The body of literature and research on cities seems to be silent on the question of scenes.
Possible resources might include Karl Mannheim who has spoken about coffee houses and …

CIGARETTE smoking maintains its dubious distinction as the chief preventable cause of
cancer in the United States, responsible for 30% of all cancers and resulting in 150 000 cancer …

… *Direct all correspondence to Alan Blum. Department of Sociology, Yak University. Keele
Street, North YMk, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 … I intimate this direction in relation to …

Our intention is to explicate the sociological status of motives. We shall address this issue
by describing how ordinary actors employ'motive'as a practical method for organizing their …

Blum's distinctive form of theoretical inquiry pushes the reader to move beyond conventional
ways of thinking about familiar urban issues in answering such fundamental questions as, …

Theorizing consists of the methods for producing a possible society. A possible society is the
theorist’s methods for re-forming his knowledge of society. The possible society that is an …

When people scan mental images, their response times increase linearly with increases in
the distance to be scanned, which is generally taken as reflecting the fact that their internal …

COVERAGE of motor racing in the mass media has grown dramatically in recent years.
Hardly a day now goes by in the United States without a nationally televised automobile, …

Grapefruit is a healthy addition to a well-balanced diet. However, the fruit has been shown to
affect the metabolism of many medications, increasing the risk of toxicity and adverse effects…

This book, first published in 1978, is a radical approach to the philosophical distinction
between Being and beings, in which the life of Socrates is used as the metaphor for the …