Michael Schudson
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A personal, trenchant, and comprehensive account of the contemporary news media.More
Steven Seidman
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Second Edition
An affordable primer to sexuality from a sociological perspective.More
David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule
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A brief, affordable introduction to collective behavior and social movements.More
Ross Macmillan, Michael J. Shanahan
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Biography and the Sociological Imagination introduces readers to life course sociology, the imaginative framework with which people can think about how their lives reflect the imprint of society, how this imprint reflects the intersection of social changes and personal development, and how these processes are greatly complicated by each person's unique location in society.More
Saskia Sassen
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This groundbreaking study focuses on the importance of place, scale, and nation to the study of globalization.More
Arne L. Kalleberg
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In this provocative new study, Arne L. Kalleberg examines how the now-common expectation that a career should at once provide fulfillment, challenge, meaning, and financial success is creating a growing number of “mismatched” workers—workers who fit poorly with their employers or careers.More
Douglas Massey
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Drawing from evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and sociology, this truly interdisciplinary study explores how the drive to find social connection has shaped the size, structure, and organization of human communities from the Stone Age to the post-industrial present.More
Judith Lorber
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In Breaking the Bowls, the sequel to Paradoxes of Gender, Judith Lorber shows the cracks, anomalies, and resistances that are breaking down the gendered social order in Western post-industrial societies and lays out how we can take this process further by deliberate degendering.More
Bryan S. Turner
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The New Medical Sociology makes a bold and innovative investigation of
how society makes us sick.More
Andrew Abbott, Jeffrey C. Alexander
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Methods of Discovery is organized around strategies for deepening arguments in order to find the best ways to study social phenomena.More