Sociology
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.
Strangers in a Strange Land: Humans in an Urbanizing World
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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
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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.
The New Medical Sociology: Social Forms of Health and Illness
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The New Medical Sociology makes a bold and innovative investigation of how society makes us sick.
Methods of Discovery: Heuristics for the Social Sciences
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Methods of Discovery is organized around strategies for deepening arguments in order to find the best ways to study social phenomena.