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BEST OF THE BACKLIST Measuring Culture

John W. Mohr, Christopher A. Bail, Margaret Frye, Jennifer C. Lena, Omar Lizardo, Terence E. McDonnell, Ann Mische, Iddo Tavory, and Frederick F. Wherry

Measuring Culture takes the reader on a tour of the state of the art in measuring meaning, from discussions of neuroscience to computational social science. It provides both a definitive introduction to the sociological literature on culture as well as a critical set of case studies for methods courses across the social sciences.

$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18029-0 $95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-18028-3 2020 256 pages Critique and Praxis

Bernard E. Harcourt

Critique and Praxis advocates for a new path forward that constantly challenges each and every one of us to ask what more we can do to realize a society based on equality and justice. Joining his decades of activism, social-justice litigation, and political engagement with his years of critical theory and philosophical work, Bernard E. Harcourt has written a magnum opus.

$40.00 / £34.00 cloth 978-0-231-19572-0 2020 696 pages

Ascent to Glory

How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic Álvaro Santana-Acuña

Álvaro Santana-Acuña follows the path of One Hundred Years of Solitude in more than seventy countries on five continents and explains how thousands of people and organizations have helped it to become a global classic. Shedding new light on the novel’s imagination, production, and reception, Ascent to Glory is an eyeopening book for cultural sociologists and literary historians as well as for fans of Gabriel García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18433-5 $115.00 / £95.00 cloth 978-0-231-18432-8 2020 384 pages 12 illus. Doctors’ Orders

The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession Tania M. Jenkins

Doctors’ Orders offers a groundbreaking examination of the construction and consequences of status distinctions between physicians before, during, and after residency training. Tania M. Jenkins spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals to reveal the unspoken mechanisms that are taken for granted and that lead to hierarchies among supposed equals.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18935-4 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-18934-7 2020 352 pages

Working for Respect

Community and Conflict at Walmart Adam Reich and Peter Bearman

WINNER, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD

Adam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how Walmart workers make sense of their jobs in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present for social and economic justice. Working for Respect makes important contributions to debates on labor and inequality.

$24.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18843-2 $32.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-18842-5 2018 352 pages 11 illus.

THE MIDDLE RANGE SERIES

The Ghetto in Black America Lance Freeman

Lance Freeman traces the evolving role of predominantly black neighborhoods in northern cities from the late nineteenth century through the present day. He reveals the forces that caused the ghetto’s role as haven or hell to wax and wane.

$32.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-18460-1 2019 328 pages 25 illus.

The Death of Idealism

Development and AntiPolitics in the Peace Corps Meghan Elizabeth Kallman Preserving Neighborhoods

How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn Aaron Passell

The Death of Idealism uses the case of the Peace Corps to explain why and how participation in a bureaucratic organization changes people’s ideals and politics. Meghan Elizabeth Kallman offers an innovative institutional analysis of the role of idealism in development organizations. Based on interviews with over 140 current and returned Peace Corps volunteers, field observations, and a largescale survey, this deeply researched, theoretically rigorous book offers a novel perspective on how people lose their idealism and why that matters.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18969-9 $110.00 / £92.00 cloth 978-0-231-18968-2 2020 320 pages 15 illus. Through rich case studies of Baltimore and Brooklyn, Aaron Passell explores how community activists and local governments use historic preservation to accelerate or slow down neighborhood change. He argues that this form of regulation is one of the few remaining urban policy interventions that enable communities to exercise some control over the changing built environments of their neighborhoods.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19407-5 $120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-19406-8 January 2021 272 pages

Ambitious and Anxious

How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education Yingyi Ma

Yingyi Ma offers a multifaceted analysis of the wave of Chinese students across American higher education based on research in both Chinese high schools and U.S. colleges. Ma argues that experiences of these students embody the duality of ambition and anxiety that has arisen due to the transformative social changes in China.

$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18458-8 2020 264 pages Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence Yarden Katz

Bringing together theories of whiteness and race in the humanities and social sciences with a deep understanding of the history and practice of science and computing, Artificial Whiteness is an incisive, urgent critique of the uses of AI as a political tool to uphold social hierarchies.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19491-4 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19490-7 2020 336 pages

Research Exposed

How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital Age Edited by Eszter Hargittai

By focusing attention on the concrete details seldom discussed in final project write-ups or traditional research guides, Research Exposed helps equip junior and senior scholars alike with essential information that is all too often left with no outlet for sharing. This volume offers important insights into how empirical social science research can be both innovative and rigorous when dealing with the opportunities and challenges presented by digital media.

$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18877-7 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-18876-0 2020 288 pages Better Data Visualizations

A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks Jonathan Schwabish

Jonathan Schwabish walks readers through the steps of creating better graphs and how to move beyond simple line, bar, and pie charts. Through more than five hundred examples, he demonstrates the do’s and don’ts of data visualization, the principles of visual perception, and how to make subjective style decisions around a chart’s design.

$28.95 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19311-5 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19310-8 January 2021 320 pages 533 illus.