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New Books in Sociology

New Books in Sociology

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Ian Samson, “Paper: An Elegy” (Harper Collins, 2012)

Sep 24, 201334 min

Christopher Powell, “Barbaric Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Genocide” (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011)

Sep 21, 20131h 8m

David Beer, “Popular Culture and New Media: The Politics of Circulation” (Palgrave, 2013)

Sep 21, 201338 min

Gayle Kaufman, “Superdads: How Fathers Balance Work and Family in the 21st Century” (NYU Press, 2013)

Sep 19, 201351 min

Mary Eberstadt, “How the West Really Lost God” (Templeton Press, 2013)

Sep 7, 201351 min

Fabian Drixler, “Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950” (University of California Press, 2013)

Sep 5, 20131h 12m

Sarah Banet-Weiser, “Authentic: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture” (NYU Press, 2013)

Aug 27, 201357 min

Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton, “Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality” (Harvard UP, 2013)

Aug 9, 20131h 10m

Matthew W. Hughey, “White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race” (Stanford UP, 2012)

Aug 9, 201342 min

David Garland, “Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition” (Harvard UP, 2010)

Aug 5, 201355 min

Martha C. Howell, “Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600” (Cambridge UP, 2010)

Jul 17, 20131h 8m

Nancy Segal, “Born Together-Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study” (Harvard UP, 2012)

Jun 28, 201351 min

Paula Huston, “A Season of Mystery: 10 Spiritual Practices for Embracing a Happier Second Half of Life” (Loyola Press, 2012)

Jun 11, 20131h 14m

Elizabeth H. Pleck, “Not Just Roommates: Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution” (Chicago UP, 2012)

May 31, 201348 min

James Dawes, “Evil Men” (Harvard UP, 2013)

May 16, 201358 min

Azar Gat, “Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism” (Cambridge UP, 2013)

Apr 9, 201353 min

Neil Gross, “Why are Professors Liberal and Why do Conservatives Care?” (Harvard UP, 2013)

Apr 8, 201358 min

David M. Halperin, “How to be Gay” (Harvard UP, 2012)

Feb 25, 201333 min

Nick Couldry, “Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice” (Polity Press, 2012)

Feb 4, 20131h 3m

Christian J. Churchill and Gerald E. Levy, “The Enigmatic Academy Class, Bureaucracy, and Religion in American Education” (Temple UP, 2011)

Jan 28, 201359 min

Scott Melzer, “Gun Crusaders: The NRA’s Culture War” (NYU Press, 2012)

Dec 13, 201225 min

Signe Rousseau, “Food and Social Media: You Are What You Tweet” (AltaMira Press, 2012)

Dec 13, 201254 min

Keri E. Iyall Smith, “Sociology of Globalization: Cultures, Economies, and Politics” (Westview Press, 2012)

Nov 30, 201232 min

Brett Bebber, “Violence and Racism in Football: Politics and Cultural Conflict in British Society, 1968-1998” (Pickering & Chatto, 2011)

Nov 29, 201255 min

Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields, “Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life” (Verso Books, 2012)

Nov 11, 201243 min

Jini Kim Watson, “The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)

Nov 6, 20121h 11m

David Chura, “I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup” (Beacon Press, 2010)

Oct 25, 201255 min

Giusi Tamburello, “Concepts and Categories of Emotion in East Asia” (Carocci editore, 2012)

Oct 4, 201257 min

Sandra Chait, “Seeking Salaam: Ethiopians, Eritreans and Somalis in the Pacific Northwest” (University of Washington Press, 2011)

Sep 18, 201246 min

Barry Schwartz, “The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less – How the Culture of Abundance Robs Us of Satisfaction” (Harper Perennial, 2003)

Jul 16, 201245 min

Kevin Young, “Sport, Violence and Society” (Routledge, 2012)

Jun 29, 201257 min

Phil Zuckerman, “Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment” (New York University Press, 2010)

May 23, 201231 min

Stephanie Coontz, “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap” (Basic Books, 2000)

May 10, 201247 min

Matthew Delmont, “The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia” (University of California Press, 2011)

Apr 20, 201259 min

Matt Grossmann, “The Not-So-Special Interests: Interest Groups, Public Representation, and American Governance” (Stanford UP, 2012)

Apr 20, 201231 min

Marshall Poe, “A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet” (Cambridge UP, 2011)

Mar 26, 20121h 21m

Vorris Nunley, “Keepin’ It Hushed: The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric” (Wayne State UP, 2011)

Feb 16, 20121h 14m

Erica Prussing, “White Man’s Water: The Politics of Sobriety in a Native American Community” (University of Arizona Press, 2011)

Nov 15, 201150 min

Jennifer Frost, “Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism” (NYU Press, 2011)

Oct 25, 201157 min

James Unnever and Shaun L. Gabbidon, “A Theory of African American Offending: Race, Racism, and Crime” (Routledge, 2011)

Sep 15, 20111h 32m

Robert Thurston, “Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective” (Ashgate, 2011)

Aug 5, 20111h 4m

Robert J. Corber, “Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema” (Duke University Press, 2011)

Aug 4, 201143 min

Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, and Dru Pagliasotti, “Boy’s Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre” (McFarland, 2010)

Jul 13, 201149 min

Robert Lane Greene, “You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws and the Politics of Identity” (Delacorte Press, 2011)

Jul 11, 201151 min

Carrie Pitzulo, “Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)

Jun 6, 20111h 12m

Peter Baehr, “Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences” (Stanford UP, 2010)

May 16, 201156 min

Jonathan Metzl, “The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease” (Beacon Press, 2010)

May 4, 201145 min

Francesco Duina, “Winning: Reflections on an American Obsession” (Princeton University Press, 2010)

Apr 17, 201156 min

Teresa Gowan, “Hobos, Hustlers and Backsliders-Homeless in San Francisco” (University of Minnesota Press, 2010)

Mar 25, 20111h 8m

Thomas Wheatland, “The Frankfurt School in Exile” (University of Minnesota Press, 2009)

Jun 12, 20091h 15m