New Books in Sociology
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Debra Majeed, “Polygyny: What it Means When African American Muslim Women Share Their Husbands” (UP of Florida, 2015)
Sep 30, 201547 min
Isabelle Dussauge, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, and Francis Lee, “Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Sep 26, 201551 min
Christopher R. Duncan, “Violence and Vengeance: Religious Conflict and Its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia” (Cornell UP, 2013)
Sep 15, 20151h 1m
Lois Lee, “Recognizing the Non-religious: Reimagining the Secular” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Sep 14, 201538 min
Kristin Peterson, “Speculative Markets: Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria” (Duke UP, 2015)
Sep 10, 20151h 4m
Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Srila Roy, “New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India” (Oxford UPs 2015)
Sep 8, 201537 min
Sandra Harding, “Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Sep 4, 20151h 14m
Liz McFall, “Devising Consumption Cultural Economies of Insurance, Credit and Spending” (Routledge, 2014)
Sep 2, 201546 min
Paul A. Christensen, “Japan, Alcoholism, and Masculinity: Suffering Sobriety in Tokyo” (Lexington Books, 2014)
Aug 19, 20151h 6m
Paul Verhaeghe, “What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society” (Scribe, 2014)
Aug 18, 201552 min
Gyanendra Pandey, “A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Aug 14, 201557 min
Janet Vertesi, “Seeing like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Aug 10, 20151h 7m
Craig Martin, “Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie” (Bloomsbury, 2014)
Aug 4, 20151h 2m
Nancy Fraser, “Transnationalizing the Public Sphere” (Polity, 2014)
Jul 8, 20151h 10m
Kocku von Stuckrad, “The Scientification of Religion: An Historical Study of Discursive Change, 1800-2000” (De Gruyter, 2014)
Jul 6, 201555 min
James Laine, “Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History” (U of California Press, 2015)
Jun 23, 201551 min
Scott Straus, “Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership and Genocide in Modern Africa” (Cornell University Press, 2015)
Jun 9, 20151h 14m
Kevin O’Neill, “Secure the Soul: Christian Piety and Gang Prevention in Guatemala” (U of California Press, 2015)
Jun 2, 201550 min
Todd Meyers, “The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy” (U of Washington Press, 2013)
May 22, 20151h 7m
J. Bronsteen, C. Buccafusco, and J. S. Masur, “Happiness and the Law” (U Chicago Press, 2014)
May 12, 201543 min
Lu Zhang, “Inside China’s Automobile Factories” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
May 10, 20151h 5m
Timothy Jordan, “Information Politics: Liberation and Exploitation in the Digital Society” (Pluto Press, 2015)
May 5, 201552 min
Simon C. Kim, “Memory and Honor” (Liturgical Press, 2013)
May 5, 20151h 12m
Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent, “American Conspiracy Theories” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Apr 27, 201542 min
Eva Illouz, “Hard-Core Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey, Best-Sellers, and Society” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
Apr 27, 20151h 3m
Robert W. Gehl, “Reverse Engineering Social Media” (Temple UP, 2014)
Apr 13, 201542 min
Daniel Feierstein, “Genocide as Social Practice” (Rutgers UP, 2014)
Apr 10, 20151h 6m
Caroline Lee, et al., “Democratizing Inequalities: Dilemma of the New Public Participation” (NYU Press 2015)
Apr 6, 201521 min
Abdelwahab El-Affendi, “Genocidal Nightmares” (Bloomsbury, 2014)
Mar 25, 201558 min
James A. Holstein, Richard S. Jones, George Koonce, Jr., “Is There Life After Football? Surviving the NFL” (New York UP, 2014)
Mar 17, 201555 min
Ervin Staub, “Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict and Terrorism” (Oxford UP, 2010)
Mar 14, 20151h 19m
Edward Telles and PERLA, “Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race and Color in Latin America” (UNC Press, 2014)
Mar 9, 201543 min
Victoria Hesford, “Feeling Women’s Liberation” (Duke University Press, 2013).
Mar 6, 20151h 10m
Deana A. Rohlinger, “Abortion Politics, Mass Media, and Social Movements in America” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Feb 16, 201517 min
Lynn Chancer and John Andrews, “The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014)
Feb 12, 201551 min
Steven Shaviro, “The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
Jan 16, 20151h 3m
Carl H. Nightingale, “Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities” (U of Chicago Press, 2012)
Jan 2, 201554 min
Sarah Mayorga-Gallo, “Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood” (UNC Press 2014)
Dec 29, 201421 min
Frank Pasquale, “The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information” (Harvard UP, 2015)
Dec 24, 201452 min
Christopher Lubienski and Sarah Lubienski, “The Public School Advantage” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Dec 15, 201440 min
Scott Mainwaring and Anibal Perez-Linan, “Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Dec 15, 201422 min
Beth Driscoll, “The New Literary Middlebrow: Readers and Tastemaking in the Twenty-First Century” (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2014)
Dec 3, 201441 min
Jacob N. Shapiro, “The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations” (Princeton UP, 2013)
Nov 27, 201442 min
Janet K. Shim, “Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease” (NYU Press, 2014)
Nov 27, 20141h 16m
Sam Friedman, “Comedy and Distinction” (Routledge, 2014)
Nov 21, 201448 min
Paul Loeb, “The Impossible Will Take a Little While” (Basic Books, 2014)
Nov 18, 201444 min
Dan Slater, “Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia” (Cambridge UP, 2010)
Nov 14, 20141h 2m
Steven Conn, “Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Nov 12, 201457 min
Marisol Sandoval, “From Corporate to Social Media” (Routledge, 2014)
Nov 5, 201439 min
Amrita Pande, “Wombs in Labor: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India” (Columbia UP, 2014)
Nov 4, 20141h 4m