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This lively book tells the story of recent attacks on academic freedom.

Studies how sugar plantation workers cope with worsening conditions bought about by neoliberal reforms and low sugar prices.

An eloquent discussion of classical social theory from Charles Lemert. Ideal introduction for students.

Offers a comprehensive approach to explaining the causes, effects, and solutions for the presence and plight of Native Americans in the criminal justice system. Articles from scholars and experts in Native American issues examine the ways in which society's response to Native Americans is often socially constructed.

Despite demographics' increasing familiarity, it is often difficult for those who are not professional demographers to locate and effectively use demographics. Written by authors with more than 90 years of experience, this book describes and demonstrates how students and working professionals can obtain demographic information and use it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby still captivates readers with its vision of 1920s New York as a city of infinite potential, where ambition and defeat live hand in hand. This sentiment is captured, with even greater acuity, in the pages of Aben Kandel's nearly forgotten masterpiece of urban life, City for Conquest (1936)

Presents a detailed overview of how social structure relates to personality in a variety of different countries and contexts.

Offering an impressive analysis of long-term historical patterns, population, and social changes, Graber presents a fresh look at current trends in world politics.

Can television be a positive force in society? Can socially conscious entertainment change the world? This book asks these questions and more and arrives at surprising and unconventional answers. It explores the health benefits of entertainment through the moral and spiritual effects of vicarious involvement with fictional characters.

This book revives to issues of jury ethics by collecting new and insightful essays along with responses from leading scholars in the field of jury studies.

Brings together new essays on African American studies. Ideal for students of African studies, philosophy, social and political thought, and postcolonial studies.

Argues for a more radical and critical approach to Black Studies.

Addresses the potential of diverse Latino/a spiritualities, origins, and status against the landscape of decolonization of the US economic and cultural empire in the twenty-first century. This book explores the impact of Indo-latinos and Afro-latinos in the United States.

Offering a distinctive, coherent account of social processes and individuals' connections to their larger social and political worlds, this book demonstrates the connections between inequality and de-democratization, between identities and social inequality, and between citizenship and identities.

What binds the theoretical work of Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, and Jurgen Habermas? The author offers a reading of contemporary critical theorists and explains how, by reading them together, we may find a practical basis for progressive social change.

Explosive analysis of the role of the media in Bush's 2004 election victory.

Rich and multi-dimensional study of long-standing taboo.

Controversies over the merits of public and private education have never been more prominent than today. This book evaluates public and private schooling, especially in regard to choices families must make for their children.While choice among publics schools is widely advocated today by families and states, public support for private education - including vouchers, tax credits, charter schools, and private contracting - is politically controversial. The authors accessibly describe what research shows as to the effects - for communities and children - of these approaches. They move beyond school choice to show how other factors - most notably the family - have a strong effect on a child's educational success. The book helps educators and parents better understand the rapidly changing educational environment and the important choices they make in educating the nation's children.

Reveals how the US has changed from a society that celebrates childhood into one that is afraid of its own children.

Games of many kinds have been played in all cultures throughout human history. This book explores the social and psychological processes involved in the playing of games. It shows how games have been devised and played in particular societies and eras as means of promoting specific ideologies of a society, even social ideals such as utopias.

Raises feminist issues to remind people why they matter. Young women working together in a group make surprising choices about what to learn, and how to go about learning it. This book confronts questions that are fundamental to women, teachers, students and parents: Why do we read? What can we teach? and What does gender have to do with it?

A stunning new book by the most influential proponent of ecological and evolutionary explanations of human societies.

Harold Garfinklel's earliest, and previously unpublished, attempt to bridge the growing gap in American sociology.

Shows how new technologies and society's response to them have created a 'knowledge politics' with wide-ranging ramifactions.

A humorous insight into the day to day process of trade union activism.

Examines the conflicts and tensions that permeate day-to-day interactions of a people in the eastern Indonesian province of Malku.

Addresses ethinic cleansing, human sufferings, terrorism, immigration and xenophobia, and recent racial developments in Europe, Isreal and the US.