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"Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of America" "Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award in Adult Narrative Nonfiction" "One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 in Business and Leadership" Justin Farrell is associate professor of sociology at Yale University in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is the author of the award-winning book The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred...
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"One of Foreign Affairs Best of Books 2017 – Africa / Malawi" "Winner of the 2018 Best Scholarly Book Award, Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association" "Honorable Mention for the 2018 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association" "Finalist for the 2018 Melville J. Herskovits Prize, African Studies Association" Ann Swidler is professor of...
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"Winner of the 2003 Best Book Award, American Sociology Association" "Winner of the Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association" "Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, American Educational Research Association" Amy J. Binder is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California.
This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities...
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"Co-Winner of the 2016 Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book, Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association" "Co-Winner of the 2015 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association" "Honorable Mention for the 2015 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association" "Co-Winner of the 2018 Theory Prize,...
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Phillipa K. Chong is assistant professor of sociology at McMaster University. Twitter @ChongSOC
An inside look at the politics of book reviewing, from the assignment and writing of reviews to why critics think we should listen to what they have to say
Taking readers behind the scenes in the world of fiction reviewing, Inside the Critics' Circle explores the ways critics evaluate books despite the inherent subjectivity involved and the uncertainties...
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Luc Boltanski is Professor at L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is the author of Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics, Le Nouvel Esprit du Capitalisme, and (with Laurent Thévenot) Les Économies de la Grandeur. Laurent Thévenot is Professor at L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He is the author of L'action au pluriel: Sociologie des régimes d'engagement, coauthor of Les Économies de la Grandeur,...
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"Winner of the 2011 Ludwik Fleck Prize, Society for the Social Studies of Science" "Winner of the 2011 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association" "Winner of the 2010 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association" "Honorable Mention for the 2010 Robert K. Merton Book Award for Best Book in the Science, Knowledge and Technology (SKAT) section category by the...
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"Winner of the 2011 Robert K. Merton Book Award, Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association" "Honorable Mention for the 2009 Charles Tilly Best Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association" Kelly Moore is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Cincinnati.
In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their...
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"Shortlisted for the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, British Sociological Association" Kusha Sefat is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Tehran.
An exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in Tehran
In Revolution of Things, Kusha Sefat traces a dynamism between materiality and language that sheds light on how the merger of the two permeates politics....
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"Honorable Mention for the 2009 Book Award, Section on Political Sociology, American Sociological Association" Ann Mische is associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University. Her work examines the relationship between culture, politics, and social interaction in complex social networks.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Brazil struggled to rebuild its democracy after twenty years of military dictatorship, experiencing financial crises, corruption...
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Gary Alan Fine is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming, Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work, and With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture.
Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own...
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Pamela E. Klassen is Assistant Professor in the Department and Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Going by the Moon and the Stars: Stories of Two Russian Mennonite Women.
Blessed Events explores how women who give birth at home use religion to make sense of their births and in turn draw on their birthing experiences to bring meaning to their lives and families. Pamela Klassen introduces a surprisingly...
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Andrei S. Markovits is Professor of Politics in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous books, including The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond and The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Europe. Steven L. Hellerman is a sports journalist and a doctoral candidate at Claremont University's School of Politics and Economics.
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"Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015" Justin Farrell is assistant professor of sociology in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University.
Yellowstone holds a special place in America's heart. As the world's first national park, it is globally recognized as the crown...
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"Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Consumers and Consumption Section of the American Sociological Association" "Winner of the 2017 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association" "Winner of a 2017 Gourmand World Cookbook Award, National Winner in "Culinary History"" Michaela DeSoucey is assistant professor of sociology at North Carolina State University.
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James L. Nolan, Jr., is Assiociate Professor of Sociology at Williams College. He is the author of The Therapeutic State: Justifying Government at Century's End and the editor of Drug Courts: Theory and Practice.
Drug courts offer radically new ways to deal with the legal and social problems presented by repeat drug offenders, often dismissing criminal charges as an incentive for participation in therapeutic programs. Since the first drug court...
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Mitchell L. Stevens is associate professor of education at Stanford University. Cynthia Miller-Idriss is associate professor of education and sociology at American University. Seteney Shami is a program director at the Social Science Research Council and founding director of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences.
An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship...
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"Winner of the Vucinich Book Award, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies" "Winner of the Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award, The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America" Geneviève Zubrzycki is professor of sociology and faculty associate of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, where she also directs the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia. She is the author of The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism...
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David John Frank is professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and the coauthor of Reconstructing the University. John W. Meyer is professor emeritus of sociology at Stanford University and the coauthor of Hyper-Organization and Science in the Modern World Polity.
How the university went global and became the heart of the information age
The university is experiencing an unprecedented level of success today, as more universities...
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