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Feagin, Joe Richard was born on May 6, 1938 in San Angelo, Texas, United States. Son of Frank Joe and Hanna (Griffin) Feagin.
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The mission of this book is to attack the idea that Houston is a conservative role model, a city that succeeds due to its boundless devotion to free enterprise. In this mission, Feagin fails more than he succeeds- partially because to get to his substantive argument a reader has to get through a chapter or two of sociological jargon, and another chapter or two of mind-numbing factual detail about every business leader who has ever lived in Houston. This book would have been better had it been about half its size. When he gets to substance, his attack on Houston fails because he shows nothing more than that Houston has problems just like other cities- pollution, congestion, poverty, sprawl. So Houston isn't utopia. So what? Feagin fails because he makes little effort to compare Houston to other cities, except for a stray remark here and there. So he really didn't persuade me that Houston's problems were due to its allegedly small government, or that more socialistic policies would be more successful. Moreover, Feagin is utterly blind to the unintended consequences of government action. For example, he praises Houston for enacting minimum parking requirements and setback regulations, overlooking the possibility that such regulations contribute to the ills that he complains about by forcing pedestrians to walk through seas of parking to get to buildings. He complains that Houston has less public housing than other cities- but how many Cabrini-Greens and similar fiascoes does a city need? He praises Minneapolis as a role model- overlooking the small fact that Minneapolis has lost a fourth of its 1950 population, while Houston keeps growing. One thing Feagin does right: he points out that Houston is hardly a laissez-faire paradise, in that government has consistently subsidized its business elite through spending on roads, port facilities, convention centers, etc.
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This book focuses on the dynamics, processes, and consequences of sex discrimination at individual, organizational, and societal levels. The previous edition ISBN is: 0-13-597634-0.
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(Why, and how, are some people -- women, blacks, and other...)
Why, and how, are some people -- women, blacks, and other minorities -- discriminated against? The answers to these questions are important because an understanding of the causes and operation of discrimination is essential to finding effective ways to counteract and eradicate discrimination from our society. While the popular view holds that prejudice and bigotry lie behind racist and sexist discrimination, this book goes beyond that view to expose other roots of the problem that are more subtle and difficult to combat. The authors describe in detail the mechanics and effects of institutionalized discrimination in employment, housing, health and social services, education, politics, and the courts.
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(The world of modern capitalism is a global network both o...)
The world of modern capitalism is a global network both of corporations and of cities -- a world command citiesa such as New York, London and Tokyo; a specialized command citiesa which concentrate on particular industries, such as Detroit; a state command citiesa such as Washington and Brasilia; and so on. These cities, linked by an organizational web of transnational corporations, are the pins holding the capitalist world economy together in the new international division of labour. In The Capitalist City a group of eminent scholars analyzes the intricate relationships among cities, state policies and urban politics at a time of economic restructuring at global, national and local levels to provide an original and timely contribution to one of the most important areas of political and social science.
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Feagin, Joe Richard was born on May 6, 1938 in San Angelo, Texas, United States. Son of Frank Joe and Hanna (Griffin) Feagin.
Bachelor, Baylor University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1966.
Assistant professor sociology University California-Riverside, 1966-1970. Associate professor, professor sociology University Texas, Austin, since 1970. Scholar-in-residence United States Commission Civil Rights, 1974-1975.
(Why, and how, are some people -- women, blacks, and other...)
(The world of modern capitalism is a global network both o...)
( The mission of this book is to attack the idea that Hou...)
( This book focuses on the dynamics, processes, and conse...)
Member American Sociological Association, Society Study of Social Problems (vice president since 1986).
Married Clairece Booher, September 1, 1959. Children– Michelle, Trevor.