Second Thoughts

  • Second Thoughts: Sociology Challenges Conventional Wisdom
    By Janet M. Ruane, Karen A. Cerulo

    For an explicit discussion on how corporate culture influences deceit in business practices, see Tamar Frankel's Trust and Honesty: America's Business Culture at a Crossroad (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).

  • Second Thoughts: Seeing Conventional Wisdom Through the Sociological Eye
    By Janet M. Ruane, Karen A. Cerulo

    For an explicit discussion on how corporate culture influences deceit in business practices, see Tamar Frankel's Trust and Honesty: America's Business Culture at a Crossroad (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).

  • Second Thoughts: Sociology Challenges Conventional Wisdom
    By Janet M. Ruane, Karen A. Cerulo

    In general, research shows that families exhibit a high sense of mutual normative obligation (Davis-Sowers 2012; Langer and Ribarich 2007; Pashos and McBurney 2008) Indeed a defining trait of the sandwich generation is their willingness ...

  • Second Thoughts: Sociology Challenges Conventional Wisdom
    By Janet M. Ruane, Karen A. Cerulo

    Studies that compare the performance of low, medium, and highability tracks show that tracking benefits only the highability groups (Condron 2008; Huang 2009; Kelly and Carbonaro 2012; Lleras and Rangel 2009). Thus, critics of tracking ...

  • Second Thoughts: Sociology Challenges Conventional Wisdom
    By Janet M. Ruane, Karen A. Cerulo

    Lawson, K., Crouter, A., and McHale, S. 2015. “Links Between Family Gender Socialization Experiences in Childhood and Gendered Occupational Attainment in Young Adulthood.” Journal of Vocational Behavior 90:26–35. Lax, E. 1992.

  • Second Thoughts: Sociology Challenges Conventional Wisdom
    By Janet M. Ruane, Karen A. Cerulo

    Krauss, R. C., L. M. Powell, and R. Wada. 2012. ... Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 54(3):386–409. ... The New York Times (April 20). http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world/asia/21china.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=all.

  • Second Thoughts: More Queer and Weird Stories
    By Steve Berman

    I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.” —Blanche DuBois Bittersweet The boys ordered the greatest hot drink ever meant 9.

  • Second Thoughts: Seeing Conventional Wisdom Through the Sociological Eye
    By Janet M. Ruane, Karen A. Cerulo

    The Third Edition of Second Thoughts: Seeing Conventional Wisdom Through the Sociological Eye addresses the disparities that exist between conventional wisdom and social life.

  • Second Thoughts
    By James Curtis

    Second Thoughts, the second book in The Kerr Chronicles, follows a brilliant and gifted young Scotsman, John Knox Kerr, as he struggles to balance influential roles in New York City and Washington, DC in the 1930s.

  • Second Thoughts
    By Brian William Harris

    My first volume of poetry took over forty years to write. This second volume a couple of years. My work continues to follow the same themes of self, family, friends and travel.

  • Second Thoughts: Investor State Arbitration between Developed Democracies
    By Armand de Mestral

    This timely volume appears at a critical moment, seeking answers to the crucial questions that will determine the next generation of international investment agreements.

  • Second Thoughts: On Having and Being a Second Child
    By Lynn Berger

    A lovely, searching meditation on second children—on whether to have one and what it means to be one—that seamlessly weaves pieces of art and culture on the topic with scientific research and personal anecdotes The decision to have more ...

  • Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading
    By David Galef

    What distortions emerge through repetition? How do we determine what's worth rereading and what is the role of such repetition in our lives? What are the gains and losses? This work investigates the rereading of texts from various genres.

  • Second Thoughts: On Family, Friendship, Faith, Amd Writers
    By Stephen B Shepard

    So it is that I'm having second thoughts -- not necessarily good or bad -- but a retrospection that might yield insights derived from lifelong experience.

  • Second Thoughts: Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis
    By Wilfred R. Bion

    Originally composed between 1950 and 1962, it derives its title from the lengthy critical commentary which Bion attached to these case histories in the year of publication, 1967, and represents the evolutionary change of position marked in ...

  • Second Thoughts: One Hundred Upbeat Messages for Beat-Up Americans
    By Mort Crim

    The broadcaster offers one hundred short essays on what he has learned about life during his thirty-five year career

  • Second Thoughts: Critical Thinking for a Diverse Society
    By Wanda Teays

    Inviting and inclusive, the text features a wealth of examples and exercises that draw on the varied experiences of students from different ethnic, social, and cultural backgrounds.

  • Second Thoughts
    By Rhoda Broughton

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

  • Second Thoughts
    By Shobhaa De

    Apart from my mother's widowed elder cousin and a nephew from my father's side, there was nobody my family was all that ... colleagues of both my father and mother and a whole host of casual acquaintances who made up our social world.

  • Second Thoughts: Critical Thinking for a Diverse Society
    By Wanda Teays

    The second edition of this popular book broadens its scope to consider more perspectives, including those of class, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity.