Sociology
Crime and the Punished
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An essential introduction to how sociologists think about and research crime and punishment.
The Social Side of Politics
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Assembling the most provocative new thinking on politics and political processes.
The Mismatched Worker
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In this provocative new study, Arne L. Kalleberg examines how the now-common expectation that a career should at once provide fulfillment, challenge, meaning, and financial success is creating a growing number of “mismatched” workers—workers who fit poorly with their employers or careers.
Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change
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In Breaking the Bowls, the sequel to Paradoxes of Gender, Judith Lorber shows the cracks, anomalies, and resistances that are breaking down the gendered social order in Western post-industrial societies and lays out how we can take this process further by deliberate degendering.
Biography and the Sociological Imagination: Contexts and Contingencies
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Because life course sociology is an imaginative framework, Biography and the Sociological Imagination is less about "what we know" about the life...