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SOCIOLOGY

Redistributing Being Urban Questioning Causality
Happiness A Sociology of City Life Scientific Explorations of

How Social Policies Third Edition | DAVID A. KARP, Cause and Consequence
Shape Life Satisfaction GREGORY P. STONE, across Social Contexts
WILLIAM C. YOELS,
HIROSHI ONO AND AND NICHOLAS P. DEMPSEY ROM HARRÉ AND
KRISTEN SCHULTZ LEE FATHALI M. MOGHADDAM, EDITORS

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“ in accessible language, which This third edition of a classic urban Covering a topic applicable to fields
Overall, the book is written
ranging from education to health care to
makes it the perfect fit for sociology text examines critical but psychology, this book provides a broad
a wide variety of readers. often-neglected aspects of urban life critical analysis of the assumptions that
”
Recommended. All readers. from a social-psychological theoretical researchers and practitioners have about
—Choice, April 3, 2017 perspective. causation and explains how readers can
improve their thinking about causation.
Drawing on international comparisons FEATURES
of data on happiness, this book offers • Provides a complete analysis of
both general and academic audiences a the important social psychological ROM HARRÉ is Emeritus Fellow of
simple, deep, and honest answer to the dimensions of urban life that are Linacre College, Oxford University; and
often overlooked
is distinguished research professor at
timeless question: “What makes people Georgetown University.
happy”? • Supplies a comprehensive description
of the 19th-century theoretical roots FATHALI M. MOGHADDAM
FEATURES of urban sociology is professor of psychology at
Georgetown University and editor-in-
• Coalesces survey data from 29 chief of the peer-reviewed academic
countries and highlights country- DAVID A. KARP, PhD, is professor journal, Peace and Conflict: Journal of
specific examples and cases to emeritus at Boston College where he Peace Psychology.
offer readers an insightful global taught for 42 years.
perspective grounded in high-quality GREGORY P. STONE, PhD, who died
social science in 1981, was professor of sociology at
the University of Minnesota.
HIROSHI ONO, PhD, is professor WILLIAM C. YOELS, PhD, retired as
of human resources at Hitotsubashi professor emeritus at the University
University, Graduate School of of Alabama-Birmingham. He received
International Corporate Strategy. his doctorate from the University of
Minnesota.
KRISTEN SCHULTZ LEE, PhD, is
associate professor of sociology at the NICHOLAS P. DEMPSEY, PhD, is
University at Buffalo, SUNY. assistant professor of sociology at
Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL.

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