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Social Inventions for Solving Human Problems

The Promise and Pitfalls of Going Into the Field

her 50s, spent a year working low-wage jobs as a waitress in Florida, a housecleaner in Maine and a Wal-Mart sales clerk in Minnesota. Her detailed ethnography, the best-selling Nickel and Dimed, reveals how physically demanding and personally demeaning these jobs are, and how workers are trapped in them. Ehrenreich’s book has received wide critical acclaim, a typical book review in the Minneap...

Sociological Practice: as an Expert-witness in the Criminal Justice System

by Lewis Yablonsky, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Criminology, California State University-Northridge (Published in the American Sociological Association, "Sociological Practice Newsletter" 8/2000 on my acceptance of THE WILLIAM FOOTE WHYTE CAREER AWARD FOR SOCIOLOGICAL PRACTICE at the ASA Meetings 8/2000 in Washington, D.C.; and was the basis for a lecture on 1/25/01 presented at Grand V...

Sensor fusion and map building for underwater navigation

Somajyoti Majumder Australian Centre for Field Robotics(ACFR) University of Sydney Rose Street Building (J04) Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia Steve Scheding Australian Centre for Field Robotics(ACFR) University of Sydney Rose Street Building (J04) Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia Hugh Durrant-Whyte Australian Centre for Field Robotics(ACFR) University of Sydney Rose Street Building (J04) Sydney, NSW 2006 ...

A System ic Analysis of the Dynam ics and Organization of Urban Street Gangs

Street gangs function as ongoing, open social systems in relation to their surrounding sociocultural context. Fundamentally, gangs are comparable to some family systems. In fact, most gangs do consider themselves to be “families.” The same concepts used to describe family systems may also be applied to street gangs. Street gangs usually exhibit a highly complex organization, structure, process,...