Norman K : 53 books
Searching for Yellowstone
Race, Gender, Family and Memory in the Postmodern West
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Yellowstone. Sacagawea. Lewis & Clark. Transcontinental railroad. Indians as college mascots. All are iconic figures, symbols of the West in the Anglo-American imagination. Well-known cultural critic Norman Denzin interrogates each of these icons for their cultural meaning in this finely woven...
Custer on Canvas
Representing Indians, Memory, and Violence in the New West
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The 1876 events known as Custer’s Last Stand, Battle of Little Big Horn, or Battle of Greasy Grass have been represented over 1000 times in various artistic media, from paintings to sculpture to fast food giveaways. Norman Denzin shows how these representations demonstrate the changing perceptions—often...
Hollywood Shot by Shot
Alcoholism in American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
To what extent have Hollywood feature films shaped the meanings that Americans attach to alcoholics, their families, and the alcoholic condition? To what extent has the mass culture of the movie industry itself been conceptually shaped by a broad, external societal discourse? Norman Denzin brings...
Childhood Socialization
Revised Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Norman Denzin presents a social psychological account of how the lives of children are shaped by social interaction, particularly interaction with parents and other caretakers. He examines the special language of children, their socialization experiences, and the emergence of their selfconceptions-...
by Norman K. Gottwald
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
This brief volume brings together three of Norman Gottwald's classic essays that address issues of social class and ideology as they pertain to the interpretation of the biblical documents. The small format makes them useful for classroom and small-group use, providing definitions, theoretical concerns,...
by Sarah Tenney, Norman K. Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In its more than 65 years of existence, the International Monetary Fund has evolved from a small, obscure international agency, with new and uncertain responsibilities, into a powerful institution that today has assumed center stage in the international monetary system. It is a remarkable story of...
Contesting Empire, Globalizing Dissent
Cultural Studies After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
"Denzin and Giardina have brought together the works of leading cultural critics who have given cultural studies a global framework that meets our need to examine the governing strategies of the military, the economy, the media, and educational elites...This is a must-read for those who want...
by Alfred R. Lindesmith, Anselm Strauss, Norman K. Denzin
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 1999
The Eighth Edition of this classic text provides a basic introduction to the field of social psychology. Taking a critical symbolic interactionist approach, Social Psychology helps students understand the very nature of how individuals do things together in today's society. The book has been significantly...
Representative Americans
The Revolutionary Generation
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2001
Each generation of Americans has a special flavor, a character of its own. Sometimes a memorable decade, such as the "Gay Nineties" or the "Roaring Twenties," imprinted the generation that lived and outlived it. Yet no simple rubric comes easily to mind when one thinks of the Revolutionary...
Arenas of Power
Reflections on Politics and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Arenas of Power represents the first time that Theodore J. Lowi's model of policy analysis has been presented together with key applications and case studies drawn from his long history of scholarship-all in one place. Lowi's signature four-fold typology is shown as conceived and then as extended...
After the Beginning
A Cosmic Journey through Space and Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2004
In a brilliant flash about fourteen billion years ago, time and matter were born in a single instant of creation. An immensely hot and dense universe began its rapid expansion everywhere, creating space where there was no space and time where there was no time. In the intense fire just after the beginning,...
by M. Alonso, Norman K Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This project is an attempt to bring together the many fragments of history concerning the Yoruba religious community and their rise to prominence in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries.
Blue Ribbon Papers
Behind the Professional Mask: The Autobiographies of Leading Symbolic Interactionists
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
"Volume 38 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction" is devoted exclusively to the "Blue Ribbon Papers Series", which is under the intellectual leadership of Lonnie Athens. In this issue, Athens presents the autobiographies of scholars who have made significant contributions to symbolic...
Co-Existing in a Globalized World
Key Themes in Inter-Professional Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Co-Existing in a Globalized World: Key Themes in Inter-Professional Ethics brings together, and engages with, the scholarly work accomplished individually under the banner of professional ethics in various fields. The overarching theme of the volume is that globalization inevitably pairs professionals...