Laura Desfor Edles
Biographic Data
| ID | 191142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Desfor Edles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura Desfor |
| FAMILY NAME | Edles |
| SIGNATURE | EDLES L D |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Northridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology
The influential authors significantly update their popular introductory text that invites students to reflect on their lives in the context of the combustible leap from modern to postmodern life. The authors show how culture is central to understanding many world problems as they challenge readers to confront the problems and possibilities of an era in which the futures of the physical and social environments seem uncertain. As culture rapidly ch…
Alejandro J. Gómez del Moral. Buying into Change
Journal Article Alejandro J. Gómez del Moral. Buying into Change: Mass Consumption, Dictatorship, and Democratization in Franco’s Spain, 1939–1982. Get access Alejandro J. Gómez del Moral. Buying into Change: Mass Consumption, Dictatorship, and Democratization in Franco’s Spain, 1939–1982. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Pp. xiii, 363. Cloth $65.00. Laura Desfor Edles Laura Desfor Edles California State University, USA Email: lde…
Contemporary Introduction to Sociology
The first edition of A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology was the first truly new introductory sociology textbook in decades. Written by two leading sociologists at the cutting edge of theory and research, the text reflected the idioms and interests of contemporary American life and global social issues. The second edition continues to invite students to reflect upon their lives within the context of the combustible leap from modern to postmo…
Contemporary Introduction to Sociology
Contemporary Progressive Christianity and Its Symbolic Ramifications
In the last decade, progressive Christians have been mounting an increasingly perceptible challenge to the 'Christian right' in the United States. New organizations and websites are cropping up, a wellspring of books are being published, and long-standing progressive writers and theologians are garnering more attention and support than ever before. Despite significant advances, however, the impact of the 'religious left' in the American public sp…
Understanding Evil
Rethinking 'race', 'ethnicity' and 'culture
The state of Hawai'i is often held up as a "multiracial"/"multiethnic" paradise. This is not only because of Hawai'i's ethnic/racial diversity and "aloha" spirit, but because of its high rates of "interracial" marriage. Using historical material as well as an open-ended qualitative "mini-survey" of college students, I dig deeper into this myth by exploring the systems of meaning prevalent in Hawai'i concerning, "race", "ethnicity", and "culture".…
Rethinking race, ethnicity and culture
Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain. The Transition to Democracy after Franco
A Culturalist Approach to Ethnic Nationalist Movements
The Spanish transition to democracy after the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975 is heralded as the “very model” of successful transition from authoritarianism to democracy (Gunther 1992), the epitome of “transition through transaction” (Share 1986, 1987). Spain is proclaimed “the country to be studied” (Przeworski 1986: 61) for good cause. Despite a long history of political turmoil, a notoriously brutal civil war, and nearly 40 years of …
Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain
Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain
This is a book about the role of culture in social change and the Spanish transition to democracy after Franco. Laura Desfor Edles takes a distinctively culturalist approach to the 'strategy of consensus' deployed by the Spanish elite and uses systematic textual interpretation (with a particular focus on Spanish newspapers) to show how a new symbolic framework emerged in post-Franco Spain which enabled the resolution of specific events critical t…
Rethinking democratic transition
The Sacred and the Spanish Transition to Democracy in Spain
Emile Durkheim
Between Two Wars The Moral Basis of the Social Order The Division of Labor in Society (1893) Studying Social Facts The Rules of Sociological Method (1895) The Social Conditions of Psychological Health Suicide (1897) Reason, Religion, and Society The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912) Why Read the Classics
The Sacred and the Subversive
Emile Durkheim
Between Two Wars The Moral Basis of the Social Order The Division of Labor in Society (1893) Studying Social Facts The Rules of Sociological Method (1895) The Social Conditions of Psychological Health Suicide (1897) Reason, Religion, and Society The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912) Why Read the Classics
Rethinking democratic transition
Rethinking 'race', 'ethnicity' and 'culture
The state of Hawai'i is often held up as a "multiracial"/"multiethnic" paradise. This is not only because of Hawai'i's ethnic/racial diversity and "aloha" spirit, but because of its high rates of "interracial" marriage. Using historical material as well as an open-ended qualitative "mini-survey" of college students, I dig deeper into this myth by exploring the systems of meaning prevalent in Hawai'i concerning, "race", "ethnicity", and "culture".…
A Culturalist Approach to Ethnic Nationalist Movements
The Spanish transition to democracy after the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975 is heralded as the “very model” of successful transition from authoritarianism to democracy (Gunther 1992), the epitome of “transition through transaction” (Share 1986, 1987). Spain is proclaimed “the country to be studied” (Przeworski 1986: 61) for good cause. Despite a long history of political turmoil, a notoriously brutal civil war, and nearly 40 years of …
Contemporary Progressive Christianity and Its Symbolic Ramifications
In the last decade, progressive Christians have been mounting an increasingly perceptible challenge to the 'Christian right' in the United States. New organizations and websites are cropping up, a wellspring of books are being published, and long-standing progressive writers and theologians are garnering more attention and support than ever before. Despite significant advances, however, the impact of the 'religious left' in the American public sp…
The Sacred and the Spanish Transition to Democracy in Spain
The Sacred and the Subversive
Emile Durkheim
Between Two Wars The Moral Basis of the Social Order The Division of Labor in Society (1893) Studying Social Facts The Rules of Sociological Method (1895) The Social Conditions of Psychological Health Suicide (1897) Reason, Religion, and Society The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912) Why Read the Classics
The Sacred and the Spanish Transition to Democracy in Spain
Rethinking democratic transition
Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain
This is a book about the role of culture in social change and the Spanish transition to democracy after Franco. Laura Desfor Edles takes a distinctively culturalist approach to the 'strategy of consensus' deployed by the Spanish elite and uses systematic textual interpretation (with a particular focus on Spanish newspapers) to show how a new symbolic framework emerged in post-Franco Spain which enabled the resolution of specific events critical t…
A Culturalist Approach to Ethnic Nationalist Movements
The Spanish transition to democracy after the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975 is heralded as the “very model” of successful transition from authoritarianism to democracy (Gunther 1992), the epitome of “transition through transaction” (Share 1986, 1987). Spain is proclaimed “the country to be studied” (Przeworski 1986: 61) for good cause. Despite a long history of political turmoil, a notoriously brutal civil war, and nearly 40 years of …
Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain
Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain. The Transition to Democracy after Franco
Rethinking race, ethnicity and culture
Rethinking 'race', 'ethnicity' and 'culture
The state of Hawai'i is often held up as a "multiracial"/"multiethnic" paradise. This is not only because of Hawai'i's ethnic/racial diversity and "aloha" spirit, but because of its high rates of "interracial" marriage. Using historical material as well as an open-ended qualitative "mini-survey" of college students, I dig deeper into this myth by exploring the systems of meaning prevalent in Hawai'i concerning, "race", "ethnicity", and "culture".…
Understanding Evil
Contemporary Progressive Christianity and Its Symbolic Ramifications
In the last decade, progressive Christians have been mounting an increasingly perceptible challenge to the 'Christian right' in the United States. New organizations and websites are cropping up, a wellspring of books are being published, and long-standing progressive writers and theologians are garnering more attention and support than ever before. Despite significant advances, however, the impact of the 'religious left' in the American public sp…
Contemporary Introduction to Sociology
The first edition of A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology was the first truly new introductory sociology textbook in decades. Written by two leading sociologists at the cutting edge of theory and research, the text reflected the idioms and interests of contemporary American life and global social issues. The second edition continues to invite students to reflect upon their lives within the context of the combustible leap from modern to postmo…
Contemporary Introduction to Sociology
A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology
The influential authors significantly update their popular introductory text that invites students to reflect on their lives in the context of the combustible leap from modern to postmodern life. The authors show how culture is central to understanding many world problems as they challenge readers to confront the problems and possibilities of an era in which the futures of the physical and social environments seem uncertain. As culture rapidly ch…
Alejandro J. Gómez del Moral. Buying into Change
Journal Article Alejandro J. Gómez del Moral. Buying into Change: Mass Consumption, Dictatorship, and Democratization in Franco’s Spain, 1939–1982. Get access Alejandro J. Gómez del Moral. Buying into Change: Mass Consumption, Dictatorship, and Democratization in Franco’s Spain, 1939–1982. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Pp. xiii, 363. Cloth $65.00. Laura Desfor Edles Laura Desfor Edles California State University, USA Email: lde…
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