Sociology New Titles Spring/Summer 2018 this season’s highlights
Contemporary Social Psychological Theories Second Edition EDITED BY PETER J. BURKE
May 2018 440pp 9781503603653 PB £27.99 Stanford University Press This text, first published in 2006, presents the most important and influential social psychological theories and research programs in contemporary sociology. Original chapters by the scholars who initiated and developed these theoretical perspectives provide full descriptions of each theory and its background, development, and future. This second edition has been revised and updated to reflect developments within each theory, and in the field of social psychology more broadly. A new, original piece examines the state and trajectory of social network theory. A mainstay in teaching social psychology, this revised and updated edition offers a valuable survey of the field.
The Crisis of Connection
Roots, Consequences, and Solutions EDITED BY NIOBE WAY, ALISHA ALI, CAROL GILLIGAN & PEDRO NOGUERA
August 2018 544pp 9781479819294 PB £23.99 9781479802784 HB £71.00 New York University Press Since the beginning of the 21st century, people have become increasingly disconnected from themselves, each other, and the world around them. A “crisis of connection” stemming from growing alienation, social isolation, and fragmentation characterizes modern society. The signs of this “crisis of connection” are everywhere, from decreasing levels of empathy and trust, to burgeoning cases of suicide, depression and loneliness. To delve into the heart of the crisis, leading researchers and practitioners draw from the science of human connection to tell a five-part story about its roots, consequences, and solutions. In doing so, they reveal how we, in modern society, have been captive to a false story about who we are as human.
Vulnerability Politics
The Uses and Abuses of Precarity in Political Debate KATIE OLIVIERO
August 2018 336pp 9781479847822 PB £23.99 9781479855841 HB £71.00 New York University Press Vulnerability Politics examines how twenty-first century political struggles over immigration, LGBTQ rights, reproductive justice, and police violence have created a sense of vulnerability that has an impact on culture and the law. By researching organizations like the Minutemen (civilians who monitor the US/Mexico border), the Protect Marriage Coalition (a campaign to ban same-sex marriage in California), and the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (an anti-abortion movement), Katie Oliviero shows how conservative movements use the rhetoric of risk to oppose liberal policies by claiming that the nation, family, and morality are imperiled and in need of government protection.
Women Have Always Worked A Concise History ALICE KESSLER-HARRIS
May 2018 195pp 9780252083587 PB £15.99 Working Class in American History University of Illinois Press A classic since its original publication, this title brought much-needed insight into the ways work has shaped female lives and sensibilities. Beginning in the colonial era, it looks at the public and private work spheres of diverse groups of women—housewives and trade unionists, immigrants and African Americans, professionals and menial laborers, and women from across the class spectrum. She delves into issues from the gendered nature of the success ethic to the social activism and the meaning of citizenship for female wage workers. This second edition adds artwork and features significant updates. A new chapter by Kessler-Harris follows women into the early twenty-first century as they confront barriers of race, sex, and class to earn positions.
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