English summary: Due to their special architecture, their structural coupling potential of the different systems of families and firms, family businesses have a very specific conflict potential.

Hopes to hasten the development of applied sociology by making clear distinctions between general sociology, social arts, social work, and social economy.

The topic covered by this book is important (crucially so in post-apartheid South Africa) and the research is meticulous.

"A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, . . . in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief." ―Upton Sinclair, Mammonart Mammonart: An Essay in Economic ...

A discussion of party government vs. individualism, in the form of imaginary conversations.

This book endeavors to set forth rural changes in their historical, scientific, and social aspects.

Behaviors posing risks for an individual’s health include drug use, smoking, alcohol, unhealthy eating causing obesity, and unsafe sex.

Presents American author Upton Sinclair's selection of works of literature that portray American progressivism and reflect struggles against social injustice.

Includes the section "Book notes".

In 1890, when the book was published, the Lower East Side was a landscape of teeming streets and filthy tenements crowded with immigrants living in dreadful conditions.