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 |
Smelser Neil J | ||
Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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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 |
Smelser Neil J | ||
Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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America becoming : racial trends and their consequences. Volume II / / Neil J. Smelser, William Julius Wilson, and Faith Mitchell, editors |
Autore | Smelser Neil J |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
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 |
Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Front Matter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contents Volume I -- Terminology Used in This Report -- 1 Racial Trends in the Administration of Criminal Justice -- 2 Race and Criminal Justice -- 3 Commentary on Randall Kennedy's Overview of the Justice System -- 4 Race and Ethnicity in the Labor Market: Trends Over the Short and Long Term -- 5 Racial Differences in Labor Market Outcomes Among Men -- 6 Racial Trends in Labor Market Access and Wages: Women -- 7 Ethnic and Racial Differences in Welfare Receipt in the United States -- 8 Labor Force Trends: The Military as Data -- 9 Trends in Minority-Owned Businesses -- 10 Wealth and Racial Stratification -- HERBERT W. NICKENS 1947-1999 -- 11 Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health: Recent Trends, Current Patterns, Future Directions Raynard S. Kington and Herbert W. Nickens -- 12 Racial and Ethnic Trends in Children's and Adolescents' Behavior and Development -- 13 The Health of Minority Children in the Year 2000: The Role of Government Programs in Improving the Health Status of America's Children -- 14 Racial Variations in Adult Health Status: Patterns, Paradoxes, and Prospects -- 15 Health-Care Use in the Veterans Health Administration: Racial Trends and the Spirit of Inquiry -- APPENDIX A Acronyms -- APPENDIX B Agenda: Research Conference on Racial Trends in the United States -- APPENDIX C Biographical Sketches -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825417203321 |
Smelser Neil J | ||
Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 2001 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
Smelser Neil J | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
Smelser Neil J | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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-9910821124503321 |
Smelser Neil J | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
Smelser Neil J | ||
Newbury Park, Calif., : SAGE, 1993 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 | ||
Newbury Park, Calif. : , : SAGE, , 1993 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Effective committee service / / Neil J. Smelser |
Autore | Smelser Neil J |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
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-9910824528703321 |
Smelser Neil J | ||
Newbury Park, Calif. : , : SAGE, , 1993 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
Smelser Neil J | ||
Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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