Caribbean Sociology : Introductory Readings

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Part 1 Development of Caribbean sociology: sociology and demographic research, L.E.S. Braithwaite sociology in Jamaica, D. Robotham the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, G. Sankatsing future directions for social research, M.G. Smith. Part 2 Caribbean social theory: social stratification, cultural pluralism and integration, R.T. Smith creolization, E.K. Brathwaite pluralism and social stratification, M.G. Smith plantation society, G. Beckford. Part 3 Research and methodology: issues in research, C. Stone problems in data collection, S. Alleyne and S. Benn. Part 4 Social stratification and poverty: stratification and cultural pluralism, L.E.S. Braithwaite social classes and class conflict, C. Stone reputation and ranking in a Barbadian society, C. Barrow women and class, D. Gordon poverty revisited - Trinidad and Tobago, R. Henry and J. Melville poverty in Guyana, C.Y. Thomas. Part 5 Ethnicity, culture and identity: popular culture, national identity and race, H. Safa race/class in Jamaica, D. Austin-Broos Anglo-European hegemony in Guyana, B. Williams mixed ethnicity in Trinidad, A. Khan body image, beauty and mcolour in Jamaican adolescents, E. Miller Douglarization and gender relations in Trinidad and Tobago, R. Reddock. Part 6 Women and gender: reputation and respectability, P. Wilson reputation and respectability reconsidered, J. Besson social inequality and sexual status in Barbados, C. Sutton and S. Makeisky-Barrow rethinking kinship, M. Lazarus-Black creolization of Indian women in Trinidad, P. Mohammed. Part 7 Family, household and kinship: men, women and family, C. Barrow female status and male dominance, Y. Moses effective parenting, E. Wint and J. Brown changes in the East Indian family in Trinidad, J. Nevamdovsky. Part 8 Crime and deviance: criminology, K. Pryce rule-making and enforcement in plantation society, D. Dodd violence against women, M. Cain social organization of crime and criminals in Jamaica, A. Harriott women and violent crime in Suriname, J. Binda. Part 9 Religion and belief systems: Nuttall and the religious orientation, P. Bryan Haiti, G.E. Simpson Pentecostals and Rastafarians, D. Austin-Broos Rastafarian exorcism of the ideology of racism, B. Chevannes Hinduism in the diaspora, S. Vertovec. Part 10 Education: education in the pre-emancipation period, M.K. Bachhus socialization in colonial education, 1867-1911, T. Turner equality and opportunity in Trinidad and Tobago, I. Baksh evolution of the university system, C.Y. Thomas. Part 11 Work and occupations: organized labour, L. Nurse racial discrimination in private sector employment, Trinidad and Tobago, A. Camejo gender, industrialization and development in Puerto Rico, P.N. Rios gender and ethinicity in a Trinidadian factory, K. Yelvington petty trading in Kingston, E. LeFranc. Part 12 Population and demographic change: slave populations of the British Caribbean, B. Higman part contents.

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