Sociology 2018/2019
New and Forthcoming Titles
CO LUMBIA UN IVER SI T Y P R ESS C U P. C O L U M B I A . E D U
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of my colleagues at Columbia University Press, I introduce this year’s sociology catalog. The books in this catalog exemplify the quality of scholarship that we prize, and they reflect the interdisciplinary and thematic approach that we take to publishing. This is a time of growth and innovation for the field of sociology at Columbia. There are a few titles in this year’s catalog that I want to briefly highlight. In Working for Respect, Adam Reich and Peter Bearman reveal the struggles of workers at Walmart to earn a living and find the dignity we all deserve. Lance Freeman’s A Haven and a Hell historicizes the dualist nature of the African American ghetto as a space of both opportunity and oppression. The Politics of Losing by Rory McVeigh and Kevin Estep identifies the conditions that allow white nationalism to emerge from the shadows. There are many other authors and subjects that are not to be missed, including Shani Orgad on motherhood, Michelle Pannor Silver on retirement, Robert J. Durán on peace at the U.S. - Mexico border, and Aasha M. Abdill on the unsung figure of the black father. This is a great group of books and we are just getting started. We look forward to continuing to share this intellectually engaging journey with you. Thank you for your support. Sincerely, Eric I. Schwartz, PhD, Editorial Director es3387@columbia.edu
CONTENTS
NEW AND FORTHCOMING
Working for Respect
New and forthcoming..........................................3 Legacy Editions................................................. 6
Best of the backlist............................................. 7
Community and Conflict at Walmart
New in paperback.............................................15
Adam Reich and Peter Bearmany
Of related interest.............................................12
Ordering information........................................ 15
Manuscript queries and proposals can be sent to Eric I. Schwartz (es3387@columbia.edu)
For a complete listing of Columbia’s titles or for more information about any book in this catalog, visit our website, cup.columbia.edu. Most titles in this catalogue published by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the press. Titles published by the Chinese University Press, the University of Tokyo Press, Auteur Press, Transcript-Verlag, and the Social Science Research Council are available from Columbia only in North America, Australia, and New Zealand. To order titles from these publishers in other parts of the world, please contact each press directly.
"Working for Respect is an engaging read that bristles with fresh insights into both the experience of low-wage service sector-work and the dilemmas facing the labor movement. It offers an ethnography of what the authors dub 'Walmartism' as well as an argument about the ways in which social ties centered on trust have the potential to jumpstart social change. A must-read for any sociologist of labor." ―Ruth Milkman, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
$30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-18842-5 2018 352 pages THE MIDDLE RANGE SERIES
The Politics of Losing Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment
Rory McVeigh and Kevin Estep
"An important contribution to our understanding of white nationalism, its endurance in American politics, and the conditions that brought it back into the mainstream with the election of Donald Trump. Using the 1920s Klan as a reference point, the authors show how declines in the standing of whites (political, economic, and status-based) have often produced sizable populations open to racist appeals, spawning political movements and fracturing enduring electoral coalitions." ―Marc Dixon, Dartmouth University $32.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-19006-0 January 2019 224 pages
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NEW AND FORTHCOMING
Judge Thy Neighbor
Retirement and Its Discontents
Denunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia, and Nazi Germany
Why We Won't Stop Working, Even If We Can Michelle Pannor Silver
Patrick Bergemann
"There have been case studies of the Inquisition, the Salem witch trials, and lots of work on the Gestapo, but the explanations in all of those are ad hoc and make no effort to generalize beyond their single cases. Judge Thy Neighbor offers a theory that I expect will both transform future work on these and other cases of denunciations and influence broader social-science analyses of group dynamics, social movements, and microsocial relations." ―Richard Lachmann, State University of New York at Albany
"Michelle Silver interviewed members of groups who are often difficult to access, doctors and CEOs, as well as housewives, elite athletes, and professors. By concentrating on how the research participants explain their perspective, Silver demonstrates the diversity in how people experience retirement and makes the case for the decoupling of age and retirement."―Deborah K. van den Hoonaard, St. Thomas University
$30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-18856-2 2018 296 pages
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THE MIDDLE RANGE SERIES
The Gang Paradox
Heading Home
Inequalities and Miracles on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality
Robert J. Durán
Shani Orgad
Heading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and women’s experience of continued injustice. It draws on in-depth, personal, and profoundly ambivalent interviews with highly educated London women who left paid employment to take care of their children while their husbands continued to work in high-powered jobs. Shani Orgad juxtaposes these stories with media and policy depictions of women, work, and family, detailing how these women continue to interpret and judge themselves according to the ideals that are failing them.
In The Gang Paradox, Robert J. Durán analyzes the impact of deportation, incarceration, and racialized perceptions of criminality on Latino families and youth along the border. He draws on ethnography, archival research, official data sources, and interviews with practitioners and community members to present a compelling portrait of Latino residents’ struggles amid deep structural disadvantages.
January 2019 288 pages
STUDIES IN TRANSGRESSION
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$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18106-8 September 2018 272 pages
NEW AND FORTHCOMING
Secular Translations
Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment
Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
Detention, Deportation, and Border Control
Talal Asad
Edited by David C. Brotherton and Philip Kretsedemas In Secular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. In a consideration of translatability and untranslatability, he explores the ways ideas are translated between histories and cultures and the ways religious ideas are translated into nonreligious ones. Drawing on a diverse set of thinkers ranging from al-Ghazālī to Walter Benjamin, Secular Translations rigorously seeks a language for our time beyond the language of the state.
"Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment identifies the sharp edges of Western efforts to make life difficult for migrants. Importantly, it does so by...expanding its gaze away from a narrow concern about the boundaries of nation-states. Reaching into fields as disparate as geography and sociology, these essays will begin to define the field of critical immigration enforcement studies." ―César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, University
$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18987-3
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December 2018 224 pages
2018 344 pages
RUTH BENEDICT BOOK SERIES
STUDIES IN TRANSGRESSION
of Denver
Fathering from the Margins
A Haven and a Hell The Ghetto in Black America
An Intimate Examination of Black Fatherhood
Lance Freeman
Aasha M. Abdill
"A captivating and well-written ethnographic study of African American fatherhood today. This work illuminates the everyday life of the urban ghetto while specifically dispelling stereotypes that black fathers are less involved than fathers of other races. Insightful and engrossing, this book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the black community today."―Elijah Anderson, author
"Through rigorous sociohistorical analysis, Lance Freeman provides insight into how black ghettos developed, and then changed, over time, giving readers a good sense of the complicated trajectory of 'the ghetto' in America. A Haven and a Hell is a highly-accessible and necessary book for a broader and richer understanding of urban Black America."―Marcus Anthony Hunter, coauthor of
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2018 272 pages
April 2019 304 pages
of Code of the Street and The Cosmopolitan Canopy
Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life
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LEGACY EDITIONS
On Becoming a Rock Musician
Morals and Markets
The Development of Life Insurance in the United States
H. Stith Bennett Foreword by Howard S. Becker
Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer Foreword by Kieran Healy
"A milestone that launched two major areas of research: on the morality of economic action... and on the normalization and institutionalization of new economic forms. As America debates the moral dimensions of health insurance, and as the world copes with the rise of bitcoin and other private currencies, this classic study, graced by impeccable research and stunning insights, has never been more relevant."―Paul DiMaggio, New York University
"Bennett’s book is perhaps the only one of its kind to explain the relatively inscrutable process of how one finds their own ‘sound,’ and in so doing, he expands the reach of sociology deeper into the meaning of social music. A rare combination of scholarship and street smarts."―Ben Sidran, host of NPR's Jazz Alive
"Indispensable for any ethnomusicology of contemporary pop music."―Babette Babich, author of The Hallelujah Effect
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18335-2
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18285-0
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2017 264 pages.
2017 304 pages
The Levittowners
Learning to Labor
How Working-Class Kids Get Working-Class Jobs
Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community
Paul Willis
Foreword by Stanley Aronowitz
Herbert J. Gans
Foreword by Harvey Molotch
In 1955, Levitt and Sons purchased most of Willingboro Township, New Jersey and built 11,000 homes. This, their third Levittown, became the site of one of urban sociology's most famous community studies, Herbert J. Gans's The Levittowners. First published in 1967, The Levittowners is a classic of participant-observer ethnography that also paints a sensitive portrait of working-class and lower-middle-class life in America. This new edition features a foreword by Harvey Molotch that reflects on Gans's challenges to conventional wisdom. $35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-17887-7 2017 528 pages
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"A remarkable achievement...the best book on male working class youth since Whyte's Street Corner Society."―New Society "It would be difficult to overstate the influence of Learning to Labor. It has been widely cited as a foundational text in contemporary ethnography, cultural studies, sociology, and critical theory." ―Review of Educational Research $30.00
paper 978-0-231-17895-2
2017 304 pages
BEST OF THE BACKLIST
Sociology and Social Policy
Leader Communities
The Consecration of Elites in Djursholm
Essays on Community, Economy, and Society
Mikael Holmqvist Essays on Community, Economy, and Society
Leader Communities THE CONSECRATION OF ELITES IN DJURSHOLM
Herbert J. Gans
Herbert J. Gans
Mikael Holmqvist
"Sweden is mainly known to Americans as an advanced welfare state with equality bordering on socialism. This book presents another side of Sweden through its focus on its most exclusive suburb, Djursholm, situated just outside of Stockholm. This is where Sweden’s one-percenters live and also where they do their utmost to ensure that their children will stay in that percent. A first-rate social science study."―Richard Swedberg,
"[An] exceptionally stimulating collection of essays that deploy decades of learning to probe fundamental challenges of political economy, race, and bases of identity. Written by a master sociologist in his characteristically lucid, accessible prose, these deep and compelling ruminations offer challenges to thought and action on every page." ―Ira Katznelson, Columbia University $35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-18305-5
Cornell University
$105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-18304-8
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18427-4
2017 280 pages
$90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18426-7
2017 304 pages
Down and Out in New Orleans
Black Gods of the Asphalt
Peter J. Marina
Onaje X. O. Woodbine
Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy
"Peter J. Marina provides an outstanding introduction to the sociology of transgression through his fascinating portrayal of life on the edge in post-Katrina New Orleans. His sociological insight, ethnographic ability, and love of the city uniquely position him to write about the sociology of living ‘down and out’ in the Crescent City." ―David Gladstone, University of New Orleans
Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball
"In this majestic study of basketball as ritual, religion, and culture, Woodbine plunges into the courts of Boston with an insider's savvy to catalogue the urban sport's pulsating (and potentially transcendent) dialogue."―Publishers Weekly (starred reviews)
"A uniquely engaging and rewarding read for sociologists."―Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of
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Reviews
2017 336 pages
$22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-17729-0
STUDIES IN TRANSGRESSION
$30.00 / £2400 cloth 978-0-231-17728-3 2016 224 pages
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BEST OF THE BACKLIST
Rural Poverty in the United States
What Remains Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany
Edited by Ann R. Tickamyer, Jennifer Sherman, and Jennifer Warlick Winner, Rural Sociological Society's Fred H. Buttel Outstanding Achievement Award, 2018
Jonathan Bach
"In this wonderful book, Jonathan Bach shows the complexity of East Germans' adjustment to their new reality. Examining preferred consumption items, personal museums of things from the past, demolitions and rebuildings, and memorializations of the Wall, he goes well beyond fashionable invocations of "nostalgia" to explore unification's assaults on personhood and identity, on senses of place and history. A must-read!"―Katherine Verdery, Graduate Center of the City University of New York $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-18270-6
"This book covers the historical development of rural poverty research and policy, brings together the core theoretical literature, and addresses significant substantive issues including food insecurity, race, migration, and housing. The breadth is remarkable. No other volume exists today that draws the literature together so comprehensively and engagingly."―Linda Lobao, The Ohio State University
$40.00/ £30.00 paper 978-0-231-17223-3 $120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-17222-6 2017 496 pages
2017 272 pages
The Diagnostic System
International Express
Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled
New Yorkers on the 7 Train Stéphane Tonnelat and William Kornblum
Jason Schnittker kkk
"The particular strength of this very well-written critique of psychiatric diagnosis is to examine how the DSM has a variety of constituencies— clinicians, researchers, patients, and the general public—that each has its own way of approaching the manual."―Allan Horwitz, Rutgers University For Jason Schnittker, decision-making based on evolving though fluid understandings is not a weakness but an adaptive strength of the mental-health profession, even if it is not a solid foundation for scientific discovery or a reassuring framework for patients. $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-17806-8 2017 368 pages
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"Through their study of the subway system as a microcosm of a diverse society, Tonnelat and Kornblum make a significant contribution to urban studies."―Publishers Weekly "This work will be of greatest interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of urban planning, urban studies, and urban sociology.... Highly recommended."―Choice $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18148-8 2017 312 pages
BEST OF THE BACKLIST
Theory for the Working Sociologist
Down the Up Staircase
Three Generations of a Harlem Family
Fabio Rojas
Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch
"Every sociologist—indeed everyone—interested in race, mobility, and the African American experience should read this book. It will motivate rethinking of the stakes and consequences for African Americans striving to get or stay ahead. For sociologists and other scholars of race and the urban experience, as well as lay readers who desire to understand more fully much of what black family life in urban America was all about during the past 100 years, it should be a required text." ―Sociological Forum $30.00 / £24.00 cloth
978-0-231-18102-0
2017 240 pages
"[This] book will soon become required reading for upper-level undergraduate and doctoral students of sociology. Rather than merely revisiting and reinterpreting core texts of abstract sociological theory, Rojas identifies four core themes of sociological theory—power and inequality, strategic action, values and social structures, and social constructionism—that motivate empirical work and lead sociologists to generate explanations for why empirical patterns exist."―Sarah Soule, Stanford University $30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18165-5 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18164-8 2017 232 pages
What Slaveholders Think
Teenage Suicide Notes
How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do
An Ethnography of SelfHarm Terry Williams
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
"A much-needed and unique work. Our understanding of modern slavery holds virtually nothing on slaveholders. Such a study has always been seen as the Holy Grail, truly critical knowledge if we are to move forward.... Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick also goes somewhere that few scholars in this area have gone—raising important, challenging questions about how slaveholders might be understood and rehabilitated."
"Terry Williams provides a rare and compassionate account of self-harm and the wish to 'check out' of this world via his compilation of teenage suicide notes obtained through a most mindful application of the ethnographic method. This is vital reading for mental health trainees and professionals, sociologists, policy makers, and all in search of a fuller, experience-near, understanding of suicide."―Howard Steele, New School for Social
$35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18182-2
"An important, veil-lifting book."―Kirkus Review
―Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the Slaves 2017 248 pages
Research
$30.00 / £24.00 cloth
978-0-231-17790-0
2017 288 pages
THE COSMOPOLITAN LIFE
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BEST OF THE BACKLIST Praise for
“Exiled in America is a keen, well-written study of the powerful social forces of inequality as they are shaped by cultural issues and social institutions. Christopher P. Dum provides an unusual glimpse of a unique population living in a difficult and hazardous place—a nuanced and important work.”
TERRy WIllIAMs , author of The Con Men: husTling in new York CiTY
The Public Life of Memory in the United States and South Africa
“ Living in a poverty motel that houses the most marginalized and scrutinized populations in the United States, Dum documents the lived drama of managed stigma, the eruptive proclivities of a caring fragile community of ‘social refugees,’ the tragedy of public indifference, and the humanity of capitalism’s newly rendered ‘huddled masses.’ It is a story that can only be told through immersive ethnography.”
TIMoThy BlACk , author of when a hearT Turns roCk solid: The lives of Three PuerTo riCan BroThers on and off The sTreeTs
“ It is not often, after forty years in the field, that I actually get excited by a new scholar’s tone—that I find it so fascinating, so rich, so theoretically and analytically thick, that I go agog over it. Such is the case with Dum’s work.”
PETER AdlER , university of Denver
“ Dum digs down deep inside the darkness of marginality and exclusion to find the lives that others willfully ignore. Amidst that darkness he discovers hard living and plenty of hurt but something else as well: little flowerings of courage and community. An exemplar of engaging ethnography, Exiled in America is a book that I’ve now read twice and will no doubt read again—it’s that good.”
christopher p. dum
is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Kent State University. He is a contributor to Justice Quarterly and Children and Youth Services Review.
JEff fERREll , author of eMPire of sCrounge: inside The urBan underground of duMPsTer diving, Trash PiCking, and sTreeT sCavenging
“Exiled in America is a compelling and compassionate look at people living at society’s margins. Dum details the evolution of the ‘no tell’ Boardwalk Motel, the people who live there, and the social dynamics among themselves and the surrounding community, illustrating our ‘dystopian cultural response to inequality.’ Ethnography at its best.”
Robyn Autry
AndREA M. lEvEREnTz , author of The ex-Prisoner’s dileMMa: how woMen negoTiaTe CoMPeTing narraTives of reenTrY and desisTanCe
Exiled in America
DUM
Exiled in AMERICA
Desegregating Exiled in the AMERICA Past
L i f e o n t h e M a rg i n s i n a Residential Motel
Exiled in AMERICA
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"Desegregating the Past brilliantly reveals the power and limits of museums to reckon with a troubled racial past, casting new light on how we publicly remember the struggles against apartheid and segregation—and by doing so, how we forget." ―Alex Lichtenstein, Indiana University $60.00 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-17758-0 2017 272 pages
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Residential motels have
long been places of last resort for many vulnerable Americans—released prisoners, people with disabilities or mental illness, struggling addicts, the recently homeless, and the working poor. Cast aside by their families and mainstream society, they survive in squalid, unsafe, and demeaning circumstances that few of us can imagine.
For a year, the sociologist Christopher P. Dum lived in the Boardwalk Motel to better understand its residents and the varied paths that brought them there. He witnessed moments of violence and conflict, as well as those of care and compassion. As told through the voices and experiences of motel residents, Exiled in America paints a portrait of a vibrant community whose members forged identities in response to overwhelming stigma and created meaningful lives despite crushing economic instability.
Christopher P. Dum Winner, 2018 Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association In addition to chronicling daily life at the Boardwalk, Dum follows local neighborhood efforts to shut the establishment down, leading to a wider analysis of legislative attempts to sanitize shared social space. He also suggests meaningful policy changes to address the societal failures that lead to the need for motels such as the Boardwalk. The story of the Boardwalk, and the many motels like it, will concern anyone who cares about the lives of America’s most vulnerable citizens.
Life on the M a rg i n s in a Residential Motel
STUDIES IN TrANSGrESSIoN
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Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel
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"Anyone interested in poverty, social policy, and criminal justice will want to read this book." ―American Journal of Sociology
"[A] revealing, rigorously academic work.... [Dum] places the painful experiences of these residents in the larger societal context: rising rates of incarceration, foreclosures, evictions, and homelessness have in recent years turned many nonchain motels into shelters for the marginalized"―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
$35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-17642-2 2016 320 pages
STUDIES IN TRANSGRESSION
Better Presentations
On the Parole Board
Reflections on Crime, Punishment, Redemption, and Justice
A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks Jonathan Schwabish
Frederic G. Reamer Choice Outstanding Academic Title
"Data visualization has provided a new set of powerful tools to help analysts communicate their ideas more clearly and effectively. Jon Schwabish helped to pioneer the use of these tools in the policy community, and Better Presentations is full of valuable insights that teach his approach to others. Both new and experienced analysts would benefit immensely from reading this book." ―Douglas Elmendorf, former director of the Congressional Budget Office
$24.95 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-17521-0 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-17520-3 2016 192 pages
"Reamer combines a comprehensive overview of the criminal justice system with a generous and deeply personal account of crime's human impact." ―Publishers Weekly
"On the Parole Board is an excellent book and opens up the black box of parole hearings to the public. But more than simply describing the procedures followed in conducting a hearing (which he does incredibly well), Frederic G. Reamer puts a personal face on the process."―Joan Petersilia, Stanford Law School
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-17733-7 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-17732-0 2016 296 pages
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BEST OF THE BACKLIST
Karl Polanyi
A Life on the Left Gareth Dale Choice Outstanding Academic Title
"A penetrating and revealing account that reconstructs the social and political milieus in which Polanyi developed his ideas...it explicates and provides context for the contradictory currents in his thinking about politics, economics, and social theory."―Contemporary Sociology "To those for whom Polanyi has become an intellectual or political inspiration, Dale’s biography is a landmark."―Chronicle of Higher Education $27.00 / £21.00 paper 978-0-231-17609-5
$40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-17608-8 2016 400 pages
The
RED GUARD GENER ATION and
POLITICAL AC TIV ISM in CHINA
Guobin Yang
The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China Guobin Yang
"A nuanced portrait of the Red Guard generation. [Yang's] own depth of understanding enables him to show that Red Guards were not all storm troopers or crazed youth. They were constantly subjected to propaganda, but also had the capacity to learn, to grow, and to change."―New York Review of Books
$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-14965-5 $60.00 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-14964-8 2016 288 pages
STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
The Con Men
The Field of Cultural Production
Hustling in New York City
Pierre Bourdieu
Terry Williams and Trevor B. Milton
"With its colorful characters, spotlight on hidden social worlds, and highly accessible writing style, I can see instructors using this book in their social deviance and criminology courses to great effect." ―Contemporary Sociology "A fascinating look at the New York underworld. Integrating history, social psychology and sociology, the authors provide an educated lens to examine some of the oldest cons in Manhattan." ―Consumption Markets & Culture
The Field of Cultural Production brings together Pierre Bourdieu's major essays on art and literature and provides the first introduction to Bourdieu's writings and theory of a cultural field that situates artistic works within the social conditions of their production, circulation, and consumption. $28.95 / £23.00 paper 978-0-231-08287-7 $90.00 cloth 978-0-231-08286-0 1994 322 pages
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
$22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-17083-3 $27.95 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-17082-6 2015 288 pages
STUDIES IN TRANSGRESSION
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OF RELATED INTEREST
Smarter New York City
Bad Advice
Edited by André Corrêa d'Almeida
Paul A. Offit, M.D.
Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
How City Agencies Innovate
"This book will be invaluable to those looking to understand the complexities of life as a public servant, and to anyone striving to become the champion of innovation that urban administrations in modern societies require among their ranks. The case studies illustrate how strategies for interconnected networks among city agencies, NGOs, individuals, and technology would dramatically improve life within New York City’s 'gorgeous mosaic.'"―David N. Dinkins, 106th mayor of New York City
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18375-8 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18374-1
"Bad advice about your health, firmly grounded in fact-free marketing, greed, and science denialism, is omnipresent in the new and old media these days. One of the few reliable sources of good advice is Dr. Paul A. Offit who, unlike all too many scientists and doctors, is ready to take on the hype and lies of celebrities, charlatans, ideologues, and money-grubbers with logic, evidence, and humor." ―Arthur L. Caplan, New York University School of Medicine
$24.95 / £20.00 cloth 978-0-231-18698-8 2018 272 pages
2018 448 pages
American Capitalism
Troublesome Science
New Histories
Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understanding Race
Edited by Sven Beckert and Christine Desan
Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall
"Genetically, race is a meaningless concept, yet our society seems far from ready to stop dividing people into racial categories. Evolutionary biologist DeSalle and paleoanthropologist Tattersall debunk the idea as a useful scientific classification, explaining how the technique of taxonomy—the grouping of organisms based on shared characteristics—fails to find significant genetic differences among the groups we commonly call races."―Scientific American $35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18572-1 2018 216 pages
RACE, INEQUALITY, AND HEALTH
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"Sven Beckert and Christine Desan are leaders in the burgeoning history of capitalism field, and they have put together a volume of outstanding scholars whose essays, in their chronological reach and subject matter, show this new literature at its best. A very fine and promising collection."―Steven Hahn, New York University
$38.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18524-0 2018 448 pages
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF U.S. CAPITALISM
OF RELATED INTEREST
The Sustainable City
A Time to Stir Columbia '68
Steven Cohen
Edited by Paul Cronin
"This kaleidoscopic book does justice, at last, to the vortex of energies, passions, and illusions that boiled up in the cauldron of Columbia 1968. In A Time to Stir, the indefatigable Paul Cronin has assembled a fascinating range of chronicles and revelations that greatly illuminate one of the central confrontations of the sixties."―Todd Gitlin, author of The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage $35.00 / £27.00 cloth
978-0-231-18274-4
"Steven Cohen shows us how the great cities of the twenty-first century can use sustainable methods to thrive economically while simultaneously providing a higher quality of life for their residents. A must-read for current and future leaders in a rapidly urbanizing world." ―William Eimicke, Columbia University $26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18205-8 $85.00 / £66.00 cloth 9780-231-18204-1 2017 264 pages
2018 512 pages
Becoming the News How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight Ruth Palmer
Jonathan Kahn
"From Kurt and Gladys Lang to Todd Gitlin, media scholars have probed the disjuncture between experiencing a media event and the journalistic coverage of it. Now, in our era of fake news and partisan distrust, Ruth Palmer analyzes how ordinary people feel when they become the subjects of news stories. This timely and fascinating book marks a major step forward for the field of communication research."―C.W. Anderson, University of Leeds $35.00 / £27.00 paper 978-0-231-18315-4 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-18314-7 2017 280 pages
Race on the Brain
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