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the classic work by Hechter 1975),
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Kinship is so central to small-scale societies that it might legitimately be regarded as one of the main organising principles of the human social world.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
James Q. Wilson and George Kelling
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
By the fact of his living he contributes, however minutely, to the shaping of this society and to the course of its history, even as he is made by society and by its historical push and shove.
C. Wright Mills, Todd Gitlin (Afterword) • The Sociological Imagination
Chris Hayes • On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
Hitherto,
Enrico Ferri • Criminal Sociology
Men find meaning in one role — provider.
Carlyn Beccia • A Researcher Studied the Most Common Last Words of Suicidal Men
A doctor, lawyer, or engineer may become wealthy, but the real meaning of their work is that they sustain health, justice, good government, or safety. The flight from the humanities has become a flight from conscience. It has created an elite class of experts who seldom look beyond their tasks and disciplines to put what they do in a wider, social
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