Greetings, and welcome to my web site. Please let me know what you think. Browse through - and don't forget to look at the Monthly Essay page. Every few weeks, you will find a new essay, or a short story, or a memoir. I hope you find the pieces to your taste:
"I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing."
-Frances Quarles 1592-1644
Goodnight Children, Everywhere
Voices of Evacuees
The History Press Ltd; August 1, 2009
ISBN-10: 0752452827
ISBN-13: 978-0752452821
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Falling in Love Again
ISBN: 075700136X
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“Monica B. Morris, Ph.D. specializes in human relationships. As a university professor, she developed and taught courses in the Sociology of the Emotions, which includes why - and with whom - we fall in love!
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Last-Chance Children: Growing Up With Older Parents
ISBN: 0231066945
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“Being the child of an older mother may be the most significant fact of my early life."
- Jean, born when her mother was forty-three.
AN EXCURSION INTO CREATIVE SOCIOLOGY
This groundbreaking volume distinguishes among, compares, and clarifies the intriguing sociological approaches Monica B. Morris terms “creative.” Each rests on the idea that human beings are constantly shaping and re-shaping their reality in interaction with others.
Among the social and philosophical theories discussed are symbolic interaction; ethnomethodology, existentialism,, phenomenology, and the sociology of the absurd. In chapters on the theatre, on aging, and the structure of speech, Morris takes these formidable terms and translates them into understandable language.
Put simply, Creative Sociology is about how we make sense of the world. It examines how we take so much for granted that we are barely aware of how we arrive at our various beliefs and opinions.