Books in the Social Institutions and Social Change Series series

This text explains the procedural give-and-take of policy-making for the Medicare and Medicaid programmes and the process in relation to larger political issues. It aims to provide enough information to enable the reader to navigate this policy domain.

One of the goals of sociology is to understand the connections between social and personal problems. This book explores these connections by taking a scientific look at community patterns of well-being and distress.

The author provides a description and a sociological analysis of mental health care work, emphasizing the interaction of professionally generated norms that guide the emotional labor of mental health care workers, and the organizational contexts with in which mental health care is provided.

In examining why it is that people with higher socio-economic status have better health than lower-status individuals, Mirowsky and Ross draw on findings and ideas from many sciences, including demography, economics, social psychology and the health sciences.

From the sociological point of view, adolescence traditionally has been described as a period of physical maturity and social immaturity

Analyses inheritance patterns in modern America. This book shows that inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations. It also examines what leads decedents to chose particular legal instruments (wills, trusts, insurance policies, gifts inter vivos).

This new paperback comprehensively reviews the research evidence on the links between guns, violence, and gun control, and reports results of the author's own research as well

That family violence injures and kills its victims both physically and psychologically was established over two decades ago by early researchers in this field

Crowd behavior is one of the most colorful but least understood forms of human social behavior

Adopting a structural approach, this book provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the contemporary status of women physicians in three major Western medical systems. It covers sociological and feminist theory, recent history, and the organization of modern medicine.

David Rothman gives us a brilliant, finely etched study of medical practice today

Organizing for Collective Action investigates the political and economic behaviors of national associations, including trade associations, professional societies, labor unions, and public interest groups

This new paperback comprehensively reviews the research evidence on the links between guns, violence, and gun control, and reports results of the author's own research as well

David Rothman gives us a brilliant, finely etched study of medical practice today

This volume provides a detailed description of the situation of women in employment in the early 1990s and considers how sociological and economic theories of labor markets illuminate the gap in pay between the sexes.

This text is the result of a study of over 600 runaway and homeless adolescents and over 200 of their caretakers, who were from large to smaller cities in four midwestern states. It focuses on the family histories of these young people and on the developmental impact of early independence.