Nicole Norman is an exceptionally gifted and perceptive young woman. When she was very small, her mother passed away, leaving her father to raise her.Her connection with her father isn't the finest.Rich and attractive, Brandon Bradford is a playboy. Anything wearing a skirt makes him flirt.Nicole is the only female who refuses to sleep with him, which is why he finds her attractive.Later on, Nicole and Brandon start dating, although Nicole's father disapprov...

Nicole Norman is an exceptionally gifted and perceptive young woman. When she was very small, her mother passed away, leaving her father to raise her.Her connection with her father isn't the finest.Rich and attractive, Brandon Bradford is a playboy. Anything wearing a skirt makes him flirt.Nicole is the only female who refuses to sleep with him, which is why he finds her attractive.Later on, Nicole and Brandon start dating, although Nicole's father disapprov...

Nicole Norman is an exceptionally gifted and perceptive young woman. When she was very small, her mother passed away, leaving her father to raise her.Her connection with her father isn't the finest.Rich and attractive, Brandon Bradford is a playboy. Anything wearing a skirt makes him flirt.Nicole is the only female who refuses to sleep with him, which is why he finds her attractive.Later on, Nicole and Brandon start dating, although Nicole's father disapprov...

It is commonplace to say that criminals pay their debt to society by spending time in prison, but what is a “debt to society”? How is crime understood as a debt? How has time become the equivalent for crime? And how does criminal debt relate to the kind of debt held by consumers and university students?In Debt to Society, Miranda Joseph explores modes of accounting as they are used to create, sustain, or transform social relations. Envisioning accounting broadly to include...

Nicole Norman is an exceptionally gifted and perceptive young woman. When she was very small, her mother passed away, leaving her father to raise her.Her connection with her father isn't the finest.Rich and attractive, Brandon Bradford is a playboy. Anything wearing a skirt makes him flirt.Nicole is the only female who refuses to sleep with him, which is why he finds her attractive.Later on, Nicole and Brandon start dating, although Nicole's father disapprov...

Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction; they are the constraints devised to structure that interaction. Yet, institutions vary widely in their consequences for economic performance; some econo...

Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social science. A Theory of Fields draws together far-ranging insights from social movement theory, organizational theory, and economic and political sociology to construct a general theory of social organization and strategic action. In a work of remarkable synthesis, imagination, and analysis, Neil Fligstein and Doug McAdam propo...

When the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was mourned as the passing of "one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century" (Cass Sunstein) and as an important and innovative thinker working at the conjunction of a number of important topics: global justice; democracy and difference; continental political theory; ethics and international affairs; and gender, race and public policy. In her long-awaited Responsibility for Ju...

A rethinking of American democracy that puts caring responsibilities at the centerAmericans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people’s time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should help us to care better, people see caring as unsupported by public life ...

Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis.In their introduction, the editors discuss points of convergence and disagreement with institutionally oriented research in economics and political science,...

Revealing the human side of economic lifeOver the past three decades, economic sociology has been revealing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a greater role in this development than Viviana Zelizer, one of the world's leading sociologists. Economic Lives synthesizes and extends her most impo...

Our lives have gradually become dominated by markets. They are not only at the heart of capitalistic economies all over the world, but also central in public debates. This insightful book brings together existing knowledge on markets from sociology, economics and anthropology, and systematically investigates the different forms of markets we encounter daily in our social lives.Aspers starts by defining what a market actually is, analyzing its essential elements as well as its neces...