Sociological theories of the state have overlooked the theoretical and empirical significance of noneconomic policies, such as those dealing with environmental pollution control. This research investigates the sociopolitical ...

This thesis is an empirical investigation of the causes of political participation in Colombia. The major premise underlying this work is that in addition to objective elements of the socioeconomic structure there are also ...

Even with this burden, leaders with higher educational attainment, lived experiences in dangerous, deteriorating, and impoverished neighborhoods, and who had been trained to be advocates for the poor or disadvantaged ...

Two experiments addressed the question: What must a researcher do to produce nonconformity? In the first, three verbal strategies were used to produce nonconformity. Metainstructions were hypothesized to be the most effective ...

The motivation for this study is the ongoing debate on the impact of economic dependency on the occupational distribution of different racial groups in the Kenyan economy. The debate has yielded two conflicting generalizations. ...

The subject matter of this thesis is public criminology, that is, causal explanations of crime employed by the lay public. The thesis is that different styles of public criminology exist, that each is a product of a different ...