Sociology New Titles Spring/Summer 2018 this season’s highlights
Contemporary Social Psychological Theories Second Edition EDITED BY PETER J. BURKE
May 2018 440pp 9781503603653 PB £27.99 Stanford University Press This text, first published in 2006, presents the most important and influential social psychological theories and research programs in contemporary sociology. Original chapters by the scholars who initiated and developed these theoretical perspectives provide full descriptions of each theory and its background, development, and future. This second edition has been revised and updated to reflect developments within each theory, and in the field of social psychology more broadly. A new, original piece examines the state and trajectory of social network theory. A mainstay in teaching social psychology, this revised and updated edition offers a valuable survey of the field.
The Crisis of Connection
Roots, Consequences, and Solutions EDITED BY NIOBE WAY, ALISHA ALI, CAROL GILLIGAN & PEDRO NOGUERA
August 2018 544pp 9781479819294 PB £23.99 9781479802784 HB £71.00 New York University Press Since the beginning of the 21st century, people have become increasingly disconnected from themselves, each other, and the world around them. A “crisis of connection” stemming from growing alienation, social isolation, and fragmentation characterizes modern society. The signs of this “crisis of connection” are everywhere, from decreasing levels of empathy and trust, to burgeoning cases of suicide, depression and loneliness. To delve into the heart of the crisis, leading researchers and practitioners draw from the science of human connection to tell a five-part story about its roots, consequences, and solutions. In doing so, they reveal how we, in modern society, have been captive to a false story about who we are as human.
Vulnerability Politics
The Uses and Abuses of Precarity in Political Debate KATIE OLIVIERO
August 2018 336pp 9781479847822 PB £23.99 9781479855841 HB £71.00 New York University Press Vulnerability Politics examines how twenty-first century political struggles over immigration, LGBTQ rights, reproductive justice, and police violence have created a sense of vulnerability that has an impact on culture and the law. By researching organizations like the Minutemen (civilians who monitor the US/Mexico border), the Protect Marriage Coalition (a campaign to ban same-sex marriage in California), and the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (an anti-abortion movement), Katie Oliviero shows how conservative movements use the rhetoric of risk to oppose liberal policies by claiming that the nation, family, and morality are imperiled and in need of government protection.
Women Have Always Worked A Concise History ALICE KESSLER-HARRIS
May 2018 195pp 9780252083587 PB £15.99 Working Class in American History University of Illinois Press A classic since its original publication, this title brought much-needed insight into the ways work has shaped female lives and sensibilities. Beginning in the colonial era, it looks at the public and private work spheres of diverse groups of women—housewives and trade unionists, immigrants and African Americans, professionals and menial laborers, and women from across the class spectrum. She delves into issues from the gendered nature of the success ethic to the social activism and the meaning of citizenship for female wage workers. This second edition adds artwork and features significant updates. A new chapter by Kessler-Harris follows women into the early twenty-first century as they confront barriers of race, sex, and class to earn positions.
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A Place to Call Home
Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona ERNESTO CASTAÑEDA
May 2018 232pp 9781503605763 PB £19.99 9781503604780 HB £68.00 Stanford University Press A comparative portrait of immigrant expectations and experiences. Drawing on fourteen years of ethnographic observation and hundreds of interviews with immigrants and their children, Castañeda sets out to determine how different locations can aid or disrupt the process of integration.
Disabling Barriers
Social Movements, Disability History, and the Law EDITED BY RAVI MALHOTRA & BENJAMIN ISITT
April 2018 244pp 2 b&w illus. 9780774835244 PB £28.99 Disability Culture and Politics UBC Press Analyzes issues relating to disability at moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and activists demonstrate that disabled people can change their social status by transforming the discourse surrounding disablement.
Biocitizenship
The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power EDITED BY KELLY E. HAPPE, JENELL JOHNSON & MARINA LEVINA
August 2018 340pp 9781479860531 PB £24.99 9781479845194 HB £71.00 Biopolitics New York University Press Offering a discussion on biocitizenship, biopolitics, and groups that may be affected by this dialogue, contributors address familiar issues such as gender, class, and race, but also consider unique objects of study, such as incubators, corpses, and corporations.
Ending Zero Tolerance The Crisis of Absolute School Discipline DEREK W. BLACK
August 2018 256pp 9781479882335 NIP £13.99 Families, Law, and Society New York University Press Answers the calls of grassroots communities pressing for integration and increased education funding with a complete rethinking of school discipline. Black, a former attorney, weaves stories about individual students, lessons from social science, and the outcomes of courts cases to unearth a shockingly irrational system of punishment
Calling the Shots
Why Parents Reject Vaccines JENNIFER A. REICH
August 2018 336pp 9781479874835 NIP £14.99 New York University Press Based on a decade of research into the phenomenon of vaccine refusal, Reich’s study presents the stories of parents who opt out of vaccines alongside those of pediatricians and policy-makers. Reich offers a unique opporutnity to understand these parties’ disagreements, and the ways in which these differences can be bridged.
Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities Toward an Eco-Crip Theory EDITED BY SARAH JAQUETTE RAY & JAY SIBARA FOREWORD BY STACY ALAIMO
June 2018 684pp 12 photographs, 6 illus., index 9781496204950 NIP £27.99 University of Nebraska Press Designed as a reader for undergraduate and graduate courses, this book employs interdisciplinary perspectives to examine such issues as slow violence, imperialism, race, toxicity, eco-sickness, the body in environmental justice, ableism, and other topics.
Fugitive Life
Health Care in Crisis
June 2018 288pp 9780822370826 PB £19.99 9780822370673 HB £80.00 Duke University Press Drawing on writings by Angela Davis, the George Jackson Brigade, Assata Shakur, the Weather Underground, and others, Dillon shows how these activists were among the first to theorize and make visible the links between conservative "law and order" rhetoric, free market ideology, incarceration, sexism, and the continued legacies of slavery.
July 2018 272pp 9781479827695 PB £21.99 9781479813520 HB £71.00 New York University Press Based on ethnographic obervations and interviews with obstetrical nurses and hospital administrators, this book explains how recent tumultuous political-economic changes, such as the Affordable Care Act, have challenged obstetrical nurses.
The Queer Politics of the Prison State STEPHEN DILLON
Hospitals, Nurses, and the Consequences of Policy Change THERESA MORRIS
Immigrants Under Threat
Inequalities of Aging
June 2018 256pp 9781479821464 PB £21.99 9781479823925 HB £71.00 Latina/o Sociology New York University Press Uses ethnographic research from two Mexican immigrant communities in California to argue that these communities turn inward to insulate themselves from the perceived risks of authorities and a hostile public.
August 2018 288pp 9781479807178 PB £23.99 9781479810734 HB £71.00 Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice New York University Press Through intimate portrayals of daily life, Buch shows the ways in which ideas of independence connect and shape the lives of the elderly and the working poor.
July 2018 272pp 9781479866465 PB £23.99 9781479874620 HB £71.00 New York University Press Oliveira illuminates the life trajectories of separated siblings, and the everyday struggles that undocumented mothers go through. The book uncovers the far-reaching effects of maternal migration that influence children on both sides of the US/Mexico border.
July 2018 240pp 9781503605909 PB £19.99 9781503602076 HB £68.00 Stanford University Press Examines how Chinese parents negotiate cultural differences and class inequality to raise children in the contexts of globalization and immigration. Lan draws on a comparative, multi-sited research model with four groups of parents - these parents develop class-specific, context-sensitive strategies to maintain a middle-class lifestyle.
Recovering Inequality
Shifting Boundaries
Small Cities, Big Issues
Tackling Wicked Problems in Complex Ecologies
Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation GREG PRIETO
Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster STEVE KROLL-SMITH
August 2018 194pp 9781477316115 PB £21.99 9781477316108 HB £68.00 University of Texas Press Demonstrates that, post-disaster, inexorable market forces ensured that recovery efforts in San Francisco and New Orleans would reestablish the pre-existing socioeconomic inequalities. What differentiates the cities is that, while San Francisco rose because it was a hub of commerce, New Orleans was expendable.
Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care ELANA D. BUCH
Immigrant Youth Negotiating National, State, and Small Town Politics ALEXIS M. SILVER
March 2018 224pp 9781503605749 PB £21.99 9781503604988 HB £72.00 Stanford University Press As politicians debate how to address the estimated eleven million unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States, undocumented youth anxiously await the next policy shift that will determine their futures. Alexis M. Silver sheds light on the currents of exclusion and incorporation that dictate their lives.
Motherhood across Borders
Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York GABRIELLE OLIVEIRA
Reconceiving Community in Neoliberal Era EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER WALMSLEY & TERRY KADING
January 2018 364pp 2 figures, 4 tables 9781771991636 PB £29.99 Athabasca University Press If local governments accept a social agenda as part of its responsibilities, the contributors to Small Cities, Big Issues believe that small cities can succeed in reconceiving community based on the ideals of acceptance, accommodation, and inclusion.
Raising Global Families
Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US PEI-CHIA LAN
The Role of Evaluation EDITED BY RODNEY HOPSON & FIONA CRAM
April 2018 280pp 9781503600713 PB £44.00 Stanford University Press Tackling Wicked Problems in Complex Ecologies is a call to action, focusing on the role that evaluators can play in addressing social and economic problems. Evaluation extends beyond theories and methods, encompassing a range of proven approaches for addressing ecological complexities that drive inequities around the globe.
The Deindustrialized World
Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places EDITED BY STEVEN HIGH, LACHLAN MACKINNON & ANDREW PERCHARD
March 2018 388pp 23 photos, 13 tables 9780774834940 PB £29.99 UBC Press Scholars from five nations share personal stories of ruin and ruination and ask others what it means to be working class in a postindustrial world. Examines how workers, environmentalists, activists, and the state have responded to the challenges of deindustrialization.
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
How White People Profit from Identity Politics GEORGE LIPSITZ July 2018 448pp 9781439916391 PB £25.99 9781439916384 HB £83.00 Temple University Press Lipsitz provides an updated introduction and statistics; as well as analyses of the importance of Hurricane Katrina; the nature of anti-immigrant mobilizations; police assaults on Black women, the Obama legacy and the emergence of Trump; the Charleston Massacre and other hate crimes.
The Labor of Care
Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age VALERIE FRANCISCO-MENCHAVEZ
April 2018 240pp 9780252083341 PB £21.99 9780252041723 HB £79.00 Asian American Experience University of Illinois Press Drawing on five years of resarch, interviews and up-close collaboration with working migrant mothers, Francisco-Menchavez looks at the sacrifices, emotional and material consequences, and the recasting of roles that emerge from family separation.
The Sex Offender Housing Dilemma Community Activism, Safety, and Social Justice MONICA WILLIAMS
May 2018 288pp 9781479836499 PB £23.99 9781479897117 HB £71.00 New York University Press The culmination of four years of research, this book reveals the origins and characteristics of community responses to Sexually Violent Predators in the U.S. Williams also addresses the responsibility of government institutions to both groups of citizens.
The Last Professors
The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities With a New Introduction FRANK DONOGHUE
April 2018 224pp 9780823279135 PB £19.99 Fordham University Press First published in 2008, this book shows how a coporate culture of higher education threatens the fundamental role of the tenured professor. This new edition includes a substantial Preface that elaborates on recent developments and offers tough but productive analysis that will be crucial for today's academics.
The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History
EDITED BY DENNIS WASKUL & MARC EATON
July 2018 262pp 9781439915257 PB £27.99 9781439915240 HB £79.00 Temple University Press Seeks to understand the socio-cultural and socio-historical contexts of the supernatural. This volume takes the supernatural as real because belief in it has fundamentally shaped human history. It continues to inform people's interpretations, actions, and identities on a daily basis.
The New Immigrant Whiteness
Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States CLAUDIA SADOWSKI-SMITH March 2018 224pp 9781479806713 PB £21.99 9781479847730 HB £71.00 Nation of Nations New York University Press A compelling and timely volume offering a fresh perspective on race and immigration in the US. Sadowski-Smith unmasks the fallacy that immigrants perceived as “white” unequivocally benefit from being that identification.
Youth Who Trade Sex in the U.S. Intersectionality, Agency, and Vulnerability CARISA R. SHOWDEN & SAMANTHA MAJIC
June 2018 248pp 9781439916216 PB £23.99 9781439916209 HB £74.00 Temple University Press Carisa Showden and Samantha Majic investigate young people's engagement in the sex trades through an intersectional lens. The authors examine the dominant policy narrative's history and the political circumstances generating its emergence and current form.