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AFL-CIO's secret war against developing country workers solidarity or sabotage? / by Scipes, Kim

Table of Contents: “…Business unionism, Samuel Gompers and AFL foreign policy -- One hundred years of reaction : from Gompers to Sweeney -- War within labor : the struggle to build international labor solidarity -- The U.S. government and labor -- Conclusions, some ramifications, and effects on sociological theory.…”
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Confronting animal abuse law, criminology, and human-animal relationships / by Beirne, Piers

Table of Contents: “…understanding the Act Against Plowing by the Tayle (Ireland, 1635) -- The prosecution of animal cruelty in Puritan Massachusetts, 1636-1683 -- Towards a sociology of animal sexual assault -- Horse maiming and the sport of kings -- Is there a progression from animal abuse to interhuman violence?…”
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Leviticus in Hebrews a transtextual analysis of the tabernacle theme in the Letter to the Hebrews / by Philip, Mayjee

Table of Contents: “…-- Appendix I : use of select OT themes in Barnabas -- Appendix II : a critique of Julia Kristeva's intertextuality -- Appendix III : theological and sociological terminology -- Appendix IV : transtextuality in Hebrews.…”
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Judicial orientation : the black box of drug court / by Contrino, Kathleen M., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : sociology and the development of drug court -- A look at drug court's black box : the role of judicial orientation -- Social construction and drug court -- A qualitative look at drug court -- Judicial orientation in court -- Social construction of addiction -- Critical issues and concluding thoughts.…”
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Confronting animal abuse law, criminology, and human-animal relationships / by Beirne, Piers

Table of Contents: “…understanding the Act Against Plowing by the Tayle (Ireland, 1635) -- The prosecution of animal cruelty in Puritan Massachusetts, 1636-1683 -- Towards a sociology of animal sexual assault -- Horse maiming and the sport of kings -- Is there a progression from animal abuse to interhuman violence?…”
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Leviticus in Hebrews a transtextual analysis of the tabernacle theme in the Letter to the Hebrews / by Philip, Mayjee

Table of Contents: “…-- Appendix I : use of select OT themes in Barnabas -- Appendix II : a critique of Julia Kristeva's intertextuality -- Appendix III : theological and sociological terminology -- Appendix IV : transtextuality in Hebrews.…”
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Judicial orientation : the black box of drug court / by Contrino, Kathleen M., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : sociology and the development of drug court -- A look at drug court's black box : the role of judicial orientation -- Social construction and drug court -- A qualitative look at drug court -- Judicial orientation in court -- Social construction of addiction -- Critical issues and concluding thoughts.…”
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Beyond Islam a new understanding of the Middle East / by Zubaida, Sami, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Is there a Muslim society? : Ernest Gellner's sociology of Islam -- Political modernity in the Middle East -- Shifting social boundaries and identities in the modern Middle East -- Cosmopolitans, nationalists and fundamentalists in the modern Middle East -- The public and the private in Middle Eastern history and society -- Islam and nationalism : continuities and contradictions.…”
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Beyond Islam a new understanding of the Middle East / by Zubaida, Sami, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Is there a Muslim society? : Ernest Gellner's sociology of Islam -- Political modernity in the Middle East -- Shifting social boundaries and identities in the modern Middle East -- Cosmopolitans, nationalists and fundamentalists in the modern Middle East -- The public and the private in Middle Eastern history and society -- Islam and nationalism : continuities and contradictions.…”
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Governing environmental flows global challenges to social theory /

Table of Contents: “…Mol, and Hans Bruyninckx -- Toward a sociology of environmental flows : a new agenda for twenty-first-century environmental sociology / Arthur P.J. …”
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Governing environmental flows global challenges to social theory /

Table of Contents: “…Mol, and Hans Bruyninckx -- Toward a sociology of environmental flows : a new agenda for twenty-first-century environmental sociology / Arthur P.J. …”
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Doctoring medical governance medical self-regulation in transition / by Chamberlain, John M.

Table of Contents: “…From ancient beginnings to the 1858 Medical Act -- From club governance to stakeholder regulation -- The sociological analysis of the principle of medical self-regulation -- The restratification thesis and challenges to medical autonomy in the UK -- Performance appraisal inside the medical club -- The governance of doctors under neo-liberal mentalities of rule.…”
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Doctoring medical governance medical self-regulation in transition / by Chamberlain, John M.

Table of Contents: “…From ancient beginnings to the 1858 Medical Act -- From club governance to stakeholder regulation -- The sociological analysis of the principle of medical self-regulation -- The restratification thesis and challenges to medical autonomy in the UK -- Performance appraisal inside the medical club -- The governance of doctors under neo-liberal mentalities of rule.…”
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Making Israel

Table of Contents: “…/ Moshe Lissak -- The future of the past in Israel: a sociology of knowledge approach / Uri Ram -- Israeli historiography and the ethnic problem / Yaron Tsur -- Dialectical versus unequivocal: Israeli historiography's treatment of the Yishuv and Zionist movement attitudes toward the Holocaust / Yechiam Weitz -- A Palestinian look at the new historians and post-Zionism in Israel / Mustafa Kabha.…”
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Putting a name to it : diagnosis in contemporary society / by Jutel, Annemarie

Table of Contents: “…A place for a sociology of diagnosis? -- An avenue for understanding -- Lumping or splitting: classification in medical diagnosis -- The aims of classification -- Classification of diseases -- Classification systems -- Revealing classificatory politics in diagnosis -- Social framing and diagnosis: corpulence and fetal death -- Corpulence -- Fetal death -- Frame and be framed -- What's wrong with me? …”
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Making Israel

Table of Contents: “…/ Moshe Lissak -- The future of the past in Israel: a sociology of knowledge approach / Uri Ram -- Israeli historiography and the ethnic problem / Yaron Tsur -- Dialectical versus unequivocal: Israeli historiography's treatment of the Yishuv and Zionist movement attitudes toward the Holocaust / Yechiam Weitz -- A Palestinian look at the new historians and post-Zionism in Israel / Mustafa Kabha.…”
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Putting a name to it : diagnosis in contemporary society / by Jutel, Annemarie

Table of Contents: “…A place for a sociology of diagnosis? -- An avenue for understanding -- Lumping or splitting: classification in medical diagnosis -- The aims of classification -- Classification of diseases -- Classification systems -- Revealing classificatory politics in diagnosis -- Social framing and diagnosis: corpulence and fetal death -- Corpulence -- Fetal death -- Frame and be framed -- What's wrong with me? …”
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Thorstein Veblen and the enrichment of evolutionary naturalism by Tilman, Rick

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Veblen, evolutionary naturalism, and secular humanism -- The theory of cultural lag revisited -- Veblen's cultural lag applied and compared -- On sports, religion, and gambling -- Aesthetician of the commoners -- Veblen and the sociology of control -- Veblen, Darwin, and sociobiology -- Veblen and the sociologists of knowledge -- Veblen's anthropology and structural-functional theory -- Evolutionary naturalism : its progressive enrichment.…”
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Thorstein Veblen and the enrichment of evolutionary naturalism by Tilman, Rick

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Veblen, evolutionary naturalism, and secular humanism -- The theory of cultural lag revisited -- Veblen's cultural lag applied and compared -- On sports, religion, and gambling -- Aesthetician of the commoners -- Veblen and the sociology of control -- Veblen, Darwin, and sociobiology -- Veblen and the sociologists of knowledge -- Veblen's anthropology and structural-functional theory -- Evolutionary naturalism : its progressive enrichment.…”
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Lived religion faith and practice in everyday life / by McGuire, Meredith B.

Table of Contents: “…Everyday religion as lived -- Contested meanings and definitional boundaries : historicizing the sociology of religion -- Popular religious expressions today : U.S. …”
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