Sociology
A Sociology of Globalization
Paperback
This groundbreaking study focuses on the importance of place, scale, and nation to the study of globalization.
Biography and the Sociological Imagination: Contexts and Contingencies
Paperback
Because life course sociology is an imaginative framework, Biography and the Sociological Imagination is less about "what we know" about the life...
The Mismatched Worker
Paperback
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.
Strangers in a Strange Land: Humans in an Urbanizing World
Paperback
Drawing from evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and sociology, this truly interdisciplinary study explores how the drive to find social connection has shaped the size, structure, and organization of human communities from the Stone Age to the post-industrial present.
Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change
Paperback
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.