Sociology
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Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an EmotionIn Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion. Together these essays demonstrate how being compassionate is shaped by historical specificity and social training, and how the idea of compassion takes place...
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Psychology of the MediaFrom newspapers to social networking sites, the mass media play a huge role in shaping the way we see ourselves and others. In this engaging introduction, Giles explores our relationship with the media, looking at the effects of advertising, celebrity worship and media influence...
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Completing College: Rethinking Institutional ActionEven as the number of students attending college has more than doubled in the past forty years, it is still the case that nearly half of all college students in the United States will not complete their degree within six years. It is clear...
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Unequal Partnership: a dating guide for loving non-egalitarian relationshipsDo you want to create a healthy and sustainable intimate relationship? Are you already dating or married and want to strengthen what you have?American society assumes that an egalitarian relationship is for everyone but the divorce rate is higher than fifty percent. The Unequal...
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Badass: The Birth of a Legend: Spine-Crushing Tales of the Most Merciless Gods, Monsters, Heroes, Villains, and Mythical Creatures Ever EnvisionedBen Thompson--author of Badass, creator of the epic website badassoftheweek.com, and the Internet's foremost expert on badassitude--is back to enthrall lovers of skull-smashing, bone-crushing bad behavior with his latest compendium, Badass: The Birth of a Legend. Like its macho predecessor, Badass: The Birth of...
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Walking Methodologies in a More-than-human World: WalkingLabAs a research methodology, walking has a diverse and extensive history in the social sciences and humanities, underscoring its value for conducting research that is situated, relational, and material. Building on the importance of place, sensory inquiry, embodiment, and rhythm within walking research, this...
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The Door in the Sky: Coomaraswamy on Myth and MeaningAnanda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. A scholar in the tradition of the great Indian grammarians and philosophers, an art historian convinced that the ultimate value of art transcends history,...
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When Is Discrimination Wrong?A law requires black bus passengers to sit in the back of the bus. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves a drug for use by black heart failure patients. A state refuses to license drivers under age 16. A company avoids hiring women...
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The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases2007 Edgar(R) NomineeTake a wild ride by hansom cab along the road paved by Sherlock Holmes-- a ride that leads you through medicine, law, pathology, toxicology, anatomy, blood chemistry, and the emergence of forensic science during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The Science of Sherlock...
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Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth CenturyBlack Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century explores the development of American social science by highlighting the contributions of those scholars who were both students and objects of a segregated society. The book asks how segregation...
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Theory for the Working SociologistTheory for the Working Sociologist makes social theory easy to understand by revealing sociology's hidden playbook. Fabio Rojas argues that sociologists use four different theoretical "moves" when they try to explain the social world: how groups defend their status, how people strategically pursue their...
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Sex/Gender: Biology in a Social WorldSex/Gender presents a relatively new way to think about how biological difference can be produced over time in response to different environmental and social experiences.This book gives a clearly written explanation of the biological and cultural underpinnings of gender. Anne Fausto-Sterling provides an introduction...
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Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals CommunicateThe signs and signals of criminal communication How do criminals communicate with each other? Unlike the rest of us, people planning crimes can't freely advertise their goods and services, nor can they rely on formal institutions to settle disputes and certify quality. They face...
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The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal RemainsThe meaning of our concern for mortal remains--from antiquity through the twentieth century The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became...
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Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital AgeAn innovative and accessible guide to doing social research in the digital age The rapid spread of social media, smartphones, and other digital wonders enables us to collect and process data about human behavior on a scale never before imaginable, offering entirely new approaches...
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Walking Words: With Woodcuts by Jose Francisco Borges"Walking Words" is a brilliant feat of storytelling in the tradition of Italo Calvino's "Italian Folktale." In it, Eduardo Galeano, author of the acclaimed "Memory of Fire" trilogy, draws on the folklore of the rural and urban Latin America to discover and retell "the...
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African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920"Rarely has a short book accomplished so much as Terborg-Penn's seminal work. With the utmost attention to detail Terborg-Penn examines the contributions of black suffragist stalwarts . . . It undoubtedly will become the definitive work on African American women's involvement in the mainstream...
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Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies" . . . this is no doctrinaire tract but rather a concerted attempt to look at important cultural problems from a fresh perspective. . . . Chow's book is an excellent example of its type."--Discourse & Society"I believe that Rey Chow has written...
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Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature" . . . provides readers with a much-needed cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective on ecofeminist activism and scholarship." --Iris" . . . a very important contribution to the literature on ecological feminism." --Ethics"I think the unique collection of so many different perspectives will help...
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Interpreting Folklore" . . . Dundes has produced a work which will be useful to both students and teachers who wish to broaden their understanding of modern folklore." --Center for Southern Folklore Magazine"It is impossible ever to remain unimpressed with [Dundes'] excursuses, however much one...
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