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To Fulfill These Rights

Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions Amaka Okechukwu

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IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT BOOK AWARD, ASSOCIATION OF BLACK SOCIOLOGISTS EDUARDO BONILLA-SILVA OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD, SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS, DIVISION OF RACE AND ETHNIC MINORITIES’ In To Fulfill These Rights, Amaka Okechukwu offers a historically informed sociological account of the struggles over affirmative action and open admissions in higher education. Through case studies of policy retrenchment at public universities, she documents the rollback of inclusive policies in the context of shifting race and class politics.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18309-3 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18308-6

2019 328 pages

Unnerved

Anxiety, Social Change, and the Transformation of Modern Mental Health

Jason Schnittker

Jason Schnittker investigates the social, cultural, medical, and scientific underpinnings of the modern mental state. He explores how anxiety has been understood from the late nineteenth century to the present day and why it has assumed a more central position in how we think about mental health.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20035-6 $145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-20034-9 2021 280 pages Downsizing

Confronting Our Possessions in Later Life David J. Ekerdt

WINNER, DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION AWARD, SOCIOLOGY OF CONSUMERS AND CONSUMPTION SECTION, ASA Drawing on in-depth interviews with recent movers in over a hundred diverse U.S. households, David J. Ekerdt analyzes the downsizing process and what it says about the meaning and management of possessions. He details how households approach and accomplish downsizing, exploring the decision-making process and the effectiveness of different strategies.

$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18981-1 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18980-4 2020 280 pages 2 illus.

Creative Control

The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries Michael L. Siciliano

Michael L. Siciliano draws on nearly two years of ethnographic research as a participant-observer in a Los Angeles music studio and a multichannel YouTube network to explore the contradictions of creative work. Creative Control explains why “cool” jobs help us understand how workers can participate in their own exploitation.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19381-8 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19380-1 2021 312 pages

Trade and Nation

How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought Emily Erikson

In the seventeenth century, English economic theorists lost interest in the moral status of exchange and became increasingly concerned with the roots of national prosperity. This shift marked the origins of classical political economy and provided the foundation for the contemporary discipline of economics. Emily Erikson brings together historical, comparative, and computational methods to explain the institutional forces that brought about this transformation.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18435-9 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18434-2 2021 312 pages 40 illus.

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The Corsairs of Saint-Malo

Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Régime Henning Hillmann

Combining rich descriptions of privateering campaigns with quantitative network analysis of partnership ties over more than a century, The Corsairs of Saint-Malo offers a new understanding of the local organizational foundations of early modern capitalist development.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18039-9 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18038-2 2021 336 pages 42 illus.

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Measuring Culture

John W. Mohr, Christopher A. Bail, Margaret Frye, Jennifer C. Lena, Omar Lizardo, Terence E. McDonnell, Ann Mische, Iddo Tavory, and Frederick F. Wherry

Measuring Culture takes the reader on a tour of the state of the art in measuring meaning, from discussions of neuroscience to computational social science. It provides both a definitive introduction to the sociological literature on culture as well as a critical set of case studies for methods courses across the social sciences.

$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18029-0 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-18028-3 2020 256 pages Ascent to Glory

How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic Álvaro Santana-Acuña

Álvaro Santana-Acuña follows the path of One Hundred Years of Solitude in more than seventy countries on five continents and explains how thousands of people and organizations have helped it to become a global classic. Shedding new light on the novel’s imagination, production, and reception, Ascent to Glory is an eye-opening book for cultural sociologists and literary historians as well as for fans of Gabriel García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18433-5 $115.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-18432-8 2020 384 pages 12 illus.

Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of ClimateDisrupting Emissions Don Grant, Andrew Jorgenson, and Wesley Longhofer

Super Polluters offers a groundbreaking global analysis of carbon pollution caused by the generation of electricity, pinpointing who bears the most responsibility for the energy sector’s vast emissions and what can be done about them. Grant, Jorgenson, and Longhofer demonstrate which energy and climate policies are most effective at abating power-plant pollution, emphasizing how mobilized citizen activism shapes those outcomes.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19217-0 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19216-3 2020 296 pages

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Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States Rebecca Elliott

In Underwater, Rebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront problems of loss as the climate changes. She offers the first in-depth account of the politics and social effects of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which provides flood insurance protection for virtually all homes and small businesses that require it. Elliott follows controversies over the NFIP from its establishment in the 1960s to the present.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19027-5 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19026-8 2020 296 pages

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Artificial Whiteness

Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence Yarden Katz

Bringing together theories of whiteness and race in the humanities and social sciences with a deep understanding of the history and practice of science and computing, Artificial Whiteness is an incisive, urgent critique of the uses of AI as a political tool to uphold social hierarchies.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19491-4 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19490-7 2020 352 pages 25 illus. Ambitious and Anxious

How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education Yingyi Ma

WINNER, BEST BOOK AWARD, HIGHER EDUCATION SPECIAL

INTEREST GROUP OF THE COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY WINNER, BEST BOOK AWARD, CIES STUDY ABROAD AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES SIG Yingyi Ma offers a multifaceted analysis of the wave of Chinese students across American higher education based on research in both Chinese high schools and U.S. colleges. Ma argues that experiences of these students embody the duality of ambition and anxiety that has arisen due to the transformative social changes in China.

The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession Tania M. Jenkins

Doctors’ Orders offers a groundbreaking examination of the construction and consequences of status distinctions between physicians before, during, and after residency training. Tania M. Jenkins spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals to reveal the unspoken mechanisms that are taken for granted and that lead to hierarchies among supposed equals.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18935-4 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-18934-7 2020 352 pages Development and AntiPolitics in the Peace Corps Meghan Elizabeth Kallman

The Death of Idealism uses the case of the Peace Corps to explain why and how participation in a bureaucratic organization changes people’s ideals and politics. Meghan Elizabeth Kallman offers an innovative institutional analysis of the role of idealism in development organizations. Based on interviews with over 140 current and returned Peace Corps volunteers, field observations, and a largescale survey, this deeply researched, theoretically rigorous book offers a novel perspective on how people lose their idealism and why that matters.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18969-9 $110.00 / £92.00 cloth 978-0-231-18968-2 2020 320 pages 15 illus.

Working for Respect

Community and Conflict at Walmart Adam Reich and Peter Bearman

WINNER, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD

Adam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how Walmart workers make sense of their jobs in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present for social and economic justice. Working for Respect makes important contributions to debates on labor and inequality.

$24.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18843-2 $32.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-18842-5 2018 352 pages 11 illus.

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Down the Up Staircase

Three Generations of a Harlem Family Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch

Down the Up Staircase tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem over the past century. Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed Blacks forward through the twentieth century—the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the early civil rights victories, the Black Power and Black Arts movements— as well as the many forces that ravaged Black communities, including Haynes’s own.

$22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-18103-7 $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-18102-0 2017 240 pages 13 illus.

Theory for the Working Sociologist

Fabio Rojas

A playbook for sociologists looking to understand the theoretical underpinnings of the discipline. Fabio Rojas elucidates classical and contemporary theory, and he connects both to essential sociological findings made throughout the history of the field.

$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18165-5 $104.00 / £80.00 cloth 978-0-231-18164-8 2017 232 pages How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital Age Edited by Eszter Hargittai

By focusing attention on the concrete details seldom discussed in final project write-ups or traditional research guides, Research Exposed helps equip junior and senior scholars alike with essential information that is all too often left with no outlet for sharing. This volume offers important insights into how empirical social science research can be both innovative and rigorous when dealing with the opportunities and challenges presented by digital media.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18877-7 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-18876-0 2020 288 pages