Edited by Linda Dégh (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) Narratives in Society represents three decades of scholarship by distinguished folklorist Linda Dégh. The twenty essays—some new, the rest newly revised—present Dégh’s ideas, theories, and approaches to folktales: the people who tell them, listen to them, pass them on, and the communities that support them.
By Robert E. Lane (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) In a period when market economies are widely recognized as the most desirable form of economic organization, Robert Lane offers evidence that the major premises of market economics are mistaken. Lane shows that work, far from being a disutility, as economic theory would have it, is instead one … Continued
By Torsten Husén (NHC Fellow, 1978–79) This book focuses on the school as an institution and its problems in a modern, highly industrialised society. In such a society formal education has become an increasingly important asset in the life career of an individual and the economic development of society. The essays were chosen for their … Continued
By Gilbert T. Sewall (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) Discusses the problems of the U.S. public education system, suggests reforms, and identifies the problems that must be overcome to restore excellence to the schools.
Edited by Franklin W. Knight (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) and Colin A. Palmer (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1989–90) This collection of thirteen original essays by experts in the field of Caribbean studies clarifies the diverse elements that have shaped the modern Caribbean. Through an interdisciplinary examination of the complexities of race, politics, language, and environment that mark … Continued
By Abraham Edel (NHC Fellow, 1978–79) The great twentieth-century dichotomy that has pervaded moral philosophy and value theory on the one hand and social science and social theory on the other, concerns this volume. Part one approaches this dichotomy between fact (knowledge/science) and value (worth/morality) from different angles. It opens with a general study of … Continued
By Sherry B. Ortner (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) Pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner is renowned for her work on the Sherpas of Nepal. Now she turns her attention homeward to examine how social class is lived in the United States and, specifically, within her own peer group. In New Jersey Dreaming, Ortner returns to her Newark roots … Continued
By Claudia Koonz (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic community and denounced outsiders. Claudia Koonz’s latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and … Continued
Edited by Bill Schwarz (NHC Fellow, 2015–16) and Stuart Hall "Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordinary story of the life and career of Stuart Hall—how his experiences shaped his intellectual, political, and theoretical work and how he became one of his age's brightest … Continued
By Alexander Rosenberg (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) Originally published in 1981. Why have the social sciences in general failed to produce results with the ever-increasing explanatory power and predictive strength of the natural sciences? In seeking an answer to this question, Alexander Rosenberg, a philosopher of science, plunges into the controversial discipline of sociobiology. Sociobiology, Rosenberg … Continued