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- BELL CURVE :
Intelligence
and Class
Structure in
American Life
(A Free Press
Paperbacks
Book): (10 January
1996)Richard
Herrnstein,
Charles Murray
Source: (10 January 1996) - Skin: Talking
About Sex,
Class And
Literature: (28 June
2005)Dorothy
Allison
Source: (28 June 2005) - Beyond the
Family
Economy: Black
and White
Working-Class
Women during
the Great
Depression: Feminist
Studies, Vol.
13, No. 3.
(1987), pp.
629-655.Lois
Helmbold
Source: Feminist Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3. (1987), pp. 629-655. - Class : A
Guide Through
the American
Status System: (01 October
1992) In Class
Paul Fussell
explodes the
sacred
American myth
of social
equality with
eagle-eyed
irreverence
and
iconoclastic
wit. This
bestselling,
superbly
researched,
exquisitely
observed guide
to the signs,
symbols, and
customs of the
American class
system is
always
outrageously
on the mark as
Fussell shows
us how our
status is
revealed by
everything we
do, say, and
own. He
describes the
houses,
objects,
artifacts,
speech,
clothing
styles, and
intellectual
proclivities
of American
classes from
the top to the
bottom and
everybody --
you'll surely
recognize
yourself -- in
between. Class
is guaranteed
to amuse and
infuriate,
whether your
class is so
high it's out
of sight
(literally) or
you are, alas,
a sinking
victim of
prole drift.
Paul Fussell
Source: (01 October 1992) - Women's Labor
History,
1790-1945: Reviews in
American
History, Vol.
17, No. 4.
(1989), pp.
501-518.Lois
Helmbold, Ann
Schofield
Source: Reviews in American History, Vol. 17, No. 4. (1989), pp. 501-518. - Toward a
Unified Theory
of Class,
Race, and
Gender: American
Ethnologist,
Vol. 16, No.
3. (1989), pp.
534-550.Karen
Sacks
Source: American Ethnologist, Vol. 16, No. 3. (1989), pp. 534-550. - A Theory of
Global
Capitalism:
Production,
Class, and
State in a
Transnational
World (Themes
in Global
Social Change): (06 February
2004)In this
book,
sociologist
William I.
Robinson
offers a
theory of
globalization
that follows
the rise of a
new capitalist
class and a
transnational
state. Growing
beyond
national
boundaries,
this new class
comprises a
global system
in which
Japanese
capitalists
are just as
comfortable
investing in
Latin America
as North
Americans are
in Southeast
Asia. Their
development of
global,
interconnected
industries and
businesses
make them
drivers of
world
capitalism.
Robinson
explains how
global capital
mobility has
allowed
capital to
reorganize
production
worldwide in
accordance
with a whole
range of
considerations
that allow for
maximizing
profit making
opportunities.
As a result,
production
systems that
were once
located in a
single country
have been
fragmented and
integrated
externally
into new
globalized
circuits of
accumulation.
What this
means,
however, is
not simply
that factories
are located
overseas where
labor might be
cheaper, but
rather that
the whole
production
process is
broken down
into smaller
parts and each
of those parts
moved to a
different
country,
depending on
where
investment
might be
highest. Yet
at the same
time, this
worldwide
decentralizati
on and
fragmentation
of the
production
process has
taken place
alongside the
centralization
of command and
control of the
global economy
in
transnational
capital. In
turn, this
economic
organization
finds a
political
counterpart in
the rise of a
transnational
state. The
leaders of
global
businesses and
industries
think about
themselves and
how they live
in new ways.
Hegemony in
the twenty-
first century,
Robinson
argues, will
be exercised
not by a
particular
nation- state
but by this
new global
ruling class
through the
machinery of
this
transnational
state.
Robinson
observes, for
example, that
global elites,
regardless of
their
nationality,
increasingly
tend to share
similar
lifestyles and
interact
through
expanding
networks of
the
transnational
state.
Globalization
is in this way
unifying the
world into a
single mode of
production and
a single
global system
and bringing
about the
integration of
different
countries and
regions into a
new global
economy and
society. But
the new global
capitalism is
rife with
contradictions
, such as the
growing rift
between the
global rich
and the global
poor,
concludes
Robinson. The
twenty- first
century is
likely to
harbor ongoing
conflicts and
disputes for
control
between the
new
transnational
ruling group
and the
expanding
ranks of the
poor and the
marginalized.
Sure to stir
controversy
and debate, A
Theory of
Global
Capitalism
will be of
interest to
sociologists
and economists
alike.William
Robinson
Source: (06 February 2004) - Structured
group
activities
with
family-of-orig
in themes: The Journal
for
Specialists in
Group Work,
Vol. 25, No.
1. (2000), pp.
89-103.This
article
discusses a
set of highly
structured
psychoeducatio
nal
family-of-orig
in activities
for
preventive,
growth, theme,
or remedial
groups. The
activities are
useful in
school and
university
counseling
settings as
well as in
community
agencies. The
activities
highlight
several
important
themes drawn
from family
systems
therapy: the
family of
origin as a
system, family
organization,
family
communication,
and family
change. The
article
presents a
rationale for
using
structured
group work to
focus on
family of
origin.
Descriptions
of the
activities
include goals,
scripts for
psychoeducatio
nal content
for the leader
to introduce,
questions to
facilitate
exercises in
rounds that
promote
relating
family-origin
concepts to
the lives of
the group
members, and
questions to
facilitate
group
processing.Ric
hard Mathis,
Zoë Tanner
Source: The Journal for Specialists in Group Work, Vol. 25, No. 1. (2000), pp. 89-103. - Family
Snapshots: A
Descriptive
Classroom
Exercise in
Memory and
Insight: The Family
Journal, Vol.
16, No. 4. (1
October 2008),
pp.
381-383."Famil
y Snapshots"
are
100-words-or-l
ess
descriptive
memories of
times in the
lives of
families that
highlight
poignant
moments. They
complement
other
exercises
within a
family
counseling
course,
including the
use of
genograms.
Modeled after
the Washington
Post
Magazine's
series "Life
Is Short:
Autobiography
as Haiku,"
these
snapshots give
writers
awareness and
insight
because of
their focus on
telling a
story rather
than being
didactic.
Family
snapshots have
the potential
for use in
family
counseling and
in academic
courses for
family
therapists.
Examples of
family
snapshots are
given along
with
interpretation
s of,
reactions to,
and
limitations of
this
technique.
10.1177/106648
0708322808Samu
el Gladding,
Elizabeth Cox
Source: The Family Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4. (1 October 2008), pp. 381-383. - Proposals for
the
Measurement of
Individual
Social Capital: this paper. In
this section
we discuss
various clues
that may help
to determine
useful
classification
s of social
resourcesMarti
n Van Der
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