Sociology category: 22581 books
Why Detroit matters
Decline, renewal and hope in a divided city
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation, Detroit’s relevance grows stronger. Why Detroit...
Boom Town
How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town Into an International Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Investigating the personal stories behind the headquarters of the Wal-Mart empire, this examination focuses on the growth of Bentonville, Arkansas-a microcosm of America's social, political, and cultural shift. Numerous personalities are interviewed, including a multimillionaire Palestinian refugee...
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
If you think McDonald's is the most ubiquitous restaurant experience in America, consider that there are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonalds, Burger Kings, and Wendys combined. New York Times reporter and Chinese-American (or American-born Chinese). In her search, Jennifer 8 Lee traces...
The Male Body as Advertisement
Masculinities in Hispanic Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The Male Body as Advertisement: Masculinities in Hispanic Media offers a multidisciplinary view of the body of men, of its practices and attributes, of its features, and, most importantly, of its use as a persuasive and expressive resource. Just as it occurred with the female body, the male body has...
by Eddie Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Sociology - Work, Profession, Education, Organisation, grade: Keine, , course: Happy Projects '08, Vienna, May 2007, 3 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Project management competences are essential for the successful...
Permanent Liminality and Modernity
Analysing the Sacrificial Carnival through Novels
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive sociological study of the nature and dynamics of the modern world, through the use of a series of anthropological concepts, including the trickster, schismogenesis, imitation and liminality. Developing the view that with the theatre playing a central role, the modern...
Branding New York
How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Winner of the 2009 Robert Park Book Award for best Community and Urban Sociology book!
Branding New York traces the rise of New York City as a brand and the resultant transformation of urban politics and public life. Greenberg addresses the role of "image" in urban history, showing...
by Stephen Fineman
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
The image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?'. Work — paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory — is woven into the fabric of all human societies. For many of us, it becomes part of our identity. For others...
Death by Suburb
How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A great number of seekers find themselves in the seemingly unreal world of the suburbs. They read spirituality books but find themselves in carpools and coaching soccer, not in monasteries. Dave Goetz, a former pastor, shows that the suburbs are a real world, but a spiritually corrosive one. The land...
The Rastafarians
Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The classic work on the history and beliefs of the Rastafarians, whose roots of protest go back to the seventeenth-century maroon societies of escaped slaves in Jamaica. Based on an extensive study of the Rastafarians, their history, their ideology, and their influence in Jamaica, The Rastafarians...
Songs of the Factory
Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
In Songs of the Factory, Marek Korczynski examines the role that popular music plays in workers' culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory that manufactures window blinds, Korczynski shows how workers make often-grueling assembly-line work tolerable...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Using a broad definition of the Durkheimian tradition, this book offers the first systematic attempt to explore the Durkheimians’ engagement with art. It focuses on both Durkheim and his contemporaries as well as later thinkers influenced by his work. The first five chapters consider Durkheim’s...
by Jennifer Lee, Min Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Asian Americans are often stereotyped as the “model minority.” Their sizeable presence at elite universities and high household incomes have helped construct the narrative of Asian American “exceptionalism.” While many scholars and activists characterize this as a myth, pundits claim that...
Families in an Era of Increasing Inequality
Diverging Destinies
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The widening gap between the rich and the poor is turning the American dream into an impossibility for many, particularly children and families. And as the children of low-income families grow to adulthood, they have less access to opportunities and resources than their higher-income peers--and increasing...