1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455570103321

Autore

Smelser Neil J

Titolo

Reflections on the University of California [[electronic resource] ] : from the free speech movement to the global university / / Neil J. Smelser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-55625-8

9786612556258

0-520-94600-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 p.)

Disciplina

378.794/67

Soggetti

Universities and colleges - California - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE. Conflict and Adaptation -- PART TWO. Diversity, Affirmative Action, and the Culture Wars -- PART THREE. Governance and Coordination -- PART FOUR. Marrying Analysis and Action -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

These invaluable essays offer an insider's perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. Neil J. Smelser, who spent thirty-six years as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, sheds new light on a full range of the issues that dominated virtually all institutions of higher learning during the second half of the twentieth century. Smelser considers student activism-in particular the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley-political surprises, affirmative action, multiculturalism and the culture wars, and much more. As one of the leading sociologists of his generation, Smelser is uniquely qualified to convey and analyze the complexities of administrating a first-rate and very large university as it encounters a highly politicized environment.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786795603321

Titolo

Mixed matches : transgressive unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment / / edited by David Luebke and Mary Lindemann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78238-410-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Spektrum : Publications of the German Studies Association

Disciplina

306.810943

Soggetti

Marriage - Germany - History

Germany History 1517-1871

Germany Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction - Transgressive Unions; Chapter 1 - ""It Is Not Forbidden that a Man Have More Than One Wife"": Luther's Pastoral Advice on Bigamy and Marriage; Chapter 2 - Celibacy-Marriage-Unmarriage: The Controversy over Celibacy and Clerical Marriage in the Early Reformation; Chapter 3 - ""Nothing More than Common Whores and Knaves"": Married Nuns and Monks in the Early German Reformation; Chapter 4 - Transgressive Unions and Concepts of Honor in Early Modern Defamation Lawsuits; Chapter 5 - Negotiating Rank in Early Modern Marital Mismatches

Chapter 6 - Between Conscience and Coercion: Mixed Marriages, Church, Secular Authority, and FamilyChapter 7 - The Rhetoric of Difference: The Marriage Negotiations between Queen Christina of Sweden and Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg; Chapter 8 - Mixed Matches and Inter-Confessional Dialogue: The Hanoverian Succession and the Protestant Dynasties of Europe in the Early Eighteenth Century; Chapter 9 - Transethnic Unions in Early Modern German Travel Literature; Chapter 10 - The Meaning of Love: Emotion and Kinship in Sixteenth-Century Incest Discourses

Chapter 11 - Aufklärung, Literature, and Fatherly Love: An Eighteenth-Century Case of IncestAfterword - Shifting Boundaries and Boundary Shifters: Transgressive Unions and the History of Marriage in Early



Modern Germany; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The significant changes in early modern German marriage practices included many unions that violated some taboo. That taboo could be theological and involve the marriage of monks and nuns, or refer to social misalliances as when commoners and princes (or princesses) wed. Equally transgressive were unions that crossed religious boundaries, such as marriages between Catholics and Protestants, those that violated ethnic or racial barriers, and those that broke kin-related rules. Taking as a point of departure Martin Luther's redefinition of marriage, the contributors to this volume spin out the