Sociology eBooks
History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest
Sociology, by Edward A JonesOn July 18, 1936, a fascist-led counter-revolutionary army revolt began against the five-year-old Spanish Republic and the coalition of various centrist and progressive parties that had been popularly elected five months before. The coalition was called the Popular Front and included the Communist Party of Spain. The revolt received crucial logistical and material support from fascist regimes...
How is society possible?
Sociology, by H. B. IrvingThe silent workings, and still more the explosions, of human passion which bring to light the darker elements of man's nature present to the philosophical observer considerations of intrinsic interest; while to the jurist, the study of human nature and human character with its infinite varieties, especially as affecting the connection between motive and action, between irregular desire or evil...
How is society possible?
Sociology, by Georg Simmel.Georg Simmel (1858-1918, Germany) was born in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1881. He was of Jewish ancestry and was marginalized within the German academic system. Only in 1914 did Simmel obtain a regular academic appointment, and this appointment was in Strasbourg, far from Berlin. In spite of these problems, he wrote extensively on the nature of association, culture, social structure...
Lila´s House. A male brothel in downtown San José, Costa Rica
Sociology, by Jacobo SchifterJacobo Schifter spent months conducting interviews inside a house of male prostitution in San Jose, Costa Rica to research this book. The result is a fascinating and consciousness-raising report, not only about male protitution, but about the Latin American sexual discourse in general--attitudes towards homosexuality (all of the prostitutes claim that they\'re straight and many seem to fear...
Macho Love. Sex in a Latin prison
Sociology, by Jacobo SchifterMacho Love: Sex Behind Bars in Central America is the first in-depth study of sexual culture and AIDS in Latin prisons. Psychologists, social workers, criminologists, and AIDS specialists will discover how the interplay of sexual ideals, prostitution, manipulation, resistance, and power relationships among prisoners and some staff are based on money, sex, drugs, and violence. Macho Love gives...
Marriage and love
Sociology, by Emma Goldman.THE popular notion about marriage and love is that they are synonymous, that they spring from the same motives, and cover the same human needs. Like most popular notions this also rests not on actual facts, but on superstition. Marriage and love have nothing in common; they are as far apart as the poles; are, in fact, antagonistic to each other. No doubt some marriages have been the...
Partners First Program
Sociology, by Joses GosperOil & Gas, Mining, Civil, Construction. The Survival Guide. The Partners First Program (c) (PFP) is a program specifically design to address the Educational needs of the Partners of Fly-In/Fly-Out Employees (FIFO Employees). The program aims to educate the Partners of FIFO Employees, in detail, about the challenges that FIFO Employees are faced with outside of regular working duties while on...
Resistance during the Holocaust
Sociology, by United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumThis pamphlet explores examples of armed and unarmed resistance by Jews and other Holocaust victims. Many courageous acts of resistance were carried out in Nazi ghettos and camps and by partisan members of national and political resistance movements across German-occupied Europe. Many individuals and groups in ghettos and camps also engaged in acts of spiritual resistance such as the...
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