American Behavioral History

Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814798446
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Behavioral History written by Peter N. Stearns and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his founding of The Journal of Social History to his groundbreaking work on the history of emotions, weight, and parenting, Peter N. Stearns has pushed the boundaries of social history to new levels, presenting new insights into how people have lived and thought through the ages. Having established the history of emotions as a major subfield of social history, Stearns and his collaborators are poised to do the same thing with the study of human behavior. This is their manifesto. American Behavioral History deals with specific uses of historical data and analysis to illuminate American behavior patterns, ranging from car buying rituals to sexuality, and from funeral practices to contemporary grandparenting. The anthology illustrates the advantages and parameters of analyzing the ways in which people behave, and adds significantly to our social understanding while developing innovative methods for historical teaching and research. At its core, the collection demonstrates how the study of the past can be directly used to understand current behaviors in the United States. Throughout, contributors discuss not only specific behavioral patterns but, importantly, how to consider and interpret them as vital historical sources. Contributors include Gary Cross, Paula Fass, Linda Rosenzweig, Susan Matt, Steven M. Gelber, Peter N. Stearns, Suzanne Smith, Mark M. Smith, Kevin White.

Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479885142
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Behavioral History written by Peter N. Stearns and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his founding of The Journal of Social History to his groundbreaking work on the history of emotions, weight, and parenting, Peter N. Stearns has pushed the boundaries of social history to new levels, presenting new insights into how people have lived and thought through the ages. Having established the history of emotions as a major subfield of social history, Stearns and his collaborators are poised to do the same thing with the study of human behavior. This is their manifesto. American Behavioral History deals with specific uses of historical data and analysis to illuminate American behavior patterns, ranging from car buying rituals to sexuality, and from funeral practices to contemporary grandparenting. The anthology illustrates the advantages and parameters of analyzing the ways in which people behave, and adds significantly to our social understanding while developing innovative methods for historical teaching and research. At its core, the collection demonstrates how the study of the past can be directly used to understand current behaviors in the United States. Throughout, contributors discuss not only specific behavioral patterns but, importantly, how to consider and interpret them as vital historical sources. Contributors include Gary Cross, Paula Fass, Linda Rosenzweig, Susan Matt, Steven M. Gelber, Peter N. Stearns, Suzanne Smith, Mark M. Smith, Kevin White.

Author : William O'Donohue
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1608825876
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Behavioral Therapies written by William O'Donohue and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique work, eighteen of the most influential and significant figures in the various subareas of behavior therapy (from behavior analysis through cognitive therapy) are brought together to discuss their work and the sources and influences that affected it. At times moving, profound, and humorous, it casts a new and perhaps more human light on the most influential movement in behavioral health in the latter part of the 20th century. These intellectual biographies range in tone and intensity as each author uses their own particular style to convey their views about the field and their individual impact on it. For those interested in the behavioral and cognitive movement, this book is a must have since it is the only book to have chronicled the individual histories of the founders of the applied behavioral movement before they are lost forever.

Author : John A. Mills
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814761240
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Control written by John A. Mills and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behaviorism has been the dominant force in the creation of modern American psychology. However, the unquestioned and unquestioning nature of this dominance has obfuscated the complexity of behaviorism. Control serves as an antidote to this historical myopia, providing the most comprehensive history of behaviorism yet written. Mills successfully balances the investigation of individual theorists and their contributions with analysis of the structures of assumption which underlie all behaviorist psychology, and with behaviorism's role as both creator and creature of larger American intellectual patterns, practices, and values. Furthermore, Mills provides a cogent critique of behaviorists' narrow attitudes toward human motivation, exploring how their positivism cripples their ability to account for the unobservable, inner factors that control behavior. Control's blend of history and criticism advances our understanding not only of behaviorism, but also the development of social science and positivism in twentieth-century America.

Author : Lisa Wilson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469618435
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Stepfamilies in Early America written by Lisa Wilson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepfamilies are not a modern phenomenon, but despite this reality, the history of stepfamilies in America has yet to be fully explored. In the first book-length work on the topic, Lisa Wilson examines the stereotypes and actualities of colonial stepfamilies and reveals them to be important factors in early United States domestic history. Remarriage was a necessity in this era, when war and disease took a heavy toll, all too often leading to domestic stress, and cultural views of stepfamilies during this time placed great strain on stepmothers and stepfathers. Both were seen either as unfit substitutes or as potentially unstable influences, and nowhere were these concerns stronger than in white middle-class families, for whom stepparents presented a paradox. Wilson shares the stories of real stepfamilies in early New England, investigating the relationship between prejudice and lived experience, and, in the end, offers a new way of looking at family units throughout history and the cultural stereotypes that still affect stepfamilies today.

Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195317157
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and American Politics written by Mark A. Noll and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays examine how religious beliefs and practices have shaped political thought and behaviour (and vice versa), and how in certain periods religious and political thought has coincided or moved in opposition, and how minority perspectives have challenged majority views.

Author : Heinz Eulau
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875862705
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossroads of Social Science written by Heinz Eulau and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection analyze the successes and failures of the social sciences over the last few decades as well as on their future. The focus of the book is on generic problems, difficulties, and dilemmas in the social sciences that the contributors are uniquely qualified to articulate. Each of them has been intimately involved in the development of one or another discipline in the last thirty years or so; each has made significant contributions to that development in many ways; each has a personal perspective on accomplishments and failures, promises and needs, continuities to be cultivated and opportunities to be seized. ." . . anyone concerned with the state of social science disciplines should find these essays of interest." - Journal of Politics

Author : Peter H. Argersinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315488833
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structure, Process and Party: written by Peter H. Argersinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging traditional approaches to the study of American political history, the essays in this book establish the significance of the institutional framework of the electoral system and argue the importance of its interaction with political conditions.

Author : Gerhard Loewenberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674370753
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Legislative Research written by Gerhard Loewenberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Legislative Research, a comprehensive summary of the results of research on nineteenth and twentieth-century legislatures, is itself a landmark in the evolution of legislative studies. Gathered here are surveys by leading scholars in the field, each providing inventory of an important subfield, an extensive bibliography, and a systematic assessment of what has been accomplished and what directions future research must take.

Author : Salo Wittmayer Baron
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231063364
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Relevance of History written by Salo Wittmayer Baron and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.