New Books in Sociology
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Randal Schnoor, "Jewish Family: Identity and Self-Formation at Home" (Indiana UP, 2018)
Feb 20, 202059 min
Virginia Eubanks, "Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor" (St. Martin's, 2018)
Feb 20, 20201h 22m
Caitlin Frances Bruce, "Painting Publics: Transnational Legal Graffiti Scenes as Spaces for Encounter" (Temple UP, 2019)
Feb 19, 20201h 5m
Robert Frank, "Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 17, 202029 min
Iyko Day, "Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2016)
Feb 17, 202057 min
Angela Jones, "Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry" (NYU Press, 2020)
Feb 14, 202052 min
Shai M. Dromi, "Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Feb 13, 202044 min
James K. Wellman, Jr., "High on God: How Megachurches Won the Heart of America" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 13, 202049 min
Matthew Gutmann, "Are Men Animals? How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short" (Basic Books, 2019)
Feb 12, 20201h 2m
Germaine R. Halegoua, "The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place" (NYU Press, 2019)
Feb 12, 202054 min
Jay Wexler, "Our Non-Christian Nation" (Redwood Press, 2019)
Feb 11, 20201h 2m
Charlene Makley, "The Battle for Fortune: State-led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Feb 10, 20201h 27m
Gil Eyal, "The Crisis of Expertise" (Polity, 2019)
Feb 10, 20201h 6m
Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider, "Why Does Patriarchy Persist?" (Polity, 2018)
Feb 10, 202042 min
Jonathan A. C. Brown, "Slavery and Islam" (Oneworld Academic, 2019)
Feb 7, 20201h 12m
Ivan V. Small, "Currencies of Imagination: Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in Vietnam" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Feb 6, 202050 min
T. Mose "The Playdate" (NYU Press, 2016) and L. Crehan "Cleverlands" (Random House, 2017)
Feb 5, 202031 min
Daniel Mattingly, "The Art of Political Control in China" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Feb 4, 202039 min
Sean Jacobs, "Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Feb 4, 20201h 1m
SpearIt, “American Prisons: A Critical Primer on Culture and Conversion to Islam” (First Edition Design, 2017)
Jan 31, 20201h 18m
Allison Ochs, "Would I Have Sexted Back in the 80s?" (Amsterdam UP, 2019)
Jan 31, 20201h 7m
Andrea Boyles, "You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America" (U California Press, 2019)
Jan 30, 20201h 1m
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Jan 30, 202039 min
Alexis Elder, "Friendship, Robots, and Social Media: False Friends and Second Selves" (Routledge, 2017)
Jan 30, 20201h 13m
Lindsay Mayka, "Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America: Reform Coalitions and Institutional Change" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jan 27, 202056 min
Helen Taylor, "Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 27, 202032 min
Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger, "Re-Engineering Humanity" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Jan 23, 20201h 29m
Safi Bahcall, "Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries" (St. Martins, 2019)
Jan 21, 202058 min
Catherine Besteman, "Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine" (Duke UP, 2016)
Jan 21, 202047 min
Rachel Chrastil, "How to Be Childless: A History and Philosophy of Life Without Children" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 21, 202036 min
Wendy Bottero, "A Sense of Inequality" (Roman and Littlefield, 2020)
Jan 20, 202040 min
Ben Green, "The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future" (MIT Press, 2019)
Jan 20, 202033 min
Filippo Marsili, "Heaven Is Empty: A Cross-Cultural Approach to 'Religion' and Empire in Ancient China" (SUNY Press, 2018)
Jan 17, 20201h 18m
Josh Reno, "Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness" (U California Press, 2019)
Jan 17, 20201h 17m
Gediminas Lankauskas, "The Land of Weddings and Rain: Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania" (U Toronto Press, 2015)
Jan 10, 20201h 24m
John N. Singer, "Race, Sports, and Education: Improving Opportunities and Outcomes for Black Male College Athletes" (Harvard Ed Press, 2019)
Jan 10, 202059 min
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, "Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Stories from Above the Rooftops" (Routledge, 2019)
Jan 9, 202046 min
Robert Rozehnal, "Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressions of the American Muslim Experience" (OneWorld, 2019)
Jan 8, 20201h 3m
Maria Veri and Rita Liberti, "Gridiron Gourmet: Gender and Food at the Football Tailgate" (U Arkansas Press, 2019)
Jan 3, 202056 min
John Danaher, "Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Jan 2, 20201h 9m
Mark Bartholomew, "Adcreep: The Case Against Modern Marketing" (Stanford Law Books, 2017)
Jan 2, 20201h 11m
Jennifer Utrata, "Women without Men: Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia" (Cornell UP, 2015)
Dec 27, 201956 min
Ajantha Subramanian, "The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Dec 27, 20191h 5m
Jason Read, "The Politics of Transindividuality" (Haymarket Books, 2017)
Dec 26, 20191h 15m
David Pettinicchio, "Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Dec 26, 201925 min
Phoebe Moore, "The Quantified Self in Precarity: Work, Technology and What Counts" (Routledge, 2017)
Dec 26, 201958 min
Xiao Liu, "Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Dec 21, 20191h 6m
Davin Phoenix, "The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 19, 201926 min
Sidharthan Maunaguru, "Marrying for a Future: Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War" (U Washington Press 2019)
Dec 19, 20191h 10m
Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China" (U California Press, 2018)
Dec 18, 20191h 12m