Caribbean Sociology

by Reddock, Rhoda; Barrow, Christine

• ISBN13: 9781558762763
• ISBN10: 1558762760
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Markus Wiener Pub

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
L. E. S.. Braithwaite: An Appreciation
M. G. Smith: An Appreciation
The Development of Caribbean Sociology	p. 1
Sociology and Demographic Research in the Caribbean	p. 3
The Emergence of Sociology in Jamaica	p. 40
Social Science as a Victim of its own Disciplines: The English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean	p. 56
Some Future Directions for Social Research in the Commonwealth Caribbean	p. 69
Caribbean Social Theory	p. 85
Social Stratification, Cultural Pluralism and Integration in West Indian Societies	p. 87
Creolization	p. 108
Pluralism and Social Stratification	p. 118
Plantation Society	p. 139
Research and Methodology	p. 151
Some Issues in Caribbean Social Science Research	p. 153
Problems encountered in Data Collection in the West Indies	p. 158
Research Trends in the Development Sciences in the English-speaking Caribbean	p. 165
Social Stratification and Poverty	p. 173
Social Stratification and Cultural Pluralism	p. 176
The Nature of Social Classes and Class Conflict	p. 189
Reputation and Ranking in a Barbadian Society	p. 201
Women and Class: Method and Substance	p. 214
Poverty Revisited: Trinidad and Tobago in the Late 1990s	p. 223
The State of Poverty and Poverty Studies in Guyana	p. 233
Ethnicity, Culture and Identity	p. 245
Popular Culture, National Identity and Race in the Caribbean	p. 248
Race/Class: Jamaica's Discourse of Heritable Identity	p. 256
Ideology and the Formation of Anglo-European Hegemony and Cultural Domination in Guyana	p. 270
What is a Spanish? Ambiguity and 'mixed' ethnicity in Trinidad	p. 287
Body Image, Physical Beauty and Colour among Jamaican Adolescents	p. 305
Douglarization and the Politics of Gender, Relations in Trinidad and Tobago	p. 320
Women and Gender	p. 335
Reputation and Respectability: A Suggestion for Caribbean Ethnology	p. 338
Reputation and Respectability Reconsidered: A New Perspective on Afro-Caribbean Peasant Women	p. 350
Social Inequality and Sexual Status in Barbados	p. 371
My Mother Never Fathered Me: Rethinking Kinship and the Governing of Families	p. 389
The Creolization of Indian Women in Trinidad	p. 403
Family, Household and Kinship	p. 415
Men, Women and the Family in the Caribbean: A Review	p. 418
Female Status and Male Dominance in a West Indian Community	p. 427
The Knowledge and Practice of Effective Parenting	p. 436
Changes Over Time and Space in the East Indian Family in Trinidad	p. 449
Crime and Deviance	p. 471
Towards a Caribbean Criminology	p. 474
Rule-Making and Rule Enforcement in Plantation Society: The Ideological Development of Criminal Justice in Guyana	p. 486
The Specificity of Violence Against Women	p. 503
The Changing Social Organisation of Crime and Criminals in Jamaica	p. 512
Women and Violent Crime in Suriname	p. 528
Religion and Belief Systems	p. 541
Nuttall and Religious Orientation	p. 544
Haiti	p. 565
Pentecostals and Rastafarians: Cultural, Political and Gender Relations of Two Religious Movements	p. 587
Healing of the Nation: Rastafarian Exorcism of the Ideology of Racism	p. 605
Hinduism in the Diaspora: The Transformation of Tradition in Trinidad	p. 622
Education	p. 643
Education in the Pre-Emancipation Period (with special reference to the colonies which later became British Guiana)	p. 645
The Socialisation Intent in Colonial Education, 1867-1911	p. 666
A Review of Educational Research in Jamaica	p. 685
Education and Equality of Opportunity in Trinidad and Tobago	p. 712
Reflections on the Evolution of the University System in the English-speaking Caribbean	p. 726
Work and Occupation	p. 733
Organised Labour in the Commonwealth Caribbean	p. 736
Racial Discrimination in Employment in the Private Sector in Trinidad and Tobago: A Study of the business elite and the social structure	p. 753
Gender, Industrialization and Development in Puerto Rico	p. 772
Gender and Ethnicity at Work in a Trinidadian Factory	p. 788
Petty trading and Labour Mobility: Higglers in the Kingston Metropolitan Area	p. 801
Population and Demographic Change	p. 825
The Slave Populations of the British Caribbean: Some Nineteenth-century Variations	p. 827
Guyana and the Demographic Transition	p. 835
The Aging Population of Montserrat: Causes and Consequences	p. 845
Beyond the Safety Valve: Recent Trends in Caribbean Migration	p. 861
Patterns of Mating Behaviour, Emigration and Contraceptives as Factors Affecting Human Fertility in Barbados	p. 877
Social Change, Development and Planning	p. 895
Export-Led Development and the Lewis Model in Haiti	p. 898
To Hell with Paradise: A History of the Jamaican Tourist Industry	p. 909
Peasants, Plantations and People: Continuities in the Work of George Beckford and W. Arthur Lewis	p. 929
The Historical Sociology of Jamaican Villages	p. 940
Urbanisation, Planning and Development in the Caribbean	p. 954
The Impact of Adjustment Policies on Vulnerable Groups: The Case of Jamaica	p. 973
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