Affirmative Discrimination

Nathan Glazer

Paperback

Against Essentialism

Stephan Fuchs

Against Essentialism presents a groundbreaking new approach to the construction of society, culture, and personhood. This interdisciplinary and foundational work deals with basic issues common to current debates in social theory, including society, culture, meaning, truth, and communication. The book invites both social scientists and philosophers to see what happens when essentialism is abandoned.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2005

Alone Together

Paul R. Amato

Alan Booth

David R. Johnson

Stacy J. Rogers

Based on two studies of marital quality in America twenty years apart, Alone Together shows that while the divorce rate has leveled off, spouses are spending less time together. The authors argue that marriage is an adaptable institution, and in accommodating the changes that have occurred in society, it has become a less cohesive, yet less confining arrangement.

Hardcover 2007

The Anatomy of Disgust

William Ian Miller

William Miller embarks on an alluring journey into the world of disgust, showing how it both horrifies us and brings order and meaning to our lives. Our notion of the self depends on it; cultural identities have frequent recourse to its boundary-policing powers; and love depends on overcoming it. Miller traverses literature, philosophy, history, political theory, and psychology to show how disgust animates our world.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998

Beyond Individualism

Michael J. Piore

Michael Piore, in this book, develop a new social theory that balances individual preferences against the claims and responsibilities of the community. By explaining the role of groups in economic and social life, this theory makes sense of a host of perplexing social phenomena and policy issues.

Hardcover

The Black Atlantic

Paul Gilroy

There is, Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once, a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality.

Paperback / Hardcover

Black Child, White Child

Judith Porter

Paperback

Broadcasting in the Third World

Elihu Katz

George Wedell

Broadcasting has long been considered one of the keys to modernization in the developing world. Able to leap the triple barrier of distance, illiteracy, and apathy, it was seen as a crucial clement in the development of new nations. Recently, however, these expectations have been disappointed by broadcasting's failures to reach the rural masses and the urban unemployed. Broadcasting has also come under attack as serious questions have been raised about its uncritical importation of western culture. Now, in Broadcasting in the Third World, Elihu Katz and George Wedell offer the first complete coverage of the problems and promises of broadcasting in the third world.

Hardcover 1978

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany

Rogers Brubaker

The difference between French and German definitions of citizenship is instructive--and, for millions of immigrants from North Africa, Turkey, and Eastern Europe, decisive. Rogers Brubaker shows how this difference--between the territorial basis of the French citizenry and the German emphasis on blood descent--was shaped and sustained by sharply differing understandings of nationhood, rooted in distinctive French and German paths to nation-statehood.

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

College Choice in America

Charles F. Manski

David A. Wise

Using the data from the National Longitudinal Study of the Class of 1972, the authors present a set of interrelated analyses of student and institutional behavior, each focused on a particular aspect of the process of choosing and being chosen by a college.

Hardcover 1983

Commitment and Community

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Paperback

Competing Devotions

Mary Blair-Loy

Competing Devotions focuses on the broad social and cultural forces that create women's identities and shape their understanding of what makes life worth living. Mary Blair-Loy examines the career paths of women financial executives who have tried various approaches to balancing career and family. These mavericks, she suggests, who face great resistance but are aided by new ideological and material resources that come with historical change, may eventually redefine both the nuclear family and the capitalist firm in ways that reduce work-family conflict.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

Confronting Poverty

Sheldon H. Danziger, Editor

Gary Sandefur, Editor

Daniel Weinberg, Editor

Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1994

Congregations in America

Mark Chaves

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most significant form of collective religious expression in American society: local congregations. Among its more surprising findings, the book reveals that, despite the media focus on the political and social activities of religious groups, the arts are actually far more central to the workings of congregations.

Hardcover 2004

Creating a Nation of Joiners

Johann N. Neem

Ever since Alexis de Tocqueville published his observations in Democracy in America, Americans have recognized the distinctiveness of their voluntary tradition. In a work of political, legal, social, and intellectual history, Neem traces the origins of this venerable tradition to the vexed beginnings of American democracy in Massachusetts.

Hardcover 2008

Crime in the Making

Robert J. Sampson

John H. Laub

Paperback / Hardcover

The Cue for Passion

Gail Holst-Warhaft

Using traditional mourning rituals as an instructive touchstone, Gail Holst-Warhaft explores the ways sorrow is managed in our own times and how mourning can be manipulated for social and political ends. It might be argued that modern society has largely abdicated its role in managing sorrow. In The Cue for Passion, however, we see that some communities, moved by the intensity of their grief, have utilized it to gain ground for their own agendas.

Hardcover 2000

Dangerous Offenders

Mark H. Moore

Susan Estrich

Daniel McGillis

William Spelman

The authors of this major book in criminal jurisprudence develop a framework for evaluating policies that focus on dangerous offenders. They first examine the general issues that arise as society considers the benefits and risks of concentrating on a particular category of criminals. They then outline how that approach might work at each stage of the criminal justice system--sentencing, pretrial detention, prosecution, and investigation.

Hardcover 1985

Delinquency

D. J. West

Hardcover 1982

Dimensions of Ethnicity: Concepts of Ethnicity

William Petersen

Michael Novak

Philip Gleason

Paperback

Dimensions of Ethnicity: Immigration

Richard A. Easterlin

David Ward

William S. Bernard

Reed Ueda

Paperback

Dimensions of Ethnicity: The Politics of Ethnicity

Michael Walzer

Paperback

Dimensions of Ethnicity: Prejudice

Thomas F. Pettigrew

George M. Fredrickson

Dale T. Knobel

Nathan Glazer

Reed Ueda

Paperback 1982

Distinction

Pierre Bourdieu

Richard Nice, Translator

Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. Bourdieu's subject is the study of culture, and his objective is most ambitious: to provide an answer to the problems raised by Kant's Critique of Judgment by showing why no judgment of taste is innocent.

Paperback

Diversity in America

Peter H. Schuck

In this magisterial book, Peter H. Schuck explains how Americans have understood diversity, how they have come to embrace it, how the government regulates it now, and how we can do better. He mobilizes a wealth of conceptual, historical, legal, political, and sociological analysis to argue that diversity is best managed not by the government but by families, ethnic groups, religious communities, employers, voluntary organizations, and other civil society institutions.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006

Divided Families

Frank F. Furstenberg

Andrew Cherlin

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers?

Zygmunt Bauman

Bauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. In an era of routine travel, where most people circulate widely, the inherited beliefs that aid our thinking about the world have become an obstacle. He challenges members of the “knowledge class” to overcome their estrangement from the rest of society.

Hardcover 2008

The Dread Disease

James T. Patterson

In a subtle and penetrating cultural history, Patterson examines reactions to the disease through a century of American life. Readers interested in the cultural dimensions of science and medicine as well as historians, sociologists, and political scientists will be enlightened and challenged by this book.

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback

Ethnic Dilemmas, 1964-1982

Nathan Glazer

Paperback

Ethnicity

Nathan Glazer

Paperback

Ethnicity and National Identity

Oleh Wolownya, Editor

Hardcover 1987

Families against the City

Richard Sennett

Paperback

Families in Peril

Marian Wright Edelman

Paperback

Foundations of Social Theory

James Coleman

Arguably the most important contribution to social theory in fifty years, James Coleman's Foundations erects a unified conceptual structure, capable of describing and quantifying both stability and change in social systems. Elegantly reasoned, this rich theory also provides a foundation for linking individual, organizational, and societal behavior.

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1998

Free Riding

Richard Tuck

A proposition of contemporary economics and political science is that it would be an exercise of reason, not a failure of it, not to contribute to a collective project if the contribution is negligible, but to benefit from it nonetheless.Tuck makes careful distinctions between the prisoner’s dilemma problem, threshold phenomena such as voting, and free riding. He analyzes the notion of negligibility, and shows some of the logical difficulties in the idea—and how the ancient paradox of the sorites illustrates the difficulties.

Hardcover 2008

A Fresh Map of Life

Peter Laslett

Paperback 1991

A Generation at Risk

Paul R. Amato

Alan Booth

What do we know about Generation X? This book is the first to offer a clear picture of how these young Americans have been affected by the tremendous domestic changes of the last three decades. Based on a unique fifteen-year study begun in 1980, the book considers parents' socioeconomic resources, their gender roles and relations, and the quality of their marriages. It also examines children's relations with their parents, their social affiliations, and their psychological well-being.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2000

Getting a Job

Mark S. Granovetter

Hardcover 1974

Halving It All

Francine M. Deutsch

The best way to have it all--both a full family life and a career--is to halve it all. That's the message of this refreshing book, based on extensive interviews with a wide range of couples. Deutsch casts a skeptical eye on the grim story of inequality that has been told since women found themselves working a second shift at home. She brings good news: equality based on shared parenting is possible, and it is emerging all around us.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000

The Homeless

Christopher Jencks

How widespread is homelessness, how did it happen, and what can be done about it? These are the questions explored by Christopher Jencks, America's foremost analyst of social problems in a book that defies much commonly accepted wisdom.

Paperback / Hardcover

Housing in the Twenty-First Century

Kent W. Colton

The Housing Act of 1949 called for a "decent home and suitable living environment" for every American. The progress toward this goal over the last fifty years is generally a story of success. Kent Colton documents the remarkable progress in the areas of housing production, homeownership, and rental housing, the transformation of the nation's housing finance system, the role of government, and the place of housing in the economy. He also looks to the future using case studies developed during his fifteen-year tenure as head of the National Association of Home Builders.

Hardcover 2003

How We Live

Victor Fuchs

Hardcover 1983 / Paperback

Interpretation and Social Criticism

Michael Walzer

In succinct and engaging fashion Michael Walzer demystifies the activity of the social critic, providing a philosophical framework for understanding social criticism as social practice.

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback

John Ruskin, or the Ambiguities of Abundance

James Clark Sherburne

Until 1860 John Ruskin's writings were primarily about art and architecture; but his belief that good art can flourish only in a society that is sound and healthy led him inevitably to a preoccupation with social and economic problems, the dominant concern of his later writings. Sherburne provides in this volume a detailed and long overdue re-examination of Ruskin's social and economic perceptions and, for the first time, systematically places these perceptions in their nineteenth-century intellectual context.

Hardcover 1972

Kiss and Tell

Julia A. Ericksen

Sally A. Steffen

Kiss and Tell chronicles the history of sex surveys in the United States over a century of changing social and sexual mores. Julia Ericksen and Sally Steffen reveal that the survey questions asked, more than the answers elicited, expose and shape the popular image of appropriate sexuality. We can learn as much about the history and practice of sexuality by looking at surveyors' changing concerns as we can by reading the results of their surveys.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

Language and Experience

Barbara Landau

Lila R. Gleitman

Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1988

Loose Connections

Robert Wuthnow

Robert Wuthnow shows that in America there has been a significant change in group affiliations away from traditional civic organizations toward affiliations that respond to individual needs and collective concerns. Many Americans are finding new ways to help one another through short-term task-oriented networks such as the Internet and nonprofit associations. Wuthnow looks at the challenges that must be faced if these innovative forms of civic involvement are to flourish, and calls for resources to be made available to strengthen the more constructive and civic dimensions of these organizations.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2002

Love as Passion

Niklas Luhmann

Jeremy Gaines, Translator

Doris L. Jones, Translator

This book takes us back to when passionate love took place exclusively outside of marriage, and Luhmann shows by lively references to social customs and literature how a language and code of behavior were developed so that notions of love and intimacy could be made the essential components of married life. This intimacy and privacy made possible by a social arrangement in which home is where the heart is provides the basis for a society of individuals--the foundation for the structure of modern life. Love is now declared to be unfathomable and personal, yet we love and suffer--as Luhmann shows--according to cultural imperatives.

Hardcover 1987

Making Science

Stephen Cole

The sociology of science is dominated today by relativists who boldly argue that the content of science is not primarily determined by evidence from the empirical world but is instead socially constructed in the laboratory. Making Science is the first serious critique by a sociologist of the social constructivist position.

Paperback 1995 / Hardcover

Making the Majors

Eric Leifer

In this book, Eric Leifer traces the growth and development of major leagues in baseball, football, basketball, and hockey, and predicts fundamental changes as the majors pursue international expansion. He shows how every past expansion of sports publics has been accompanied by significant changes in the way sporting competition is organized. With each reorganization, the majors have created teams closer in ability, bringing repetition to competition across time, only to expand and energize the public's search for differences between teams and for events that disrupt the repetitive flow.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998

Marriage and Divorce

Hugh Carter

Paul C. Glick

Hardcover 1970

Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage, Revised and Enlarged Edition

Andrew Cherlin

Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

Max Weber's Methodology

Fritz Ringer

In this significant study, Fritz Ringer offers a new approach to Weber's work, interpreting his methodological writings in the context of the lively German intellectual debates of his day, and demonstrating how Weber was able to bridge the divide between humanistic interpretation and causal explanation in historical and cultural studies.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

Media Events

Daniel Dayan

Elihu Katz

Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of "historic" events have become world rituals which, according to Dayan and Katz, have the potential for transforming societies even as they transfix viewers around the globe. Analyzing a variety of well-known public spectacles, the authors offer an ethnography of how media events are scripted, negotiated, performed, celebrated, shamanized, and reviewed.

Hardcover 1992 / Paperback

Melancholy and Society

Wolf Lepenies

Jeremy Gaines, Translator

Doris L. Jones, Translator

Judith N. Shklar

In this book, one of Europe's leading intellectuals shows that melancholy is not only a psychological condition that affects individuals but also a social and cultural phenomenon that can be of considerable help in understanding the modern middle class. His larger topic is, in fact, modernity in general.

Hardcover 1992

Men of Letters within the Passes

Chang Woei Ong

The main theme of this book is the interaction between two “places,” China and Guanzhong, the capital area of several dynasties. This work examines how Guanzhong literati conceptualized three sets of relations: central/regional, “official”/“unofficial,” and national/local. It further traces the formation over the last millennium of the imperial state of a critical communal self-consciousness.

Hardcover 2008

Mental Disorders/Suicide

Morton Kramer

Earl S. Pollack

Richard W. Redick

Ben Z. Locke

Hardcover 1972

Method and Meaning in Polls and Surveys

Howard Schuman

Schuman examines the question-answer process that is basic to polls and surveys. This book is less about the substance of wording effects and more about approaches to interpreting the respondent’s world, and how surveys can make that world understandable—though often in ways not anticipated by the researcher.

Hardcover 2008

Mexican Americans

Peter Skerry

What will become of the burgeoning numbers of Mexican American immigrants on American society? The answer, argues Peter Skerry, lies not so much with the social and economic progress of Mexican Americans as with the political institutions within which they define their interests--institutions radically changed from what greeted America's last great influx of newcomers.

Paperback

Misunderstanding Media

Brian Winston

Hardcover 1986

Monstrous Imagination

Marie-Hélène Huet

Hardcover 1993 / Paperback

Mother Father Deaf

Paul Preston

"Mother father deaf" is the phrase commonly used within the Deaf community to refer to hearing children of deaf parents. Paul Preston, one of these children, takes us to the place where Deaf and Hearing cultures meet, where families like his own embody the conflicts and resolutions of two often opposing world views. Based on 150 interviews with adult hearing children of deaf parents throughout the United States.

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie

Sarah Maza

Who, exactly, were the French bourgeoisie? Unlike the Anglo-Americans, who widely embraced middle-class ideals and values, the French--even the most affluent and conservative--have always rejected and maligned bourgeois values and identity.In this new approach to the old question of the bourgeoisie, Sarah Maza focuses on the crucial period before, during, and after the French Revolution, and offers a provocative answer: the French bourgeoisie has never existed.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

Nationalism

Liah Greenfeld

Nationalism is a movement and a state of mind that brings together national identity, consciousness, and collectivities. A five-country study that spans five hundred years, this historically oriented work in sociology bids well to replace all previous works on the subject.

Hardcover 1992 / Paperback

The Negro in America

Compiled by Elizabeth W. Miller

Compiled by Mary L. Fisher

Foreword by Thomas F. Pettigrew

Paperback 1970

The New American Grandparent

Andrew Cherlin

Frank F. Furstenberg

Two leading sociologists of the family examine the changing role of American grandparents--how they strive for both independence and family ties.

Paperback

Ordaining Women

Mark Chaves

In a revealing examination of the complex interrelationship of religion, social forces, and organizational structure, Ordaining Women draws examples and data from over 100 Christian denominations to explore the meaning of institutional rules about women's ordination.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999

Organizational Ecology

Michael T. Hannan

John Freeman

Hannan and Freeman examine the ecology of organizations by exploring the competition for resources and by trying to account for rates of entry and exit and for the diversity of organizational forms. They show that the destinies of organizations are determined more by impersonal forces than by the intervention of individuals.

Hardcover 1989 / Paperback

Paths to Success

Charles Harrington

Susan K. Boardman

Statisticians tell us that impoverished backgrounds are fairly accurate predictors of impoverished futures. This book seeks out the stories behind the exceptions. While the authors reveal consistencies between pathmakers' approaches and those of their middle-class counterparts, it also exposes striking differences between men and women, blacks and whites.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2000

Patriotism on Parade

Wallace Evan Davies

Davies here recounts, in fascinating detail, the activities and attitudes of both veterans' and hereditary patriotic societies in America up to 1900. In a lively manner, he explores their significance as social organizations, their concept of patriotism, and their influence upon public opinion and legislation.

Hardcover 1955

Persuasions of the Witch's Craft

T. M. Luhrmann

To find out why reasonable people are drawn to the seemingly bizarre practices of magic and witchcraft, Tanya Luhrmann immersed herself in the secret lives of Londoners who call themselves magicians. She came to know them as friends and equals and was initiated into various covens and magical groups. She explains the process through which once-skeptical individuals--educated, middle-class people, frequently of high intelligence--become committed to the ideas behind witchcraft and find magical ritual so compellingly persuasive. This intriguing book draws some disturbing conclusions about the ambivalence of belief within modern urban society.

Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1991

Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans

Jane Taylor

The Nabataean Arabs, one of the most gifted peoples of the ancient world, are today known only for their hauntingly beautiful rock-carved capital--Petra. Here, in the wild and majestic landscapes of southern Jordan, they created some of the most prodigious works of man in the vast monuments that they chiseled from the sandstone mountains. For nearly two thousand years, their civilization has been lost and all but forgotten. This richly illustrated volume recounts the story of a remarkable but lost civilization and the capacity of its people to diversify their skills as necessity demanded.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2005

Pictures at an Execution

Wendy Lesser

This book is about murder--in life and in art--and about how we look at it and feel about it. At the center of Wendy Lesser's investigation is a groundbreaking legal case in which a federal court judge was asked to decide whether a gas chamber execution would be broadcast on public television. Our fascination with murder gets its day in court as Lesser conducts us through the proceedings, pausing along the way to reflect on the circumstances of violent death in our culture.

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

Poland Between East and West

Andrzej Walicki

Paperback

Polio and Its Aftermath

Marc Shell

In this book, Shell, himself a victim of polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Part memoir, part cultural criticism and history, part meditation on the meaning of disease, Shell's work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic. He deftly draws a detailed yet broad picture of the lived experience of a crippling disease as it makes it way into every facet of human existence.

Hardcover 2005

Political Ethics and Public Office

Dennis Thompson

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1990

Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834

Charles Tilly

Between 1750 and 1840 ordinary British people abandoned such time-honored forms of protest as collective seizures of grain, the sacking of buildings, public humiliation, and physical abuse in favor of marches, petition drives, public meetings, and other sanctioned routines of social movement politics. Charles Tilly is the first to address the depth and significance of the transmutations in popular collective action during this period.

Hardcover 1998

Population in an Interacting World

William Alonso, Editor

The earth's human population is linked in a complex web that serves to shape population movements and patterns of births and deaths. In this book, nine experts illuminate the nature of this interplay linking rich and poor countries.The demographic experience of each nation occurs in a larger context of social, political, economic, cultural, religious, military, and biological forces.

Hardcover 1987

Prison Officers and Their World

Kelsey Kauffman

Hardcover 1988

The Promise of Greatness

Sar A. Levitan

Paperback

Prophets and Patrons

Terry Nichols Clark

This is the first detailed account of the emergence of sociology and related social sciences in France. It emphasizes three social and intellectual groupings in the period from 1880 to 1914: the social statisticians who grew out of governmental ministries, the Durkheimians who were consistently housed in the university, and the "international sociologists" around René Worms, in neither ministries nor the university. Unlike most histories of ideas, it portrays the institutional developments that encouraged, discouraged, and rechanneled different styles of research.

Hardcover 1973

Protecting Soldiers and Mothers

Theda Skocpol

It is widely held that the United States lagged behind the countries of Western Europe in developing modern social policies. But, as Theda Skocpol shows in this startlingly new historical analysis, the United States actually pioneered generous social spending for many of its elderly, disabled, and dependent citizens.

Paperback / Hardcover

Public Opinion in Soviet Russia

Alex Inkeles

Hardcover 1958

Race Pride and the American Identity

Joseph Tilden Rhea

In the wake of the Civil Rights movement, a new movement was born in the struggle for cultural representation. Joseph Tilden Rhea terms this loosely-organized social movement the Race Pride movement, and shows how American minorities carried the struggle for cultural inclusion into museums, schools and universities, and changed this country as dramatically as did the Civil Rights movement.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2001

Racial Attitudes in America

Howard Schuman

Charlotte Steeh

Lawrence D. Bobo

Maria Krysan

This new edition fully updates a book widely praised for its clear and objective presentation of changes in American racial attitudes during the second half of the twentieth century. Throughout, the authors have reconsidered earlier ideas and introduced new thinking.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1998

Racial Attitudes in America

Howard Schuman

Charlotte Steeh

Lawrence D. Bobo

This book traces the changes in American attitudes toward racial issues that have taken place since the 1940s. The authors find that although there has been a striking increase in support for the principle of equality, support for implementation of this ideal has lagged far behind.

Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1988

Racial Conflict in Contemporary Society

John Stone

Hardcover 1986 / Paperback

Real and Imagined Worlds

Morroe Berger

Hardcover

Regulating a New Society

Morton Keller

A leading scholar of twentieth-century American history looks again at the beginning of the century, this time giving us a remarkable portrait of the emergence of modern society and its distinctive transformations and social problems. Keller integrates political, legal, and governmental history, now providing the first comprehensive study of the ideas and interests that shaped early twentieth-century American social policy.

Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998

Remaking the American Mainstream

Richard D. Alba

Victor Nee

In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment of assimilation since the mid-1960s, it continues to shape the immigrant experience. Surveying a variety of domains--language, socioeconomic attachments, residential patterns, and intermarriage--they demonstrate the continuing importance of assimilation in American life.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

Rethinking Social Policy

Christopher Jencks

Hardcover 1992

Science in Action

Bruno Latour

Bruno Latour provides a lively and challenging analysis of science, demonstrating how social context and technical content are both essential to a proper understanding of scientific activity. Emphasizing that science can only be understood through its practice, the author examines science and technology in action: the role of scientific literature, the activities of laboratories, the institutional context of science in the modern world, and the means by which inventions and discoveries become accepted.

Paperback 1988

Selections from Cultural Writings

Antonio Gramsci, Editor

David Forgacs, Editor

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Editor

William Boelhower, Translator

Though he died as Benito Mussolini's prisoner, leaving only newspaper articles and fragmentary notes, Antonio Gramsci is now seen as the most significant Marxist thinker since Lenin. This volume is the first English translation of his writings on culture, organically and coherently edited from his journalism and his Prison Notebooks.

Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1991

Sex in the Heartland

Beth Bailey

Sex in the Heartland is the story of the sexual revolution in a small university town in the quintessential heartland state of Kansas. Bypassing the oft-told tales of radicals and revolutionaries on either coast, Beth Bailey argues that the revolution was forged in towns and cities alike, as "ordinary" people struggled over the boundaries of sexual behavior in postwar America. She concludes that the sexual revolution challenged and partially overturned a system of sexual controls based on oppression, inequality, and exploitation, and created new models of sex and gender relations that have shaped our society in powerful and positive ways.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2002

Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives

John H. Laub

Robert J. Sampson

This book analyzes newly collected data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were remanded to reform school in the 1940s. Updating their lives at the close of the twentieth century, and connecting their adult experiences to childhood, this book is arguably the longest longitudinal study of age, crime, and the life course to date. The authors' long-term data, combined with in-depth interviews, defy the conventional wisdom that links individual traits such as poor verbal skills, limited self-control, and difficult temperament to long-term trajectories of offending. Rather, they find that men who desisted from crime were rooted in structural routines and had strong social ties to family and community.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006

Shattered Mirrors

Monroe E. Price

Hardcover 1989

Slavery and Social Death

Orlando Patterson

This is the first full-scale comparative study of the nature of slavery. In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South. Slavery is shown to he a parasitic relationship between master and slave, invariably entailing the violent domination of a natally alienated, or socially dead, person. The phenomenon of slavery as an institution, the author argues. is a single process of recruitment, incorporation on the margin of society, and eventual manumission or death.

Hardcover 1982 / Paperback

Social Change in Soviet Russia

Alex Inkeles

Hardcover 1968

Social Mindscapes

Eviatar Zerubavel

Cognitive science addresses cognition on two levels: the individual and the universal. To fill the gap between the Romantic vision of the solitary thinker, whose thoughts are the product of unique experience, and the cognitive-psychological view that revolves around the search for the universal foundations of human cognition, Zerubavel charts an expansive social realm of mind--a domain that focuses on the conventional, normative aspects of the way we think.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999

Solitude in Society

Robert Sayre

Sayre brings a special kind of literary intelligence to his study of the problem of isolation in modern society. He first discusses the notion of solitude as it is treated in classical literature and carries it through to the nineteenth century, with emphasis on the literary history of France. In the second part of the book he presents detailed interpretations of five twentieth-century French novels.

Hardcover 1978

The Spirit of Capitalism

Liah Greenfeld

The Spirit of Capitalism answers a fundamental question of economics: what are the reasons (rather than just the conditions) for sustained economic growth? Liah Greenfeld focuses on the problem of motivation behind the epochal change in behavior, which from the sixteenth century on has reoriented one economy after another from subsistence to profit, transforming the nature of economic activity. A detailed analysis of the development of economic consciousness in England, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States allows her to argue that the motivation behind the modern, growth-oriented economy was nationalism.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003

Spreading the News

Richard R. John

In the seven decades from its establishment in 1775 to the commercialization of the electric telegraph in 1844, the American postal system spurred a communications revolution no less far-reaching than the subsequent revolutions associated with the telegraph, telephone, and computer. This book tells the story of that revolution and the challenge it posed for American business, politics, and cultural life.

Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998

Still a Dream

Sar A. Levitan

Paperback

Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays

Thomas C. Schelling

All of the essays in this new collection by Thomas Schelling convey his unique perspective on individuals and society. Schelling, a 2005 Nobel Prize winner, has been one of the four or five most important social scientists of the past fifty years, and this collection shows why.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007

Struggles for Justice

Alan Dawley

In this new interpretation of the making of modern America, prizewinning historian Alan Dawley traces the group struggles involved in the nation's rise to power. Probing the dynamics of social change, he explores tensions between industrial workers and corporate capitalists, Victorian moralists and New Women, native Protestants and Catholic immigrants. Thoughtful analysis and sparkling narrative combine to make this book a major challenge to earlier interpretations of the period.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Taxing Heaven's Storehouse

Paul Jakov Smith

Tea growing was a prosperous industry in Sichuan when Wang Anshi's New Policies created a Tea Market Agency to buy up Sichuanese tea and trade it to Tibetan tribesmen for cavalry horses. At first the highly autonomous Agency not only acquired the needed horses but made a profit. The Agency made entrepreneurs out of bureaucrats, but ultimately became ruinously tyrannical as the system of state rewards and punishments drove its personnel to actions that crippled key sectors of the economy.

Hardcover 1991

Teaching Sex

Jeffrey P. Moran

Teaching Sex travels back over the past century to trace the emergence of the "sexual adolescent" in America and the evolution of the schools' efforts to teach sex to this captive pupil. Jeffrey Moran takes us on a fascinating ride through America's sexual mores. We see how the political and moral anxieties of each era found their way into sex education curricula, reflecting the priorities of the elders more than the concerns of the young.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

Technologies without Boundaries

Ithiel de Sola Pool

Hardcover

Terror in My Soul

Igal Halfin

In this innovative and revelatory work, Igal Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Party during the decisive decades of the 1920s and 1930s. The Bolsheviks preached the moral transformation of Russians into model Communists for their political and personal salvation. To screen the population for moral and political deviance, the Bolsheviks enlisted natural scientists, doctors, psychologists, sexologists, writers, and Party prophets to establish criteria for judging people. Self-inspection became a central Bolshevik practice. Communists were expected to write autobiographies in which they reconfigured their life experience in line with the demands of the Party. Combining the analysis of autobiography with the study of Communist psychology and sociology and the politics of Bolshevik self-fashioning, Halfin gives us powerful new insight into the preconditions of the bloodbath that was the Great Purge.

Hardcover 2003

Through My Own Eyes

Susan Holloway

Bruce Fuller

Marylee F. Rambaud

Costanza Eggers-Pierola

Through My Own Eyes offers a firsthand look at how single American mothers with the slimmest of resources manage from day to day. For three years the authors followed the lives of fourteen women from poor Boston neighborhoods, all of whom had young children and had been receiving welfare intermittently.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2001

The Time Divide

Jerry A. Jacobs

Kathleen Gerson

In a panoramic study that draws on diverse sources, Jacobs and Gerson explain why and how time pressures have emerged and what we can do to alleviate them. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that all Americans are overworked, they show that time itself has become a form of social inequality that is dividing Americans in new ways--between the overworked and the underemployed, women and men, parents and non-parents.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

A Treatise on the Family

Gary S. Becker

Imagine each family as a kind of little factory--a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge of its members. This is only one of the remarkable concepts explored by Gary Becker in his landmark work on the family.Becker applies economic theory to the most sensitive and fateful personal decisions, such as choosing a spouse or having children. He uses the basic economic assumptions of maximizing behavior, stable preferences, arid equilibria in explicit or implicit markets to analyze the allocation of time to child care as well as to careers, to marriage and divorce in polygynous as well as monogamous societies, to the increase and decrease of wealth from one generation to another.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Trends and Variations in Fertility in the United States

Clyde V. Kiser

Wilson H. Grabill

Arthur A. Campbell

Hardcover 1968

Understanding Poverty

Sheldon H. Danziger, Editor

Robert H. Haveman, Editor

Paperback 2002 / Hardcover 2002

Understanding Privacy

Daniel J. Solove

Solove offers a comprehensive overview of the difficulties involved in discussions of privacy and ultimately provides a provocative resolution. He argues that no single definition can be workable, but rather that there are multiple forms of privacy, related to one another by family resemblances. His theory bridges cultural differences and addresses historical changes in views on privacy.

Hardcover 2008

Unequal Freedom

Evelyn Nakano Glenn

The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II. During this era the country experienced enormous social and economic changes with the abolition of slavery, rapid territorial expansion, and massive immigration, and struggled over the meaning of free labor and the essence of citizenship as people who previously had been excluded sought the promise of economic freedom and full political rights.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

Unfree Labor

Peter Kolchin

The American enslavement of blacks and the Russian subjection of serfs flourished in different ways and varying degrees until they were legally abolished in the mid-nineteenth century. Kolchin compares and contrasts the two systems over time in this book, which clarifies the organization, structure, and dynamics of both social entities, highlighting their basic similarities while pointing out important differences discernible only in comparative perspective.

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1990

Violence against Children

David Gil

For this volume Gil examines and interprets a series of nationwide studies of child abuse that were initiated in 1965 in an attempt to unravel the context of social and cultural forces with which violent behavior against children is associated. With an approach that is epidemiologic, social, and cultural, rather than clinical and psychological, he compiles findings from press and public-opinion surveys, from analyses of nearly 13,000 incidents of child abuse reported through legal channels across the country during 1967 and 1968, and from a comprehensive study of more than 1300 incidents reported in a representative sample of cities and counties.

Hardcover 1970 / Paperback

Violent Land

David T. Courtwright

This book offers an explosive look at violence in America--why it is so prevalent, and what and who are responsible. David Courtwright takes the long view of his subject, developing the historical pattern of violence and disorder in this country. Where there is violent and disorderly behavior, he shows, there are plenty of men, largely young and single.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998

Women in Science

Yu Xie

Kimberlee A. Shauman

Why do so few women choose a career in science--even as they move into medicine and law in ever-greater numbers? In one of the most comprehensive studies of gender differences in science careers ever conducted, Women in Science provides a systematic account of how U.S. youth are selected into and out of science education in early life, and how social forces affect career outcomes later in the science labor market.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

The World We Created at Hamilton High

Gerald Grant

In this wonderfully evocative picture of an urban American high school and its successes and setbacks over the past thirty-five years, Gerald Grant works out a unique perspective on what makes a good school--one that asserts moral and intellectual authority without becoming rigidly doctrinaire or losing the precious gains in equality of opportunity that have been won at great cost.

Hardcover 1988 / Paperback