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| Contributors | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Science and Social Science, Pro and Con | |
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| Lost on the Planet Earth | |
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| Science, the Scientific Method, and Research Designs in the Social Sciences | |
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| Seeing the Social Sciences | |
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| Psychology: Observable Behavior and Internal Processes | |
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| Sociology: Human Behavior in a Group and Societal Context | |
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| Anthropology: Evolution and Culture | |
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| Political Science: The Study of Governing | |
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| Economics: Limited Resources and Unlimited Needs | |
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| History: The Study of the Past | |
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| Geography: The Discipline with a Persistent Spacial Perspective | |
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| The Foundations of Social Science: Historical Philosophical and Social | |
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| European Foundations of Social Science | |
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| Objectivity in Social Science: Beyond European Assumptions | |
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| Scientific Principles and Their Social Consequences | |
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| Research through Deception | |
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| Pathology of Imprisonment | |
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| If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? | |
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| Research Through Deception | |
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| Human and Sociocultural Evolution | |
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| Evolution and Natural Selection: The Human Animal's Tale | |
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| One Giant Step for Mankind | |
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| Types of Societies: Sociocultural Evolution | |
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| Customs and Cultures | |
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| Body Ritual among the Nacirema | |
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| Lest Ye Be Judged: Ethnocentrism or Cultural Relativism | |
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| The Sounds of Silence | |
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| What Hunters Do for a Living or, How to Make Out on Scarce Resources | |
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| Eating Christmas in the Kalahari | |
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| Chinese Table Manners: You Are How You Eat | |
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| America: Its Ethnic History | |
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| One Hundred Percent American | |
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| All Mixed Up: Ethnicity in American Life | |
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| Ethnicity in American Life: The Historical Perspective | |
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| America: Do Race and Ethnicity Still Matter? | |
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| American Diversity and the 2000 Census | |
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| An End to Counting by Race? | |
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| Beyond Black/White: The Racisms of Our Time | |
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| Family and Education: Two Basic Institutions | |
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| The American Family | |
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| African American Families: A Legacy of Vulnerability and Resilience | |
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| What's Ahead for Families | |
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| Gender and Myth: Data about Student Performance | |
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| Look Homeward, Parents | |
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| Human Nature and Personal and Gender Identities | |
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| Why Do We Do What We Do?: A Freudian and Skinnerian Overview | |
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| Erik Erikson's Eight Ages of Man | |
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| Rethinking Puberty: The Development of Sexual Attraction | |
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| Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation | |
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| Shattered Innocence | |
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| The American Indian Berdache and Other Third Genders | |
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| The Evolving Interface between Feminism and Women of Color | |
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| Poverty: Causes and Consequences | |
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| Families in Poverty in the 1990s: Trends, Causes, Consequences, and Lessons Learned | |
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| Toward a 24-Hour Economy | |
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| The Bare Minimum | |
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| Work | |
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| The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All | |
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| Minorities and Mobility | |
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| Driving While Black: A Statistician Proves That Prejudice Still Rules the Road | |
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| Necessary Dreams | |
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| Immigration to the Burn Zone | |
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| Population, Aging, and Crime: Creating the Future | |
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| Impacts of Population Growth | |
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| Fourteen Forecasts for an Aging Society | |
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| Preventing Crime: The Promising Road Ahead | |
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| Globalization: Threat or Opportunity? | |
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| Globalization and the Social Sciences | |
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| Maps | |
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| Glossary | |