Socio-Economic Crises in Black and Brown Communities in the United States provides insight and awareness concerning crises that exist in underserved Black and brown communities in the United States. The contributors explore these issues through the lenses of public policy, human behavior, environmental injustice, socioeconomic status, ......
This book examines the soft power of language, its cultural influence, and its empowering and disempowering potential for social positioning. The author uses a critical lens to present original research findings from Poland and Portugal about English as a tool of social stratification and social reproduction.
Evinces author's deep concern that the world's linguistic diversity is diminishing at an alarming rate. This title demonstrates author's sense of the obligation that linguists have to educate the public about why linguistic diversity is valuable. It deals with a number of specific but related topics.
Provides an overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. While maintaining the same structure as the first edition, this book includes revised Ejercicios de Reflexion along with new comprehension checks at the end of each chapter, enhancing its use as a classroom text.
Provides an overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. While maintaining the same structure as the first edition, it includes revised Ejercicios de Reflexion along with new comprehension checks at the end of each chapter, enhancing its use as a classroom text.
This book explores the power struggles over natural resources and expounds on how resolutions are negotiated and maintained. Essays included in the volume survey the factors and the influence they have in framing and resolving environmental issues such as fracking, shared waters, and environmental threats.
Beginning with the basic question of what the components and functions of law are, this volume addresses key issues in the study of sociology and law. Articles debate different sociological theories of law, present contemporary critical legal theories, and question the notion of law as an institutionalized authority. In addition to dealing with ......
This text teaches students that it is more important than ever to study human behavior, social groups, and society utilizing critical thinking skills and careful analysis associated with sociological wisdom.
The essentials of the systematic and scientific study of human social behavior, groups and society. Extremely easy to access, study by, and reference for students in college courses or students of the world around them.
