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  • Best, Joel  (6)
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  • Richards, John F.
  • Berkeley : University of California Press  (10)
  • Cambridge [u.a.] : Polity  (2)
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  • 1
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    American Nightmares : Social Problems in an Anxious World (2017)
    Berkeley : University of California Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780520968905
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    DDC: 306.09730000000002
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    MG 70000
    Keywords: Soziale Probleme ; Unsicherheit ; USA
    Abstract: In an accessible and droll style, well-known sociologist Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream--to graduate from college, own a home, work toward early retirement--recent generations have been told that the next generation will not be able to achieve these goals, that things are getting--or are on the verge of getting--worse. In American Nightmares, Best addresses the apprehension that we face every day as we are bombarded with threats that the social institutions we count on are imperiled. Our schools are failing to teach our kids. Healthcare may soon be harder to obtain. We can't bank on our retirement plans. And our homes--still the largest chunk of most people's net worth--may lose much of their value. Our very way of life is being threatened! Or is it? With a steady voice and keen focus, Best examines how a culture develops fears and fantasies and how these visions are created and recreated in every generation. By dismantling current ideas about the future, collective memory, and sociology's marginalization in the public square, Best sheds light on how social problems--and our anxiety about them--are socially constructed.
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  • 2
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    Damned lies and statistics : untangling numbers from the media, politicians and ctivists (2012)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520953512 , 0520953517
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (218 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Best, Joel Damned Lies and Statistics : Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
    DDC: 303.38
    Keywords: Sociology Statistical methods ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Social indicators ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Sociology Statistical methods ; Social indicators ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Sociology Statistical methods ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy. Since its publication ten years ago, Damned Lies and Statistics has emerged as the go-to handbook for spotting bad statistics and learning to think critically about these influential numbers
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  • 3
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    Everyone's a winner : life in our congratulatory culture (2011)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520948488 , 0520948483
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 199 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Best, Joel Everyone's a winner
    DDC: 305
    Keywords: Social status United States ; Equality United States ; Motivation (Psychology) United States ; Social status ; Equality ; Motivation (Psychology) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Equality ; Manners and customs ; Motivation (Psychology) ; Social conditions ; Social status ; United States Social life and customs ; United States Social conditions ; United States ; United States Social conditions ; United States Social life and customs ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: Every kindergarten soccer player gets a trophy. Many high schools name dozens of seniors as valedictorians--of the same class. Cars sport bumper stickers that read "USA--Number 1." Prizes proliferate in every corner of American society, and excellence is trumpeted with ratings that range from "Academy Award winner!" to "Best Neighborhood Pizza!" In Everyone's a Winner, Joel Best-- acclaimed author of Damned Lies and Statistics and many other books--shines a bright light on the increasing abundance of status in our society and considers what it all means. With humor and insight, Best argues that st
    Note: "Simpson imprint in humanities. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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  • 4
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    Sociology : introductory readings (2010)
    Cambridge [u.a.] : Polity
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    ISBN: 9780745648835 , 9780745648842 , 0745648843
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 347 S.
    Edition: 3. ed.
    DDC: 301
    RVK:
    MQ 1200
    Keywords: Soziologie ; Sociology. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Soziologie
    Note: Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 5
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    The new egalitarianism (2008)
    Cambridge [u.a.] : Polity
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    ISBN: 9780745634319
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 254 S. , 24 cm
    Edition: Reprinted
    DDC: 305
    Keywords: Equality ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Egalitarismus ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Chancengleichheit
    Note: Based on three meetings of Policy Network's working group on "Community and Inequality" in 2004
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  • 6
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    Flavor of the month : why smart people fall for fads (2006)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520932357 , 0520932358 , 1423745523 , 9781423745525 , 1598759264 , 9781598759266
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 201 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Best, Joel Flavor of the month
    DDC: 306
    Keywords: Fads Social aspects ; Social institutions ; Diffusion of innovations ; Fads Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Diffusion of innovations ; Fads ; Social aspects ; Social institutions ; Modeverschijnselen ; Innovatiediffusie ; Instituties ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Joel Best explores the range of institutional fads, analyses the features of our culture that foster them, and identifies the major stages of the fad cycle: emerging, surging, and purging. He examines the causes and consequences of fads and suggests ways of fad-proofing our institutions
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  • 7
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    The unending frontier : an environmental history of the early modern world (2005)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520246782 , 0520246780
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 682 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First paperback printing
    Series Statement: The California world history library 1
    Series Statement: The California world history library
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Richards, John F., 1938 - 2007 The Unending Frontier
    DDC: 304.2
    RVK:
    AR 14000
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    NN 1300
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    NN 1520
    RVK:
    RB 10844
    Keywords: Human ecology History ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; History ; Human ecology ; Nature ; Umwelt ; Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Humanökologie ; Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Humanökologie ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Umwelt ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Umweltveränderung ; Klimaänderung
    Description / Table of Contents: The early modern world -- Climate and early modern world environmental history -- Pioneer settlement on Taiwan -- Internal frontiers and intensified land use in China -- Ecological strategies in Tokugawa Japan -- Landscape change and energy transformation in the British Isles -- Frontier settlement in Russia -- Wildlife and livestock in South Africa -- The Columbian exchange : the West Indies -- Ranching, mining, and settlement frontiers in colonial Mexico -- Sugar and cattle in Portuguese Brazil -- Landscapes of sugar in the Antilles -- Furs and deerskins in eastern North America -- The hunt for furs in Siberia -- Cod and the new world fisheries -- Whales and walruses in the northern oceans.
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  • 8
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    More damned lies and statistics : how numbers confuse public issues (2004)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520930025 , 0520930029
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvii, 200 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Best, Joel More damned lies and statistics
    DDC: 303.38
    Keywords: Sociology Statistical methods ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Social indicators ; Social problems Statistical methods ; Sociology Statistical methods ; Electronic books ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Social indicators ; Social problems ; Statistical methods ; Sociology ; Statistical methods ; Missbrauch ; Sozialstatistik ; Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek ; Statistieken ; Kritiek (algemeen) ; Sociale problemen ; Problemy społeczne ; metody statystyczne ; Socjologia ; metody statystyczne ; Wskaźniki rozwoju społecznego ; Electronic books ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused by everyone from researchers to journalists. Underlining the importance of critical thinking in all matters numerical, Best illustrates his points with examples of good and bad statistics about such contemporary concerns as school shootings, fatal hospital errors, bullying, teen suicides, deaths at the
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  • 9
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    The unending frontier : an environmental history of the early modern world by (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0520230752
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 682 p.
    Series Statement: California world history library 1
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Geschichte ; Human ecology History ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; History ; Humanökologie ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Umweltveränderung ; Umwelt ; Umwelt ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Humanökologie ; Geschichte 1500-1800 ; Umweltveränderung ; Geschichte 1500-1800
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 623-659) and index
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  • 10
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    The unending frontier : an environmental history of the early modern world (2003)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520939356 , 0520939352 , 0585468524 , 9780585468525 , 0520900952 , 9780520900950
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 682 p.) , maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: California world history library 1
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Richards, John F Unending frontier
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: Human ecology History ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; History ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; History ; Human ecology History ; Electronic books ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Human Geography ; NATURE ; Environmental Conservation & Protection ; Human ecology ; Nature ; Effect of human beings on ; Milieuverandering ; Wereldgeschiedenis ; Mens en natuur ; History ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Electronic books ; History
    Abstract: It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach--and their numbers--as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 623-659) and index. - Description based on print version record
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  • 11
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    Damned Lies and Statistics : Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians and Activists (2001)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 9780520219786
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (203 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Damned Lies and Statistics : Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians and Activists
    DDC: 303.38
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Startling statistics shape our thinking about social issues. But all too often, these numbers are wrong. Examining how bad statistics emerge, spread, and come to shape policy debates, this book provides a guide to spotting, and learning to think critically, about these influential numbers
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. The importance of social statistics; 2. Soft facts; 3. Mutant statistics; 4. Apples and oranges; 5. Stat wars; 6. Thinking about social statistics; Notes; Index;
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  • 12
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    The Constitution of Society : outline of the theory of structuration (1986)
    Berkeley : University of California Press
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    ISBN: 0520057287 , 9780520057289
    Language: English
    Pages: xxxvii, 402 Seiten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    DDC: 301
    RVK:
    MR 5100
    RVK:
    MQ 3258
    Keywords: Political sociology ; Social institutions ; Social structure ; Sociology ; Sozialstruktur ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialstruktur
    Note: Bibliographie: Seite [379]-391
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