Book Series



Contemporary Societies Series

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  1. Book ImageThe Sociology of News

    Michael Schudson

    Paperback

    Second Edition

    A personal, trenchant, and comprehensive account of the contemporary news media.More

  2. Book ImageThe Social Construction of Sexuality

    Steven Seidman

    Paperback

    Second Edition

    An affordable primer to sexuality from a sociological perspective.More

  3. Book ImageA Primer on Social Movements

    David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule

    Paperback

    A brief, affordable introduction to collective behavior and social movements.More

  4. Book ImageBiography and the Sociological Imagination: Contexts and Contingencies

    Ross Macmillan, Michael J. Shanahan

    Paperback

    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

  5. Book ImageA Sociology of Globalization

    Saskia Sassen

    Paperback

    This groundbreaking study focuses on the importance of place, scale, and nation to the study of globalization.More

  6. Book ImageThe Mismatched Worker

    Arne L. Kalleberg

    Paperback

    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

  7. Book ImageStrangers in a Strange Land: Humans in an Urbanizing World

    Douglas Massey

    Paperback

    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

  8. Book ImageBreaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change

    Judith Lorber

    Paperback

    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

  9. Book ImageThe New Medical Sociology: Social Forms of Health and Illness

    Bryan S. Turner

    Paperback

    The New Medical Sociology makes a bold and innovative investigation of how society makes us sick.More

  10. Book ImageMethods of Discovery: Heuristics for the Social Sciences

    Andrew Abbott, Jeffrey C. Alexander

    Paperback

    Methods of Discovery is organized around strategies for deepening arguments in order to find the best ways to study social phenomena.More