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Interaction Ritual Chains
Häftad, 2005
409 kr
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Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force: interaction rituals. Interaction Ritual Chains is a major work of sociological theory that attempts to …
On Justification
Economies of Worth
Av Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot
Häftad, 2006
786 kr
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A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their experience to appeal to principles they hope will command respect. Individuals, however, often misread situations, and many disagreements can be …
Talking Prices
Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art
Häftad, 2007
351 kr
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How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? Talking Prices is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including interviews with art dealers in New York and …
Billionaire Wilderness
The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
Häftad, 2021
186 kr
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A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservationBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face. Justin Farrell spent five …
Fraught Embrace
The Romance and Reality of AIDS Altruism in Africa
Av Ann Swidler, Susan Cotts Watkins
Häftad, 2018
281 kr
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In the wake of the AIDS pandemic, legions of organizations and compassionate individuals from faraway places descended on Africa to offer help and save lives. Ann Swidler and Susan Cotts Watkins vividly describe the often mismatched expectations and fantasies of altruists who dream of transforming …
There Goes the Gayborhood?
Häftad, 2015
281 kr
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Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often unsafe world. But as our society increasingly accepts gays and lesbians into the mainstream, are "gayborhoods" destined to …
Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical
Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture
Häftad, 2008
448 kr
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The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford's assembly lines turned out a quarter of a million cars in …
Extreme Gone Mainstream
Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany
Häftad, 2019
238 kr
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How clothing brands coded with racist and nationalist symbols are bringing extremism into the German mainstreamFar right politics and extremist violence are on the rise across Europe, prompting scholars and policymakers to question why extremism has become so appealing to so many people. Cynthia …
Origins of Democratic Culture
Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England
Av David Zaret
Inbunden, 2000
1302 kr
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This innovative work of historical sociology locates the origins of modern democratic discourse in the emergent culture of printing in early modern England. For David Zaret, the key to the rise of a democratic public sphere was the impact of this culture of printing on the secrecy and privilege …
Negotiating Identities
States and Immigrants in France and Germany
Häftad, 2002
623 kr
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Immigration is even more hotly debated in Europe than in the United States. In this pivotal work of action and discourse analysis, Riva Kastoryano draws on extensive fieldwork--including interviews with politicians, immigrant leaders, and militants--to analyze interactions between states and …
Bearing Witness
Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria
Häftad, 2000
785 kr
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Greed, frustrated love, traffic jams, infertility, politics, polygamy. These--together with depictions of traditional village life and the impact of colonialism made familiar to Western readers through Chinua Achebe's writing--are the stuff of Nigerian fiction. Bearing Witness examines this varied …
Offside
Soccer and American Exceptionalism
Av Andrei S. Markovits, Steven L. Hellerman
Häftad, 2001
483 kr
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Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe. In the United States, however, the sport is a distant also-ran behind football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. Why is America an exception? And why, despite America's leading role in popular culture, does most of …
Gifted Tongues
High School Debate and Adolescent Culture
Häftad, 2001
556 kr
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Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own jargon and status system--in which they must negotiate complicated relationships with …
Religion and Family in a Changing Society
Av Penny Edgell
Häftad, 2005
418 kr
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The 1950s religious boom was organized around the male-breadwinner lifestyle in the burgeoning postwar suburbs. But since the 1950s, family life has been fundamentally reconfigured in the United States. How do religion and family fit together today? This book examines how religious congregations in …
Blessed Events
Religion and Home Birth in America
Häftad, 2001
460 kr
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Blessed Events explores how women who give birth at home use religion to make sense of their births and in turn draw on their birthing experiences to bring meaning to their lives and families. Pamela Klassen introduces a surprisingly diverse group of women, in their own words, while also setting …
Elusive Togetherness
Church Groups Trying to Bridge America's Divisions
Häftad, 2005
435 kr
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Many scholars and citizens alike have counted on civic groups to create broad ties that bind society. Some hope that faith-based civic groups will spread their reach as government retreats. Yet few studies ask how, if at all, civic groups reach out to their wider community. Can religious …
Reinventing Justice
The American Drug Court Movement
Häftad, 2003
400 kr
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Drug courts offer radically new ways to deal with the legal and social problems presented by repeat drug offenders, often dismissing criminal charges as an incentive for participation in therapeutic programs. Since the first drug court opened in 1989 in Florida, close to 600 have been established …
Contentious Curricula
Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools
Av Amy Binder
Häftad, 2004
406 kr
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This book compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. It identifies striking similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, …
Community
Pursuing the Dream, Living the Reality
Häftad, 2005
435 kr
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This book tells the story of how a human community comes to be and how aspirations for the good life confront the dilemmas and detours of real life. Suzanne Keller combines penetrating analysis of classic ideas about community with a remarkable and unprecedented thirty-year case study of one of the …
Hollywood Highbrow
From Entertainment to Art
Inbunden, 2007
725 kr
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Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were …
Minds of Marginalized Black Men
Making Sense of Mobility, Opportunity, and Future Life Chances
Häftad, 2006
503 kr
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While we hear much about the "culture of poverty" that keeps poor black men poor, we know little about how such men understand their social position and relationship to the American dream. Moving beyond stereotypes, this book examines how twenty-six poverty-stricken African American men from …
Weaving Self-Evidence
A Sociology of Logic
Häftad, 2008
418 kr
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The development of theorems in logic is generally thought to be a solitary and purely cerebral activity, and therefore unobservable by sociologists. In Weaving Self-Evidence, French sociologist Claude Rosental challenges this notion by tracing the history of one well-known recent example in the …
Impossible Engineering
Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi
Inbunden, 2009
572 kr
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The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and …
Partisan Publics
Communication and Contention across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks
Av Ann Mische
Häftad, 2009
418 kr
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During the 1980s and 1990s, Brazil struggled to rebuild its democracy after twenty years of military dictatorship, experiencing financial crises, corruption scandals, political protest, and intense electoral contention. In the midst of this turmoil, Ann Mische argues in this remarkable book, youth …
Reds, Whites, and Blues
Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States
Inbunden, 2010
978 kr
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Music, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuable tool for movements reconfiguring the social landscape. Reds, Whites, and Blues examines the political force of folk music, not through …
Framing Europe
Attitudes to European Integration in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom
Häftad, 2010
435 kr
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This book provides a major empirical analysis of differing attitudes to European integration in three of Europe's most important countries: Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom. From its beginnings, the European Union has resounded with debate over whether to move toward a federal or …
Making Volunteers
Civic Life after Welfare's End
Inbunden, 2011
623 kr
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Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, …
Economists and Societies
Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s
Häftad, 2010
620 kr
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Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from being a uniform science, differs in important ways among these three countries. Drawing on in-depth interviews with …
Contested Tastes
Foie Gras and the Politics of Food
Inbunden, 2016
392 kr
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Who cares about foie gras? As it turns out, many do. In the last decade, this French delicacy--the fattened liver of ducks or geese that have been force-fed through a tube--has been at the center of contentious battles between animal rights activists, artisanal farmers, industry groups, …
Seeing the World
How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era
Av Mitchell Stevens, Cynthia Miller-Idriss m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
423 kr
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An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.S.-focused social science research despite efforts to make scholarship more cosmopolitan U.S. research universities have long endeavored to be cosmopolitan places, yet the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology …
