In Search of Personal Welfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Search of Personal Welfare write by Mu-chou Poo. This book was released on 1998-01-01. In Search of Personal Welfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first major reassessment of ancient Chinese religion to appear in recent years, this book presents the religious mentality of the period through personal and daily experiences.
In Search of Personal Welfare
In Search of Personal Welfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Search of Personal Welfare write by Mu-chou Poo. This book was released on 1998-01-29. In Search of Personal Welfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first major reassessment of ancient Chinese religion to appear in recent years. It provides a historical investigation of broadly shared religious beliefs and goals in ancient China from the earliest period to the end of the Han Dynasty. The author makes use of recently acquired archeological data, traditional texts, and modern scholarly work from China, Japan, and the West. The overall concern of this book is to try to reach the religious mentality of the ancient Chinese in the context of personal and daily experiences. Poo deals with such problems as the definition of religion, the popular/elite controversy in methodology, and the use of "elite" documents in the study of ordinary life.
Birth and Fortune
Birth and Fortune - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Birth and Fortune write by Richard A. Easterlin. This book was released on 1987-04-15. Birth and Fortune available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this influential work, Richard A. Easterlin shows how the size of a generation—the number of persons born in a particular year—directly and indirectly affects the personal welfare of its members, the make-up and breakdown of the family, and the general well being of the economy. "[Easterlin] has made clear, I think unambiguously, that the baby-boom generation is economically underprivileged merely because of its size. And in showing this, he demonstrates that population size can be as restrictive as a factor as sex, race, or class on equality of opportunity in the U.S."—Jeffrey Madrick, Business Week
Living on the Edge
Living on the Edge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living on the Edge write by Mark R. Rank. This book was released on 1994. Living on the Edge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on ten years of research, the book follows individuals and families as they apply for and live on public aid and eventually leave the system. Rank's chronicle of their day-to-day experiences reveals the many sacrifices and crises that tax ordinary people in extraordinary ways. Beginning with a history of welfare from Roosevelt to Clinton, he focuses on AFDC and the Food Stamp program. He then describes the backgrounds of the recipients, their hopes for the future and attitudes toward welfare, their daily routines and problems, their work behavior, and the effect of welfare on family dynamics. Living on the Edge reveals the experiences of female-headed families, married couples, single men and women, and the elderly.
The Personal and the Political
The Personal and the Political - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Personal and the Political write by S. Kumlin. This book was released on 2004-07-22. The Personal and the Political available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study investigates the extent to which personal welfare state experiences affect general political orientations and attitudes. What are the political effects when a person is discontent with some aspect of, say, the particular health services or the public kindergartens that she has been in personal contact with? Do they lose faith in the welfare state or in leftist ideas about large-scale state intervention in society? Do they take their negative experiences as a sign that the political system and its politicians are not functioning satisfactorily? Will their inclination to support the governing party drop? And if so, how strong are the political effects of personal welfare state experiences compared to those of other, more well-known, explanatory factors? Addressing these and other questions, this study develops a theoretical framework that incorporates insights from a multitude of research traditions, including research on the welfare state, voting behaviour, social psychology, rational choice theory, political psychology, and institutional theory. The framework is tested empirically using Swedish primary survey data collected under the auspices of the 1999 West Sweden SOM Survey, and the 1999 Swedish European Parliament Election Study.
