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The Asiatic Mode of Production: Science and Politics (Routledge Library Editions: Business and Economics in Asia #4)
By Anne M. Bailey and Josep R. Llobera. 1981
This wide-ranging collection of articles, first published in 1981, documents the development of the intellectual and political aspects of the…
concept of the Asiatic Mode of Production – a concept central to the Western understanding of non-capitalist societies.Egypt's Agricultural Development, 1800-1980: Technical And Social Change
By Alan Richards. 1982
This book uses both microeconomic theory and social and political analysis to show how the interaction of social classes, technical…
change, government policy, and the international and state systems have shaped Egypt's agricultural development.Structures Of Thinking V10 (International Library Of Society Ser.)
By Karl Mannheim. 1982
The famed 1914 edition of this classic is one of the small handful of works that deserve to be read…
by Americans to understand the 1980s. Indeed, the final three chapters, describing the decline of will and consensus in late Victorian England, stand as a stark, unmistakable reminder that such national decline can happen again. Dicey was the most influential constitutional authority in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Modern politicians have often invoked the phrase "rule of law." So commonplace has it become that few recognize its source in the work of Dicey. Law and Public Opinion in England is written with simplicity, wit and a sense of purpose that marks it as a book apart. It did much more than fortell the decline of empire, it developed the forms in which such decline comes about. In many ways this book represents a pioneering statement on the libertarian tradition as a consequence of rather than rebellion against the legal norms of an advanced civilization. This is a central book for students of society and politics alike.Politics and Educational Change: An International Survey (Routledge Revivals)
By Colin Brock, Witold Tulasiewicz, Patricia Broadfoot. 1981
Published in 1981. Throughout the world, education is a highly contentious political issue. Politicians are involved in educational decision making…
at all levels and very often educational reform is as much motivated by political ideology as by educational considerations. This book, which draws together the work of many leading authorities, examines the current state of educational politics in many parts of the world. The book looks at the problem from a theoretical and a comparative perspective, and then analyses the problem in particular areas which include North America, Western Europe and Third World countries.Biology And The Social Sciences: An Emerging Revolution
By Thomas C. Wiegele. 1982
Exciting new developments in behavioral biology are creating an intellectual revolution in the study of human behavior and are causing…
social scientists to reassess the ways in which they approach their disciplines. This book examines how these new findings are likely to transform and shape anthropology, sociology, economics, and political science in the coming decade. The book begins with an overview of the rapidly changing relationship between biological and social studies. In successive sections, well-known social scientists, biologists, and philosophers address the theoretical challenges involved in incorporating material from sociobiology, ecology, genetics, and psychophysiology into their own disciplines' approaches to the analysis of human behavior. The concluding chapters examine specific methodological problems and related issues.Anglo-Russian Rivalry in Central Asia 1810-1895
By Gerald Morgan. 1981
New Directions in Primary Education (Routledge Library Editions: Curriculum #28)
By Colin Richards. 1982
Originally published in 1982. This book analyses developments in primary education since 1974 and from this analysis draws out issues…
gaining rapidly in currency and seem likely to have significant impact on primary education in the following decade. As well as including a substantial number of papers written specially for the book, it draws on some of the best of writing on primary education at the time. This is extremely useful for those interested in curriculum history.First published in 1982. This book brings together some of the most influential articles which had moulded British religious education.…
The articles are divided into specialised sections dealing with various aspects of the subject so that the main developments are clearly indicated. The first section of the book deals with research into the religious psychology of childhood. This is followed by two collections of articles dealing with the search for a philosophy of religious education and with the problems created for the teaching of religion in Britain by our pluralist society. The fourth section deals with the problems of designing a curriculum in religious education, while the final part gives some examples of methods in the teaching of religion. The book thus provides, both the general reader, the student teacher and the specialist religious education teacher, an easily accessible collection of many of the materials which had created British religious education.Fellah and Townsman in the Middle East: Studies in Social History
By Gabriel Baer. 1982
This volume deals with the history of the "common people" in the Middle East, both villagers and urban dwellers. It…
investigates some of the characteristic traits of the structure and development of urban and rural society in pre-modern and modern Middle Eastern history.First published in 1982, this collection of essays provides an analysis of education’s contradictory role in social reproduction. It looks…
at the complex relations between the economic, political and cultural spheres of society, both historically and at the time of publication, and hones the wider range of debate in on education. This volume will be of interest to those studying sociology and equality in education.Themes in Geographic Thought (Routledge Revivals)
By Milton E. Harvey and Brian P. Holly. 1981
Themes in Geographic Thought, first published in 1981, explores in breadth and depth the interrelationships among the history of Geography,…
geographic thought, and methodology, specifically focusing on the interactions between geographical research and various contemporary philosophical schools: positivism, pragmatism, functionalism, phenomenology, existentialism, idealism, realism and Marxism. An attempt is made to synthesise Geography’s historically rich tradition with the current diversity in approaches to the discipline, based on the belief that ‘geographic thought’, at any point in time, is a manifestation of the mutual influence between the prevailing philosophical viewpoints and the major methodological approaches in vogue. Each chapter presents an overview of the concrete ideas of a particular school of philosophy and stresses its relevance and impact on various aspects of Geography.Rock 'n' Roll (Routledge Library Editions: Popular Music #8)
By Dave Rogers. 1982
When rock ‘n’ roll began its ascendancy in the 1950s the older generation saw it as dangerous, renegade, threatening the…
moral stability of a nation. Young people saw it as freedom, and most importantly, as their music. The teenage revolution was here, This book, first published in 1982, traces the roots of this cultural transformation, its emergence in rock ‘n’ roll and other media, and shows just how violent the confrontation was by looking at contemporary newspaper reports.Research In The Age Of The Steady-state University
By Don I. Phillips, Benjamin S. P. Shen. 1982
The authors of this book point to the need for a strong cooperative relationship between research and education to halt…
declines and to regain some of the earlier vitality of both. Representatives of the scientific, educational, and government sectors look at the problems and prospects facingU.S. research and university education, presenting the perspectives of their own institutional biases and turning also to the experiences of Canada and Western Europe. The concerns,proposals, and requirements they express deal with areas of conflict and suggest possible solutions. Though their views sometimes diverge, the authors seek to define some basic principles that can guide the development of productive new policies.Originally published in 1982 The Strategy of Equality examines public expenditure on the social services as a strategy for promoting…
social equality. Today there is a widespread belief that the strategy has worked and that public spending on the social services primarily benefits those less well off. However, there have been few attempts to examine whether this belief is founded in reality. This book attempts to rectify this. Examining four areas of social policy: health care, education, housing, and transport, the book looks at the distribution of public expenditure and the ‘outcome’ of that expenditure, as well as the implications for various conceptions of equality.Society in America (Cambridge Library Collection - North American History Ser.)
By Harriet Martineau. 1981
Harriet Martineau brought to her observations the convictions of a vehement English liberal and an astonishingly modern sociological approach. In…
1834 she wrote the first draft of How to Observe Manners and Morals--perhaps the earliest book on the methodology of social research. In abridging the 800-page original for the modern reader, Lipset has concentrated on Martineau's brilliant discussion of religious practices, social status, and childrearing; political apathy and the position of women, blacks, and immigrants; and the American's casual approach to indebtedness and his speculative wealth-or-ruin schemes.Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
By Mary Beard. 2008
Popular Music: A Teacher's Guide (Routledge Library Editions: Popular Music)
By Edward Lee, Graham Vulliamy. 1982
The approach of this book, first published in 1982, is multi-disciplinary. Popular music, it is argued, is not only a…
musical but also a social phenomenon; the criteria needed to assess it are different from those used in the appreciation of ‘classical’ music. The first section of this guide is devoted to setting out just what those criteria should be. A second section puts forward bases for course construction that are detailed and flexible. A final section provides a list of further resources.Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties: Volume 1
By Moisei Ostrogorski. 1981
Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties, originally published in 1902, represented the first serious attempt to analyze the consequences…
of democratic suffrage by a comparative analysis of political systems. As such, Ostrogorski's two-volume study of the party system in Britain and the United States exerted profound influence on the subsequent writings of Max Weber and Robert Michels. A descriptive analyst of the party system in these two countries, Ostrogorski developed concepts and methods that an-ticipated by nearly half a century those later used by American and British political scientists.The core of Ostrogorski's analysis is a detailed history of the rise of and changes within the party system in Britain and the United States, the first nations to introduce mass suffrage. While the emphasis of Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties is on the similar trends in the political parties of both countries, Ostrogorski also showed concern with the sources of differences between them. Seeking to explain these variations, he suggested a number of fundamental hypotheses about these two societies that con-tinue to be of relevance today. Lipset's substantial introduction places Os-trogorski's work within its historical context and assesses Ostrogorski's im-pact and influence on both his contemporaries and on later political scien-tists.Distance Teaching For Higher and Adult Education (Routledge Library Editions: Adult Education)
By Anthony Tony Kaye And Greville Rumble. 1981
Originally published in 1981 this volume provides a detailed analysis of the factors - strategic, pedagogic, operational, organisational and financial…
-which should be taken into account in the planning and running of large-scale, centralised distance education systems at the higher education level. The book uses evidence drawn from Open University type institutions in Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and the UK.