Meanwhile, the authors' antidote to the American sicknessa quest for democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditionshas contributed to a vigorous scholarly and popular debate. Attention has been focused on forms of social organization, be it civil society, democratic communitarianism, or associative democracy, that can humanize the market and the administrative state. In their new Introduction the authors relate the argument of their book both to the current realities of American society and to the growing debate about the country's future. With this new edition one of the most influential books of recent times takes on a new immediacy.\

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

The twentieth century gave rise to profound changes in traditional sex roles. However, the force of this 'rising tide' has varied among rich and poor societies around the globe, as well as among younger and older generations. Rising Tide sets out to understand how modernization has changed cultural attitudes towards gender equality and to analyze the political consequences of this process. The core argument suggests that women and men's lives have been altered in a two-stage modernization process consisting of (i) the shift from agrarian to industrialized societies and (ii) the move from industrial towards post industrial societies. This book is the first to systematically compare attitudes towards gender equality worldwide, comparing almost 70 nations that run the gamut from rich to poor, agrarian to postindustrial. Rising Tide is essential reading for those interested in understanding issues of comparative politics, public opinion, political behavior, political development, and political sociology.

/pdf/rising-tide-gender-equality-and-cultural-change-around-the-4nv4loqf2b.pdf

Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the World

The past two decades have witnessed a sea change in migration scholarship. Most scholars now recognize that many contemporary migrants and their predecessors maintain various kinds of ties to their homelands at the same time that they are incorporated into the countries that receive them. Increasingly, social life takes place across borders, even as the political and cultural salience of nation-state boundaries remains strong. Transnational migration studies has emerged as an inherently interdisciplinary field, made up of scholars around the world, seeking to describe and analyze these dynamics and invent new methodological tools with which to do so. In this review, we offer a short history of theoretical developments, outlining the different ways in which scholars have defined and approached transnational migration. We then summarize what is known about migrant transnationalism in different arenas—economics, politics, the social, the cultural, and the religious. Finally, we discuss methodological...

/pdf/transnational-migration-studies-past-developments-and-future-416caz7gdz.pdf

Transnational Migration Studies: Past Developments and Future Trends

A. L. Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn, "culture: A critical review of concepts and definitions"

Thirty-three brothels in rural and small-town Nevada, which contain between 225 and 250 prostitutes, are legal or openly tolerated and strictly controlled by state statute, city and county ordinances, and local rules. Twenty-two of the brothels are in places with populations between 500 and 8,000, and the remaining eleven are in rural areas. The legal and quasi-legal restrictions placed on prostitutes severely limit their activities outside brothels. These restrictions in conjunction with historical inertia, perceived benefits of crime and venereal disease control, and the good image of madams contribute to widespread positive local attitudes toward brothel prostitution. Interactions between clients and prostitutes in brothel parlors are also restricted and limited to a few basic types which are largely determined by entrepreneurial philosophy. KEY WORDS : Nevada, Political geography, Prostitution, Restricted activity spaces.

ANNALS of the Association of American Geographers

INTRODUCTION--Migration Theory: Talking across Disciplines, Caroline B. Brettell and James F. Hollifield CHAPTER 1--History and the Study of Immigration: Narratives of the Particular, Hasia R. Diner CHAPTER 2--Demographic Analyses of International Migration, Michael S. Teitelbaum CHAPTER 3--Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis, Barry R. Chiswick CHAPTER 4--The Sociology of Immigration: From Assimilation to Segmented Assimilation, from the American Experience to the Global Arena, Barbara Schmitter Heisler CHAPTER 5--Theorizing Migration in Anthropology: The Social Construction of Networks, Identities, Communities, and Globalscapes, Caroline B. Brettell CHAPTER 6--Place, Space, and Pattern: Geographical Theories in International Migration, Susan W. Hardwick CHAPTER 7--The Politics of International Migration: How Can We "Bring the State Back In"?, James F. Hollifield CHAPTER 8--Law and the Study of Migration, Peter H. Schuck CHAPTER 9--Re-booting Migration Theory: Interdisciplinarity, Globality and Post-disciplinarity in Migration Studies Adrian Favell

Migration Theory : Talking across Disciplines

Chapter 1 Introduction: Anthropology, Migration, and the Portuguese Diaspora Part 2 PART I. Situating the Anthropological Perspective: Macro, Meso, and Micro Approaches to the Study of Migration Chapter 3 1. The Emigrant, the Nation, and the State in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Portugal: An Anthropological Perspective Chapter 4 2. Migration Stories: Agency and the Individual in the Study of Immigration Part 5 PART II: Return Migration, Transmigrants, and Transnationalism Chapter 6 3. Emigrar para Voltar: A Portuguese Ideology of Return Migration Chapter 7 4. Emigration, the Church, and the Religious Festival in Northern Portugal Part 8 PART III: Cities, Immigrant Communities, and Ethnic Identity Chapter 9 5. Is the Ethnic Community Inevitable?: A Comparison of the Settlement Patterns of Portuguese Immigrants in Toronto and Paris Chapter 10 6. Ethnicity and Entrepreneurs: Portuguese Immigrants in a Canadian City Part 11 PART IV: Gender and Migration Chapter 12 7. Emigration and Household Structure in a Portuguese Parish, 1850-1920 Chapter 13 8. Women are Migrants, Too: A Portuguese Perspective Chapter 14 9. Conclusion: Toward a Comparative Understanding of Migration Chapter 15 References

Anthropology and Migration: Essays on Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity

Arising from discussions about ethics and responsibility in anthropological fieldwork, these essays explore what happens when people who are the subjects of research, read or hear about what has been written about them. Problems arise from biased media reports, and trust can be lost.

Caroline B. Brettell

Papers

Migration Theory : Talking across Disciplines

Anthropology and Migration: Essays on Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity

When They Read What We Write: The Politics of Ethnography

The Politics of International Migration: How Can We “Bring the State Back In”?

Theorizing Migration in Anthropology: The Social Construction of Networks, Identities, Communities, and Globalscapes