International Social Science Review articles from June 2003

International Social Science Review archives from June 2003

President's report: October 2002.
June 22, 2003... Dear Pi Gamma Mu members, sponsors, trustees, and staff: Although the constitution mandates a president's triennial report, it makes no mention of the form that report must take. With that latitude, I have chosen to make this report a thank...

The Middle East: some new realities and old problems.
June 22, 2003... Introduction Since the tragedy of September 11, 2001 the United States has launched and prosecuted, on both military and civilian fronts, a war against terror in Afghanistan and in the Middle East. It also has embarked upon an explicit...

The Hawallah network: culture and economic development in Afghanistan.
June 22, 2003... Introduction Although Afghanistan played a central role in the development of many ancient civilizations, in recent years it has become marginalized in world affairs because of the Afghan government's inability, or, perhaps, lack of desire...

Harriet Jacobs and the "double burden" of American slavery.
June 22, 2003... Introduction The ethical, social, and economic issues associated with American slavery remain among the most discussed topics in the study of United States history. Much of what was initially known about the condition of slaves came from...

Is class attendance a proxy variable for student motivation in economics classes? An empirical analysis.
June 22, 2003... Introduction In recent studies, Romer (1993) and Durden and Ellis (1995; 1998) have shown that class attendance appears to affect student average scores and resulting grades in economics classes. Specifically, the fewer absences a student...

Aronowitz, Stanley. The Last Good Job in America.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. 273 pages. Cloth, $27.95. In a recent editorial in the New York Times entitled "The Last Sociologist," Orlando Patterson takes sociology to task for many reasons, including the failure of...

Benz, Wolfgang, and Walter H. Pehle, eds. Encyclopedia of German Resistance to the Nazi Movement.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Continuum Books, 1997. 354 pages. Cloth, $56.00. In a small volume, The Question of German Guilt written in the wake of the Nuremburg Trials, the existentialist philosopher Karl Jaspers wrote: "The destruction of any decent,...

Ducatel, Ken; Juliet Webster; and Werner Herrmann, eds. The Information Society in Europe: Work and Life in the Age of Globalization.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. viii + 324 pages. Cloth, $81.00; paper, $27.95. This text, an outgrowth of the European Commission's High Level Expert Group, delineates how the information society--the conversion of computing...

Flyvbjerg, Bent. Making Social Science Matter.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 204 pages. Paper, $19.95. Bent Flyvbjerg, a professor of planning at Aalborg University in Denmark, frames his work in the context of the "Science Wars," namely, the criticisms...

Franklin, Sarah, and Susan McKinnon, eds. Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press, 2001. 519 pages. Paper, $21.95. Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies examines the historical importance of kinship as both a theoretical concept and social category within the social...

Haffner, Sebastian. Defying Hitler: a Memoir.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. 309 pages. Cloth, $24.00. At the time of his death in 1999, Raimund Pretzel (who would later become known to the world under the nom de plume Sebastian Haffner) had earned a formidable reputation...

Hall, Thomas D. ed. A World-Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. 352 pages. Paper, $24.95. In this dense volume, Thomas Hall aims to achieve several purposes. He intends this to serve as an introductory reader in world-systems analysis. He sought to include...

Kemp, Kathryn W. God's Capitalist: Asa Candler of Coca-Cola.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002. 312 pages. $35.00. Asa Candler (1851-1929), son of a prosperous farmer in North Georgia, was, at different times, a sheriff, state representative, judge, mayor, and successful businessman. He is...

Lamb, Brian. Booknotes: Stories from American History Leading Historians on the Events that Shaped our Country.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... New York: Penguin Books, 2002. xix+556 pages. Paper, $16.00. Brian Lamb is the founder and host of the well-known C-SPAN program, Booknotes. Since its debut in 1987, it has presented nearly 700 nonfiction book interviews with authors,...

Lewis, Bernard. What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2002. 180 pages. Cloth, $23.00. Written before the events of September 11, 2001, this book by a prominent Western Islamicist challenges Muslims worldwide to reexamine their own culture,...

Munch, Richard. The Ethics of Modernity: Formation and Transformation in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. Richard Munch introduces The Ethics of Modernity as not strictly a historical narrative, but rather (in the spirit of the German sociologist Max Weber) an "ideal-type reconstruction of a...

Redclift, Michael; Elizabeth Shove; Barend van de Meulen; and Sujatha Raman. Social Environmental Research in the European Union: Research Networks and New Agendas.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, 2000. ix+142 pages. $65.00. This slender volume is a useful handbook written by professors for other professors and researchers doing work in the emerging field of social environmental research...

Rotberg, Robert I., ed. Population History and the Family: a Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001. 390 pages. Paper, $25.00. Population History and the Family follows the publication of three previous Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JIH) readers: Health and Disease in Human History (2000), Social...

Vincent, Joan, ed. The Anthropology of Politics: a Reader in Ethnography, Theory and Critique.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2002. 476 pages. Paper, $34.95. As part of a series on subdisciplines in social and cultural anthropology, this edited volume provides a fascinating and insightful collection of classic works on the...