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(P/B) ON GENETIC INTERESTS - FAMILY, ETHNICITY AND HUMANITY IN AN AGE OF MASS MIGRATION

(H/B) CLASS AND POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL SCIENCE
Dick Houtman argues that neither authoritarianism nor libertarianism can be explained by class or economic background, but rather by position in the cultural domain-- what he calls cultural capital. Although he examines all of the statistics and arguments of the conventional approaches with care and concern, Houtman convincingly demonstrates that the conclusions drawn from earlier studies are untenable at a more general theoretical level. Despite differences among advocates of class explanations, their theories are based on largely identic...
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(H/B) POETRY, POLITICS, AND CULTURE
A salient feature of modern poetics is its direct connection with cultural history and politics. Among the great American poets of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams offer a significant contrast with T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Where the latter advocated a theocentric or reactionary response to the cultural crises of modernity, the former affirmed an essentially humanist and democratic social and aesthetic ethos. In Poetry, Politics, and Culture, Harold Kaplan offers a penetrating comparative study of these ...
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(P/B) BETWEEN GENERATIONS: FAMILY MODELS MYTHS & MEMORIES

(H/B) EVANGELICALISM: AN AMERICANIZED CHRISTIANITY

(P/B) THE PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY V.1-3

(P/B) ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY

(P/B) THE SOCIAL MEANING OF MODERN BIOLOGY

(H/B) COERCION AS CURE
Understanding the history of psychiatry requires an accurate view of its function and purpose. In this provocative new study, Szasz challenges conventional beliefs about psychiatry. He asserts that, in fact, psychiatrists are not concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of bona fide illnesses. Psychiatric tradition, social expectation, and the law make it clear that coercion is the profession's determining characteristic. Psychiatrists may "diagnose" or "treat" people without their consent or even against their clearly expressed wishes, ...
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(H/B) MAGIC IN THE AIR

(P/B) SELLING OF DSM: THE RHETORIC OF SCIENCE IN PSYCHIATRY

(H/B) GRANDEUR AND TWILIGHT OF RADICAL UNIVERSALISM

(P/B) DIRTY TRICKS OR TRUMP CARDS: U.S. COVERT ACTION

(P/B) PROPHETS AND CONSPIRATORS IN PREREVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA

(P/B) GENDER AND MEMORY

(P/B) PROFESSIONAL DOMINANCE - THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF MEDICAL

(H/B) ISLAMIC TERROR IN THE BALKANS

(P/B) MEMORY AND TOTALITARIANISM

(P/B) DECLINE AND FALL OF THE FREUDIAN EMPIRE

THE POLITICS OF ARISTOCRATIC EMPIRES (P/B)