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The intersections of a working-class academic identity
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Acknowledging the institutional challenges that hinder the work and careers of working-class academics, Teresa Crew calls for a more inclusive and equitable higher education...
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The journalist's predicament
Drawing on in-depth interviews in France and the United States, Matthew Powers and Sandra Vera-Zambrano explore the ways individuals come to believe that journalism is a worthy pursuit—and how that conviction is managed and sometimes dissolves amid the profession’s ongoing upheavals.
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The justice system and the family
An enlightening insight into the family dynamics surrounding contact with the justice system, Police, Courts, and Incarceration is interesting reading for researchers and students of family, sociology and criminology.
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The know-how of public leaders in collective politics
From small, local associations to national social movements, this work demonstrates how we can make more meaningful assertions about what leaders do and how they do it to better push for systemic social change.
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The last human job
A timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation"A compelling case for valuing care as a societal good and as skilled labor."—The NationWith the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automat...
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The last human job
A timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation"A compelling case for valuing care as a societal good and as skilled labor."—The NationWith the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automat...
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The last plantation
A revealing look at the covert and institutionalized racism lurking in the congressional workplaceRacism continues to infuse Congress’s daily practice of lawmaking and shape who obtains congressional employment. In this timely and provocative book, James Jones reveals how and why many who work in...
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The levittowners
Levittown became the site of one of urban sociology’s most famous community studies, Herbert J. Gans’s The Levittowners. The product of two years of living in Levittown, the work chronicles the invention of a new community and its institutions, social and political life, and the former city resid...
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The lower !garib – orange river
This volume focuses on the stretch of Orange River between Namibia and South Africa to understand the region's social history, geography, and economy.
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The loyalty trap
The Loyalty Trap explores how civil servants navigated competing pressures and duties amid the chaos of the Trump administration, drawing on in-depth interviews with senior officials in the most contested agencies over the course of a tumultuous term.
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The management of hate
Since German reunification in 1990, there has been widespread concern about marginalized young people who, faced with bleak prospects for their future, have embraced increasingly violent forms of racist nationalism that glorify the country's Nazi past. The Management of Hate, Nitzan Shoshan’s riv...
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The maternalists
The Maternalists is a study of the hitherto unexplored significance of utopian visions of the state as a maternal entity in mid-twentieth century Britain. Demonstrating the affinities between welfarism, maternalism, and psychoanalysis, Shaul Bar-Haim suggests a new reading of the British welfare ...
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The matthew effect
The old saying does often seem to hold true: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, creating a widening gap between those who have more and those who have less. The sociologist Robert K. Merton called this phenomenon the Matthew effect, named after a passage in the gospel of Matthew. Yet ...
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The measure of merit
A wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centuriesHow have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear that disparities in talent and intelligence might be natural, persistent, and consequential? ...
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The mediating power of sport
Encouraging readers in other international settings to consider this topic from their own cultural contexts, this collection demonstrates how China has created new forms of influence through sport and considers what this might mean for how we understand the deeper role sport can play on the world...
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The medieval internet
This book sheds light on the world of the Internet and social media and their relationship with surveillance and control, through a historical prism drawn from the Medieval Age.
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The meritocracy paradox
Emilio J. Castilla analyzes the structure and culture of meritocracy inside organizations, providing a practical, research-backed framework to help achieve true fairness and opportunity for all.
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The mind in exile
A unique look at Thomas Mann’s intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United StatesIn September 1938, Thomas Mann, the Nobel Prize–winning author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, fled Nazi Germany for the United States. Heralded as “the gr...
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The modern art of dying
How we die reveals much about how we live. In this provocative book, Shai Lavi traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom. Lavi begins with the historical meaning of eutha...
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The moral background
In recent years, many disciplines have become interested in the scientific study of morality. However, a conceptual framework for this work is still lacking. In The Moral Background, Gabriel Abend develops just such a framework and uses it to investigate the history of business ethics in the Unit...
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The new generation z in asia
The New Generation Z in Asia: Dynamics, Differences, Digitalization is the first book to compare the Asiatic Generation Z (born 1990–1995) in terms of country and culture specific drivers and characteristics based on interdisciplinary and international scientific research.
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The new pragmatist sociology
In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas in the field and their historical and theoretical connection to classical pragmatism.
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The order of people
Human classifications: An examination of underlying epistemologies, ambiguities, and politics that reveals how concepts such as race, ethnicity, and ancestry are employed in the life sciences today.
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The organization man
Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough description of the impact of mass organization on American society. During the height of the Eisenhower administration, corporations appeared to provide ...
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The other america
Widely stereotyped as anti-immigrant, against civil-rights or supporters of Trump and the right, can the white working class of America really be reduced to a singular group with similar views? Based on extensive interviews across five cities at a crucial point in US history, this significant bo...
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The people's choice
The People’s Choice is a landmark psychological and statistical study of American voters during the 1940 and 1944 presidential elections, originally published in 1948. It constituted the first systematic effort to trace voters’ behavior across the duration of a presidential campaign and to follow...
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The perspective of historical sociology
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the themes that make up the field of Historical Sociology. At its centre is the human individual as related to social and historical development. The key question it raises is who or what is responsible for the process of human history: society or t...
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The plausibility of future scenarios
What does plausibility mean in relation to scenario planning and how do users of scenarios assess it? Ricarda Schmidt-Scheele offers an interdisciplinary perspective: she presents approaches from philosophy of sciences, cognitive psychology, narrative theory and linguistics, and tests key hypothe...
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The political economy of regionalism
The advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the ongoing process of economic integration in Europe, the formation of Mercosur, and the possibility of a new Asia-Pacific economic bloc have led to intense debates about the current status and future direction of regionalism. The Political ...
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The politics of digital pharmacology
New types of distraction, self-observation, and control into our societies are an epochal challenge. Following Bernard Stiegler's concept of pharmacology, Heidenreich and Weber-Stein propose to view these new forms as digital pharmaka. Properly dosed, they can enable new self-relationships and fo...
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The politics of inequality
For its breadth and depth of research, this volume of Research in Political Sociology is essential reading for researchers and students of Politics, Sociology and Policy.
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The politics of land
This volume renews the political sociology of land. Chapters examine dynamics of political control and contention in a range of settings, including land grabs in Asia and Africa, expulsions and territorial control in South America, environmental regulation in Europe, and controversies over fracki...
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The politics of nostalgia
Escalating pressures and growing fear of the future encourage people to look to the past to identify something positive, and nostalgia plays a key role in working-class politics and community life. Simon Winlow explores our common desire to take refuge in the past, and what it means for our polit...
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The post-socialist internet
How is the internet produced as infrastructure in postsocialist Lithuania? Migle Bareikyte examines Lithuania’s telecom industry, exploring its labor practices, geopolitical imaginaries, and critical negotiations from a bottom-up perspective.
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The postcolonial sporting body
The Postcolonial Sporting Body considers the future not only of sport, but of global politics and identity in a world striving towards greater equity and decolonisation.
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The power of organizations
How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has evolvedOrganizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies, sports teams, and more. Immensely powerful, th...
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The power of place in play
»There's nothing really fun about the park in winter!« – Christina Ergler is the first one to explore why ›play‹ resonates differently across urban localities and seasons. She draws on Bourdieu's theory of practice and Gibson's affordance theory to show that determinants of seasonal outdoor play ...
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The production of consumer society
With a novel quality theory of consumption which treats opulence and self-restraint symmetrically, Ernst Mohr shows how social distance and proximity are communicated by consumption and produced by communication. He positions fringe styles with those of the mainstream in an overall stylistic syst...
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The production of managerial knowledge and organizational theory
This book applies a reflective and critical gaze on the production of knowledge within management and organization studies. Seasoned scholars reflect on how we carry out research to provide insights into the assumptions and practices we employ, and how they affect the production and consumption o...
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The professionalisation of women’s sport
The Professionalisation of Women’s Sport draws upon the expertise of a range of scholars from the fields of sport sociology, sport history, sport economics to critically discuss the complex and often fragmented histories of women’s involvement in professional sport.
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The public and their platforms
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As social media is increasingly becoming a standard feature of sociological practice, this timely book rethinks the role of these mediums in public sociology and what they can contribute to the discipline in the post-COVID world. It recon...
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The purchase of intimacy
In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In The Purchase of Intima...
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The quantified scholar
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra examines the effects of quantitative research evaluations on British social scientists, arguing that the mission to measure academic excellence resulted in less diversity and more disciplinary conformity. He provides a compelling account of how quantification altered the i...
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The red guard generation and political activism in china
Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Y...
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The red queen among organizations
There's a scene in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass in which the Red Queen, having just led a chase with Alice in which neither seems to have moved from the spot where they began, explains to the perplexed girl: "It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." Evolutiona...
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