Economic Sociology provides the clearest and most comprehensive account of the promises of economic sociology. It shows how economies are more than supply-and-demand curves, individual profit motives, and efficient performance: they are forms of power and structure, grounded in institutions and culture. What is calculated, how, and why? Are profit and efficiency always so central to economic structures and outcomes? What shapes change and reproduction in economic practices and policies? How have classes and states, using power and institutions, created and continue to shape the economic world we live in? This second edition presents a critical and sophisticated, yet approachable analysis of economic behavior and phenomena. After describing key concepts and logics of economic sociology and of economic sociology (its eternal cousin and competitor), Hass turns the sociologist’s analytic eye to the heart of economic practices comparing how they work in the United States, Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and post-socialist Russia and China. The volume addresses crucially important economic issues that touch our well-being and justice: the rise and structuring of capitalism; relations between states and economies; economic policies; economies and inequality; and organizations and corporations. Causes and consequences of globalization and the Great Recession are laid out for the reader. With economics and economic sociology placed side-by-side in this journey of how economies operate in the past and present, the reader gets different perspectives on economic reality. Power and culture, institutions and fields, classes and corporations interact on this historical and global stage. Written in a clear and direct style, this textbook will appeal to students and scholars in economic sociology, sociology of work, economics, social policy, political economy and comparative sociology

Wartime Suffering and Survival explores how average people survive in the face of incredible odds. Using diaries, recollections, police records, interviews, and state documents from the Blockade of Leningrad in World War II, he shows how average Leningraders coped with the nightmares of war, starvation, and extreme uncertainty. Hass not only shares Leningraders' stories to uncover a little-told side of Russian/Soviet history, but also to reveal the human condition--who we really are when our backs are against the wall.

Blood platelets lack a nucleus. As a result their life span is short and they cannot reproduce themselves. Platelets share these qualities with the red blood cell. Plate lets and red blood cells, nevertheless, serve vital roles in the body. One major function of the platelet is its capacity to aggregate and thereby initiate intravas cular coagulation which often underlies such major diseases as myocardial infarc tion, cerebral infarction, and pulmonary embolism. For this reason in recent years, medical attention has been directed to drugs that inhibit platelet aggregation. Aspirin was the first drug to be proven effective in this area. Since then other drugs that share aspirin's fundamental biochemical action, inhibition of platelet cyclooxygenase, have also been studied. Very recently, ticlopidine, the first of what promises to be a new class of drugs inhibiting platelet aggregation and coagulation via an entirely different biochemical mechanism, has been exten sively studied and clinically shown to be as effective or more effective than aspirin in the prevention of ischemic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.

Advancing cutting-edge sociological theory and using unique data on everyday economic life, this book examines the centrality of power, culture, and practice in Russian post-socialist change - and provides a framework for addressing general economic change. The book is aimed to faculty and students in sociology, political science, economics, and area studies.

Schattendasein - das unverstandene Leiden der Depression. Anders als bei anderen Krankheiten haben die Betroffenen häufig das Gefühl über ihre Erkrankung nicht sprechen zu können, "über der Depression liegt ein Schleier". Unterstützung und Austausch finden die Betroffenen jedoch seit einigen Jahren im Internetforum des "Kompetenznetz Depression, Suizidalität". Vier Betroffene und eine Angehörige haben sich nun daran gemacht, Postings des Forums zu sichten, zu kommentieren und zu einem Ratgeber zu verdichten. Fachlich betreut wurde das Projekt von Ärzten des Kompetenznetzes Depression. Von der Frage, wie sich eine Depression äußert, über mögliche Behandlungsmöglichkeiten und die Rolle des sozialen Umfeldes bis hin zu den ersten Lichtblicken auf dem Weg zur Gesundung werden zahlreiche Informationen aufgeführt. So entsteht ein vielstimmiges Bild der Erkrankung - für Betroffene, die sehen, sie sind nicht alleine, für Fachleute, die detailliert die Innenansicht einer psychischen Störung erfahren.

In story form, tells the history of the Native American flute, including how to make one, and it's use in courtship.