America becoming [[electronic resource] ] : racial trends and their consequences. Volume II / / Neil J. Smelser, William Julius Wilson, and Faith Mitchell, editors |
Autore | Smelser Neil J |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | xxviii, 492 p. : ill |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SmelserNeil J
WilsonWilliam J. <1935-> MitchellFaith <1952-> |
Soggetto topico |
Minorities - United States - Social conditions - Research
Minorities - United States - Economic conditions - Research |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-309-06839-8
0-309-50422-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456115703321 |
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America becoming [[electronic resource] ] : racial trends and their consequences. Volume II / / Neil J. Smelser, William Julius Wilson, and Faith Mitchell, editors |
Autore | Smelser Neil J |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | xxviii, 492 p. : ill |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SmelserNeil J
WilsonWilliam J. <1935-> MitchellFaith <1952-> |
Soggetto topico |
Minorities - United States - Social conditions - Research
Minorities - United States - Economic conditions - Research |
ISBN |
0-309-17248-9
0-309-06839-8 0-309-50422-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778750903321 |
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Dynamics of the contemporary university [[electronic resource] ] : growth, accretion, and conflict / / Neil J. Smelser |
Autore | Smelser Neil J |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (150 p.) |
Disciplina | 378.73 |
Collana | The Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society |
Soggetto topico |
Universities and colleges - United States
Universities and colleges - Administration - United States Educational change - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-520-95525-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Chapter I: Dynamics of American Universities -- Apologia -- What Kind of Creature is Higher Education? -- Functions -- The Problematic Status of "Functions" -- Moral Embeddedness -- Structural Changes Accompanying Growth -- Increasing the Size of Units -- Segmentation of Units -- Differentiation -- Proliferation -- Coordination -- A Peculiar Case in Higher Education: Structural Accretion -- A Historical Sketch of the Process -- The Discipline-based Academic Department: So Strong and Yet So -- Frail -- The Organized Research Unit as Distraction from Departments -- Reactions and Conflicts Endemic in the Process of Accretion -- Conditions Producing the Endemic Pattern -- Two Long-term Consequences of Accretion -- The Structuring of Faculty Activities -- Implications for Academic Community -- Chapter 2: The Dynamics Ramify: Academic Politics, Conflict, and Inequality -- Instabilities Imposed on Inertial Stability -- Of Pythons and Goats -- Economic Fluctuations -- Competitors for Resources -- Relevance to Accretion -- Accretion and the Growth of Political Constituencies -- Internal Constituencies -- External Constituencies -- Accretion, Revenues, and Costs -- Accretion, Academic Administration, and Higher Education Politics -- Management as Science and Art -- Administration as Threat to Academic Culture -- Administration as Parkinsonian -- The Structural Alternative -- Implications for Shared Governance -- Accretion and Academic Stratification -- Institutional Prestige -- Multicampus Systems and Stratification -- Prestige Among Disciplines -- Chapter 3: Contemporary Trends: Diagnoses and Conditional Predictions -- An Unprecedented Perfect Storm -- Unproductive Paradoxes: Starvation, Accountability, and Governance -- General Consequences of Shifts in Support and Costs -- Accountability, Governance, and Support. -- The Many Faces of Commercialization -- The Language and Imagery of Corporatism and Its -- Consequences -- Consumerism -- Economizing as a Way of Life -- University-Industry Relations -- On-line Distance Instruction and the Rise of the For-profits -- Non-tenured and Part-time Faculty -- Implications for Tenure -- Excursus on Academic Freedom -- Coda -- References. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463104803321 |
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Dynamics of the contemporary university [[electronic resource] ] : growth, accretion, and conflict / / Neil J. Smelser |
Autore | Smelser Neil J |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (150 p.) |
Disciplina | 378.73 |
Collana | The Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society |
Soggetto topico |
Universities and colleges - United States
Universities and colleges - Administration - United States Educational change - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
academic administration
academic community academic department academic disciplines academic freedom academic stratification academic accountability clark kerr complex structures contemporary trends education history education policy education reform education engaging higher ed leadership higher education history part time faculty political constituencies public support structural accretion teachers and faculty theory of change universities |
ISBN | 0-520-95525-0 |
Classificazione | HIS036000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Chapter I: Dynamics of American Universities -- Apologia -- What Kind of Creature is Higher Education? -- Functions -- The Problematic Status of "Functions" -- Moral Embeddedness -- Structural Changes Accompanying Growth -- Increasing the Size of Units -- Segmentation of Units -- Differentiation -- Proliferation -- Coordination -- A Peculiar Case in Higher Education: Structural Accretion -- A Historical Sketch of the Process -- The Discipline-based Academic Department: So Strong and Yet So -- Frail -- The Organized Research Unit as Distraction from Departments -- Reactions and Conflicts Endemic in the Process of Accretion -- Conditions Producing the Endemic Pattern -- Two Long-term Consequences of Accretion -- The Structuring of Faculty Activities -- Implications for Academic Community -- Chapter 2: The Dynamics Ramify: Academic Politics, Conflict, and Inequality -- Instabilities Imposed on Inertial Stability -- Of Pythons and Goats -- Economic Fluctuations -- Competitors for Resources -- Relevance to Accretion -- Accretion and the Growth of Political Constituencies -- Internal Constituencies -- External Constituencies -- Accretion, Revenues, and Costs -- Accretion, Academic Administration, and Higher Education Politics -- Management as Science and Art -- Administration as Threat to Academic Culture -- Administration as Parkinsonian -- The Structural Alternative -- Implications for Shared Governance -- Accretion and Academic Stratification -- Institutional Prestige -- Multicampus Systems and Stratification -- Prestige Among Disciplines -- Chapter 3: Contemporary Trends: Diagnoses and Conditional Predictions -- An Unprecedented Perfect Storm -- Unproductive Paradoxes: Starvation, Accountability, and Governance -- General Consequences of Shifts in Support and Costs -- Accountability, Governance, and Support. -- The Many Faces of Commercialization -- The Language and Imagery of Corporatism and Its -- Consequences -- Consumerism -- Economizing as a Way of Life -- University-Industry Relations -- On-line Distance Instruction and the Rise of the For-profits -- Non-tenured and Part-time Faculty -- Implications for Tenure -- Excursus on Academic Freedom -- Coda -- References. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786270103321 |
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Effective committee service [[electronic resource] /] / Neil J. Smelser |
Autore | Smelser Neil J |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newbury Park, Calif., : SAGE, 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (122 p.) |
Disciplina |
658.4
658.4/56 658.456 |
Collana | Survival skills for scholars |
Soggetto topico |
Meetings
Committees Congresses and conventions |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-322-42038-6
1-4833-2630-6 1-4522-5387-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - The Committee as Creature; Chapter 2 - Giving Birth to Committees; Chapter 3 - Inside the Black Box; Chapter 4 - How to Serve; Chapter 5 - How to Chair; Chapter 6 - The Committee Report; Chapter 7 - Committees and Careers; Appendix; About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910479961003321 |
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Effective committee service / / Neil J. Smelser |
Autore | Smelser Neil J |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newbury Park, Calif. : , : SAGE, , 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 107 pages) |
Disciplina | 658.456 |
Collana | Survival skills for scholars |
Soggetto topico |
Committees
Meetings |
ISBN |
1-322-42038-6
1-4833-2630-6 1-4522-5387-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - The Committee as Creature; Chapter 2 - Giving Birth to Committees; Chapter 3 - Inside the Black Box; Chapter 4 - How to Serve; Chapter 5 - How to Chair; Chapter 6 - The Committee Report; Chapter 7 - Committees and Careers; Appendix; About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791076403321 |
Smelser Neil J
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The faces of terrorism : social and psychological dimensions / / Neil J. Smelser |
Autore | Smelser Neil J |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.6/25 |
Collana | Science essentials |
Soggetto topico |
Terrorism
Terrorism - Social aspects Terrorism - Psychological aspects |
ISBN |
1-282-15730-2
9786612157301 1-4008-2788-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The paradoxes of terrorism -- Conditions and causes of terrorism -- Ideological bases of terrorist behavior -- Motivation, social origins, recruitment, groups, audiences, and the media in the terrorism process -- Anticipating, experiencing, and responding to terrorist attacks -- Discouraging terrorism -- The long-term international context of terrorism -- Appendix: The infernal problems of definition and designation. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910172215003321 |
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The handbook of economic sociology [[electronic resource] /] / Neil J. Smelser, Richard Swedberg |
Autore | Smelser Neil J |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2005] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (749 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.3 |
Soggetto topico |
Economics - Sociological aspects
Economics Economic development - Sociological aspects |
ISBN |
9786612665820
1-84972-698-1 1-4008-3558-5 |
Classificazione | 83.05 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. General Concerns -- 1. Introducing Economic Sociology / Smelser, Neil J. / Swedberg, Richard -- 2. Comparative and Historical Approaches to Economic Sociology / Dobbin, Frank -- 3. The New Institutionalisms in Economics and Sociology / Nee, Victor -- 4. Principles of an Economic Anthropology / Bourdieu, Pierre -- 5. Behavioral Economics / Weber, Roberto / Dawes, Robyn -- 6. Emotions and the Economy / Berezin, Mabel -- Part II. The Economic Core: Economic Systems, Institutions, and Behavior -- Section A: The Economy in a Macrosociological Perspective -- 7. The Economic Sociology of the Ancient Mediterranean World / Morris, Ian / Manning, J. G. -- 8. The Global Economy: Organization, Governance, and Development / Gereffi, Gary -- 9. The Political and Economic Sociology of International Economic Arrangements / Fligstein, Neil -- 10. Post-Communist Economic System / King, Lawrence P. / Szelényi, Iván -- Section B: The Sociology of Economic Institutions and Economic Behavior -- 11. Markets in Society / Swedberg, Richard -- 12. The Sociology of Labor Markets and Trade Unions / Streeck, Wolfgang -- 13. Banking and Financial Markets / Brewster Stearns, Linda / Mizruchi, Mark S. -- 14. Sociology of Work and Occupations / Abbott, Andrew -- 15. Culture and Consumption / Zelizer, Viviana -- 16. The Sociology of Money and Credit / Carruthers, Bruce G. -- 17. Networks and Economic Life / Smith-Doerr, Laurel / Powell, Walter W. -- 18. The Informal Economy / Portes, Alejandro / Haller, William -- Section C: The Sociology of Firms, Organizations, and Industries -- 19. Business Groups and Social Organization / Granovetter, Mark -- 20. Entrepreneurship / Aldrich, Howard E. -- 21. Firms and Environments / Davis, Gerald F. -- Part III. Intersections of the Economy -- 22. The State and the Economy / Block, Fred / Evans, Peter -- 23. A Sociological Approach to Law and the Economy / Edelman, Lauren B. / Stryker, Robin -- 24. Welfare States and the Economy / Huber, Evelyne / Stephens, John D. -- 25. Education and the Economy / Brinton, Mary C. -- 26. New Directions in the Study of Religion and Economic Life / Wuthnow, Robert -- 27. Gender and Economic Sociology / England, Paula / Folbre, Nancy -- 28. The Ethnic Economy / Light, Ivan -- 29. Technology and the Economy / Dosi, Giovanni / Orsenigo, Luigi / Sylos Labini, Mauro -- 30. The Economy and the Environment / Schnaiberg, Allan -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996206183603316 |
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The odyssey experience [[electronic resource] ] : physical, social, psychological, and spiritual journeys / / Neil J. Smelser |
Autore | Smelser Neil J |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
Disciplina |
153.4
155.9 |
Soggetto topico |
Insight
Introspection Life change events Vision quests Pilgrims and pilgrimages Voyages and travels |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-77254-6
9786612772542 0-520-94342-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The Essentials of the Experience -- 2. Autobiographical Roots: Some Personal Odysseys -- 3. Religious Foundations and Their Derivatives -- 4. Secularized and Commercialized Odysseys -- 5. Some Miscellaneous, More or Less Invented Experiences -- 6. Some Coercive Odyssey Experiences -- 7. Additional Theoretical Reflections -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464886903321 |
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The odyssey experience [[electronic resource] ] : physical, social, psychological, and spiritual journeys / / Neil J. Smelser |
Autore | Smelser Neil J |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
Disciplina |
153.4
155.9 |
Soggetto topico |
Insight
Introspection Life change events Vision quests Pilgrims and pilgrimages Voyages and travels |
Soggetto non controllato |
behavioral studies
comparative studies engaging human behavior human condition human experiences human tendencies intense period of life life changes life journeys life lessons nonfiction odyssey personal growth personal transformation physical journeys psychological journeys quest for meaning regeneration religion and spirituality scientists self help social relationships spiritual journeys spiritual |
ISBN |
1-282-77254-6
9786612772542 0-520-94342-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The Essentials of the Experience -- 2. Autobiographical Roots: Some Personal Odysseys -- 3. Religious Foundations and Their Derivatives -- 4. Secularized and Commercialized Odysseys -- 5. Some Miscellaneous, More or Less Invented Experiences -- 6. Some Coercive Odyssey Experiences -- 7. Additional Theoretical Reflections -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789001103321 |
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