672-44-6, 412 pages, Hardback
First published in 2009
by ATINER
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Table of Contents
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1. |
Introduction Katsas, G. |
1 |
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PART I: Deviance |
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2. |
Terrorism as Problem Solving? Towards a Theory of Terrorist Action Artus, H.M. |
11 |
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3. |
The Contribution of Social Sciences to Security
Culture Chiru, I. and Ciuperca, E.M. |
29 |
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4. |
Comparative
Analysis of Public Safety Policy of Antwerp and Rotterdam Marks,
P. and Van Sluis, A. |
39 |
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5. |
Mapping
the Fear: The Social Construction of Homicide Pre and Post-Katrina in New
Orleans
Boulahanis, J.G. |
51 |
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6. |
Indigenous
Policing Models: Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand Lithopoulos, S. |
65 |
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7. |
Women
and Violence: A Research on Perceptions of Turkish Community Living in
Holland Hablemitoglu, S. |
79 |
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8. |
Fear
of Crime among the Elderly: A
Social Capital Perspective De
Donder, L., Buffel, T., Verté, D. and De Witte, N. |
93 |
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9. |
Predictors
of Alcohol Use among Detained Adolescents: Peer or Family Influences? Thompson, S.J. and Bender, K. |
107 |
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10. |
School
Behavior Problems among Young Adult Children of Problem drinking Parents: A
National Intercohort Longitudinal Study in the United
States: 1984-2004 Jennison, K. and Johnson, K.A. |
123 |
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11. |
Canadian
Prostitution Legislation: Making
(In) Visible the Male Prostitute Marques, O. |
137 |
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PART II: Ethnicity, Race and Migration |
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12. |
National
vs. European Identity and Social Representations of ‘Europe’ in the Present
Romanian Society Stefanescu, S. |
153 |
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13. |
Negotiating
Identities in a Host Society: Case
of Refugees from Turkey Erdogan, S. |
165 |
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14. |
The Levant Migration to the United States: The Development of Communal Identity and
Patterns of Political Participation Abouyoub, Y. |
177 |
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15. |
Challenges and Aspirations of Somali Youth
Immigrants in Sweden Ngeh, J. |
191 |
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16. |
‘Oh,
how they worked’: Reflections on Italian-Canadian Economic Strategies and
Collective Identity deRoche, C.P. and deRoche, J. E. |
203 |
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17. |
The
Social Making of Well-Being in a Community of Italian Canadians deRoche, J. E. and deRoche, C.P. |
215 |
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PART III: Aging, Disabilities and
Health |
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Non-Emergent
Care Causing Emergent Problems Lester, M. |
231 |
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19. |
Big
Boom: The Upcoming Crisis in Elder Caregiving in
America Davis, N.J. |
243 |
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20. |
The
Social Universe of Adolescence in the Context of Physical Disability. A
Qualitative Approach Iovu, M-B. |
257 |
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21. |
Services
for Mothers with Disabilities: Surveillance,
Gender Struggles and Infantilization Malacrida, C. |
271 |
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22. |
Assessment Factors of
Spirituality with Culturally Diverse Chronically Ill Adults & Families Levy, P. |
283 |
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PART IV: Realities, Inequalities and Institutions |
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23. |
Dressing
our Identity: Symbolic Expression of our Bodies and Fashion in Identity
Formation Clancy, S.J. |
301 |
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24. |
On
the Casual and Incidental of Human Reality Eneroth, B. |
313 |
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25. |
The
Phenomenon of Child Labor in Jarash/Jordan Al-atom, B. |
325 |
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26. |
Family
Life Skills Approach for the Social Human Development of Young People Ozmete, E. |
337 |
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27. |
Gentlemen have no
Memory. Some Considerations about Male Infidelity in Mexico Rojas, O., Cordoba, D. and Nehring,
D. |
349 |
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PART V: Structure, Theory and Globalization |
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28. |
Toward
the Globalization of Religious Capital? Campion, P. |
365 |
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29. |
Conspiring
on an International Scale: A
Sociological Interpretation of Global Conspiracy Theories Murguia, S.J. |
383 |
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30. |
The
Social Structure of Knowledge Societies Biester, C. |
397 |
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