New Books in Sociology
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Douglas Hartman, “Midnight Basketball: Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy” (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Feb 12, 201847 min
Claire Schmidt, “If You Don’t Laugh, You’ll Cry: The Occupational Humor of White Wisconsin Prison Workers” (U Wisconsin Press, 2017)
Feb 8, 20181h 9m
Jean Beaman, “Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France” (U California Press, 2017)
Feb 8, 201836 min
Conspiracy Theories with Quassim Cassam
Feb 8, 201833 min
Joseph Nathan Cohen, “Financial Crisis in American Households” (Praeger, 2017)
Jan 30, 201846 min
John Mingers, “Systems Thinking, Critical Realism and Philosophy: A Confluence of Ideas” (Routledge, 2014(
Jan 22, 20181h 4m
Mark S. Hamm and Ramon Spaaij, “The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism” (Columbia UP, 2017)
Jan 19, 201845 min
Alison Gerber, “The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Jan 19, 201852 min
Leo Coleman, “A Moral Technology: Electrification as Political Ritual in New Delhi” (Cornell UP, 2017)
Jan 19, 201852 min
Malcolm Harris, “Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials” (Little, Brown and Co, 2017)
Jan 11, 201844 min
Wolfgang Seibel, “Persecution and Rescue: The Politics of the Final Solution in France, 1940-1944” (U Michigan Press, 2017)
Jan 9, 20181h 2m
Jonathan R. Wynn, “Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport” (U of Chicago, 2015)
Jan 5, 201833 min
Chelsea Schelly, “Dwelling in Resistance: Living with Alternative Technologies in America” (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Dec 28, 201734 min
Corey D. Fields, “Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans” (UC Press, 2016)
Dec 24, 201755 min
Mario Luis Small, “Someone to Talk To” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Dec 19, 201756 min
Melanee Thomas and Amanda Bittner, eds. “Mothers and Others: The Role of Parenthood in Politics” (UBC Press, 2017)
Dec 18, 201759 min
Zek Valkyrie, “Game Worlds Get Real: How Who We Are Online Became Who We Are Offline” (Praeger, 2017)
Dec 15, 201756 min
Sareeta Amrute, “Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin” (Duke UP, 2016)
Dec 13, 201748 min
Rafia Zakaria, “Veil” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
Dec 13, 20171h 3m
Kevan Harris, “A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran” (U. Cal Press, 2017)
Dec 11, 201724 min
Mandy Sayer, “Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History” (NewSouth Publishing, 2017)
Dec 8, 201714 min
Eli Cook, “The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Dec 6, 201748 min
Kinneret Lahad, “A Table for One: A Critical Reading of Singlehood, Gender and Time” (Manchester UP, 2017)
Dec 5, 201753 min
Carolyn Sufrin, “Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars” (U. Cal Press, 2017)
Dec 1, 20171h 5m
Roderic Broadhurst et.al., “Violence and the Civilising Process in Cambodia” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Nov 29, 201740 min
Pasquale Tridico, “Inequality in Financial Capitalism” (Routledge, 2017)
Nov 29, 201744 min
Mindy Fried, “Caring for Red: A Daughter’s Memoir” (Vanderbilt UP, 2016)
Nov 29, 201751 min
Michelle Murphy, “The Economization of Life” (Duke University Press, 2017)
Nov 27, 201742 min
Sujatha Gidla, “Ants among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India” (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017)
Nov 26, 201740 min
Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider, “The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Nov 21, 201741 min
Jeremy Milloy, “Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Violence at Work in the North American Auto Industry, 1960-1980” (U. of Illinois Press, 2017)
Nov 20, 201752 min
Neda Maghbouleh, “The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Nov 20, 201756 min
Kathryn Lofton, “Consuming Religion” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
Nov 20, 20171h 0m
Jo Littler, “Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power, and Myths of Mobility” (Routledge, 2017)
Nov 17, 201745 min
Jennifer Randles, “Proposing Prosperity? Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Nov 14, 201744 min
Steve Viscelli, “The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream” (U. Cal Press, 2016)
Nov 13, 20171h 1m
David Goldstein, “Alley-Oop To Aliyah: African American Hoopsters in The Holy Land” (Skyhorse Publishing, 2017)
Nov 11, 201737 min
Carla Joinson, “Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians” (U. Nebraska, 2016)
Nov 8, 201748 min
Joshua Clark Davis, “From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs” (Columbia UP, 2017)
Nov 2, 201737 min
Jeffrey H. Cohen, “Eating Soup without a Spoon: Anthropological Theory and Method in the Real World” (U. Texas Press, 2015)
Nov 2, 201727 min
Christopher Baylor, “First to the Party: The Group Origins of Political Transformations” (Penn Press, 2017)
Oct 30, 201722 min
Eric J. Pido, “Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity” (Duke UP, 2017)
Oct 27, 201738 min
Jeffrey Kidder, “Parkour and the City: Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport” (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Oct 26, 201745 min
Julia Beltsiou, “Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Locating Ourselves” (Routledge, 2016)
Oct 24, 201745 min
Ryan D. Enos, “The Space Between Us: Social Geography and Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Oct 19, 201724 min
Mya Guranieri Jaradat, “The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel’s New Others” (U. Chicago/Pluto Press, 2017)
Oct 19, 201725 min
Walter Scheidel, “The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Oct 19, 201726 min
Lisa M. Corrigan, “Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation” (U. Press of Mississippi, 2016)
Oct 16, 201732 min
Ron Mallon, “The Construction of Human Kinds” (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Oct 15, 20171h 4m
Clayton Childress, “Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Sep 29, 201748 min