1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996197562703316

Autore

Marshall Gordon

Titolo

In praise of sociology / / Gordon Marshall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Boston : , : Unwin Hyman, , 1990

ISBN

1-134-99802-3

1-134-99803-1

1-280-32768-5

0-203-16173-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Disciplina

301/.0941

Soggetti

Sociology - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Social sciences - Great Britain

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

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements page; The theme; Social class and social mobility; Education and culture; Poverty in an affluent society; Managing the new technology; Workers and their wages; Race and housing in the inner city; The rise and fall of the mods; Sociologists and scientologists; On the social origins of clinical depression; Families and social networks; A conclusion; Further reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this lively and entertaining book, Gordon Marshall explores ten classic studies of British society to demonstrate the valuable qualities of British sociology, and its importance for understanding contemporary society. In each case he provides a precis of the research undertaken, assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the reader, a series of points that can be made in praise or criticism of the research, and an assessment of the sociological contribution made by the researchers. The ten studies chosen are: Goldthorpe on social mobility, Townsend on poverty, Rex and Moore on rac



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484054103321

Titolo

Recent Trends in Algebraic Development Techniques : 17th International Workshop, WADT 2004, Barcelona, Spain, March 27-29, 2004, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by José Luiz Fiadeiro, Peter Mosses, Fernando Orejas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2005

ISBN

9783540319597

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 280 p.)

Collana

Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 3423

Altri autori (Persone)

FiadeiroJose Luiz <1961->

MossesPeter

OrejasF (Fernando)

Disciplina

005.1

Soggetti

Software engineering

Computer science

Machine theory

Computer science - Mathematics

Software Engineering

Computer Science Logic and Foundations of Programming

Formal Languages and Automata Theory

Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"WADT 2004 took place at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)"--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Invited Technical Paper -- Behavior-Preserving Refinement Relations Between Dynamic Software Architectures -- Contributed Papers -- Modelling Mobility with Petri Hypernets -- Cryptomorphisms at Work -- Towards a Formal Specification of an Electronic Payment System in CSP-CASL -- Algebraic Semantics of Design Abstractions for Context-Awareness -- CCC – The Casl Consistency Checker -- Ontologies for the Semantic Web in Casl -- Theoroidal Maps as Algebraic Simulations -- Behavioural Semantics of Algebraic Specifications in Arbitrary Logical Systems -- A Simple Refinement Language for Casl -- A Distributed and Mobile Component System Based on the Ambient Calculus --



Application and Formal Specification of Sorted Term-Position Algebras -- From Conditional to Unconditional Rewriting -- Type Class Polymorphism in an Institutional Framework -- Architectural Specifications for Reactive Systems.