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Book SynopsisPresents the argument that Neolithic symbolism, including figurines, decorated pottery, burial rituals as well as other symbols found in archaelogical settlement sites, hold the key to understanding social and economic changes central to the origins of farming and a settled mode of life.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Domestication of Society 3. The Domus in the Neolithic of SE Europe 4. Domus and Agrios in SE Europe 5. Dominating Boundaries and Entrances: The Earlier Neolithic in Central Europe 6. Towards a Higher Domain: The Later Neolithic in Central Europe 7. Domes of Rock: The Neolithic in Southern Scandinavia 8. Dames and Axes: Parallel Lines of Development in Northern France 9. Taming the Landscape: Changing Idioms of Power in the Neolithic of Lowland Britain 10. Beginning by Ending References.

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Book SynopsisThis volume makes use of recent information on China's population and related socio-economic development. It provides a multi-dimensional picture of China's changing population and its implications in the context of China's rapid transition towards a market economy.Trade Review"A wide-ranging and detailed collection." Times Higher Education Supplement "For students and those who want a single overall picture of Chinese population issues, this work provides a short, readable, and comprehensive guide. In short, this is an invaluable book." Population Studies "Perhaps the most comprehensive English-language review of China's population to date ... Of special value to students and researchers of China is the book's documentation of population policies, programmes, regulations and their changes, which are rarely available in the English language with such clarity. The contributors, looking 'from inside out', are clearly among the most qualified to review the administrative facets of China's population ... This book is timely, informative and comprehensive, and is an especially useful reference for non-Chinese readers to assess the latest patterns, views and issues of population in China." Progress in Human GeographyTable of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Trends and Geographic Differentials in Mortality: Hao Hongsheng. 3. Trends and Regional Differentials in Fertility Transition: Tu Ping. 4. Health and Health Care in Transition: Tang Shenglan. 5. Population Policy and Family Planning Programme: Xie Zhenmin. 6. Age and Sex Structures: Li Yongping & Peng Xizhe. 7. Population Aging and Old Age Security: Du Peng and Tu Ping. 8. Marriage Patterns: Zeng Yi. 9. Family Patterns: Guo Zhigang. 10. Education: Peng Xizhe. 11. Employment: Zuo Xuejin. 12. Female Population: Tan Lin and Peng Xizhe. 13. Urbanization: Zhong Fenggan. 14. Floating Population and Internal Migration in China: Sun Changmin. 15. International Migration Patterns: Ye Wenzhen. 16. Ethnic Population: Du Peng. 17. Population and Environment in China: Dai Xingyi. 18. Population of China: Prospects and Challenges: Zhai Zhenwu. 19. The Distribution of China's Population and Its Changes: Wang Guixin. 20. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: Waves of Chinese Immigrants and their Children: Lui Ping-keung. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides an interpretation of the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from the earliest settlements to the 21st century. The authors show how the peoples of the region constructed their own identities and influenced those of their neighbours.Trade Review"An extremely welcome addition to the insulated worlds of Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Island history ... of particular use to under-graduate and graduate courses dealing with these national contexts" Times Higher Education Supplement " ... scholarly and well documented with maps, illustrations, appendixes, complete bibliography and index ... highly recommended for all university collections" CHOICE "Denoon and his co-authors have made very important additions to the still relatively small historiography of the Pacific." Pacific History "Substantial and informative ... an insightful study that will prove challenging for academic and general readers of history on both sides of the Tasman, and no doubt beyond ... Donald Denoon's and Philippa Mein-Smith's achievement in delineating the past 200 years of this region will, one would predict, stand unchallenged for some considerable time." Australian Historical Studies "This is an important book." International History Review "A considerable achievement. It is also lively and enlightening, not least in the numerous shrewd asides which season it." English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Foundations of Contemporary Identities. 1. Representations of Regional, National and 'Ethnic' Identities. Naming Rights. European Frameworks. Anthropology. Development Economics. History. Not a Self-Evident Region. 2. Patterns of Pre-European Settlement and Interaction. 'Indigenous' Communities. Austronesians, Lapita, Polynesians: Chronologies and Charters. Fragmentation. What Held Societies Together?. Dealing with Outsiders. 3. Intersecting Worlds. 'Scientific Discoveries' and Conceptual Maps. Captain Cook. Du Fresne. Encounters in the Twentieth Century. Maori Discovery of Aborigines. 4. Depopulation and Immigration. Depopulation. Dying Races. Displacement. Colonization and Settlement. Part II: New Societies and Economies. 5. New Social Forms. Convicts and Settlers. Protestants and Polynesians. The Catholic Revival. The New Laws. Tensions Between Empires. Sport and Civilization. 6. Struggles for Land. Maori and Pakeha. Australian Squatters and Selectors. Island Plantations and Cooperatives. Land, Sovereignty and War. Land and Destinies. 7. Mining. Eldorado v. Arcadia. Digger Democracy. Types of Mining Enterprise. Other Minerals. Mining in the Islands. 8. Labour Relations. The Convicts in Australia. Women Convicts. Free Settlement. Assisted Labour. A French Australia?. Segregated Labour Markets. Plantations. Part III: New States and Social Identities. 9. New States. An Imagined Region. The Entrepreneurial States. Kingitanga. Australian Federation and Manifest Destinies. 10. New Settler Societies. Men's Countries, Women's Rights. Whom to Exclude. Settler Societies and Cultural Expressions. The Bulletin. Bush Mythologies. Urban Australia. 11. Capital and Labour: Resisting Globalization. Boom and Bust. Arbitration and Protection. The Family and the Gender Division of Labour. 12. Be Prepared!. Defence. Social Preparations. Populate or Perish. Measures. Part IV: Wars and Reconstructions. 13. The Great War. Anzac Legends. Mothers, Sisters and Wives. Women's War Service. Pacifists. The Odd Woman Out: Ettie Rout. 14. Anxious Peace. Financial Insecurity. The Great Depression. Welfare. Eugenics and King Baby. For Art and Country: The Literature of Nation-Building.The Island Dependencies. Maori and Aboriginal Initiatives. 15. War in Europe, and in the Pacific. Storm Clouds. War in Europe. War in the Pacific. Taking Part. Women and Men. Plans and Visions of Reconstruction. New Zealand: Equality of Opportunity. Bringing the Australian Intelligentsia to Heel. 16. Inter-dependencies. Cold War, the American Alliance and Nuclear Politics. Colonial Administrations Restored. Migration from Europe, Polynesia, Asia. Maori and Aboriginal Urbanization. Suburbia. Decentralization. Part V: Reflections on Contemporary Identities. 17. Expanding Citizenship. Aboriginal Australians. Torres Strait Islanders. South Sea Islanders. Maori Revival and the Waitangi Tribunal. Women's Liberation and Feminist Politics. 18. Decolonization?. Colonial Contexts. British Withdrawal. French Dependencies. Anglo-French Condominium. New Zealand and Australian Dependencies. Island Independence. 19. Globalization and National Identities. The Closer Economic Relationship. Muldoon and Douglas. Australia and APEC. Mining. Global or Regional?. 20. Popular Culture. Cultural Globalization. An Australian Hoax. Youth Revolution. Popular Culture. American Influence and Local Invention. From Bush to Beach Australia. Clean, Green New Zealand. Film. Sport. Expatriates. Globalism and Parochialism. 21. Contemporary Identities. Regional Crises and Security. New Caledonia. Wallace's Other Line. Defining Aotearoa/New Zealand. Defining Australia. A Coherent Region. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis text describes the historical interrelationships in Europe between population, land, resources, and disease. By integrating the key component of culture the author provides a social and narrative history, from the first peopling of Europe to the end of the 20th century.Trade Review"I would most heartily recommend this book to any historian interested in a general overview of the subject" Reviews in History "This book is an excellent summation of knowledge and a thoughtful attempt to interpret a thousand years of European history. It will provide useful reading material for students of European population, for experts in the field and for readers everywhere interested in understanding just how Europe came to be the way it is." Journal of Population Research "In this book, Livi-Bacci manages to link factors which direct the demographic system of a population, and thereby its development, with cultural as well as environmental conditions in a lively and narrative fashion. It is in this way that Livi-Bacci succeeds in giving a complex picture of culture in Europe, customs, behaviours, values and norms. Thus the book is of interest not only for population geographers but for all readers with an interest in Europe." International Journal of Population Geography "Good Synthetic treatments of European historical demography are scarce, and the publication of Massimo Livi-Bacci's Population History of Europe is much to be welcomed ... the book can be highly recommended as an introductory/intermediate level student text on European population history, and to non-specialists as a point of entry to the discipline of historical demography." English Historical Review "A stimulating book, which offers an effective introduction to demographic history for the non-specialist." History "He has provided an accessible and eminently readable introduction to the population history of Europe ... with a level of insight and penetration that few introductory texts can match ... the work will also attract many historians to the otherwise dauntingly quantitative world of demography." Population Studies "The Population of Europe provides a masterly volume for the 'Making of modern Europe' series... a work of great scholarship, drawing extensively from the bulk of demographic research published over half a century or more..." Progress in Human GeographyTable of ContentsPreface: Jacques Le Goff. Part I: Numbers:. 1. Factors of constraint and factors of choice. 2. A millenium of demographic development. 3. Slow change in old regime societies. 4. Interpretive choices. Part II: Space:. 5. Geography and environment. 6. The conquest of space before the Black Death. 7. Again eastward and southward. 8. Settlement intensification and land reclamation. 9. Consolidation. Part III: Food:. 10. Population and nutrition. 11. Nutrition, infection, and mortality. 12. Bread and its accompaniments. 13. Famine and hunger. 14. Long-term nutrition and mortality. 15. Paradoxes and reality. Part IV: Microbes and Disease:. 16. Lives on the brink. 17. A world in motion. 18. The plague: a four-handed game. 19. The final match. 20. Demographic losses. 21. Other factors and the road to normalcy. Part V: Systems: . 22. Demographic systems. 23. England, France, and Germany. 24. Marriage. 25. Fertility. 26. More on infant mortality. 27. Migration. 28. Equilibrium and transformations. Part VI: The Great Transformation (1800-1914):. 29. A frame of reference. 30. Demographic expansion: numbers and interpretations. 31. Two months per year: increasing life expectancy. 32. Infant mortality. 33. The advent of birth control. 34. Outside of Europe. Part VII: The End of a Cycle:. 35. Demography in the twentieth century: mortality and fertility. 36. Demography in the twentieth century: migration, structures, models. 37. Politics. 38. Economics. 39. Values. Index.

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Book SynopsisWritten by leading thinkers in the field, this text provides an in-depth analysis of the economic and policy issues associated with individual and population aging. The text has a strong policy focus based on demographic and economic analysis, making this book both accessible and challenging to readers with limited mathematical background.Trade Review"A very well balanced appraisal of the enormous benefits as well as the real challenges facing the United States and our social insurance programs in the twenty-first century. This excellent text will help both students and policy makers to be better informed about the economics of population aging as well as the direct and indirect consequences of alternative actions." Kenneth Apfel, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas "The Economics of an Aging Society should be required reading in any economics or policy course for gerontology students. What is new and praiseworthy about the text is its melding of economic and policy analyses. The reader is given the context and models to understand the economic choices that governments, firms, and individuals must make in an aging society. The book is ultimately empowering." Charles Longino, Wake Forest University "A valuable new contribution to the understanding of current economic challenges and responsive policy options facing aging societies. The authors provide useful illustrations of how economic data are used in evaluating policy options, addressing complex issues such as retirement, income maintenance, social security, and health care." George L. Maddox, Duke University Center for Aging "This book is a useful compendium that addresses the problems of financing and providing care for a growing elderly population in the US. Although the authors intended this book to be used as a textbook, individual chapters might serve as supplemental reading for courses that cover more targeted topics, such as poverty, social insurance, or healthcare. The book would also be a useful addition to a reference collection on programs available to the elderly in the US." Lois B. Shaw, Feminist EconomicsTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction. Part I: Population Aging and the Income of the Elderly. 2. The Graying of America and the World. 3. The Economic Well-being of Older Americans. Part II: Retirement Planning and Policies. 4. Economics of Retirement and Old Age. 5. Work and Retirement. 6. Retirement Policies and Pension Plans. Part III: Social Security Programs and Reforms. 7. Social Security Benefits and Program Objectives: An Individual Perspectives. 8. Social Security Financing and Reform Issues. 9. Disability Policy. Part IV: Health and Long Term Care for Older Persons. 10. The Financing and Delivery of Acute Health Care Services. 11. Additional Health Issues: Long Term Care. Index.

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Book SynopsisOffers an analysis of the economic and policy issues associated with individual and population aging. This text provides a comprehensive international picture of the consequences of aging. It engages the reader through side boxes, relevant website addresses, and practice questions.Trade Review"A very well balanced appraisal of the enormous benefits as well as the real challenges facing the United States and our social insurance programs in the twenty-first century. This excellent text will help both students and policy makers to be better informed about the economics of population aging as well as the direct and indirect consequences of alternative actions." Kenneth Apfel, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas "The Economics of an Aging Society should be required reading in any economics or policy course for gerontology students. What is new and praiseworthy about the text is its melding of economic and policy analyses. The reader is given the context and models to understand the economic choices that governments, firms, and individuals must make in an aging society. The book is ultimately empowering." Charles Longino, Wake Forest University "A valuable new contribution to the understanding of current economic challenges and responsive policy options facing aging societies. The authors provide useful illustrations of how economic data are used in evaluating policy options, addressing complex issues such as retirement, income maintenance, social security, and health care." George L. Maddox, Duke University Center for Aging "This book is a useful compendium that addresses the problems of financing and providing care for a growing elderly population in the US. Although the authors intended this book to be used as a textbook, individual chapters might serve as supplemental reading for courses that cover more targeted topics, such as poverty, social insurance, or healthcare. The book would also be a useful addition to a reference collection on programs available to the elderly in the US." Lois B. Shaw, Feminist EconomicsTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction. Part I: Population Aging and the Income of the Elderly. 2. The Graying of America and the World. 3. The Economic Well-being of Older Americans. Part II: Retirement Planning and Policies. 4. Economics of Retirement and Old Age. 5. Work and Retirement. 6. Retirement Policies and Pension Plans. Part III: Social Security Programs and Reforms. 7. Social Security Benefits and Program Objectives: An Individual Perspectives. 8. Social Security Financing and Reform Issues. 9. Disability Policy. Part IV: Health and Long Term Care for Older Persons. 10. The Financing and Delivery of Acute Health Care Services. 11. Additional Health Issues: Long Term Care. Index.

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Book SynopsisRiddle uncovers the obscure history of contraception and abortifacients from ancient Egypt to the 17th century with forays into Victorian England. He explores whether it was possible for premodern people to regulate their reproduction without resorting to dangerous surgical abortions, the killing of infants, or the denial of biological urges.Trade ReviewRiddle’s study is a true turning point in the history of contraception and abortion, which may have large implications for the history of the medical and psychic experience of women in antiquity, folk medicine, and premodern demography. -- W. V. Harris * New York Review of Books *Riddle shows us that ancient contraceptive medical practices were safe, effective and commonly used. Sociological studies on their use remain to be carried out. But it is possible that, between the Middle Ages and the rise of modern contraception, the well-off and city dwellers had little access to effective contraception, thanks to the growth of conventional medicine and the soaring social power of the physician. This is just one of the many intriguing lines of investigation to arise from this book, which shines a different light on what we are generally taught about the ‘progress’ of the modern world. -- Michel Raymond * Nature *[Riddle’s] findings carry important implications for the history of theology, casuistry, pastoral care, social history, the history of sexuality, and the history of popular culture, as well as the history of botany, pharmacy, medicine, and biochemistry… These findings should earn Riddle the gratitude of the numerous historians for whom the reproductive strategies of past generations are an important issue. -- James A. Brundage * American Historical Review *Gives us a valuable glimpse of the long reach of history on fertility and provides food for thought on possible options that science should research for both safety and efficacy. -- Portia Meares * Herb Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface Population and Sex Evidence for Oral Contraceptives and Abortifacients Soranus on Antifertility Agents Terminology in Dioscorides' De materia medica Early Stage Abortifacients in Dioscorides and Soranus Ancient Society and Birth Control Agents Egyptian Papyrus Sources Greek and Roman Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen The Late Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages The Middle Ages: The Church, Macer, and Hildegard Salerno and Medicine through the Twelfth Century Islam, Arabic Medicine, and the Late Middle Ages Knowledge of Birth Control in the West The Renaissance Later Developments Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDaniel Kevles traces the study and practice of eugenics--the science of "improving" the human species by exploiting theories of heredity--from its inception in the late nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation within the field of genetic engineering.Trade ReviewA revealing study of the tangled history of the eugenics movement and its relation to the science of human genetics...Kevles makes clear the symbiotic relations between the genuine science of genetics [and] the political programs and prejudices of the eugenicists. -- Leon J. Kamin * New York Times Book Review *A lucid and intricate history of eugenics...which has long been the preserve of specialists. Yet an understanding of that history is central to informed debate on issues affecting the public in general and scientists in particular. Kevles's lively and informative book makes that debate possible. It deserves a wide audience. -- Diane B. Paul * Scientific American *All the more powerful for confronting folly [with] urbanity and a clear eye. -- Horace Freeland Judson * New Republic *The historical sweep that [Kevles] brings to bear in this marvellous book should make us ponder over the tenacity of eugenic theories. What does it say about our thought processes and the social structures that foster them? In addition to a gripping text Kevles provides copious notes and an essay on sources. He weaves personal histories into the history of the field so skillfully, blending anecdote, hard science and--albeit in a restricted sense--sociology, all in the correct proportions, all with enviable style and verve, that it is only after putting the book down that you realize you have been instructed while being entertained. -- Vidyanand Nanjundiah * Journal of Genetics *The finest of all books on the history of eugenics. -- Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPreface, 1995 Preface to the Original Edition I. Francis Galton, Founder of the Faith II. Karl Pearson for Saint Biometrika III. Charles Davenport and the Worship of Great Concepts IV. The Gospel Becomes Popular V. Deterioration and Deficiency VI. Measures of Regeneration VII. Eugenic Enactments VIII. A Coalition of Critics IX. False Biology X. Lionel Penrose and the Colchester Survey XI. A Reform Eugenics XII. Brave New Biology XIII. The Establishment of Human Genetics XIV. Apogee of the English School XV. Blood, Big Science, and Biochemistry XVI. Chromosomes-the Binder's Mistakes XVII. A New Eugenics XVIII. Varieties of Presumptuousness XIX. Songs of Deicide Notes Essay on Sources Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together feminist social and biomedical scholars from the Southern and Northern hemispheres to examine the aggregate forces that affect reproductive choice.Trade ReviewMany of these writers discuss phenomena that, if taken seriously by demographers, would have important influence in their approach to research and policy… They raise the issue of whether women really have choice in reproductive decisions or in family planning method given existing social, especially gender, inequalities and the hegemony of the population control movement. -- Nancy E. Riley * Signs *

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Book SynopsisPresents the demographic approach to organizational studies. This book examines the theory, models, methods, and data used in corporate demographic research. It explores the processes by which corporate populations change over time, including organizational founding, growth, decline, structural transformation, and mortality.Trade Review"Destined to become the standard reference ... Caroll and Hannan admirably chronicle the first steps toward legitimizing organizational demography as a distinct specialist form."--David Knoke, American Journal of Sociology "This is one of the most scientific textbooks in the field... [It] serves as an (almost) ideal example for students and scholars alike, and it is highly relevant for nearly everybody interested in organizations, policy, management, strategy, and contingency. Students of modernity will also find much of interest."--Jeroen Bruggeman, Contemporary Sociology "The Demography of Corporations and Industries [is] ... the reference book on the subject."--Hallie J. Kintner, Population Studies "A compelling contribution that is destined to be a mandatory addition to the bookshelves of the beginner and the advanced scholar and a testament to the vigor and reach of the ecological program of research."--Hayagreeva Rao, Administrative Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Figures xi List of Tables xv Preface xix Acknowledgments xxvii Part I The Case for Corporate Demography 1 1 About Organizations 3 1.1 Aging and Learning 3 1.2 Inertia and Change 5 1.3 Competitive Intensity 7 1.4 Global Competition 9 1.5 Historical Efficiency 11 1.6 Employment and Entrepreneurship 12 1.7 A Look Ahead 14 2 The Demographic Perspective 17 2.1 Demography of Business Organizations 18 2.2 Organizing Principles of Demography 25 2.3 Formal Demography and Population Studies 26 2.4 Demographic Explanation 28 2.5 The Demography of the Work Force 31 2.6 Internal Organizational Demography 32 3 Toward a Corporate Demography 35 3.1 Earlier Efforts 36 3.2 Retaining the Classical Structure 39 3.3 Making Demography Organizational 40 3.4 A Research Strategy 56 4 Forms and Populations 59 4.1 Population versus Form 60 4.2 Identity and Form 67 4.3 Codes 68 4.4 Organizational Forms 73 4.5 Organizational Populations 74 4.6 Systems of Forms 76 4.7 Implications for Corporate Demography 78 Part II Methods of Corporate Demography 83 5 Observation Plans 85 5.1 Designs in Organizational Research 86 5.2 Trade-offs in Observation Plans 89 6 Analyzing Vital Rates 101 6.1 Event-History Designs 101 6.2 Stochastic-Process Models 110 6.3 Life-Table Estimation 117 6.4 Constant-Rate Models 127 7 Modeling Corporate Vital Rates 135 7.1 Duration Dependence 135 7.2 Dependence on Covariates 139 7.3 Note on Left Truncation 149 7.4 Comparing Designs by Simulation 150 7.5 Simulation Findings 155 8 Demographic Data Sources 163 8.1 Criteria for Evaluating Sources 164 8.2 Commonly Used Sources 167 8.3 Using Multiple Sources 185 8.4 Data Realities 188 Part III Population Processes 191 9 Organizational Environments 193 9.1 Telephone Companies 194 9.2 Modeling Environments 197 9.3 Environmental Imprinting 205 9.4 Imprinting in High-Tech Firms 207 10 Density-Dependent Processes I 213 10.1 Models of Population Growth 214 10.2 Corporate Density Dependence 216 10.3 Theory of Density Dependence 222 10.4 Interpreting Density Dependence 228 10.5 Weighted Density 232 10.6 Programmatic Issues 236 11 Density-Dependent Processes II 239 11.1 Density Delay 240 11.2 Population-Age Interactions 243 11.3 Size Interactions 251 11.4 Multilevel Processes 253 12 Segregating Processes 261 12.1 Resource Partitioning 262 12.2 Research on Partitioning 269 12.3 Size-Localized Competition 272 Part IV Organizational Processes 279 13 Age-Dependent Processes 281 13.1 Models of Age Dependence 282 13.2 Age-Related Liabilities 288 13.3 Age and Growth Rates 290 13.4 Theories of Age Dependence 291 13.5 Core Assumptions 296 13.6 Liabilities of Newness and Adolescence 301 13.7 Liability of Senescence 303 13.8 Alignment, Drift and Obsolescence 306 13.9 Liability of Obsolescence 309 14 Size Dependence 313 14.1 Size and Growth Rates 315 14.2 Age, Size, and Mortality 319 14.3 Automobile Manufacturers 322 14.4 Extending the Formalization 331 15 Initial Mobilizing 339 15.1 Organizing Activities 340 15.2 Theoretical Arguments 343 15.3 Automobile Preproducers 346 16 Organizational Transformation 357 16.1 Theory and Research 358 16.2 Structural Inertia 362 16.3 Transformation and Mortality 368 16.4 Innovation in Automobile Manufacturing 374 Appendix: A Property-Based Formalization of Inertia Theory 377 Part V Selected Implications 381 17 Organization Theory 383 17.1 Equilibrium Orientation 383 17.2 Alignment and Fitness 385 17.3 Adaptation and Selection 389 17.4 Speed and Efficiency of Change 393 17.5 Historical Efficiency and Competition 397 18 Regulation 401 18.1 Early Telephony 403 18.2 Interconnection Laws 404 18.3 The Kingsbury Commitment 406 18.4 Regulation and Deregulation in Banking 411 18.5 System Dynamics after Deregulation 414 18.6 Deregulation and Organizational Growth 418 19 Employment 423 19.1 Effects on Careers 424 19.2 Corporate Demography andjob Shifts 425 19.3 Job Creation and Dissolution 426 19.4 Corporate Demography and Individual Mobility 429 19.5 Employment Benefits and Social Welfare 432 19.6 Effects of Careers on Corporate Demography 437 20 Organizational Diversity 439 20.1 Beer and Wine Industries 440 20.2 Diversity, Careers, and Inequality 444 20.3 Toward a Community Ecology of Corporations 451 References 453 Index 481

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Book SynopsisOffers an overview of the fundamental ideas governing the study of populations. This book covers formal models as well as the underlying logic and context of demographic reasoning. It discusses measurements that involve a single individual, such as mortality and fertility. It moves from individual behaviors to population-level phenomena.Trade Review"I heartily recommend The Nature of Demography to all who see demography an autonomous scientific discipline with a strong core of theory--rather than just a body of techniques, the application of general statistics to demographic data. It should be consulted regularly and seriously by anyone trying to use or develop demographic theory. It can be read with profit more than once in order to begin to absorb Le Bras' deep and coherent vision of our discipline."--Thomas K. Burch, Canadian Studies in Population "The Nature of Demography would be best suited to numerate readers with an existing knowledge of basic demographic theory and methods. The book contains a fascinating overview of the current state of demography, its methodological history and links to other disciplines. It effectively conveys the continuing evolution of the discipline."--Rebecca Kippen, Economic Record "The Nature of Demography is a firm addition to the current handbooks in demography, serving as an advanced textbook for scientists to obtain the necessary fresh and critical mindset, which, in my view, could best be read after a more general introduction to demography. I am pretty sure it will change our way of looking at demography and its nature."--F. Janssen, European Journal of PopulationTable of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I: Individuals 7 Chapter 1: Mortality 9 1.1 The Survival Curve 9 1.2 Estimating the Survival Function by the Kaplan-Meier Method 10 1.3 Mean Length of Life and Life Expectancy 12 1.4 Deaths and Probabilities of Dying 13 1.5 Life Tables 15 1.6 Comparison of Mortality and Instantaneous Probabilities 16 1.7 Instantaneous Rates of Mortality 18 1.8 Exponential Functions: Gompertz, Makeham,Weibull 20 1.9 Model Life Tables 22 1.10 Life Insurance and Annuities 24 1.11 Appendix 26 Chapter 2: Fertility 29 2.1 Measures of Fertility in the Absence of Mortality 29 2.2 Gini and Fecundability 32 2.3 Models of Reproduction 32 2.4 Variation in Fecundability with Age, Intrauterine Mortality, and Permanent Sterility 34 2.5 Natural Fertility 35 2.6 Fertility Controls 37 2.7 Effect on Fertility of Age at Marriage 38 2.8 Length of Nonsusceptible Period after Live Births and Fertility 39 2.9 Contraception 42 2.10 Induced Abortion 43 2.11 Probabilities of Having Another Child and Parity 45 2.12 Laws of Fertility 46 2.13 The Coale-Trussell Formula 48 2.14 Male Fertility 50 Chapter 3: Censoring 52 3.1 Incomplete Observations of Fertility and Mortality 52 3.2 Independence of Fertility and Mortality: Consistency of the Estimation 54 3.3 Censored Data: The Case of Mortality 56 3.4 Multiple Life Tables 59 3.5 Cause-Specific Mortality 60 3.6 Double Censoring 62 3.7 Grouped Data 67 3.8 Method and Critique of Estimation by the Principle of Indifference 69 3.9 Estimating Rates in the Case of Censoring 71 3.10 Appendix 73 Chapter 4: Period and Cohort Approaches 77 4.1 The Lexis Plane 77 4.2 The Fictitious or "Synthetic" Cohort 82 4.3 In the Absence of Double Classification 86 4.4 Double-Period Censoring 88 4.5 Independence of Period Data 89 4.6 Period Indices 90 4.7 Appendix 92 Chapter 5: Interpreting Period Variations in Fertility 93 5.1 First Examples of Change in Reproductive Behavior 94 5.2 The Logic of Changes in Tempo 97 5.3 Principle of a Fertility Simulation (France 1955-87) 100 5.4 Reconstitution of the Fertility Processes at the Start and End of the Transition 101 5.5 The Transition between the Two Models of Fertility 105 5.6 Reconstitution of Fertility Change, 1955-87: Two Experiments 106 5.7 Reconstitution Combining the Change in Final Completed Fertility and in Timing 109 5.8 Rules of Interpretation 112 5.9 Replacement of Generations 113 5.10 Appendix 114 Chapter 6: Timing Changes and Period Mortality 117 6.1 Mortality Decline Envisaged as a Delaying of Deaths 117 6.2 Mortality Decline as an Elimination of Causes of Death 119 6.3 Elimination of a Cause of Death: A More Detailed Account 120 6.4 A Numerical Example of Both Methods (Delays and Elimination of Causes) 121 6.5 Specifying the Reference Mortality 124 6.6 Unifying the Viewpoints: The Repartition Function of the Deaths 126 6.7 The Two Models Compared 127 6.8 Appendix 131 Part II: Populations 137 Chapter 7: Forecasts, Projections, and Prospects 139 7.1 The Laws of Population 140 7.2 Raymond Pearl and the Logistic Law 142 7.3 The Beginnings of the Component Method 146 7.4 Alfred Lotka and Stable Populations 147 7.5 The Unification of Demography 149 7.6 The Mechanism of Component Projection 150 7.7 Implementing Population Projections: An Example 152 7.8 Retroprojections 154 7.9 The Demographic Feedback Loop 156 Chapter 8: Stable Populations andWeak Ergodicity 158 8.1 Weak Ergodicity of Nonnegative Matrices 158 8.2 Projection Using Components and Matrices 161 8.3 Stable Populations 163 8.4 Stationary Populations 165 8.5 Migration and Multiregional Projection 166 8.6 The Renewal Equation 167 8.7 Convergence of the Fertility Model 168 8.8 Weak Ergodicity: The Continuous Version 169 8.9 Overlapping Generations 172 8.10 Branching Processes 174 Chapter 9: Equilibrium and Fluctuations 178 9.1 Approximations of Fluctuations 178 9.2 A Zero Growth Rate for Mexico from 2000 180 9.3 The Hidden Constraint of Stable Populations: Stable Equivalent Populations 182 9.4 Fluctuation in the Size of a Professional Population 184 9.5 Populating a New Neighborhood and Modeling the Household Life Cycle 189 9.6 Mathematical Model, Projection, or Microsimulation 191 9.7 An Example of a New Neighborhood's Population 192 9.8 Out-Migrants and Immigrants 198 Chapter 10: Economics and Population 200 10.1 The Self-Regulating Model of Historical Populations 201 10.2 The Easterlin and Samuelson Models 204 10.3 From Regulation to Chaos 209 10.4 Malthus: Population and Subsistence 210 10.5 Macroscopic Models: Economic Growth and Population Growth 213 10.6 The Malthusian Model 214 10.7 The Bosrupian Model: Exogenous Population Growth 215 10.8 Endogenous Technological Progress and Population Growth 217 10.9 Appendix 218 Chapter 11: Life Cycles and Old-Age Pensions 220 11.1 Equilibrium over the Life Cycle and the Funding Principle 220 11.2 Funded Pension Systems 224 11.3 Accounting Equilibrium and Pay-As-You-Go (Unfunded) Pension Systems 226 11.4 Golden Paths, Golden Rule 228 11.5 Outside the Golden Rule 230 11.6 Economize or Breed? 232 11.7 The Return to Education 235 11.8 The Quantity and Quality of Children: Gary Becker's Model 236 Part III: Space and Networks 239 Chapter 12: The Marriage Market 241 12.1 Marital Attraction 242 12.2 Social Squeeze on Marriage 243 12.3 Dances and Circles 245 12.4 The Marriage Circles under the Microscope 247 12.5 The Model of Marriage Squeeze by Age 251 12.6 The Age Squeeze and the Distributions 253 12.7 Oversized Cohorts, Nuptiality Crises 257 12.8 Nuptiality and Undersized Cohorts 260 12.9 Individual Risk 262 12.10 Equivalence between Number of Individual Ties and Speed of the Group Process 265 12.11 Networks of Ties 266 12.12 Imbalances in the Micromodel of the Marriage Market 268 12.13 Pairings 269 12.14 Appendix 272 Chapter 13: The Laws of Migration 274 13.1 The Gravity or Pareto Law of Marital Distance 274 13.2 Migration as an Allocation Process 276 13.3 A Concrete Example of Migration under the Gravity Law 277 13.4 Explaining the Variations in the Exponent for Distance 281 13.5 General Simulation of Internal Migration 282 13.6 Migration Balances and Chaos 284 13.7 The Attraction of the Neighborhoods of Paris and Intervening Opportunities 288 13.8 Hagerstrand's Networks 291 13.9 Attraction of the Railway Stations and City Center 292 13.10 Paris in Rings 294 13.11 Immigration to Paris: A Narrative 296 13.12 Simulation of Urban Immigration 297 Chapter 14: The Four Forms of Internal Migration 304 14.1 The Four Forms of Migration 304 14.2 The Alonso Model 306 14.3 Constant Elasticities 307 14.4 The Alonso Model as an Individual Process 308 14.5 The Model's Inconsistencies 309 14.6 Find the Mistake 311 14.7 Saving the Spirit of the Model 312 14.8 Determining Inflows and Outflows Ex Post 313 14.9 The Entropy Model as a Process 314 14.10 The Value of Conceptual Migration Models 315 14.11 Appendix 317 Chapter 15: Densities 321 15.1 Examples of Rank-Size Distributions 323 15.2 Explaining the Rank-Size Rule: Gibrat and Simon 324 15.3 Communes and Agglomerations 327 15.4 Models of Spatial Population Distribution 330 15.5 Models of the Distribution of Stellar Matter: Curdling and L'evy Flights 332 15.6 Christaller's Central Places 334 15.7 Fractal Relations and Density Thresholds 335 15.8 The Multifractal Model 338 15.9 The Generality of the Multifractal Model 340 15.10 Appendix 341 Conclusion 345 References 351 Index 359

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An accessible and practical overview of the demographic approaches that may offer insights into a range of important biological questions."---Marlène Gamelon and Hannah Froy, Trends in Ecology & Evolution"In their new book, [James R. Carey & Deborah A. Roach] provide an excellent introduction to the concepts and methods that form the foundation of biodemography."---Marlène Gamelon and Hannah Froy, Trends in Ecology & Evolution"Biodemography deserves to prove itself a useful resource for both those taking their first steps in biodemography as well as for more experienced researchers seeking to broaden their horizons or reference a single resource. . . . The success of the book is in relating those equations to modern life and, in doing so, describing how we might better understand the risks, challenges and opportunities of the ways in which populations change through time."---Thomas H. G. Ezard, Biometrical Journal"[An] excellent resource for demographers, population biologists, epidemiologists, and other professionals who study population-level outcomes."---K.R. Thompson, CHOICE

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Book SynopsisLooks at the relationship between torture and colonial domination through a examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. This book presents an anatomy of torture - its methods, justifications, functions, and consequences. It also shows how torture was central to guerre revolutionnaire.Trade Review"In Torture and the Twilight of Empire, Marnia Lazreg draws resourcefully on military history and sociological and cultural analysis to explain how the French colonial state tried to forestall its own collapse by terrorizing the Algerian population in viciously creative ways. She provides a fascinating intellectual history of modern torture; an unflinching empirical account, or 'ethnography of torture.'"--Priya Satia, Times Literary Supplement "Nothing short of a thorough anatomy of torture and cruelty, their methods, justifications, functions and consequences both on the victims as well as the perpetrators... The author effectively argues that the occupying Western powers have not only justified their systematic use of torture and cruelty as a regrettable but necessary means of protecting and saving Western civilization from those 'who hate our way of life' but they have also used this argument as a pretext for invading and colonizing those nations that dare to challenge Western politico-economic hegemony... Recommended reading."--Muhammad Khan, Muslim News "In this brilliant and disturbing book [Marnia Lazreg] looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a rigorous examination of French tactics during the Algerian war from 1954-62."--Will Podmore, Tribune "The philosophical analyses can be challenging to grasp, but for those looking to better understand the way torture figures into a military occupation, Lazreg's book provides an insightful and detailed account of the Algerian model."--Hannah Fleury, International Socialist Review "As a highly original, yet solid, analysis of the political sociology, psychology, and anthropology of torture, Lazreg's research establishes critical connections between Algeria and the Shock and Awe Campaign of the Second Gulf War with the Bush White House years marked by state terror abroad and at home... This book is required reading for all."--Julia Clancy-Smith, Review of Middle Eastern StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 Part I: Imperial Politics and Torture Chapter 1: Revolutionary-War Theory 15 Chapter 2: Militarization of the Colonial State 34 Chapter 3: Psychological Action 61 Chapter 4: Models of Pacification: From Nietzsche to Sun Tzu 87 Part II: Ethnography of Torture Chapter 5: Doing Torture 111 Chapter 6: Women: Between Torture and Military Feminism 145 Part III: Ideology of Torture Chapter 7: Conscience, Imperial Identity, and Torture 173 Chapter 8: The Christian Church and Antisubversive War 191 Chapter 9: Fanon, Sartre, and Camus 213 Part IV: Reflections on Torture Chapter 10: Moralizing Torture 237 Chapter 11: Repetitions: From Algiers to Baghdad 253 Notes 271 Glossary 309 References and Selected Bibliography 311 Index 323

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Book SynopsisSets forth and applies a different language for theory building based on a nonmonotonic logic and fuzzy set theory. This book builds on cognitive psychology and anthropology to develop an audience-based theory of organizational categories. It applies this framework and the different language of theory building to organizational ecology.Trade Review"The book will appeal to different audiences, making the book itself an interesting case study for the theory developed in it. The broader message of the book, developing a new set of tools that aid theorizing in sociology and the administrative sciences, will appeal to those interested in social science methodology. But first and foremost, it is of interest to researchers working on organization theory in general and on organizational ecology in particular. It goes substantially beyond earlier formalizations of organizational ecology published in the last decade, with a radical shift in focus toward the whole process of theory building."--Administrative Science Quarterly "Logics of Organizational Theory deserves to be read and discussed by everyone interested in organizations and in the method of developing sociological theory."--Michele Lamont, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface xi Chapter 1: Language Matters 1 1.1 Languages for Theory Building 1 1.2 Using Dynamic Logic 5 1.3 Partial Memberships: Fuzziness 12 1.4 Organizational Ecology 18 1.5 Unification Projects 21 PART 1. AUDIENCES, PRODUCERS, AND CODES 27 Chapter 2: Clusters and Labels 29 2.1 Seeds for Categories and Forms 32 2.2 Domains 34 2.3 Similarity 37 2.4 Similarity Clusters 41 2.5 Labels 47 2.6 Extensional Consensus 52 2.7 Complex Labels 56 Chapter 3: Types and Categories 59 3.1 Schemata 60 3.2 Types 65 3.3 Intensional Semantic Consensus 67 3.4 Categories 69 3.5 Intrinsic Appeal and Category Valence 71 Chapter 4: Forms and Populations 78 4.1 Test Codes and Defaults 79 4.2 Taken-for-Grantedness 82 4.3 Legitimation and Forms 84 4.4 Populations 85 4.5 Density Dependence Revisited 89 4.6 Delegitimation 96 Chapter 5: Identity and Audience 100 5.1 Identity As Default 101 5.2 Multiple Category Memberships 107 5.3 Code Clash 109 5.4 Identities and Populations 110 5.5 Structure of the Audience 111 PART 2. NONMONOTONIC REASONING: AGE DEPENDENCE 121 Chapter 6: A Nonmonotonic Logic 123 6.1 Beyond First-Order Logic 124 6.2 Generalizations 127 6.3 Nonmonotonic Reasoning 130 6.4 A Precis of the Formal Approach 133 6.5 Chaining Probabilistic Arguments 142 6.6 Closest-Possible-Worlds Construction 143 6.7 Falsification 145 Chapter 7: Integrating Theories of Age Dependence 150 7.1 Capability and Endowment 152 7.2 First Unification Attempt 157 7.3 Obsolescence 161 7.4 Second Unification Attempt 163 PART 3. ECOLOGICAL NICHES 169 Chapter 8: Niches and Audiences 171 8.1 Tastes, Positions, and Offerings 174 8.2 Category Niche 177 8.3 Organizational Niche 178 8.4 Fundamental Niche 183 8.5 Implications of Category Membership 186 8.6 Metric Audience Space 187 Chapter 9: Niches and Competitors 191 9.1 Fitness 191 9.2 Realized Niche 193 9.3 Niche Overlap 194 9.4 Niche Width Revisited 198 9.5 Convexity of the Niche 203 9.6 Environmental Change 206 Chapter 10: Resource Partitioning 209 10.1 Scale Advantage 210 10.2 Market Center 214 10.3 Market Segments and Crowding 215 10.4 Dynamics of Partitioning 220 10.5 Implications of Category Membership 226 PART 4. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE 229 Chapter 11: Cascading Change 231 11.1 Identity and Inertia 232 11.2 Organizational Architecture 235 11.3 Cascades 236 11.4 Architecture and Cascades 239 11.5 Intricacy and Viscosity 246 11.6 Missed Opportunities 248 11.7 Change and Mortality 253 Chapter 12: Opacity and Asperity 256 12.1 Limited Foresight: Opacity 256 12.2 Cultural Opposition: Asperity 261 12.3 Opacity, Asperity, and Reorganization 265 12.4 Change and Mortality 268 Chapter 13: Niche Expansion 271 13.1 Expanded Engagement 271 13.2 Architectural and Cultural Context 276 13.3 Age and Asperity 278 13.4 Distant Expansion 279 13.5 Expansion and Convexity 281 Chapter 14: Conclusions 286 14.1 Theoretical Unification 287 14.2 Common Conceptual Core 289 14.3 Inconsistencies Resolved 291 14.4 Theoretical Progress 293 14.5 Empirical Implications 298 Appendix A. Glossary of Theoretical Terms 305 Appendix B. Glossary of Symbols 313 Appendix C. Some Elementary First-Order Logic 321 Appendix D. Notation for Monotonic Functions 331 Appendix E. The Modal Language of Codes 334 Bibliography 339 Index 355

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Book SynopsisIs management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This title reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society. It shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have retreated from that goal.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2009 Gold Medal Book Award in Career, Axiom Business Winner of the 2008 Max Weber Award for Best Book, Organization, Occupations and Work Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2007 Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Business, Finance and Management, Association of American Publishers "If Prof. Khurana wanted to torment business--school deans, alumni and current students, he couldn't have picked a better way. Prof. Khurana has identified an important imbalance. In the current environment, many brilliant young MBAs don't aspire to be corporate chief executive officers, who struggle to uphold their agendas against pressure from all sides. These students would rather be consultants who earn big money fomenting change. Better yet, they want to be the powerful investors who hire and fire CEOs."--George Anders, The Wall Street Journal "The book is extremely well written and provides a detailed historical account of US business education from the 1880s to the present day...This text will help many of us in business schools to think about who we are and where we need to go in future. Rakesh Khurana has done a great service to management education with this scholarly and important book."--Gary L. Cooper, Times Higher Education Supplement "A fascinating history of business education."--The Economist "Is corporate management a real profession? The intellectual rigor that legitimized business schools and turned the M.B.A. into a recognized credential has fallen by the wayside, argues Khurana, an associate professor at Harvard Business School. Instead of producing young professionals, he says, business schools are treating students as consumers and their education as a commodity. Exhaustively researched, Khurana's book examines the birth of the managerial class, the rise of the business school as an academic institution and what he calls its recent deterioration. This failure has created a climate ripe for corruption, and Khurana issues a call to arms for business schools to take back the high ground."--Tiffany Sharples, Time Magazine "Khurana's is an insightful work of sociology and of history. It is about the business school's many transformations in relation to professions and disciplines; in relation to the changing face of capitalism through its progressive, depressive, managerial and investor phases; in relation to societal and industrial expectations; and in relation to public interest and self-interest."--Malcolm Gillies, Times Higher Education "Khurana's meticulously researched account ends with a call for renewal of the idea of management as a profession... Coming as it does out of Harvard, the most iconic of business schools, From Higher Aims ... could hardly be a more provocative and timely intervention... Anyone remotely interested in management and its future should get hold of it--and ignore its lessons at their peril."--Simon Caulkin, Observer "Khurana's From Higher Aims to Hired Hands is an important and surprisingly disparaging look at business-school education in the U.S. from the late 19th century to the present...In the new volume, he strikes closer to home, concluding that 'fundamental questions exist as to whether business schools retain any genuine academic or societal mission'...As Khurana supplies layer upon layer of evidence in this admittedly dense work, it becomes increasingly difficult to disagree with his conclusions."--Hardy Green, BusinessWeek "Khurana presents his argument in rich detail and the book is worth reading by anyone interested in the current trends in the commercialization of academia."--Donald Stabile, EH.net "Rakesh Khurana's sweeping history of American business schools offers a bold overview and a moral message."--Neil Fligstein, American Historical Review "Khurana's criticism is measured--and is the more damning for it. His book is an impressive tour of the social and intellectual history of American university business schools...Drawing on rich archive material, Khurana traces how the fledgling American business schools confronted these challenges with varying strategies during the early 1900s and the Depression, the postwar boom years and recent decades of freewheeling capitalism. The book is, however, more than just an historical odyssey; it is also a heartfelt plea for business schools to rediscover their higher purpose. The university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers akin to doctors and lawyers. But, he argues forcefully, they have retreated from that goal."--Des Dearlove, Times (London) "Rarely does one have the pleasure of reading a scholarly work as complete and as comprehensive as From Higher Aims to Hired Hands. Khurana presents a well-crafted social history of the plight of business school education in the context of a broader framework of American higher educationSKhurana exposes inadequacies in current business education programs and advocates for needed reforms."--J.B. Kashner, Choice "This is a powerful, compelling, and well-researched narrative... Far from a nihilistic rant about the state of American business education, Khurana paints a sympathetic but critical portrait of what this education has become."--Kevin T. Leicht, Journal of Higher Education "It is not uncommon today for critics to ask if business schools have lost their way, but Harvard's Rakesh Khurana poses the question against such a vivid, detailed, and compulsively researched historical background that it becomes more provocative than ever."--Biz Ed Magazine "Khurana has produced an excellent institutional history, albeit one in which many of the ingredients were already well-known from earlier accounts... However, these separate accounts had not been stitched together over such a broad canvas as Khurana constructs. The book should be compulsory reading for all Deans of business schools with a concern to learn from history."--Stewart Clegg, Australian Review of Public Affairs "In From Higher Aims to Hired Hands, Khurana, a management professor at the Harvard Business School best known for his writing on leadership, has produced an instant classic... [I]t is an evenhanded, comprehensive, and exhaustively documented work demonstrating how the history of the American business, reflecting the evolution from 19th-century entrepreneurial capitalism to mid-20th-century managerial capitalism to today's investor capitalism. Criticisms of today's business schools abound, but Khurana provides the historical perspective needed to understand how those institutions became what they are."--Strategy + Business "[U]ntil the publication of From Higher Aims to Hired Hands, nobody had provided such a detailed historical survey leading to conclusions of great significance for American academia and, implicitly, for American corporations... Khurana's book will no doubt continue to stimulate debate on both sides of the Atlantic about both managerial professionalism and the role business schools ought to play in a modern, knowledge-based society."--John Wilson, Business History Review "From Higher Aims to Hired Hands provides an invaluable resource for those of us attempting to understand how the university continues to be shaped and transformed by a confluence of economic forces and political interests. For this reason, Khurana's book deserves to be widely read within academia, in the business school and beyond."--Nick Butler, Ephemera "[W]hether or not one agrees with the author's argument as to what went wrong and how it might have gone right, this is a highly important work that should be read by anyone with either an interest in the history of American business schools and American management, or a concern for their future roles in our society."--Richard Marens, Eastern Economic Journal "The book is an impressive and thouroughly researched work reviewing the social history of American business education."--Andrew May, Professional Manager "Not only is this book fully documented and well-written, but its author also achieves here a truly complete social science analysis... It is a pleasure to discover such a meticulous work that is not only methodologically strong but is also conceptually powerful. The quality of this historical work is enriched by its developments in social sciences which allow an exceptional production... [T]he work done here by Khurana remains both strong and riveting."--Yoann Bazin, Society and Business ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Business Education and the Social Transformation of American Management 1 I: The Professionalization Project in American Business Education, 1881-1941 1: An Occupation in Search of Legitimacy 23 2: Ideas of Order: Science, the Professions, and the University in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America 51 3: The Invention of the University-Based Business School 87 4: "A Very Ill-Defined Institution": The Business School as Aspiring Professional School 137 II: The Institutionalization of Business Schools, 1941-1970 5: The Changing Institutional Field in the Postwar Era 195 6: Disciplining the Business School Faculty: The Impact of the Foundations 233 III: The Triumph of the Market and the Abandonment of the Professionalization Project, 1970-the Present 7: Unintended Consequences: The Post-Ford Business School and the Fall of Managerialism 291 8: Business Schools in the Marketplace 333 Epilogue: Ideas of Order Revisited:Markets, Hierarchies, and Communities 363 Acknowledgments 385 Bibliographic and Methods Note 387 Notes 397 Selected Bibliography 483 Index 509

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Book SynopsisMuch has been written about the profound impact the post-World War II baby boomers had on American religion. But the lifestyles and beliefs of the generation that has followed - and the influence these younger Americans are having on the face of religion - are not so well understood. This book offers a look at the future of American religion.Trade Review"Robert Wuthnow of Princeton has just published a tremendously valuable book, After the Baby Boomers that looks at young adulthood through the prism of religious practice."--David Brooks, New York Times "In a volume sure to change how pundits and clergy think about religion in the contemporary U.S., prolific Princeton sociologist Wuthnow assembles and analyzes a vast amount of data about the religious lives of Americans aged 21 to 45... Wuthnow argues that our society provides lots of structural support for children and teens, but leaves younger adults to fend for themselves during the decades when they're making crucial decisions about family and work. Though long passages of dense statistics make for a sometimes clunky read, this book is terrifically important."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Robert Wuthnow, [a] distinguished sociologist of religion...focuses on...a group that is not just the harbinger of the future but that already constitutes about half the country's adult population. Wuthnow has a great deal to say about marriage, weddings, marital happiness and parenting [and] describes modest changes in worship services and programs that might help congregations engage young adults, especially unmarried ones."--Peter Steinfels, New York Times "Wuthnow has analyzed an impressive array of data and provided a thought provoking argument about the future, and the present, of American religion."--Matthew T. Loveland, Catholic Books Review "[This book provides] a challenge to think more broadly about the future of the church, assisted by a leading sociologist's analysis of current trends."--Brian D. McLaren, Christian Century "As generations pass and distance grows, so do the values which issues from the body of believers gathered in...the church...Robert Wuthnow's important new book After the Baby Boomers...is a potential wake-up signal, an alarm blast."--Martin Marty, Sightings "Christian leaders who are ready for change will not find a prescription or program in After the Baby Boomers. What they will find is a challenge to think more broadly about the future of the church, assisted by a leading sociologist's analysis of current trends. And they will find something else: a sympathetic voice speaking on behalf of young adults who are highly interested in God, highly in need of guidance and support, highly networked and networkable, highly available to be equipped for vital mission, and largely uninspired by what churches are currently doing...I find myself even more eager to be part of the solution to the problems raised by Wuthnow. Much is at stake."--Brian McLaren, Christian Century "Wuthnow shares the concerns of religious and spiritual leaders because...he understands the great benefits religion provides society...[A] precise study...After the Baby Boomers is a work of social science [that paints] a detailed picture of the lives of young adults today."--Patton Dodd, Shambhala Sun "Princeton University's Robert Wuthnow, the most distinguished sociologist of religion in America today, has presented a timely and important text for pastors and those who are concerned about the future of religious communities in America. After the Baby Boomers offers pastors and church leaders an important text to ponder. Wuthnow places his finger on many issues that the church must confront."--Andrew Root, Word & World "Open any page of Robert Wuthnow's latest book, After the Baby Boomers, and you are sure to find a nugget of data that will add nuance to some of the well-worn assumptions about he religious lives of the so-called Generation X."--Michelle Dillon, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion "Wuthnow's text is a refreshing read... [He] does an excellent job of addressing the cultural shifts that explain why it is the case the young adults are less involved in religious institutions. As a macrolevel study, he astutely ties personal level practices to larger social forces, and tacitly employs the sociological imagination--a skill that non-academic readers could find informative."--Katrina C. Hoop, International Review of Modern Sociology "After the Baby Boomers is a dense but fascinating read; I had trouble deciding which chapters not to assign to my classes... Every chapter of this book contains questions churches and religious leaders must face--and soon."--Kenda Creasy Dean, Theology Today "Robert Wuthnow has analyzed an impressive array of data and provided a thought provoking argument about the future, and the present, of American religion."--Matthew T. Loveland, Catholic Books Review "This is an interesting book... The object lesson in the skillful analysis of survey data is instructive, and the call to focus more analysis on young adults (especially this generation of young adults) is timely and thoughtful."--Anthony J. Filipovitch, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly "Wuthnow's book stands out as a timely, comprehensive, and thoughtful effort. Mixing a tremendous amount of empirical survey evidence with detailed qualitative interviews, the book covers a lot of ground, including emerging issues pertaining to immigration and new technology. Posing a number of smart questions that are ripe for political science answers, it is a sophisticated and yet accessible commentary on the future of American religion that is more than deserving of a place on bookshelves."--Anand Edward Sokhey, Cambridge Journals "The strength of this book lies ... in its careful analysis of a very wide range of largely quantitative data. Wuthnow is bitingly critical of sociologists of religion--particularly rational choice theorists--whose work is long on theory and short on evidence. This volume exemplifies the opposite--long on evidence, shorter on theory and explanation."--Linda Woodhead, Religion JournalTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix Preface xiii Chapter 1: AMERICAN RELIGION An Uncertain Future 1 How to Think about Younger Adults 3 The Population of Young Adults 7 Coming of Age at Forty 9 The Religious Significance of Young Adults 12 A Generation of Tinkerers 13 An Uncertain Future 17 Chapter 2: THE CHANGING LIFE WORLDS OF YOUNG ADULTS Seven Key Trends 20 Delayed Marriage 21 Children-- Fewer and Later 24 Uncertainties of Work and Money 28 Higher Education (for Some) 36 Loosening Relationships 37 Globalization 42 Culture--An Information Explosion 44 Summing Up 49 Chapter 3: GOING TO CHURCH--OR NOT Who Participates in Congregations? 51 Attendance in Two Time Periods 52 The Reasons for Declining Participation 54 A Closer Look at Marriage and Children 62 Communities 65 Is the United States Becoming Like Europe? 66 The Profile of Regular Church Goers 68 Religious Attendance in Perspective 69 Chapter 4: THE MAJOR FAITH COMMUNITIES Thinking Beyond Winners and Losers 71 The Significance of Young Adults 72 The Major Faith Traditions 75 Evangelicals and Mainline Protestants 77 Black Protestants, Catholics, and Jews 84 Other Faiths and the Nonaffiliated 86 Beyond Winners and Losers 87 Chapter 5: THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO (I THINK) Recent Trends in Religious Beliefs 89 Some Possible Scenarios 90 Decline in Orthodox Beliefs 96 Orthodoxy, with Rising Secularity 98 Countervailing Effects of Diversity 101 Orthodoxy Mixed with Heterodoxy 103 Different Trends among Educational Categories 107 Changing Relationships with Education 108 Different Trends among Faith Communities 110 Chapter 6: SPIRITUALITY AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICES The Role of Faith in Personal Life 112 Church Shopping and Hopping 114 Social Networks 117 Civility 120 Are Converts Different? 123 Seeking Answers 124 Spiritual Practices 127 Music and Art 129 Spiritual but Not Religious? 131 The Nature of Spiritual Tinkering 134 Chapter 7: FAITH AND FAMILY Facing the Difficult Choices 136 Considering Marriage 136 Having Sex 138 Weddings 139 Marital Happiness 141 Parenting 142 Right and Wrong 145 Empathy 148 Threats to Today's Families 149 Seeking Support 151 Religious and Ethnic Diversity 152 Faith Matters 155 Chapter 8: THE DIVIDED GENERATION Religion and Public Life 157 The Split between Conservatives and Liberals 160 Civil Religion 163 Voting in Presidential Elections 167 Mixing Religion and Politics 171 Hot-Button Issues: Abortion 173 Hot-Button Issues: Homosexuality 174 The Religious Right 177 War and Peace 179 Why It Matters 180 Chapter 9: EMERGING TRENDS Immigration and Ethnic Diversity 183 Hispanic Catholics 183 A Note on Hispanic Protestants 187 Asian Americans 188 Hospitality or Hostility 193 A Closer Look at Church Involvement 197 Chapter 10: THE VIRTUAL CHURCH Religious Uses of the Internet 201 Religion Websites 201 Social Issues 203 The Internet and Religious Music 206 Staying in Touch by E-mail 207 The Internet and Spiritual Seeking 209 Congregations and the Internet 212 Chapter 11: VITAL CONGREGATIONS Youthful and Diverse 214 The Profile of Youthful Congregations 219 Minichurch or Megachurch 221 Alternative Styles of Worship 223 Meeting the Changing Needs of Families 225 Interreligious Programs 226 Opportunities for International Ministry 227 Opportunities for Service 228 A Future for Congregations 230 APPENDIX 233 The National Young Adults and Religion Study 233 Methodology 234 The Surveys and Other Data 238 Qualitative Interviews 247 Supplementary Tables 251 Notes 255 Selected Bibliography 279 Index 293

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2019 PROSE Award in Textbook / Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers""Winner of the AAPOR Book Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research""Salganik is one of the first natural-born computational social scientists, a sociologist whose doctoral work was one of the early landmark projects in the field. Bit by Bit is 90% textbook, 10% biography, putting into personal context issues that Salganik was among the first to wrestle with. . . . The text is clearly written--even breezy, in parts. It puts the reader in the shoes of the researcher: What decisions were made, why, and were those the best choices? It is suitable for an advanced undergraduate or graduate class in methodology, with a rigorous, mathematical appendix and a range of useful problems at the conclusion of each chapter."---David Lazer, Science"This is a book to return to time and again. . . . Bit by Bit should be widely read by those engaging in social research, as well as beyond."---Farida Vis, Times Higher Education"An enticing and important field guide to the new frontier of digital social research that will be of interest whether one is trying to figure out how to do more evidence-based policymaking or simply sell more toothpaste online. Impeccably organized and beautifully written in clear and accessible prose, the book doubles as a methods textbook for university students studying social and data sciences (or any field where research is at the center)."---Beth Noveck, Forbes"Given the book’s breadth, it is a recommended read for all scholars interested in the role that the internet and big data can play in social research."---Tatsiana Amosaya, Canadian Journal of Sociology"The implications and potential for social science arising from the availability of large amounts of data have been comparatively overlooked. This book provides a welcome insight into what can be achieved, and also an exemplar curriculum for graduate studies."---Thomas King, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society"A timely and important must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of social science and big data."---Magdalena Wojcieszak, International Journal of Press/Politics"Salganik offers what is truly a Swiss Army knife for learning and teaching computational social science. The book is equal parts explanation of what computational social science is, lessons on how to do computational social science, and recommendations for how computational social science should grow as an interdisciplinary field."---Marshall A. Taylor, Teaching Sociology"This is an easy review. Buy this book. No matter your competence in data analysis, your experience in running experiments, or your ability to understand research papers, you will find nuggets of information that will be useful for your development as an economist – professional or not."---Ian Bright, Society of Professional Economists

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, many disciplines have become interested in the scientific study of morality. However, a conceptual framework for this work is still lacking. This book examines the work of numerous business ethicists and organizations - such as Protestant ministers, business associations, and business schools.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2016 Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book, Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association Co-Winner of the 2015 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention for the 2015 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association "The most incisive and theoretically sophisticated entry into the 'new sociology of morality' movement that has consolidated in recent years."--Omar Lizardo, Contemporary Sociology "The Moral Background is an ambitious, deeply researched, and engaging book... Abend's account is both thorough and broad, and the erudition he displays is astounding... [A] masterful book."--Simone Polillo, Social Forces "Abend combines history, philosophy, and social science to suggest a comprehensive base for understanding moral behavior. While the book's focus is on business ethics, the insights presented have many applications."--Choice "[A] stimulating book, essential to understand the place of the business world ... in the moral landscape of America today, but also ... to grasp the contemporary trends in corporate social responsibility."--Michel Anteby, Sociologie du Travail "This is an enormously ambitious book packed with history, ethics, and philosophy of science as well as sociology. It is more historical than much history of philosophy and takes business ethics more seriously than most ethicists do. It is an important contribution to creating a field in which researchers in a variety of traditions mutually inform each other about morality."--Dale Jamieson, European Journal of Sociology "The Moral Background discerns and details moral patterns in the echo chamber where business protagonists talk, mostly to each other, about ethical motives, obligations, and opportunities. Abend has done a yeoman's job in excavating, analyzing, and systematizing the discursive surrounds of business ethics, pushing us all to think about who can and cannot be seen in the moral background."--Robin Wagner-Pacifici, European Journal of Sociology "Especially important among the virtues of Abend's research is his ability to work through a huge body of historical material ... and to find meaning in these disparate sources that point back to the 'moral backgrounds' from which they emanate. This is a truly gigantic task of intellectual integration, and Abend's book sets a high bar for future studies of the cultural meaning of intellectual, practical, and normative social realities."--Daniel Little, Understanding Society Blog "The Moral Background is an intriguing and useful book. Abend develops and promotes an analytical concept that contemporary sociology desperately needs. I think it will be influential as cultural sociology continues to seek the right balance between culture as a repertoire of skills and styles and culture as something deeper--something that shapes the thoughts we think and provides the menu for the kinds of people we can aspire to be."--Stephen Vaisey, European Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Moral Causes 1 2. Business Ethicists 5 3. History, Morals, and Markets 10 4. The Arguments 15 5. The Plan 20 Chapter 1. The Moral Background 28 1.1. Morality as an Object of Inquiry 28 1.2. What the Background Comprises 33 1.3. What Makes the Background a Background 52 1.4. Background Theorists 56 1.5. What the Background Is For 66 Chapter 2. Ethics as a Business Proposition 71 2.1. Glaucon's Challenge 71 2.2. Today's Business Ethicists 76 2.3. The Business Case 79 2.4. Do the Right Thing 84 2.5. Policy and Self-Interest 88 2.6. Yesterday's Business Ethicists 95 2.7. Balance Sheets 99 2.8. He Profits Most Who Serves Best 106 Chapter 3. Christian Motives 115 3.1. Enlightened Scots 115 3.2. Springs of Action 120 3.3. Machiavellian Appearances 126 3.4. Compromises 132 3.5. Duties and Motives 142 3.6. The Religion of the Heart 148 3.7. One Question Too Many 156 Chapter 4. The Good of American Business 161 4.1. The Pesky Calf 161 4.2. The Chamber 165 4.3. Government Will 174 4.4. The Principles of Business Conduct 183 4.5. Codes of Ethics 190 4.6. American Business 195 4.7. The Uses of Ethics 202 Appendix 205 Chapter 5. The Good of American Society 207 5.1. Inculcating Ethics 207 5.2. Business Schools 210 5.3. The Intellectual and the Ethical Arguments 224 5.4. Ethics at Work 234 5.5. The Good of America 249 Chapter 6. Standards of Practice 260 6.1. Types 260 6.2. The Science of Ethics 264 6.3. Science and Ethics at the Business School 276 6.4. Cases 282 6.5. Metaethics 290 6.6. Service and the Golden Rule 299 Chapter 7. The Christian Merchant 306 7.1. Moral Exemplars 306 7.2. Mammon 310 7.3. Ambivalence 316 7.4. Metaphysics 326 7.5. Stewardship 332 7.6. Stewardship Metaphysics 341 7.7. Spheres 347 Conclusion 357 1. Business Is Business 357 2. Back to the Background 364 3. The Science of Morality 372 4. Whither the Science of Morality? 379 Acknowledgments 387 Index 389

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Book SynopsisThe American racial order - the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation's races and ethnicities - is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s. This book looks at the reasons behind this dramatic change, and considers how different groups of Americans are being affected.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012 "Hochschild, Weaver, and Burch deliver a rich, novel account of the transformation of the new racial order in the U.S. They examine the beliefs, institutions, and history of the practices of race and ethnicity to show that events like September 11, Hurricane Katrina, and the election of Barack Obama reshaped a new generation's concept of race and ethnicity... This well-written book is a refreshingly welcome contribution that lays the foundation for a new generation of scholars and policy makers to study the political and social implications of an increasingly heterogeneous population. The book is essential reading."--Choice "Creating a New Racial Order is necessary reading that will easily find a place on syllabi for this and the next generation, to whom they dedicate the book, and on whom they are counting to work for a better racial future."--Jennifer Lee, American Journal of Sociology "One of the most appealing things about the book is its earnest call to action, which is really of the best kind: an appeal that simultaneously stresses the need for improvement while nurturing the optimism that change for the better is within reach... Creating a New Racial Order also deserves high marks for taking up such an important and timely matter, one with the most far-reaching of implications, and doing so in an unusually well-organized and -argued manner."--Ann Morning, Contemporary Sociology "Creating a New Racial Order does not reveal the outlines of any new racial order or any major new political movements, it helps us understand why a racially transformative politics might become possible, and the problems and prospects it faces. Those understandings are likely to be valuable for years to come."--Rogers M. Smith, Political Science Quarterly "Future historians may find that Hochschild, Weaver, and Burch got many things wrong, but I doubt they will fault them for lacking bold vision and intellectual courage. This important and timely book belongs not on the shelf but on the desk of every serious scholar of race, regardless of the discipline."--Matt Wray, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables xi Introduction xiii Part I: The Argument 1 Chapter 1. Destabilizing the American Racial Order 3 Part II : Creating a New Order 19 Chapter 2. Immigration 21 Chapter 3. Multiracialism 56 Chapter 4. Genomics 83 Chapter 5. Cohort Change 113 Chapter 6. Blockages to Racial Transformation 139 Part III : Possibilities 165 Chapter 7. The Future of the American Racial Order 167 Notes 183 References 213 Index 255

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2018 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society""Co-Winner of the 2017 Best Book Award, Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association""Winner of the 2017 Otis Dudley Duncan Award, Section on Population of the American Sociological Association""Honorable Mention for the 2019 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section the International Studies Association""Garip’s analysis is focused and fresh, representing an innovative approach to understand which theories of migration work for whom, when, and why. . . . [On the Move] provides an intricate and thorough analysis of the conditions, contexts, and composition of Mexican cohorts of migration since 1965, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of the complex social, economic, and political processes that have led to this particular point in the trajectory of Mexican migration. This is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the history of Mexican migration to the United States over the past 50 years."---Elizabeth Aranda, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 Why Do People Migrate? Identifying Diverse Mechanisms of Migration 10 2 "Go Work Over There and Come Do Something Here" Circular Migrants 39 3 "We Leave to Help Our Parents Economically" Crisis Migrants 67 4 "Your Place Is Where Your Family Is" Family Migrants 95 5 "Putting Down Roots" Urban Migrants 122 6 Where Do We Go from Here? Conditional Theories and Diverse Policies 153 Appendixes 181 Notes 225 References 259 Index 289

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Book SynopsisProvides the comparative analysis of how "knowledge regimes" - communities of policy research organizations like think tanks, political party foundations, ad hoc commissions, and state research offices, and the institutions that govern them - generate ideas and communicate them to policymakers.Trade Review"The historical and comparative analytical approach, further strengthened by elite interviews and archival research, reveals the following country-specific characteristics of knowledge regimes: heterogeneity of ideas, self-critical attitude, comparatively uniform and analytical sophistication, and a nonideological and inclusive approach."--Choice "The book is an important contribution that opens up new ways of thinking about the production of policy ideas as well as analytical strategies for systematic empirical research... The National Origins of Policy Ideas brings our understanding of knowledge regimes to a new level."--Daniel Nohrstedt, Public AdministrationTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures ix List of Acronyms xi Preface xvii Chapter 1: Knowledge Regimes and the National Origins of Policy Ideas 1 Part I: The Political Economy of Knowledge Regimes 37 Chapter 2: The Paradox of Partisanship in the United States 39 Chapter 3: The Decline of Dirigisme in France 84 Chapter 4: Coordination and Compromise in Germany 129 Chapter 5: The Nature of Negotiation in Denmark 172 Reprise: Initial Reflections on the National Cases 215 Part II: Issues of Similarity and Impact 231 Chapter 6: Limits of Convergence 233 Chapter 7: Questions of Influence 276 Part III: Conclusions 323 Chapter 8: Summing Up and Normative Implications 325 Postscript: An Agenda for Future Research 332 Appendix: Research Design and Methods 343 References 357 Index 375

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Book SynopsisMusic, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuable tool for movements reconfiguring the social landscape. Reds, Whites, and Blues examines the political force of folk music, not through the meaning of its lyrics, but through the concrete sTrade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Charles Tilly Best Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association "Although some of Roy's theoretical discussions in the early chapters should interest folk music scholars, his book will be more important to students of social movements."--Robert V. Wells, Journal of American History "The importance of this excellent book is that it revisits these two movements and reveals once again the power of culture."--Ron Eyerman, American Journal of Sociology "With these carefully documented and well-argued case studies, Roy makes a considerable contribution to cultural sociology in general and social movement studies in particular, and those with a background in the latter field will gain the most from the work as a whole."--Dana Sawchuk, Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsPreface ix Chapter One: Social Movements, Music, and Race 1 Chapter Two: Music and Boundaries: Race and Folk 28 Chapter Three: The Original Folk Project 49 Chapter Four: White and Black Reds: Building an Infrastructure 79 Chapter Five: Movement Entrepreneurs and Activists 100 Chapter Six: Organizing Music: The Fruits of Entrepreneurship 126 Chapter Seven: The Highlander School 155 Chapter Eight: Music at the Heart of the Quintessential Social Movement 181 Chapter Nine: A Movement Splintered 213 Chapter Ten: How Social Movements Do Culture 234 Appendix: Coding of Songbooks and Song Anthologies 251 Notes 253 References 263 Index 277

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Book SynopsisIn the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress. They were also widely criticized for their increasingly close ties to military and governmental power--not only by outside activists but from among the ranks of scientists themselves. Disrupting Science tells theTrade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Robert K. Merton Book Award, Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention for the 2009 Charles Tilly Best Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association "In Disrupting Science, Kelly Moore attempts to explain how scientists' attitudes about the proper role of science and scientists in public life changed so dramatically within two generations...Moore's well-researched account introduces the pacifists, petition writers, newsletter publishers, and protestors--who doggedly drew attention to the ways that militarism was infiltrating the practice of science in the United States."--Audra J. Wolfe, Science "Disrupting Science is an important scholarly addition to the literature in the sociology of science and history of science. The book's examination of archival sources shows a complex relationship between scientists and the military from 1945 to 1975."--G.D. Oberle, Choice "The book prompts intriguing questions about the professional role, the boundaries by which it is constituted, and the potential consequences of overstepping those boundaries."--Joseph C. Hermanowicz, American Journal of Sociology "As the U.S. government's budget for national and homeland security approaches three-quarters of a trillion dollars in fiscal year 2009, and the roles of science and technology continue to expand in our daily lives, our collective need for nuanced studies of the relations between the military and science is ever more pressing. Moore's thoughtful study points the way."--William J. Astore, H-Net Reviews "Disrupting Science is first rate work... Moore's account serves as an exemplary case study in what she and Scott Frickel have billed in their 2006 book as 'the new political sociology of science.' I expect her new book to be read widely across the discipline."--Steven Epstein, Mobilization "Moore's book is very well-written, scholarly, and impeccably organized, making it a useful reference tool. It is relevant to those interested in political sociology, the 'fact-value' debate in the philosophy of science, questions of science and ideology, and science studies."--Ronjon Paul Datta, Canadian Journal of Sociology "Useful for academics studying the history of science and social movements, this book offers an interesting, unique, and insightful look at the role of scientists in challenging the boundaries of their own expertise and positions of influence. From scientists as elite experts to science 'for the people,' this work offers a captivating glimpse as social movement activists among scientists during this time in history."--Chelsea Schelly, Social Science JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii List of Abbreviations ix CHAPTER 1: Introduction 1 CHAPTER 2: The Expansion and Critiques of Science-Military Ties, 1945-1970 22 CHAPTER 3: Scientists as Moral Individuals: Quakerism and the Society for Social Responsibility in Science 54 CHAPTER 4: Information and Political Neutrality: Liberal Science Activism and the St. Louis Committee for Nuclear Information 96 CHAPTER 5: Confronting Liberalism: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement and the ABM Debate, 1965-1969 130 CHAPTER 6: Doing "Science for the People": Enactments of a New Left Politics of Science 158 CHAPTER 7: Conclusions: Disrupting the Social and Moral Order of Science 190 Notes 215 Bibliography 269 Index 293 -

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Book SynopsisAgainst the backdrop of today's increasingly multicultural society, are America's elite colleges admitting and successfully educating a diverse student body? No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal pulls back the curtain on the selective college experience and takes a rigorous and comprehensive look at how race and social class impact each stage--from apTrade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Pierre Bourdieu Book Award, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association "Both supporters and opponents of affirmative action are likely to find ammunition in Thomas J. Espenshade's and Alexandria Walton Radford's book... The authors provide a fascinating peek inside the admissions process at several unnamed universities."--Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Book, the online review at New Republic "This is a big book, exhaustively researched and packed full of facts, numbers, and prose... No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal is a must-have reference for everyone who pays attention to race and class controversies in higher education."--Robert VerBruggen, National Review "Ultimately, [the authors] argue that the most important step toward eliminating inequity in higher education and society is to close the achievement gap, and they call for the creation of an effort on the scale of the Manhattan Project to do it."--Angela P. Dodson, Diverse Education "With this incisive new book, Espenshade and Walton Radford explore the dynamics of differential college access and success in extraordinary detail... The book's most significant contribution may be its persuasive, data-based analysis of affirmative action. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in higher education's role in creating a more equitable society."--Diversity & Democracy "The authors cover a broad range of elite college admission issues that go beyond race and class, offering detailed perspectives on affirmative action. Researchers of equity issues in higher education, particularly in the selective college admission process as well as college counseling professionals will find, in this thorough and extensive work of research, tools to help clear up what may seem 'mysterious or secret' in the selective college admission process."--Joe Adegboyega-Edun, NACACNet "Espenshade and Radford have produced a highly valuable book packed with useful race-based information relating to admission, academic performance, and ethnic group interaction on elite college campuses... The data offers sound arguments for the need to not only continue race-sensitive affirmative action both in college and graduate school admissions but also in the workplace."--Journal of Blacks in Higher Education "The thoughtful work of Espenshade and Radford represented in this significant volume should be just the beginning of the next phase of the ongoing national conversation about he role of higher education in providing equality of opportunity and social mobility. This book provides a useful framework for additional research and policy development."--Jonathan Alger, Journal of College and University Law "Espenshade and Radford have produced the most comprehensive and best study yet of admissions and race relations in America's leading colleges and universities."--Steven Brint, American Journal of EducationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xvii Chapter One: Overview 1 Chapter Two: Preparing for College 14 Chapter Three: What Counts in Being Admitted? 62 Chapter Four: The Entering Freshman Class 130 Chapter Five: Mixing and Mingling on Campus 176 Chapter Six: Academic Performance 226 Chapter Seven: Shouldering the Financial Burden 263 Chapter Eight: Broader Perspectives on the Selective College Experience 298 Chapter Nine: Do We Still Need Affirmative Action? 339 Chapter Ten: Where Do We Go from Here? 378 Appendix A: The NSCE Database 411 Appendix B: Notes on Methodology 431 Appendix C: Additional Tables 462 References 483 Index 523

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Book SynopsisThe inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.S. security. Like the wars fought in its name, these measures are supposed to make us safer in a post-9/11 world. But do they? Against Security explains how these regimes of cTrade ReviewWinner of the 2012 PROSE Award in Sociology & Social Work, Association of American Publishers One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013 "Mr. Molotch ... present(s) a vivid picture of the ways in which poorly designed security measures can deform everyday life and defeat themselves."--Jordan Ellenberg, Wall Street Journal "America's obsession with safety makes us angry, alienated, and ultimately less safe, argues this penetrating study of public security. Sociologist Molotch criticizes a range of security structures and protocols: airport security gates that require useless and humiliating body searches while generating long lines that make tempting targets for terrorists; ill-conceived New Orleans water projects that precipitated the Hurricane Katrina flood, and the militarized disaster response that further endangered residents. Even gender-segregated public restrooms (co-ed restrooms, he contends, would be more convenient and safer for women). Molotch recommends simple hardware and procedural improvements, from better stairways and signage to assist evacuations to customer-service regimens that help employees spot trouble. More than that, he argues for a conceptual shift away from rigid, rule-bound 'command and control' toward a security philosophy that empowers ordinary people to handle crises through spontaneous order and mutual aid. Molotch shrewdly analyzes the ways in which anxious, stressed-out people interact with their physical and social environments in a lively, engaging prose that skewers the verities of the post-9/11 security state. The result is a far-reaching re-examination of our culture of public fear, one that stands conventional wisdom on its head."--Publishers Weekly "The author is concerned with the complex systems that permit us to feel safe in public places. He traces a path from public toilet facilities through subways and airports to the reconstruction of Ground Zero before taking on the catastrophic effects of nature in the hurricane damage and flooding of New Orleans in 2005. Molotch treats each phase of the narrative separately and considers the design and organization of space, entries, and exits, fields of vision and patterns of activity, whether encouraged or not. The author's approach to public spaces as an environment permits an insightful, provocative treatment of whether the security we seek is fostered or not--and if so, how... A humane, well-researched examination of privacy and security issues."--Kirkus Reviews "Against Security is an interesting book that will appeal to all sorts of readers, published by a prestigious academic press, and retaining some of the trappings of a serious academic study. It never falters in presenting interesting and thought-provoking stories, which will make it attractive to an audience much broader than social scientists."--David E. Spiro, New York Journal of Books "Terrorism is the weapon of the disaffected; it has been invented; it cannot be disinvented. Public pressure and the politicians' need to be seen to 'do something' will bring more security counter-measures. Molotch is right to say that their conduct must be improved."--Omar Malik, Times Higher Education "In Against Security, Molotch takes aim at a 'command-and-control' approach to subway and airport safety, flood protection, and the war on terror. He makes a compelling case that security requires 'considered judgments based on empirical evidence cleansed of anxieties of fear and vengeance.' And he suggests specific changes, small and large, to enhance safety without diminishing civil liberties or the everyday enjoyment of life, that deserve our attention."--Barron's "Molotch is not anti-security; he calls for and offers some suggestions for better designs and architecture. A challenging book, then, to spark thought among all security people."--Professional Security Magazine "A lot of psychological research has tried to make sense out of security, fear, risk, and safety. But however fascinating the academic literature is, it often misses the broader social dynamics. New York University's Harvey Molotch helpfully brings a sociologist's perspective to the subject in his new book Against Security."--Bruce Schneier, Reason "This is one of the most significant volumes available highlighting alternatives to the paranoia surrounding the war on terror, and it deserves a place on the shelf of all academic libraries."--Choice "Against Security is worth the price of admission for Molotch's analysis of the TSA's airport screening system... Reading Against Security is a terrific way for us to re-examine our assumptions and our methods. This is a book that both informs about the microsystems of airport screening, subway platforms, and public restrooms while making us think about the larger societal tradeoffs we make to ensure our safety."--InsideHigherEd.com "Molotch's ... commitment to exploring positive alternatives advances a global debate--one that has only just begun--over the need to invent genuinely progressive arts of security."--Austin Zeiderman, Public Books "Though meticulously well informed by his own research and relevant academic references, Molotch writes refreshingly and appropriately for a general audience that knows the frustration of going through an airport--the perversity of restrictions that delay, dull the fun, or deflect from the task in hand, all in the name of some specious security... Some sociologists, including those contributing to newer fields such as security studies and surveillance studies, need to hear Molotch's message."--David Lyon, American Journal of Sociology "[T]his is a welcome and readable book."--Professional SecurityTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition ix Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxi Chapter 1 Introduction: Colors of Security 1 Chapter 2 Bare Life: Restroom Anxiety and the Urge for Control 22 Chapter 3 Below the Subway: Taking Care Day In and Day Out with Noah McClain 50 Chapter 4 Wrong-Way Flights: Pushing Humans Away 85 Chapter 5 Forting Up the Skyline: Rebuilding at Ground Zero 128 Chapter 6 Facing Katrina: Illusions of Levee and Compulsion to Build 154 Chapter 7 Conclusion: Radical Ambiguity and the Default to Decency 192 Notes 225 Index 251

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Book SynopsisA classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures--the motor-bike boys and the hippies. The motor-bike boys were working-class motorcyclists who listened to the early rock 'n' roll of the late 1950s. In contrast, the hippies were middle-class drug users with long hair and aTrade Review"A forgotten treasure trove that needs to be recovered."--Mats Trondman, Anna Lund, and Stefan Lund, European Journal of Cultural Studies "Willis masterfully shows how objects and selves interact, indicating to one another the available paths to follow... I hope a new generation of scholars reads this updated edition and aims to follow its path."--Claudio E. Benzecry, Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsMoments Preface to the 2014 Edition xi 1 Introduction: Profanity and Creativity 1 Part One 13 2 The Motor-Bike Boys 15 3 The Motor-Bike 69 4 The Golden Age 82 Part Two 105 5 The Hippies 107 6 The Experience of Drugs 177 7 The Creative Age 201 8 Conclusions: Cultural Politics 223 Epilogue 239 Theoretical Appendix 247 Notes 267 Index 273

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Book SynopsisRecent surveys show that more than half of American entrepreneurs share ownership in their business startups rather than going it alone. Yet the media and many scholars continue to perpetuate the myth of the lone visionary who single-handedly revolutionizes the marketplace. In The Entrepreneurial Group, Martin Ruef shatters this myth, demonstratingTrade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological AssociationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii List of Tables ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Part One: Concepts, Theories, and Puzzles Chapter One: Who Is an Entrepreneur? 3 Chapter Two: Images of Entrepreneurial Groups 17 Chapter Three: Empirical Puzzles 38 Part Two: Creating the Entrepreneurial Group Chapter Four: Group Formation 57 Chapter Five: Boundaries of the Startup Firm 85 Part Three: Collective Action within the Group Chapter Six: Allocation of Rewards and Control 113 Chapter Seven: Effort and Opportunism 138 Part Four: Performance of the Group Chapter Eight: Innovation 163 Chapter Nine: Goals and Group Dynamics 185 Chapter Ten: Implications and Extensions 206 Appendixes: A. Data Sources 227 B. Sampling of Groups 233 C. Analysis of Groups 236 Notes 239 References 259 Index 281

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Book SynopsisThe financial industry's invention of complex products such as credit default swaps and other derivatives has been widely blamed for triggering the global financial crisis of 2008. In Codes of Finance, Vincent Antonin Lepinay, a former employee of one of the world's leading investment banks, takes readers behind the scenes of the equity derivativesTrade Review"The first in-depth anthropological study of how banks invent new financial products... Lepinay spent nearly two years in a huge French bank ... And his study is both highly revealing and slightly farcical."--The GuardianTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Preface Financial Innovation from within the Bank ix Prologue A Day in a Trader's Life 1 Introduction Questioning Finance 6 Part I From Models to Books 23 Chapter 1: Thinking Financially and Exploring the Code 29 Chapter 2: Hedging and Speculating with Portfolios 55 Part II: Topography of a Secret Experiment 87 Chapter 3: The Trading Room as a Market 91 Chapter 4: The Memory of Banking 119 Part III: Porous Banking: Clients and Investors in Search of Accounts 153 Chapter 5: Selling Finance and the Promise of Contingency 157 Chapter 6: The Costs of Price 182 Chapter 7: Reverse Finance 204 Conclusion What Good Are Derivatives? 222 Appendix A: Capital Guarantee Product: The Full Prospectus 233 Notes 235 Bibliography 265 Index 277

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In their important and persuasive new book, Bashford and Chaplin argue that, far from being an uncaring figure with tunnel vision, Malthus, properly understood, anticipates some of the most pressing international circumstances of our time... [A] provocative and profound work."--Mark S. Micale, Times Literary Supplement "Penetrating reappraisal of the philosopher's Essay on the Principle of Population."--Barb Kiser, Nature "A towering publication of prime intellect if ever there was one."--David Marx Book Reviews "Overall, an interesting, articulate work that effectively argues for placing Malthus in the context of world history."--ChoiceTable of ContentsIllustrations vii Tables vii Introduction 1 Part I: Population and the New World 1 Population, Empire, and America 17 2 Writing the Essay 54 Part II: New Worlds in the Essay, c. 1803 3 New Holland 91 4 The Americas 116 5 The South Sea 146 Part III: Malthus and the New World, 1803- 1834 6 Slavery and Abolition 171 7 Colonization and Emigration 201 8 The Essay in New Worlds 237 Coda 276 Acknowledgments 285 Abbreviations 287 Notes 289 Bibliography 317 Index 345

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Book SynopsisArquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often involving young people--continue to skyrocket, and in the emergency room there, victims of shootings or knifings are an all-too-common sight. In Harm's Way takes a harrowing look at daily life in ArquitectoTrade ReviewWinners of the 2016 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association "An important ethnography that, with a focus on social relations and not on individuals, meaningfully advances our understandings of violence and the lives of impoverished dwellers. As with good books, this one also inspires reflection and questions, perhaps for future research."--Cecilia Menjivar, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Preface xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1 El Barrio and La Feria: Daily Life at the Urban Margins 30 Chapter 2 Born amid Bullets: Concatenated Violence(s) 66 Chapter 3 The State at the Margins 108 Chapter 4 Ethics and Politics amid Violence 135 Conclusion: Toward a Political Sociology of Urban Marginality 161 Acknowledgments 181 Methodological Appendix 185 Notes 197 Bibliography 207 Index 239

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A sociologist walks in a bar ... and discovers the soul of a new economy ... Mr. Ocejo has a good eye and ear. He has talked to a lot of people. And his book is full of acutely heard and closely observed details."--William L. Hamilton, Wall Street Journal "Why are upscale versions of traditional manufacturing and service jobs considered hip, desirable, and cool? Ocejo, a sociology professor, examines the 'urban village model' that has revitalized urban areas. He looks at four elements of gentrification--craft breweries, barber shops, whole-animal butcher shops, and cocktail bars... Using his own field experiences and interviews with business owners and workers, the author identifies transformations in the U.S. cultural elite that have led to this new service economy, one that is strikingly male-dominated. He uses Chelsea Market in Manhattan as an example of how the reappearance of businesses formerly considered essential, but not prestigious, in exclusive and expensive form mirrors the gentrification of the neighborhoods that once supported them in their previous incarnations. The book reads well... Sociologists and others with a serious interest in hipster culture will learn much from it."--Publishers Weekly "[Ocejo] engagingly portrays several workers, tracing their motivations for choosing a job, their satisfactions and challenges, and plans for their futures. A close-up and often entertaining look at new service jobs in an urban economy."--Kirkus "A fascinating book, full of valuable observations and insights. Particularly impressive is the way it captures the distinctive atmospheres of these jobs."--William Skidelsky, Financial Times "I definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in the evolution of labor markets, how America will respond to ongoing automation, the production of status, and the role of men in an increasingly feminized society."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal RevolutionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface. The Daily Grind xi Introduction. A Stroll through the Market 1 Part I 23 1 The Cocktail Renaissance 25 2 Distilling Authenticity 50 3 Working on Men 76 4 Show the Animal 101 Part II 127 5 How Middle-Class Kids Want Working-Class Jobs 129 6 The Science and the Art 159 7 Service Teaching 190 8 Getting the Job 225 Epilogue. Outcomes, Implications, and Concluding Thoughts 250 Methodological Appendix 267 Notes 285 References 323 Index 339

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Book SynopsisThe Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well asTrade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association Honorable Mention for the 2010 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture Section category, American Sociological Association "[T]his is a scintillating blend of cultural, political, and technological history."--Choice "Mukerji opens a new chapter in the history of the Canal du Midi, aiming to deepen understanding of its design and construction, and also of the related social and gender patterns. Furthermore, this important book also both stresses the concept of distributed knowledge/collective intelligence, and provides a deeper understanding of the impersonal power of structures. Mukeji demonstrates the necessity to pursue studies such as this with an open mind and a critical attitude."--Michel Cotte, Reviews in History "Impossible Engineering is an insightful meditation on the nature of stewardship, the sociology of knowledge, and the role of accountability in seventeenth-century France, and an extraordinary proof of how rich and challenging the history of material constructions can be."--Sophus A. Reinert, Economic History Review "Mukerji's analysis of the building of the canal is a tour de force of both historical and sociological research. Based on extensive and imaginative archival research and also on astute observation of the built landscape, it is written in vigorous prose and illustrated by the author's beautiful and informative photographs. It ranks as a significant and highly original contribution to historical and cultural sociology."--William H. Sewell, Jr., American Journal of Sociology "Chandra Mukerji crosses intellectual and disciplinary boundaries with incredible ease, mobilizing a vast array of scholarship to tackle historical cases in a new way."--Frederic Graber, Technology and CultureTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xvii Introduction xix Chapter 1: Impossible Engineering 1 Chapter 2: Territorial Politics 15 Chapter 3: Epistemic Credibility 36 Chapter 4: New Rome Confronts Old Gaul 60 Chapter 5: Shifting Sands 91 Chapter 6: The New Romans 117 Chapter 7: Thinking Like a King 154 Chapter 8: Monumental Achievement 176 Chapter 9: Powers of Impersonal Rule 203 Notes 229 Bibliography 277 Index 293

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book's central message--that the management and regulation of money should not be left to economists or bankers alone--is one we should all take to heart."---Rebecca Spang, Financial Times"Although Money Talks will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the state of scholarship in the sociology of money, the diverse and wide-ranging contributions should make individual chapters valuable to audiences well beyond the confines of this subfield."---Russell J. Funk, Administrative Science Quarterly"To anyone interested in money’s sociality past, present, and future and its ability to shape and be shaped by groups, collectives, organizations, and institutions this book is integral to the ongoing debate."---Allister Pilar Plater, American Journal of Cultural Sociology"Money Talks is a remarkable edited volume that is much needed."---Cheris Shun-ching Chan, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction Advancing Money Talks 1 Nina Bandelj, Frederick F. Wherry, and Viviana A. Zelizer PART I BEYOND FUNGIBILITY 1 Economics and the Social Meaning of Money 25 Jonathan Morduch 2 Morals and Emotions of Money 39 Nina Bandelj, Tyler Boston, Julia Elyachar, Julie Kim, Michael McBride, Zaibu Tufail, and James Owen Weatherall 3 How Relational Accounting Matters 57 Frederick F. Wherry PART II BEYOND SPECIAL MONIES 4 The Social Meaning of Credit, Value, and Finance 73 Bruce G. Carruthers 5 From Industrial Money to Generalized Capitalization 89 Simone Polillo PART III CREATING MONEY 6 The Constitutional Approach to Money: Monetary Design and the Production of the Modern World 109 Christine Desan 7 The Market Mirage 131 David Singh Grewal 8 The Macro-Social Meaning of Money: From Territorial Currencies to Global Money 145 Eric Helleiner PART IV CONTESTED MONEY 9 Money and Emotion: Win-Win Bargains, Win-Lose Contexts, and the Emotional Labor of Commercial Surrogates 161 Arlie Hochschild 10 Paid to Donate: Egg Donors, Sperm Donors, and Gendered Experiences of Bodily Commodification 171 Rene Almeling 11 Money and Family Relationships: The Biography of Transnational Money 184 Supriya Singh PART V MONEY FUTURES 12 Money Talks, Plastic Money Tattles: The New Sociability of Money 201 Alya Guseva and Akos Rona-Tas 13 Blockchains Are a Diamond's Best Friend: Zelizer for the Bitcoin Moment 215 Bill Maurer 14 Utopian Monies: Complementary Currencies, Bitcoin, and the Social Life of Money 230 Nigel Dodd Selected References on the Social Scientific Study of Money 249 Contributor Biographies 255 Index 261

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Foreign Affairs Best of Books 2017 – Africa / Malawi""Winner of the 2018 Best Scholarly Book Award, Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association""Honorable Mention for the 2018 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association""Finalist for the 2018 Melville J. Herskovits Prize, African Studies Association""A concise, insightful work, and its contribution extends well beyond its immediate context of AIDS altruism in Malawi."---Brad Crofford, African Studies Quarterly"A Fraught Embrace is both an important piece of transnational public sociology and one of the most important works in cultural sociology to have been published in a long while."---Iddo Tavory, European Journal of Sociology"Few books can claim to address a social problem involving billions of dollars with millions of lives hanging in the balance, but Swidler and Watkins’s A Fraught Embrace does just that. Dissecting the role of foreign altruists and local brokers in aid efforts to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa generally, and Malawi more specifically, this book makes a compelling sociological contribution to the study of foreign aid—a field of research more often reserved for economists and international development studies scholars."---Liam Swiss, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface vii 1 Introduction: Altruism from Afar 1 2 Fevered Imaginations 19 3 Lumbering Behemoths and Fluttering Butterflies: Altruists in the Global AIDS Enterprise 36 4 Cultural Production: A Riot of Color 57 5 Getting to Know Brokers 78 6 Brokers' Careers: Merit, Miracles, and Malice 106 7 Themes That Make Everyone Happy: Fighting Stigma and Helping Orphans 123 8 Themes That Make Everyone Anxious: Vulnerable Women and Harmful Cultural Practices 138 9 A Practice That Makes Everyone Happy: Training 166 10 Creating Success 183 11 Conclusions: Doing Good Better 198 Acknowledgments 215 Notes 219 References 247 Index 269

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Silver Medal in Women / BIPOC in Business, Axiom Business Book Awards""Maureen Perry-Jenkins convincingly draws a direct line between how low-income parents are treated at work and how they perform as parents." * Charter Works *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A provocative intervention that challenges the popular and scholarly understandings of institutional surveillance on undocumented immigrants. . . . valuable, nuanced, and insightful. . . . This important book will surely support the societal inclusion of undocumented immigrants by illuminating and interfering in the inequalities of laws and policies."---Oscar R. Cornejo Casares, Law & Society Review"Engage and Evade is an interdisciplinary study at the intersection of sociology, political science and law, which makes a significant contribution to the fields of migration and surveillance studies."---P. Arun, International Migration Review"Engage and Evade, a thought-provoking study of how undocumented immigrants contend with surveillance, sheds light on why the vast majority of undocumented immigrants follow the law: they were also law-abiding in their home countries and now seek social inclusion in the United States, where they are making a life for their families. . . . Engage and Evade is sociology at its finest."---Richard Mora, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"Asad challenges the conventional notion that undocumented immigrants in the United States hide in the shadows, fearful of all forms of institutional authority. Rather, he persuasively argues, many engage selectively and rationally with both law enforcement and service institutions such as schools, hospitals and health clinics, and organizations that provide social assistance."---Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs"[A]dmirable is Asad’s intimate familiarity with the narratives, sentiments, and aspirations Latino immigrants express as they make [a] life in the United States"---Aaron Arredondo, Ethnic and Racial Studies"Beyond portraying immigrants in the workplace as workers or households as parents alone, Asad explores what it means to be wholly human . . . In [Engage and Evade], it is beautiful to see immigrants subjectivities centralized in the analysis of their everyday decisions and behaviors related to institutional interactions. . . . [A] must-read."---Stephanie Canizales, Social Forces

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Book SynopsisIn Peaceful Families, Hammer chronicles and examines the efforts, stories, arguments, and strategies of individuals and organizations doing Muslim anti-domestic violence work in the U.S.Trade Review"Peaceful Families is well written and offers an excellent overview of the ways that Muslim Americans address domestic violence in their communities."---John A. Dick, Ethical Perspectives

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of Religion""Finalist for the PROSE Award in Legal Studies and Criminology, Association of American Publishers""An immensely validating book for advocates and community members immersed in Indigenous Peoples’ religious freedom." * Harvard Law Review *"An exemplary model of interdisciplinary scholarship, McNally’s book brings much-needed critical attention to the religious claims of Native peoples and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in securing greater legal protection for Native religious freedom."---N. Bruce Duthu, Native American and Indigenous Studies"Comprehensive and widely accessible. . . . McNally successfully exposes the real breadth of Native American religious freedom discourse, making this text an important read for those working in law and policy on the ground as much as those students and scholars working at the intersections of law, religion, and Indigenous studies."---Nicholas Shrubsole, Religious Studies Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2018 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society""Co-Winner of the 2017 Best Book Award, Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association""Winner of the 2017 Otis Dudley Duncan Award, Section on Population of the American Sociological Association""Honorable Mention for the 2019 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section the International Studies Association""Garip’s analysis is focused and fresh, representing an innovative approach to understand which theories of migration work for whom, when, and why. . . . [On the Move] provides an intricate and thorough analysis of the conditions, contexts, and composition of Mexican cohorts of migration since 1965, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of the complex social, economic, and political processes that have led to this particular point in the trajectory of Mexican migration. This is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the history of Mexican migration to the United States over the past 50 years."---Elizabeth Aranda, American Journal of Sociology

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at how U.S. Latino advocacy groups are using ethnoracial demographic projections to bring about political change in the presentFor years, newspaper headlines, partisan speeches, academic research, and even comedy routines have communicated that the United States is undergoing a profound demographic transformation—one that will purportedly change the “face” of the country in a matter of decades. But the so-called browning of America, sociologist Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz contends, has less to do with the complexion of growing populations than with past and present struggles shaping how demographic trends are popularly imagined and experienced. Offering an original and timely window into these struggles, Figures of the Future explores the population politics of national Latino civil rights groups.Based on eight years of ethnographic and qualitative research, spanning both the Obama and Trump administrations, this boTrade Review"Winner of the Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award, Population Section of the American Sociological Association""Winner of the Mary Douglas Prize, Culture Section of the American Sociological Association""Winner of the Best Book Award, Latino/a Section of the American Sociological Association""Honorable Mention for the Charles Tilly Distinguished Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association""Incredibly original and innovative. . . . [Figures of the Future] is an outstanding contribution to the field."---Julie A. Dowling, Social Forces"[Rodríguez-Muñiz] takes readers to the frontline of Latino advocacy and vividly describes how activists use demographic figures for political persuasion. . . . As the lofty optimism of a supposedly post-racial future was shattered by a dystopian embrace of white supremacy, many of us are still dizzy from this ride. Against this backdrop, Rodríguez-Muñiz provides us with critical tools to evaluate where we stand and where we go from here."---Sunmin Kim, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"Rodríguez-Muñiz crafts a conscientious, sociologically informed narrative that is approachable yet critical, and that engages while challenging the reader." * Sociological Viewpoints *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Arunabh Ghosh could not have imagined how timely his book would be when he set out more than a decade ago on his research project. But Making It Count, an academic work published by Princeton University Press examining the history of statistics in China, lands at a time when the world is wondering: How does Beijing collect data, and what did it know about COVID-19 and when?"---Melissa Chan, Foreign Policy"[Ghosh] deftly explores deeper questions about how state-making unfolded during the early years of the PRC, how ideology came to permeate every facet of the governing apparatus, and how strategies of enumeration are invariably bound, in complex ways, to the expression of political power. As such, Making It Count is an essential addition to any reading list on PRC history, as well to research methods in the social sciences and the humanities."---Patricia M. Thornton, China Quarterly"A remarkably well-researched and well-written book."---Kristin Shi-Kupfer, MERICS China Briefing"By mining rich archival materials in China, India, and the United States, and by balancing detailed descriptions of statistical work in the early PRC with lucid historiographical discussions on statistics, data science, and modern China, Ghosh has given us an exemplary case study of the social and political construction of sciences—natural or social—in the transnational context of the early Cold War."---Zuoyue Wang, Isis"The book presents an erudite history of China’s 1950s statistics system and the discussions about the role of statistics in the PRC. It delves into the writings of the actors at the time, explores the context of their writings and actions, and extracts a narrative that makes sense of historical developments. . . . Much of the book is readily accessible to a wider audience and highly informative thanks to its richness of details. It is a must read for academics interested in the PRC’s statistical system."---Carsten Holz, The China Journal"In this fascinating account of states and statistics in the early People’s Republic of China (PRC), Arunabh Ghosh explores the statistical agencies of a state with revolutionary aspirations but limited capacity to enumerate the society that it sought to transform. Making It Count stands out among the growing field of research conducted by historians on the society and politics of China in the 1950s."---Mark Frazier, Journal of Chinese Political Science"Essential reading for any historian of the PRC in the twentieth century, and it likewise provides a model for an increasingly globalized history of statistics that (rightly) decenters Europe and the United States."---Thomas A. Stapleford, History of Political Economy"[Making It Count] brilliantly shows a version of transcultural history beyond the usual China-Europe narrative."---Andrea Breard, East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine"A welcome addition to the literature on socialist epistemology and statecraft, part of an expanding field that is helping us understand the ways in which scholars and bureaucrats in various fields sought to accommodate the ideological dictates of Marxism-Leninism and how this impacted governance in the PRC, USSR, and elsewhere."---Jeremy Friedman, American Historical Review"Ghosh’s rigorously researched book will appeal to more than just researchers interested in the history of statistics. Scholars specializing in the PRC and its governance will also find the book extremely informative, as it provides a detailed account of the making of the PRC’s statistical bureaucracy. With its copious references, it can also be used to decipher economic statistics published by the PRC. Reading the book cover-to-cover is a rewarding experience."---Yi-Tang Lin, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal"Ghosh's book is an important contribution because the philosophy behind the statistical research is very poorly understood and the history of how statistics has evolved to the position that it now occupies is neither taught nor known even among the practitioners. The contribution of the book, while it looks at China specifically, is not only that it enables us to study the philosophy behind the statistical work in China but to see the ideological or philosophical underpinnings to much of statistical work in general."---Branko Milanovic, Global Inequality and More 3.0"The most illuminating point that Ghosh makes here . . . is that it would be wrong to assume homogeneity and stability in what ’Socialist statistics’ may have been and meant for its practitioners."---Bian He, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences"Engaging with at least three important fields in contemporary history, Ghosh’s book is sure to meet with wide interest among historians of China, Asia, as well as intellectual historians and historians of science."---Sebastian Veg, Journal of Asian Studies"Ghosh deftly exposes the assumptions, beliefs, and fears embedded in the systems of counting that shaped so much of political, social, and economic life then and continue to influence our lives today."---Jeremy Wallace, Journal of Development Studies"Ghosh presents intriguing lessons on the relationship between a country’s ability to achieve developmental milestones and its data collection and analysis methods. His work sets a great precedent for future scholars and governments who might want to explore their statistical backgrounds to understand their history better."---Jiarui Wu, China Report"Statistics and the truth rarely line up, leaving us in the dark. That’s why this book, which tells the history of Communist China’s early challenge with finding out even the most basic numbers, is so unexpectedly fascinating."---Alec Ash, The Wire China

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An Essence Best New Winter Read""Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award, The Society for the Study of Social Problems""James Beard Foundation Book Award Nominee""What [Ewoodzie] finds runs counter to popular narrative, which often attributes meal choices among Southern Black Americans to traditions that center on the consumption of ‘soul food’. . . . Ewoodzie concludes that food is one of the tools used to construct, refine, and reconstruct racial boundaries. . . .His sobering storytelling . . . also offers vitally important insight for food rescue industry service providers and gatekeepers."---Cassie M. Chew, Civil Eats

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