SOCIOLOGY from Chilton Books

London: Macmillan & Co.Ltd, 1941.. 1st edition. "The Englishman's offensive feeling of superiority over aliens is largely due to the recollection that England was a nation before other peoples had grown out of being tribes, or clans, or bits and pieces of the Roman Empire."...."Our Empire came to be not out of a desire for conquest, but out… Read more about this item

Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 1988.. 1st edition. "The first third of the collection focuses on cross-cultural and historical material, looking at the issues of alternative conceptualizations of the family and at the universality of the family as a structure, as well as the family in foraging societies, feudalsim and early capitalism. The remander deals with issues that pertain… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1978.. Studies in Sociology series. "Provides an interpretation of one of the key aspects of Max Weber's work: the relationship between his political and sociological writings." Pp.64, owner's name to half title page. Paperback. VG.

London: Freedom Press, 1948.. Lectures on the Sociology of Sex from the Standpoint of Anarchism. "There is a tendency for psychological studies to induce a kind of medical fatalism which equates the revolutionary and the malcontent with the psychical invalid, and regards 'adaptation' and 'morale' as gods to be bowed down before. But to the sociologist at least 'adaptation'… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A Stokes Company, 1904.. The Story of the Experiences of a Disguised American and his Wife studying the Immigration Question. With Sixty-Six Illustrations from Photographs by the author. Pp.303, sixty-six black & white photographs by the author. Blue cloth, gilt title to front and spine, inset photo illustration to front board slightly rubbed, spine dulled with… Read more about this item

New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998.. Montesquieu, Comte, Marx, deTocqueville. Sociologists & the Revolution of 1848. Pp.xxii/354. Paperback. VG.

Boston: Ginn & Company, 1913.. Revised edition. Contents include: I. Fundamental Notions of the Folkways and of the Mores; II. Characteristics of the Mores; III.The Struggle for Existence; IV. Labor, Wealth; V. Societal Selection; VI. Slavery; VII. Abortion, Infanticide, Killing the Old; VIII. Cannibalism; IX. Sex Mores; X. The Marriage Institution; XI. The Social Codes; XII. Incest; XIII. Kinship,… Read more about this item

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983.. 1st edition. "The first history of the English language to utilise the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics....It accords more space than is usual to the relationships between English and minority languages in the British Isles, and to the evidence afforded by regional dialects, both rural and urban. It also examines the… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1912.. 1st edition. Birmingham Studies in Social Economics and Adjacent Fields Volume I. (Edited by Professor W.J.Ashley). Pp.x/100, signed by the editor Walter Ashley to front free endpaper, a few light spots. Blue stiff card covers rubbed with wear to spine. G+.

London: Friends Race Relations Commitee, 1969.. Based on Colour and Citizenship, a report on British Race Relations by E.J.B.Rose and Associates. Pp.20, creasing to pp.3/4 (printing fault), map of India and Pakistan to inside rear cover. Paperback. G+.

Canberra: The Australian National University, 1964.. 1st edition. "Sets the historical and ecological setting of the area, describes the methodology of the stratified sample survey of 541 of the foreign-born male employees of a major Australian electricity undertaking, deals with the socio-economic changes consequent on migration and settlement in Australia, including the settlers' pre-migration background, their adjustment to their… Read more about this item

Lyme Regis: Russell House Publishing, 2006.. 1st edition. "What happens if people stop recognising and talking to their neighbours? Why do nods across the street and comments about the weather matter? Ideas and evidence in this book suggest that if people stop being civil to one another where they live, a perceived crisis of respect in wider society will… Read more about this item

Lyme Regis: Russell House Publishing, 1998.. From 1998 professional workers in local authorities, the police and the voluntary sector will be required by the government to produce 'corporate community safety plans'. But research and practice all too frequently show serious shortcomings in their implementation." Pp.viii/232. Paperback. VG.

London: Sage Publications, 2005.. Reprint. ""Blending cultural studies and political analysis, this inter-disciplinary text both illuminates and moves forward debates over 'race' and its meanings in contemporary society and in educational and social policy....Although rooted in the British experience, it addresses theoretical concerns common to many Western societies." Pp.x/300. Paperback. VG.

London: The Study Commission On The Family, 1980.. Mrs Irvine visited Israel in 1950, and while working at the Lasker Centre for Mental Hygiene and Child Guidance she gathered information about child-rearing in kibbutzim for John Bowlby....she has returned to Israel serveral times.." Pp.34. Pbk. VG.

London: Policy Studies Institute, 1993.. The first-ever British comparative study of long-term cohabitation and motherhood based on personal interviews. Pp.184. Pbk. VG.

London: Unwin Hyman, 1989.. 1st ed. Written by the former leader of the GLC Housing Group from 1977-1981. "George Tremlett focuses on the St Mungo hostels, set up in the mid 1960's to provide accommodation and support for the single homeless in London...The second part of the book is made up of the author's interviews with a… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1985.. 1st ed. "Polly Toynbee, the journalist and author, has spent three years researching and writing this investigation. It is not a 'sociological' work, in the narrow sense of that term, although she comes to some rather hard-hitting conclusions. Rather it is a series of thrilling stories which portray people at their most determined… Read more about this item

London: The Pilot Press, 1948.. 1st ed. "The book aims to remove the barriers to free expression in work, and in so doing, aims to increase industrial effectiveness." Pp.170, 8 figure illustrations. Cream cloth, rubbed. G.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd., 1980.. 1st Penguin ed. "For both those who live in the countryside and those who only visit it, it explains what is currently happening in rural England - and what is likely to happen in the future." Pp. 301/1 (ad), cartoon frontis, 5 cartoons, slight toning to pages. Illustrated p/b (illustrated… Read more about this item