Lee Rainwater is professor emeritus of sociology at Harvard University and research director emeritus of the Luxembourg Income Study. He was an editor at Transaction, the associate editor of the Journal of Marriage and the Family, and a member of the review board of Sociological Quarterly. He has written various books and many professional journal articles, including Poor Kids in a Rich Country: America’s Children In Comparative Perspective; Income Packaging in the Welfare State: A Comparative Study of Family Income; and Social Policy and Public Policy: Inequality and Justice.
16 Ebooks by Lee Rainwater
Laud Humphreys: Tearoom Trade
From the time of its first publication, Tearoom Trade engendered controversy. It was also accorded an unusual amount of praise for a first book on a marginal, intentionally self-effacing population …
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€39.99
Irwin Garfinkel & Lee Rainwater: Wealth and Welfare States
This book explores the role of the welfare state in the overall wealth and wellbeing of nations and in particular looks at the American welfare state in comparison with other developed nations in …
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€48.52
Lee Rainwater & Martin Rein: Public/Private Interplay in Social Protection
This accessible introductory text discusses how people in a pluralistic society such as ours can accept a common social ethic – a publicly justified morality. It presents analyses of the basic …
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€46.33
Lee Rainwater & Martin Rein: Public/Private Interplay in Social Protection
This accessible introductory text discusses how people in a pluralistic society such as ours can accept a common social ethic – a publicly justified morality. It presents analyses of the basic …
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€46.14
William Smith: The Prophets of Israel and their Place in History
In the history of nineteenth-century religious thought, William Robertson Smith occupies an ambiguous position. More than any other writer, he stimulated the theories of religion later advanced by …
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€53.59
William Smith: The Prophets of Israel and their Place in History
In the history of nineteenth-century religious thought, William Robertson Smith occupies an ambiguous position. More than any other writer, he stimulated the theories of religion later advanced by …
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€53.84
Lee Rainwater: Family Design
Why do contraceptive practices work for some couples and not for others? How do couples decide the number of children they want? What are the implications of family design in terms of the …
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€48.19
Lee Rainwater: Family Design
Why do contraceptive practices work for some couples and not for others? How do couples decide the number of children they want? What are the implications of family design in terms of the …
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€48.31
Lee Rainwater: Deviance and Liberty
Deviance is by definition a social problem. Since deviant behavior violates the normative expectations of a given group, deviance must be regarded as a problem for that group, since all groups of peo …
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€56.18
Lee Rainwater: Deviance and Liberty
Deviance is by definition a social problem. Since deviant behavior violates the normative expectations of a given group, deviance must be regarded as a problem for that group, since all groups of peo …
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€55.67
Lee Rainwater: The Professional Scientist
This classic book, available in paperback for the first time, is based on a 1962 study of the American Chemical Society, one of the great U. S. scientific societies. The society has a membership …
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€36.08
Lee Rainwater: The Professional Scientist
This classic book, available in paperback for the first time, is based on a 1962 study of the American Chemical Society, one of the great U. S. scientific societies. The society has a membership …
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€36.26
Lee Rainwater: Behind Ghetto Walls
This book is about the family lives of some 10, 000 children and adults who live in an all-Negro public housing project in St Louis. The Pruitt-Igoe project is only one of the many environments in wh …
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€61.06
Lee Rainwater: Behind Ghetto Walls
This book is about the family lives of some 10, 000 children and adults who live in an all-Negro public housing project in St Louis. The Pruitt-Igoe project is only one of the many environments in wh …
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€61.02
Yung-Teh Chow & Lee Rainwater: Social Policy and Public Policy
This classic volume was originally designed as an introduction to social science perspectives on a broad range of social issues in American society, specifically the complex social problems of the …
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€58.65
Yung-Teh Chow & Lee Rainwater: Social Policy and Public Policy
This classic volume was originally designed as an introduction to social science perspectives on a broad range of social issues in American society, specifically the complex social problems of the …
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€58.36
