Schooling, Childhood, and Bureaucracy uses sociological explanations to describe how the school system in the United States developed, and why reform is a constant. The American public school system i
Waters (sociology, California State U., Chico) discusses the effects of the market-based global economy on the lives of self-sufficient rural farmers through examples from eighteenth-century Scotland,
In this book, author Tony Waters explores Max Weber’s thinking about the discipline of populations and its implications for understanding the origins of the modern globalized world.
Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan is about the organization of refugee relief programs. It describes the practical, political, and moral assumptions of the ”international refugee relief regime.” Tony
Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society rediscovers Max Weber for the twenty-first century. Tony and Dagmar Waters' translation of Weber's works highlights his contributions to the social sciences and
This book explores California’s prison system in the context of vocational education reform. For prisons in the early twenty-first century, ideologies of evidence-based management meant that reform ef
