Social, group or collective psychology Books

Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is essential reading for all who wish to understand how to help adolescents navigate the critical developmental task of identity formation in our diverse society. Below the Surface is a beacon of intergroup empathy and understanding, providing tangible strategies for thoughtful engagement in complicated but crucial conversations with young people.”—Carola Suárez-Orozco, coauthor of Learning a New Land“The authors of Below the Surface are rising stars in their field. In this fast-paced and accessible book, they engage with the research on race-ethnicity, social justice, and cross-cultural communications for adolescent and college-age youth development, and their analysis is on target. The wonderful final chapter alone is worth the entire book and should be required reading.”—William E. Cross Jr., University of Denver"This book is an absolute pleasure to read. It is timely and beautifully written by two scholars who have enjoyed a long and productive collaboration. The topics covered are a valuable review for researchers who study ethnic-racial identity development. What makes the volume especially appealing is that it also speaks to parents, educators, and anyone else committed to helping today’s youth navigate the joys and challenges of growing up in an increasingly diverse society."—Sandra Graham, University of California, Los AngelesBelow the Surface is a refreshing and comprehensive review of the current state of the research literature on ethnic-racial identity and socialization processes. It is a must-read for scholars interested in conducting research in the area as well as for practitioners committed to delivering effective educational services to adolescents.—Robert M. Sellers, University of Michigan “This amazing, brilliant book draws on a range of theories and findings to weave a narrative about race and ethnicity in the United States. The authors, both top-notch researchers in their field, bring together the goals of developing ethnic identity and positive intergroup interactions into one volume. Given the polarized conversation about race and ethnicity happening nationally and globally today, this compelling book could not be timelier.” —Melanie Killen, University of Maryland

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The kind of ‘I dare you to follow my logic book’ that jumps from evolutionary game theory, to Balzac, to Donald Trump’s Twitter feed."---Hanna Rosin, Invisibilia"[Reputation] mixes crunchy intellectual provocations with literary allusions, catty takes on academic life and some juicy riffs."---Ian Leslie, New Statesman

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Trade Review"It is the somewhat gratifying lesson of Philip Tetlock's new book ... that people who make prediction their business--people who appear as experts on television, get quoted in newspaper articles, advise governments and businesses, and participate in punditry roundtables--are no better than the rest of us. When they're wrong, they're rarely held accountable, and they rarely admit it, either... It would be nice if there were fewer partisans on television disguised as "analysts" and "experts"... But the best lesson of Tetlock's book may be the one that he seems most reluctant to draw: Think for yourself."--Louis Menand, The New Yorker "The definitive work on this question... Tetlock systematically collected a vast number of individual forecasts about political and economic events, made by recognised experts over a period of more than 20 years. He showed that these forecasts were not very much better than making predictions by chance, and also that experts performed only slightly better than the average person who was casually informed about the subject in hand."--Gavyn Davies, Financial Times "Before anyone turns an ear to the panels of pundits, they might do well to obtain a copy of Phillip Tetlock's new book Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? The Berkeley psychiatrist has apparently made a 20-year study of predictions by the sorts who appear as experts on TV and get quoted in newspapers and found that they are no better than the rest of us at prognostication."--Jim Coyle, Toronto Star "Tetlock uses science and policy to brilliantly explore what constitutes good judgment in predicting future events and to examine why experts are often wrong in their forecasts."--Choice "[This] book ... Marshals powerful evidence to make [its] case. Expert Political Judgment ... Summarizes the results of a truly amazing research project... The question that screams out from the data is why the world keeps believing that "experts" exist at all."--Geoffrey Colvin, Fortune "Philip Tetlock has just produced a study which suggests we should view expertise in political forecasting--by academics or intelligence analysts, independent pundits, journalists or institutional specialists--with the same skepticism that the well-informed now apply to stockmarket forecasting... It is the scientific spirit with which he tackled his project that is the most notable thing about his book, but the findings of his inquiry are important and, for both reasons, everyone seriously concerned with forecasting, political risk, strategic analysis and public policy debate would do well to read the book."--Paul Monk, Australian Financial Review "Phillip E. Tetlock does a remarkable job ... applying the high-end statistical and methodological tools of social science to the alchemistic world of the political prognosticator. The result is a fascinating blend of science and storytelling, in the the best sense of both words."--William D. Crano, PsysCRITIQUES "Mr. Tetlock's analysis is about political judgment but equally relevant to economic and commercial assessments."--John Kay, Financial Times "Why do most political experts prove to be wrong most of time? For an answer, you might want to browse through a very fascinating study by Philip Tetlock ... who in Expert Political Judgment contends that there is no direct correlation between the intelligence and knowledge of the political expert and the quality of his or her forecasts. If you want to know whether this or that pundit is making a correct prediction, don't ask yourself what he or she is thinking--but how he or she is thinking."--Leon Hadar, Business Times

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a fascinating look at the way other people unconsciously determine our everyday behaviour and is a useful addition to the many works on how human psychology affects economic decision making." * Money Week *"Frank's points . . . raise some big questions. Which reminds us that economics cannot be a merely technocratic discipline."---Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling"This broadly themed book addresses the complexities of our social environments — for example, how group behavior gives rise to bullying — but a lot of what it discusses applies to worldwide environmental issues, too. The result is a combination of psychology and economics that illustrates how the human ‘herd instinct’ can be put to good use to solve the climate crisis and other problems."---John R. Platt, The Revelator"An invaluable new book. . . . If policy-makers have any sense, this book will be as important a manual in the 2020s as Nudge was in the 2010s."---Felix Martin, New Statesman"This erudite, provocative book is apt for reading now."---Julia Hobsbawm, Evening Standard"Extraordinarily timely: It’s an effort to show that the economics of social contagion could reshape the world, solving our hardest problems — from climate change to income inequality — and offering new ways to think about the power we have as individuals. Absent the pandemic, its argument might’ve seemed abstract, optimistic. But now we’ve seen it happen. We are watching a version of Frank’s thesis play out right now, in real time. In the wake of coronavirus, social pressure has driven perhaps the single fastest behavioral transformation in human history. It is the example and pressure we face from each other that has made social distancing so effective, so fast. And if social pressure can do that — what else can it do?"---Ezra Klein, Vox"Throughout his career, in influential books . . . Frank has examined the importance of status-seeking and social interactions in society and the economy. Continuing with that theme, Under the Influence argues that social context shapes choices far more than many people realize. . . . As usual, Frank’s book is full of information and insights that will interest even those who do not agree with his policy agenda."---R. M. Whaples, Choice

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a truly original, highly insightful, and highly readable book on a vital yet largely unexplored question: who do we trust, why should we trust, and how should we trust. Let's stop ignoring the expert problem. This is not a book, but the birth of a branch of applied knowledge."—Nassim Nicholas Taleb"[Reputation] mixes crunchy intellectual provocations with literary allusions, catty takes on academic life and some juicy riffs."—Ian Leslie, New Statesman"Having a good reputation is crucial for individuals, groups, and even objects. Through wide-ranging and well-crafted examples—from wine tasting to academic prestige—Gloria Origgi offers a grand tour of how the social sciences illuminate the process of reputation formation. Reputations might be imperfect, but they are unavoidable, and Origgi's book can help us make them more reliable."—Hugo Mercier, coauthor of The Enigma of Reason

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a fascinating look at the way other people unconsciously determine our everyday behaviour and is a useful addition to the many works on how human psychology affects economic decision making." * Money Week *"Frank's points . . . raise some big questions. Which reminds us that economics cannot be a merely technocratic discipline."---Chris Dillow, Stumbling & Mumbling"This broadly themed book addresses the complexities of our social environments — for example, how group behavior gives rise to bullying — but a lot of what it discusses applies to worldwide environmental issues, too. The result is a combination of psychology and economics that illustrates how the human ‘herd instinct’ can be put to good use to solve the climate crisis and other problems."---John R. Platt, The Revelator"An invaluable new book. . . . If policy-makers have any sense, this book will be as important a manual in the 2020s as Nudge was in the 2010s."---Felix Martin, New Statesman"This erudite, provocative book is apt for reading now."---Julia Hobsbawm, Evening Standard"Extraordinarily timely: It’s an effort to show that the economics of social contagion could reshape the world, solving our hardest problems — from climate change to income inequality — and offering new ways to think about the power we have as individuals. Absent the pandemic, its argument might’ve seemed abstract, optimistic. But now we’ve seen it happen. We are watching a version of Frank’s thesis play out right now, in real time. In the wake of coronavirus, social pressure has driven perhaps the single fastest behavioral transformation in human history. It is the example and pressure we face from each other that has made social distancing so effective, so fast. And if social pressure can do that — what else can it do?"---Ezra Klein, Vox"Throughout his career, in influential books . . . Frank has examined the importance of status-seeking and social interactions in society and the economy. Continuing with that theme, Under the Influence argues that social context shapes choices far more than many people realize. . . . As usual, Frank’s book is full of information and insights that will interest even those who do not agree with his policy agenda."---R. M. Whaples, Choice

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Based on her many years of work with two ant colonies, one in an arid desert and one in a lush tropical forest, Deborah M. Gordon has written a detailed, incisive account of the differences in their collective behaviours, and the extent to which behavioural patterns are influenced by their environment."---David M. Gascoigne, Travels With Birds

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Based on her many years of work with two ant colonies, one in an arid desert and one in a lush tropical forest, Deborah M. Gordon has written a detailed, incisive account of the differences in their collective behaviours, and the extent to which behavioural patterns are influenced by their environment."---David M. Gascoigne, Travels With Birds

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Book SynopsisWhat is the consequence of commodifying experiences?Trade Review‘Well written and extensively researched, this book is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the nature of consumption and experience in contemporary society' -- Garry Crawford, co-author of 'Video Games as Culture''An enlightening grand tour of the neoliberal experience economy. Probing beneath the ideological rhetoric of self-expressive consumer choices, Miles reveals how the psycho-social effects of the experience economy are governed by new forms of capitalist influence' -- Professor Craig Thompson, the James R. McManus-Bascom Professor in Marketing and the Gilbert and Helen Churchill Professor in the Marketing Department of the Wisconsin School of Business'Takes us on a powerful analytic journey that exposes the underpinning ideological processes that define who and what we are as citizens of a society driven by consumerism' -- Pauline Maclaran, Professor of Marketing & Consumer Research in the School of Management at Royal HollowayTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introducing the Experience Society 2. Consumption, Identity, Experience 3. Leisure and Tourism 4. Work Experience 5. Technologies of Self 6. Space, Place and the Architecture of Experience 7. The Spectacle of Sport 8. The Coffee Shop Experience 9. Consumer Capitalism Rebooted References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an accessible and broadly conceived introduction to social psychology. Written in a lucid and lively style, it assumes no prior knowledge of the field, and is the ideal textbook to get students thinking about the subject.Table of Contents1. A Brief Introduction. PART I: The Social Individual. 2. Personality and the Self. 3. Cognition and Social Behaviour. 4. Emotion. 5. Language and Communication. PART II: Social Interaction and Relationships. 6. The Development of Social Relationships. 7. Interpersonal Relationships. 8. Interaction in Groups. 9. Altruism and Aggression. PART 111: Understanding the Social World. 10. The Development of Moral Reasoning. 11. Perceiving and Understanding People. 12. Attitudes and Actions. 13. Attitude Organization and Change. 14. Social Representations. PART IV: Social Issues. 15. Prejudice and Intergroup Relations. 16. The World of Paid Work. 17. Health and Illness. 18. Social Psychology and Policy. PART V: The Nature of Social Psychology. 19. Research Methods. 20. The Nature of Social Psychology. Glossary. Picture Credits. References. Name Index. Subject Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo An accessible sociological exploration of the problems affecting the majority of people living in modern societies, including the successful members of society. aeo Uses interviews with a diversity of successful people which provide highly articulate, vivid and memorable accounts of their lives.Trade Review'Outstanding ... the most clarifying work of sociology I've ever read ... essential.' Pat Kane, New Statesman and Society 'Stimulating analysis ... the great merit of Pahl's book is that his critique of post-modernist assumptions about the self and anxiety points up this misleading conflation of the soical and the psychological, and makes him aware of the misuses of 'tradition' and over-socialised conceptions of the individual.' Work, Employment and Society 'A characteristically bold and provocative text ... extremely interesting.' Time and Society 'One of the most stimulating and relevant works I have read for a long time.' SociologyTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Introduction: Mortality, the Individual and Society. 2. Success in Shame Cultures and Guilt Cultures. 3. Managing Without Success 1960-1990. 4. Styles of Success in Business. 5. The Neurosis of Success. 6. Success-Led or Anxiety-Driven?. 7. Working for Self Identity. 8. From Hoccleve's Complaint to the Anxious Class. 9. Seeking Balance. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisFriends can help to form the basic structure of our lives but we very often take them for granted. Friends can sometimes be regarded as an oppressive burden when they appear to be greedily demanding too much of us. How to get the balance right is a perennial concern and the subject of much fiction and drama.Trade Review'The success of books can be measured by their imagery. Ray Pahl, in this eloquent essay on the value and virtues of friendship, provides two images that stay in the mind. The first is of friendships as social convoys that accompany you through the hazards of life. The second is of friendships as personal communities, in which identity can be affirmed, and intimacy explored. Through both images you can clearly see the significance of circles of friends - never more important than in the confusions and complexities of the contemporary world.' Jeffrey Weeks, Professor of Sociology, South Bank University London 'Pahl, a warmly readable sociologist, muses over ideas of friendship found in thinkers such as Aristotle, La Rochefoucauld and Hume, and also those implied in literature and modern fiction. In a rather lovely image, he sees our set of friends as a "social convoy" that helps us on our way through life.' Steven Poole, The Guardian "What differentiates this book from other recent research and writing on friendship is that Pahl account of, and approach to, friendship is wide-ranging and unconstrained by disciplinary boundaries. The different literatures and traditions covered in this slim volume highlight the many sources from which information on friendship can be gained, including media commentary and analysis, psychological and philosophical literature and political and social theory." British Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction Chapter one: What is Friendship?;. Chapter Two: Friendship, Modernity and Trust;. Chapter Three; Friendship and the Self;. Chapter Four: Friendship in Context,. Chapter Five: Social Support, Social Capital and the Politics of Friendship. Conclusion. Further Reading. More Detailed References. Index

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Book SynopsisThe number of one-person households is rising steeply all over the world and a growing proportion of these ''new singles'' are women. It is estimated that one woman in three lives on her own. This development reflects general social trends, ranging from rising divorce rates to the growing professionalization of women and their dissatisfaction with a traditional model that offers them a future organized solely around ''husband-baby-home''. At the same time, the attractions of that model still linger and the fairytale prince is by no means a figure from a story or a remote past. Even in an age in which the internet promises that love is ''just a click away'', many women still wait for their prince to come. Jean-Claude Kaufmann''s sympathetic study of the lives, aspirations and sometimes despair of the ''new single women'' is based mainly on an analysis of a sample of the hundreds of letters sent to Marie-Claire magazine after it published a first-hand account of the single life. FunnTrade Review"Kaufmann is a wise and clever microsociologist, inspired by Erving Goffman, by fashion magazines, and by kittenish and cougarish women. He is the voice of the annoyed, the vexed, the fearful, and the comforted." Contemporary Sociology “Freedom and autonomy have their glories and their miseries. Jean-Claude Kaufmann has composed a thoroughly researched inventory of both, while analysing in depth the present-day condition of women and its impact on the male half of humanity. As women replace self-effacement with newly gained self-confidence, the lynchpin is driven out of the family and the private sphere, and the hard-to-reconcile drives to autonomy and companionship result in the increasing fragility of commitments and fear of loneliness for both women and men. In masterly fashion, Kaufmann records the ongoing transformations in the human condition that follow. His findings hit at the very heart of the harrowing dilemmas which most men and women confront these days and struggle to resolve.” Zygmunt Bauman, Universities of Leeds and Warsaw “Anyone seeking to understand the fastest growing trend in personal life – more people living alone – should read this book. Jean-Claude Kaufmann moves elegantly between broad-brush historical overviews of changes in family life and fine-grained scrutiny of the narratives of women ensnared in the drama of these new demographics. Paradoxically, the opening up of personal choices for everybody seems to close down the options for many women, who are finding it harder to find the partners they long for.” Lynne Segal, Birkbeck College, author of Why Feminism? “This is a brilliant book on the everyday effects of the rise in female singledom. Kaufman provides fascinating insights into the pressures that single women experience today, from society's disapproval of female autonomy as a threat to traditional family models, to the hopes and disappointments of the modern dating world.” Veronique Mottier, University of LausanneTable of ContentsFOREWORD TO THE NEW EDITION INTRODUCTION PART ONE: IS THERE A MODEL FOR PRIVATE LIFE? 1. LIVING ALONE: A LONG HISTORY Intolerable Celibacy Great Buffalo Woman Celibacy Becomes Legitimate A Maid in Men’s Clothes Introspection The World Turned Upside Down The Nineteenth Century: The Main Trend Begins Grisettes and Phalansteries The Break Dark Times The American Model The Scandinavian Model Crazy Times Uncertain Times 2. A LIFE DIVIDED The ‘Accusing Finger’ ‘Weird’ Uncomfortable Places The Family: What Can Be Said and What Cannot Be Said The Laughter of Girlfriends Betrayal A Cycle in Three Stages 3. A LIFE SHARED Back to History Premonitory Experiments The Personalization of Feelings A Model for Private Life The Mother-Children Group The Model Undermined 4. PRINCE OR HUSBAND? Facts and Fairies The Prince with a Thousand Faces ‘Like a Love Story’ The Prince Settles Down When the Carriage Turns Back into a Pumpkin The Prince Plays Musical Chairs PART TWO: PORTRAIT OF A SINGLE WOMAN 5. INTROSPECTION ‘The Disease of the Infinite’ From Laughter to Tears Double Reflexivity From Diaries to Blogs The Mirror and the Clairvoyant 6. AT HOME Fixtures and Fittings Bed Meals Wrapping Up and Regressing Freedom from Domesticity The Lightness of Being 7. THE OUTSIDE WORLD Going Out Other Ties The Family Work Being Oneself in the Outside World 8. MEN Arms Sex Man-Hunters A Gloomy View of Life Married Men 9. THE INTERNET REVOLUTION A Sudden Change of Epoch Love is Just a Click Away The Dark Side of the Web Real Life Men and Women: Sex and Commitment ‘Don’t Give Up’ An Experience in its Own Right PART THREE: THE AUTONOMY TRAJECTORY 10. BEING ONESELF The Concept of Trajectory The Irresistible Injunction to be Oneself Oneself Widows Young People Women Who Have Broken off Relationships Predisposing Factors The Impulse to Remain Single The Lesser of Two Evils Two Trajectories, Two Identities 11. WAITING Dinosaurs of Love and Galloping Horses The Ravages of Love For Want of an Alternative Sentenced to Hard Labour Comforting Habits Extreme Isolation Negative Individualism 12. ‘WOMEN CAN DO ANYTHING! Flight as Therapy The Logic of the Shell The Paradox of Appearances Women Can Do Anything Autonomy with Company CONCLUSION EPILOGUE DOSSIER. THE GLOBALIZATION OF SINGLEDOM: THE FIGURES The Irresistible Rise in the Number of One-Person Households Interpreting the Figures Late Marriage A Short World Tour Mail-Order Brides A NOTE ON METHODOLOGY Stages in the Research The Letters Constructing Hypotheses The Informants BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisA brilliant new book by Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most original and influential social thinkers writing today. Bauman examines how, in our liquid modern society, individuals are required to choose their own lives and give meaning and purpose to them.Trade Review"Brilliant ... To be read while listening to the Manic Street Preachers."Steven Poole, The Guardian"An insightful reflection on the pursuit of happiness - that state to which we are all conditioned to aspite - as well as what's wrong with the 'designs for life' we pursue in order to attain it ... Reading this definitely made me reconsider my own priorities."FriezeTable of ContentsIntroduction: What is wrong with happiness?. 1. Miseries of Happiness. 2. We, the Artists of Life. 3. The Choice. Afterword: On Organizing and Being Organized.

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Book Synopsis* Niklas Luhmann was one of the leading sociologists and social theorists in Germany until his death in 1998. * He was the leading exponent of systems theory in the social sciences, and many of his books were translated into numerous languages.Trade Review"I challenge you to find a less sentimental or romantic account of love than this witty and insightful essay by the controversial social systems theorist. It follows the evolution of the concept of love from its Greek roots through to its function as a way of giving meaning to individual experiences and of explaining and justifying the weirdest of behaviours in modern society." Michael King for Times Higher Education "The textual basis of an early seminar Luhmann held at Bielefeld, this book is essential reading for social and cultural scientists, theorists, and historians concerned about the semantics of love as an institutionalized medium of communication entrusted with regulating intimate relations in modern society." Stephan Fuchs, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsEditorial Note vi Love as Passion 1 Notes 72 Index 92

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Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Valéry wrote of a crisis of spirit', brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit. Recent events demonstrate all too clearly that that the stock of mind, or spirit, continues to fall. The economy is toxically organized around the pursuit of short-term gain, supported by an infantilizing, dumbed-down media. Advertising technologies make relentless demands on our attention, reducing us to idiotic beasts, no longer capable of living. Spiralling rates of mental illness show that the fragile life of the mind is at breaking point. Underlying these multiple symptoms is consumer capitalism, which systematically immiserates those whom it purports to liberate. Returning to Marx's theory, Stiegler argues that consumerism marks a new stage in the history of proletarianization. It is no longer just labour that is exploited, pushed below the limits of subsistence, but Trade Review"Stiegler's title is bold, but make no mistake: this book really is about what makes life worth living. We can neglect this dimension – disastrously – or we can act to sustain it. A survival manual for the twenty-first century, this is also contemporary philosophy as a call to arms." Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge "This work, an excellent primer on the latest phase of Stiegler’s project and an excellent introduction to his writing, attempts to turn a thinking of the pharmakon from its resonance as poison to that of a cure to the pan-toxicity he finds in the robo-interiorities of the present and their link to eco-catastrophic outcomes. What this book also displays is that Stiegler has long been the most productive critical reader of Derrida's legacy today – and this at a time when anything like official 'deconstruction' gasps for relevance.’" Tom Cohen, State University of New York at AlbanyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Introduction: A Continent on the Move 1 1 Myriad Challenges and Opportunities 5 2 A Demographic Dividend or Just More People? 21 3 Tropical Dilemmas: Disease, Water, and More 35 4 Educating Future Generations 55 5 To War Rather than to Prosper 69 6 Accountability and the Wages of Corrupt Behavior 91 7 The Infrastructural Imperative 116 8 Harnessing Mobile Telephone Capabilities 134 9 China Drives Growth 151 10 Strengthening Governance 173 11 Creating Responsible Leadership 189 Notes 216 Select Bibliography 244 Index 252

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Book SynopsisHow does culture shape our thinking? In what ways do our social and cultural worlds enter into our mental worlds? How do the communities we belong to influence what we notice and what we ignore? What cultural variation do we see in cognition? What general patterns do we see across this diversity and variation?In this lively and engaging book, Wayne H. Brekhus shows us the many ways that culture influences our cognitive thought processes. Drawing on a wide range of fascinating examples, such as how members of different subcultures perceive danger and safety, how cultures variably classify and perceptually weight race, how social actors use and present identity as a strategic resource, and how people across different organizational settings experience time, Brekhus takes us on a creative, diverse, and insightful tour of the sociocultural character of cognition.Culture and Cognition: Patterns in the Social Construction of Reality offers an invaluable survTrade Review"Brekhus provides an accessible and wide-ranging review of the culture and cognition field. His book introduces readers to a variety of intellectual approaches that culture and cognition scholars employ to better understand the sociocultural dimensions of thought."Karen Cerulo, Rutgers University "Brekhus has produced the most comprehensive, erudite, and conceptually sophisticated book in culture and cognition to date. Bound to set the terms of the theoretical debate in the field for a long time to come, this book is also a must read for anybody interested in familiarizing themselves with both the foundational contributions and the most recent cutting-edge work in the field." Omar Lizardo, University of Notre DameTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Culture and Cognition in Sociology1 Perception, Attention, and Framing: The Sociology of Relevance and Irrelevance2 Classification, Categorization, and Boundary Work3 Meaning-Making, Metaphor, and Frames of Meaning4 Identity Construction: Identity Authenticity, Multidimensionality, and Mobility5 Memory and TimeConclusionReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisDraws on the latest research to show how groups can function more effectively to achieve the full potential of group work. For leaders and group supervisors as well as members of teams, boards, task forces, and other groups. Offers a clear vision of what makes groups work.Trade Review"Zander's authority is established and highly respected... the book is well-written and readable."Table of Contents1. Introduction: What Makes a Group Effective? Part One: Effective Groups 2. Choosing Clear, Challenging, Measurable Goals 3. Strengthening the Desire for Group Success 4. Improving the Group Decision-Making Process 5. Communicating Effectively Among Colleagues 6. Establishing Standards That Support Group Customs, Goals, andValues 7. Fostering Harmony Among Members Part Two: Effective Group Members 8. Developing and Exercising Personal Power 9. Becoming an Agent of Influence 10. Responding to the Influence of Others Part Three: Working Effectively with Other Groups 11. Understanding the Origins of Intergroup Conflicts 12. Resolving Conflicts Between Groups 13. Conclusion: Evaluating and Improving Group Operations

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Book SynopsisInspired by the groundbreaking work of Morton Deutsch, a pioneer in applied social psychology. The contributors--all authorities in their fields and former students or colleagues of Deutsch--include leading thinkers from schools and departments of sociology, psychology, education, and management, with expertise ranging from labor relations to school-based conflict resolution to cooperative education programs and business policy. Each chapter focuses on one of the three areas of Deutsch''s work--conflict, cooperation, and justice--with a commentary by Deutsch himself concluding each section. This volume is both a tribute to the work of Deutsch and a cross-disciplinary contribution to theory and practice in conflict, cooperation, and justice--with applications that cut across business, community, political, and other social groups.Table of ContentsPart One: Conflict 1. Conflict Across Levels of Analysis: Bridges and Barriers(JeffreyZ. Rubin, George Levinger) 2. Conflict Formulation: The Cross Cultural Challenge(Guy OlivierFaure) 3. A Multimodal Approach to Seemingly Intractable Conflict(Dean G.Pruitt, Paul V. Olczak) 4. Conflict Resolution Training in the Schools: The Challenge andthe Promise(Ellen Raider) Part Two: Cooperation 5. Trust in Relationships: A Model of Trust and Development andDecline(Roy J. Lewicki, Barbara Benedict Bunker) 6. Cooperation Within a Competitive Context: Lessons from WorkerCooperatives 7. Social InterdepAndence in Education: Cooperative Learning(DavidW. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson) Part Three: Justice 8. Three Faces of Social Justice(Rob Folger, Blair Sheppard, RobertButtram) 9. Dealing with Tradeoffs Among Justice Principles: TheMotivational Antecedents of Definitions of Fairness(Tom R. Tyler,Maura A. Belliveau) 10. Desperating Seeking (In)Justice(Michelle Fine, Mun Wong) 11. Drawing the Line: Social Categorization and SocialExclusion(Susan Opotow) 12. Discussion and Conclusions(Jeffrey Z. Rubin, Barbara BenedictBunker)

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Book SynopsisThe Cheers and the Tears offers parents and coaches sensible advice and healthy alternative approaches to the competitive and stressful world of youth sports. Full of practical and helpful ideas for parents who want their child''s youth sports experience to be a success. . . . Refreshing, honest, and down to earth. --Joan Ryan, author, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes; columnist, San Francisco Chronicle Shane Murphy understands parents and helps them help their children. His guidance is immensely practical. This book is essential reading for anyone who works with children in sports. --Christy Ness, Olympic figure skating coach, coached Kristi Yamaguchi to the 1992 Olympic Gold Medal in Women''s Figure Skating The Cheer and the Tears is terrific! Shane Murphy provides excellent solutions to tough issues. If your child is involved in organized sports at any level, read this book! --Sean McCann, sport psychologist, United States OlympicTrade Review"Full of practical and helpful ideas for parents who want their child's youth sports experience to be a success. . . . Refreshing, honest, and down to earth." --Joan Ryan, author, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes "Shane Murphy understands parents and helps them help their children. His guidance is immensely practical. This book is essential reading for anyone who works with children in sports." --Christy Ness, Olympic figure skating coach, coached Kristi Yamaguchi to the 1992 Olympic Gold Medal in Women's Figure Skating "The Cheer and the Tears is terrific! Shane Murphy provides excellent solutions to tough issues. If your child is involved in organized sports at any level, read this book! --Sean McCann, sport psychologist, United States Olympic Committee "Shane Murphy has done a great job of identifying and summarizing the key issues of this important component of millions of kids' lives. Not only that, but he does it in an enjoyable and readable fashion. You can tell he writes as both a sports expert and a Dad." --Tom Crawford, director of coaching, United States Olympic Committee "This is a book for people who care about children and sports. Murphy uses nearly two decades of experience as a sport psychologist to provide a caring, critical, and constructive look at the problems and prospects of youth sports. His insights are timely, insightful, and immediately useful for parents and coaches in interested in a sound foundation for participating positively in the lives of children." --Jay Coakley, sociologist and author of Sport in Society: Issues and ControversiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. The Crisis in Youth Sports. How Did We End Up in This Predicament? What Do Parents Want? What Do Kids Want? Escaping the Parent Trap: Pushing Your Own Dreams or Encouraging the Young Athlete? The Family's Journey: Nurturing Safe and Healthy Young Athletes. How Do Children Become Competitive. How Competition Affects Children. Positive Approaches to Youth Sports. Notes. For Further Reading. For More Information. About the Author. Index.

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Book SynopsisDiscover a wealth of issues in the field of consulting psychology with this landmark book. Explore key topics in assessment and evaluation, building teams, executive coaching, career counseling, interpersonal conflicts and relationships, benefit design, personality testing, and much more.Trade Review"Rodney Lowman has done it again! He has edited a book that isunique, comprehensive, and aimed squarely at the science andpractice of psychology in organizations. This book shows aremarkable breadth of coverage: topics traditional and cuttingedge, science and practice, issues within and across levels, bycontributions with extensive and diverse experience inorganizational consulting. There's something here for anyoneinterested in a psychological approach to consulting inorganizations." -- Rosemary Hays-Thomas, professor ofpsychology, The University of West Florida "The Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychologyaddresses a longtime need for a new comprehensive major work inconsulting psychology. It is broad in scope and clearly integratestopics in consulting psychology that are at the core of the fieldand which reflect recent innovations in the application ofconsulting principles and techniques. The scope and depth of thisbook is not only timely but unique. I would expect this book tobecome an essential reference for all consulting psychologists."--Clyde A. Crego, California State University Long Beach andUniversity of Southern California and former president, AmericanPsychological Association Division of Consulting Psychology andFellow, APA "My one-word reaction: WOW! Aptly entitled a handbook, it couldnevertheless well serve as a basic text in the field. It may haveits greatest benefit to those who are transiting from morespecialized work into organizational consulting, since it lays outa broad range of issues that one may encounter and ought to beprepared to deal with along with some practical advice on how tohandle them." --Kenneth H. Bradt, consulting psychologist andpast president, Society of Consulting Psychology, AmericanPsychological AssociationTable of ContentsIntroduction (Rodney L. Lowman). PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTING PSYCHOLOGY. 1. Individual-Level Variables in Organizational Consultation (Andrew D. Carson and Rodney L. Lowman). 2. Organizational Consulting to Groups and Teams (Arthur M. Freedman and E. Skipton Leonard). 3. The Organizational Level of Analysis: Consulting to the Implementation of New Organizational Designs (Susan Albers Mohrman). 4. The Role of Systems Theory in Consulting Psychology (Dale R. Fuqua and Jody L. Newman). PART TWO: INDIVIDUAL LEVEL APPLICATIONS. 5. Individual Interventions in Consulting Psychology (Richard R. Kilburg). 6. The Effectiveness of Executive Coaching: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know (Sheila Kampa and Randall P. White). 7. A Consultant?s Guide to Understanding and Promoting Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace (Shani Robins). 8. Assessing Candidates for Leadership Positions (Andrew N. Garman). 9. Enhancing Peak Potential in Managers and Leaders: Integrating Knowledge and Findings from Sport Psychology (Sandra Foster). PART THREE: GROUP LEVEL APPLICATIONS. 10. Successfully Implementing Teams in Organizations (Douglas A. Johnson, Michael M. Beyerlein, Joseph W. Huff, Terry R. Halfhill, and Rodger D. Ballentine). 11. The Psychoanalytic Approach to Team Development (Pieter Koortzen and Frans Cilliers). 12. Organizational Consulting to Virtual Teams (Joanie B. Connell). PART FOUR: ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL ISSUES. 13. Assessing Organizations (Harry Levinson). 14. Organizational Evaluation: Issues and Methods (E. Jane Davidson). 15. Leadership Development in Organizational Consulting (Steven W. Graham and Debra A. G. Robinson). PART FIVE: BRIDGING LEVELS. 16. Proactive Ways to Improve Leadership Performance (Fred E. Fiedler). 17. Psychological Consultation to Organizations: Linking Assessment and Intervention (Harry Levinson). 18. Integrating Individual Assessment, Position Requirements, Team-Based Competencies, and Organizational Vision: Roles for Consulting Psychologists (John T. Kulas, Brad A. Haynes, Suzanne M. Kalten, Pamela J. Hopp, and Rebekah L. Duffala). PART SIX: ISSUES IN CONSULTING TO SPECIFIC TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS AND FOR SPECIFIC TYPES OF CONSULTING. 19. Consulting to For-Profit Organizations (Cecelia L. Brock). 20. The Role of Leaders and Consultants in Fostering International Organizations (Nurcan Ensari). 21. Assessment and Intervention Issues in International Organizational Consulting (Ann M. O?Roark). 22. Cross-Cultural Issues in International Organizational Consultation (Virginia Mullin and Stewart Cooper). 23. Consulting with Healthcare Organizations (Ira M. Levin). 24. Organizational Consulting on Healthy Lifestyles (Paul Lloyd and Louis Veneziano). 25. Appreciative Inquiry as an Approach for Organizational Consulting (Peter F. Sorensen, Jr. and Therese F. Yaeger). PART SEVEN: MEASUREMENT, EVALUATION, AND EFFECTIVENESS ISSUES. 26. Interventions That Work (and Some That Don?t): An Executive Summary of the Organizational Change Literature (Terry R. Halfhill, Joseph W. Huff, Douglas A. Johnson, Rodger D. Ballentine, and Michael M. Beyerlein). 27. Assessing the Impact of Organizational Consulting (Paul C. Winum, Tjai M. Nielsen, and Robert E. Bradford). 28. Understanding Organizational Processes and Performance: A Continuous Improvement Model for Consulting Psychologists (Delbert M. Nebeker and B. Charles Tatum). 29. A Strategic Approach to Measuring Organizational Performance: Tools for the Consulting Psychologist (B. Charles Tatum and Delbert M. Nebeker). PART EIGHT: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE ISSUES. 30. Issues in the Ethical Practice of Consulting Psychology (Jody L. Newman, Sharon E. Robinson-Kurpius, and Dale R. Fuqua). 31. Recommendations for Managing Consultants: The View from Inside the Corporation (Karen M. Grabow). Appendix: Principles for Education and Training at the Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Level in Consulting Psychology/Organizational. About the Editor. About the Contributors. Name Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a new perspective on colonialism in Africa. Drawing on work from a variety of subjects and disciplines – from the ancient Mediterranean to colonial Spain, and from anthropology to psychology – the author argues that colonialism in Africa needs to be understood through the medium of writing and the particular world it belonged to. Focusing on the LoDagaa of northern Ghana and their relationship with British colonialism, Hawkins describes colonialism as an encounter between a world of experience – a world of knowledge, practice, and speech – and 'the world on paper' – a world of writing, rules, and a linear concept of history. The various ways in which 'the world on paper' affected the LoDagaa are examined thematically. The first four chapters explore how writing imposed a form of historical consciousness on different aspects of LoDagaa culture – identity, politics, and religion – that was alien to them. The second half of t

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Book SynopsisIn this pragmatic book, the authors have brought the use of the most widely used graphic device - the family genogram - into the wider context of community and culture, to help counselors and therapists better understand individuals and families-in-context.

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Book SynopsisIn this collection, scholars from the United States, Canada and Australia examine the concepts of villainification and anti-villainification in social studies curriculum, popular culture, as well as within sociocultural contexts and their implications.Table of ContentsContentsForeword: The Problem of Villainification  Michalinos Zembylas  viiAcknowledgments  xiIntroduction  1 Cathryn van Kessel and Kimberly EdmondsonPART I: VILLAINIFICATION AND SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM1.  Heroification, Villainification, and Political Polarization: Implications for Thinking Politically About U.S. Politics  13 WayneJournell2.  "Incapable, Uninterested, and Ineffective"?: Locating Villainification Narratives in Financial Education  29 ErinC. Adams3.  Will the Real Villain Please Stand Up?: Holocaust Education and Its Hidden Transgressors  45 RebeccaC. Christ, Brandon Haas, and Oren Baruch Stier4.  Removing the Binaries in History Curricula and Teacher Education: Difficult-ishas an Antidote to Villainification and Its Partner, "Difficult Histories"  63 Brittany JonesPART II: VILLAINIFICATION LESSONS FROM POPULAR CULTURE5.  Subverting the Villain Trope in Apocalyptic Fiction: Survivance in MoonoftheCrustedSnow  79 Kimberly Edmondson and Keri Helgren6.  "Hang On, So That Thing's a Loki Too?": Mimetic Materialities, Variants, and Villainy  95 BrettonA. Varga and ErinC. Adams7.  Wanda the Villain?: How WandaVisionCan Aid Discussions About Enslavement and Anti-Black Racism  111 Danelle Adeniji, Melissa McQueen, and Cathryn van KesselPART III: SOCIOCULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF VILLAINIFICATION NARRATIVES8.  Can Technology Be Evil?: Heroes, Villains, and the Banality of Technology  127 RyanM. Smits and DanielG. Krutka9.  Identifying the Villain: Antivillainification, Social Studies, and LGBTQ Individuals  145 Heather P. Abrahamson10.  Anti-Complicity Education: Combating Supervillains and Lesser Villains in Contemporary Rape Culture  161 AmandaM.E. Thomson11.  Placial Villains: Naming, Memorial Geographies of Invasion, and the Work of Social Studies  181 Bryan Smith12.  Horses, Heretics, and Madame Déficit: The Historical Villainification of the Female Body  197 Andrew ThomsonConcluding Thoughts  213 Cathryn van Kessel and Kimberly EdmondsonAbout the Editors and Contributors  215Index  219

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Book SynopsisIn this collection, scholars from the United States, Canada and Australia examine the concepts of villainification and anti-villainification in social studies curriculum, popular culture, as well as within sociocultural contexts and their implications.Table of ContentsContentsForeword: The Problem of Villainification  Michalinos Zembylas  viiAcknowledgments  xiIntroduction  1 Cathryn van Kessel and Kimberly EdmondsonPART I: VILLAINIFICATION AND SOCIAL STUDIES CURRICULUM1.  Heroification, Villainification, and Political Polarization: Implications for Thinking Politically About U.S. Politics  13 WayneJournell2.  "Incapable, Uninterested, and Ineffective"?: Locating Villainification Narratives in Financial Education  29 ErinC. Adams3.  Will the Real Villain Please Stand Up?: Holocaust Education and Its Hidden Transgressors  45 RebeccaC. Christ, Brandon Haas, and Oren Baruch Stier4.  Removing the Binaries in History Curricula and Teacher Education: Difficult-ishas an Antidote to Villainification and Its Partner, "Difficult Histories"  63 Brittany JonesPART II: VILLAINIFICATION LESSONS FROM POPULAR CULTURE5.  Subverting the Villain Trope in Apocalyptic Fiction: Survivance in MoonoftheCrustedSnow  79 Kimberly Edmondson and Keri Helgren6.  "Hang On, So That Thing's a Loki Too?": Mimetic Materialities, Variants, and Villainy  95 BrettonA. Varga and ErinC. Adams7.  Wanda the Villain?: How WandaVisionCan Aid Discussions About Enslavement and Anti-Black Racism  111 Danelle Adeniji, Melissa McQueen, and Cathryn van KesselPART III: SOCIOCULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF VILLAINIFICATION NARRATIVES8.  Can Technology Be Evil?: Heroes, Villains, and the Banality of Technology  127 RyanM. Smits and DanielG. Krutka9.  Identifying the Villain: Antivillainification, Social Studies, and LGBTQ Individuals  145 Heather P. Abrahamson10.  Anti-Complicity Education: Combating Supervillains and Lesser Villains in Contemporary Rape Culture  161 AmandaM.E. Thomson11.  Placial Villains: Naming, Memorial Geographies of Invasion, and the Work of Social Studies  181 Bryan Smith12.  Horses, Heretics, and Madame Déficit: The Historical Villainification of the Female Body  197 Andrew ThomsonConcluding Thoughts  213 Cathryn van Kessel and Kimberly EdmondsonAbout the Editors and Contributors  215Index  219

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Book SynopsisTriathlons, such as the famously arduous Ironman Triathlon, and “extreme” mountain biking are prime examples of the new “lifestyle sports” that have grown in recent years from oddball pursuits into multi-million-dollar industries. Sociologist Stephen C. Poulson offers an exploration of these new and physically demanding sports, shedding light on why some people find them so compelling.Trade Review"Poulson explores interesting, timely, and relevant questions about the nature of, and reasons for, participation in the sports of mountain-bike racing and triathlon in this engaging, persuasive, and extensively researched book." -- Belinda Wheaton * University of Waikato, New Zealand *"This inventive treatment of the sociology of sport will interest outdoor enthusiasts as well as scholars … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; general readers." * Choice *"Poulson presents a comprehensive, thoughtful and well-researched critique of the emergence and transformation of lifestyle sports in the twenty-first century. His discussion of the rationales and motivations for engaging in such arduous physical activities is framed within the context of current theoretical discussions in the sociology of sport." * Contemporary Sociology *"Stephen Poulson has written a persuasive and extensively researched book about lifestyle sport using mountain biking and triathlon as his main examples." * International Sociology Reviews *"Poulson explores interesting, timely, and relevant questions about the nature of, and reasons for, participation in the sports of mountain-bike racing and triathlon in this engaging, persuasive, and extensively researched book." -- Belinda Wheaton * University of Waikato, New Zealand *"This inventive treatment of the sociology of sport will interest outdoor enthusiasts as well as scholars … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; general readers." * Choice *"Poulson presents a comprehensive, thoughtful and well-researched critique of the emergence and transformation of lifestyle sports in the twenty-first century. His discussion of the rationales and motivations for engaging in such arduous physical activities is framed within the context of current theoretical discussions in the sociology of sport." * Contemporary Sociology *"Stephen Poulson has written a persuasive and extensively researched book about lifestyle sport using mountain biking and triathlon as his main examples." * International Sociology Reviews *Table of Contents Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Would Anyone Ride a Mountain Bike in the Middle of the Night?1 Social Life and Sport2 Looking for Adventure, Looking for Authenticity3 Disciplining Bodies in Lifestyle Sport4 Types of Lifestyle Athletes and Team Touch of Grey5 Resistance to Discipline in a Cycling Community6 Why So White? Race and Social Class in Lifestyle Sport7 Where Are the Women? Differing Levels of Participation in Lifestyle and Adventure Sport8 Conclusion Appendix: My Experience with Lifestyle Sport and Location of the Study Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIronman Triathlons and “extreme” mountain biking are prime examples of the new “lifestyle sports” that have grown in recent years from oddball pursuits into multi-million-dollar industries. In Why Would Anyone Do That? Stephen C. Poulson offers an exploration of these new and physically demanding sports, shedding light on why some people find them so compelling.Trade Review"Poulson explores interesting, timely, and relevant questions about the nature of, and reasons for, participation in the sports of mountain-bike racing and triathlon in this engaging, persuasive, and extensively researched book." -- Belinda Wheaton * University of Waikato, New Zealand *"This inventive treatment of the sociology of sport will interest outdoor enthusiasts as well as scholars … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; general readers." * Choice *"Poulson presents a comprehensive, thoughtful and well-researched critique of the emergence and transformation of lifestyle sports in the twenty-first century. His discussion of the rationales and motivations for engaging in such arduous physical activities is framed within the context of current theoretical discussions in the sociology of sport." * Contemporary Sociology *"Stephen Poulson has written a persuasive and extensively researched book about lifestyle sport using mountain biking and triathlon as his main examples." * International Sociology Reviews *"Poulson explores interesting, timely, and relevant questions about the nature of, and reasons for, participation in the sports of mountain-bike racing and triathlon in this engaging, persuasive, and extensively researched book." -- Belinda Wheaton * University of Waikato, New Zealand *"This inventive treatment of the sociology of sport will interest outdoor enthusiasts as well as scholars … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; general readers." * Choice *"Poulson presents a comprehensive, thoughtful and well-researched critique of the emergence and transformation of lifestyle sports in the twenty-first century. His discussion of the rationales and motivations for engaging in such arduous physical activities is framed within the context of current theoretical discussions in the sociology of sport." * Contemporary Sociology *"Stephen Poulson has written a persuasive and extensively researched book about lifestyle sport using mountain biking and triathlon as his main examples." * International Sociology Reviews *Table of Contents Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Would Anyone Ride a Mountain Bike in the Middle of the Night?1 Social Life and Sport2 Looking for Adventure, Looking for Authenticity3 Disciplining Bodies in Lifestyle Sport4 Types of Lifestyle Athletes and Team Touch of Grey5 Resistance to Discipline in a Cycling Community6 Why So White? Race and Social Class in Lifestyle Sport7 Where Are the Women? Differing Levels of Participation in Lifestyle and Adventure Sport8 Conclusion Appendix: My Experience with Lifestyle Sport and Location of the Study Notes Index

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Book SynopsisOur jobs are often a big part of our identities, and when we are fired, we can feel confused, hurt, and powerless - at sea in terms of who we are. Drawing on extensive, real-life interviews, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health shines a light on the experiences of unemployed, middle-class professional men and women, showing how job loss can affect both identity and mental health.Trade Review"Norris’s work is an accessible and engaging exploration of the effects that involuntary job loss has on people’s identities and their psychological health. Both informative and comprehensive, Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health is a well written and very worthwhile book." -- Tim Strangleman * professor of sociology, University of Kent, UK *"This book offers a poignant assessment of the social-psychological consequences of unemployment. Using longitudinal in-depth interviews, Norris shows the profound costs of unemployment for middle-class workers. She also thoughtfully illuminates the importance of gender in the experience of joblessness. Recommended!" -- Annette Lareau * Stanley I. Sheerr Professor, University of Pennsylvania *"Norris’ book is a theoretically rich, well-written, and well-researched addition to the sociological study of employment and health" -- Jeremy Staff, Department of Sociology and Criminology, Pennsylvania State University * SAGE Publications - Work and Occupations *"A theoretically rich, well-written, and well-researched addition to the sociological study of employment and health." * Work and Occupations *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Introduction2 Why Identity?3 “That’s Not the Way We Do It at Gentay”: Feedback Mismatches4 “I Wasn’t the Same Person”: Time Mismatches5 “Me Caveman . . . I Club Deer”: Status Mismatches6 “On the Mommy Track”: Shifting7 “It Was Like I Was Still Working”: Sustaining8 “Like You’re Dead and Nobody Told You”: Identity Void9 ConclusionAppendix A: MethodologyAppendix B: Additional ConsiderationsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhat would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Featuring original essays from an array of established and emerging scholars in the interdisciplinary field of African American studies, The Psychic Hold of Slavery offers a nuanced dialogue upon these questions.Trade Review"Suggesting that even the violence against blacks that fueled the Black Lives Matter movement is on the slavery continuum, this volume argues that slavery continues to shape the US's fundamental psychology and its systemic racial hierarchy. A postracial US is yet to come ... Recommended" * Choice *"[The Psychic Hold of Slavery] is well written and well organized. The proficiency and writing style of the contributors serves to reassure readers that they are among knowledgeable experts in the field… This is a must read book for any African American Studies course." * Horizons in Humanities and Social Sciences *"This collection is a timely, fascinating, often brilliant scholarly intervention in matters central both to the range of scholars and artists whose work it discusses and to the field of Black Studies." -- Michael Awkward * author of Philadelphia Freedoms: Black American Trauma, Memory & Culture after King *"These intelligent and provocative essays wonderfully show us what a rich array of art forms (films, literature, television, and cartoons) have to say about what slavery has done and undone." -- Ashraf H. A. Rushdy * author of The End of American Lynching and A Guilted Age: Apologies for the Past *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: “Do You Want to Be Well?”Soyica Diggs ColbertChapter 1: 12 Years a What?: Slavery, Representation, and Black Cultural Politics in 12 Years a SlaveRobert J. PattersonChapter 2: The Fruit of Abolition: Discontinuity and Difference in Terrance Hayes’s “The Avocado”Douglas A. Jones Jr.Chapter 3: Black Time: Slavery, Metaphysics, and the Logic of WellnessCalvin WarrenChapter 4: The Inside Turned Out Architecture of the Post-Neo-Slave NarrativeMargo Natalie CrawfordChapter 5: Memwa se paswa: Sifting the Slave Past in HaitiRégine Michelle Jean-CharlesChapter 6: Staging Social Death: Alienation and Embodiment in Aishah Rahman’s Unfinished WomenGerShun AvilezChapter 7: Dancing with Death: Spike Lee’s BamboozledSoyica Diggs ColbertChapter 8: Laughing to Keep from Crying: Dave Chappelle’s Self-Exploration with “The Nigger Pixie”Brandon J. ManningChapter 9: The Cartoonal SlaveMichael ChaneyChapter 10: Trauma and the Historical Turn in Black Literary DiscourseAida Levy-HussenConclusion: Black Lives Matter, Except When They Don’t: Why Slavery’s Psychic Hold MattersRobert J. PattersonSelected BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisArgues that boys' and men's bodies and breadwinner status are the two primary sites for their expression of control. Scott Melzer strategically explores the lives of four groups of adult men struggling with contemporary body and breadwinner ideals. These case studies uncover men's struggles to achieve and maintain manhood, and redefine what it means to be a man.Trade Review“Manhood Impossible provides astute sociological insight into how men struggle to resuscitate their feelings of masculinity and access the exclusive dominion of manhood. With its intriguing case studies, accessible writing style, and ethnographic slant, this is an excellent book that students and scholars are sure to love.”— Kristen Barber, author of Styling Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming Industry "Grounded in fieldwork, nicely written, and engaged with feminist research."— Gender & Society "Recommended." — Choice “Manhood Impossible is a thoughtfully conceived, well-written, and engaging book that speaks and adds to the literature on men, manhood, and masculinity. Melzer offers analysis grounded in rich description in this fresh addition to the field.”— Matthew B. Ezzell, associate professor of sociology at James Madison University "Manhood Impossible furthers the literature on gender and masculinity studies. It also contributes to the body of research on the sociology of the body and the sociology of the family."— American Journal of Sociology "How Men Sabotage Themselves: And what entrepreneurs can do about it," QA with Scott Melzer— One37pm "Why more men are becoming stay-at-home dads"— CNBC "Stay-at-Home Dads Are Reshaping American Masculinity," by Ashley Fetters— The AtlanticTable of ContentsContents Introduction: The Manhood Dilemma Part I The Body Dilemma 1 Ritual Violence in a Two-Car Garage 2 Fighting Back 3 Seeking Growth: The Penis Health Club 4 Compensating for Body Failures Part II The Breadwinner Dilemma 5 Non-Breadwinners: Unemployed Men and Stay-at-home Dads 6 Unemployment Blues and Backlash 7 Redefining Manhood: Stay-at-home Dads as Real Men Part III The Future of the Manhood Dilemma Conclusion: Making Manhood Possible Appendix: Studying Men and Manhood Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn Manhood Impossible, Scott Melzer strategically explores the lives of four groups of adult men struggling with contemporary body and breadwinner ideals. These case studies uncover men’s struggles to achieve and maintain manhood, and redefine what it means to be a man. Trade Review“Manhood Impossible is a thoughtfully conceived, well-written, and engaging book that speaks and adds to the literature on men, manhood, and masculinity. Melzer offers analysis grounded in rich description in this fresh addition to the field.” -- Matthew B. Ezzell * associate professor of sociology at James Madison University *“Manhood Impossible provides astute sociological insight into how men struggle to resuscitate their feelings of masculinity and access the exclusive dominion of manhood. With its intriguing case studies, accessible writing style, and ethnographic slant, this is an excellent book that students and scholars are sure to love.” -- Kristen Barber * author of Styling Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming Industry *"Stay-at-Home Dads Are Reshaping American Masculinity," by Ashley Fetters * The Atlantic *"How Men Sabotage Themselves: And what entrepreneurs can do about it," Q&A with Scott Melzer * One37pm *"Recommended." * Choice *"Grounded in fieldwork, nicely written, and engaged with feminist research." * Gender & Society *"Manhood Impossible furthers the literature on gender and masculinity studies. It also contributes to the body of research on the sociology of the body and the sociology of the family." * American Journal of Sociology *"Why more men are becoming stay-at-home dads" * CNBC *“Manhood Impossible is a thoughtfully conceived, well-written, and engaging book that speaks and adds to the literature on men, manhood, and masculinity. Melzer offers analysis grounded in rich description in this fresh addition to the field.” -- Matthew B. Ezzell * associate professor of sociology at James Madison University *“Manhood Impossible provides astute sociological insight into how men struggle to resuscitate their feelings of masculinity and access the exclusive dominion of manhood. With its intriguing case studies, accessible writing style, and ethnographic slant, this is an excellent book that students and scholars are sure to love.” -- Kristen Barber * author of Styling Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men's Grooming Industry *"Stay-at-Home Dads Are Reshaping American Masculinity," by Ashley Fetters * The Atlantic *"How Men Sabotage Themselves: And what entrepreneurs can do about it," QA with Scott Melzer * One37pm *"Recommended." * Choice *"Grounded in fieldwork, nicely written, and engaged with feminist research." * Gender & Society *"Manhood Impossible furthers the literature on gender and masculinity studies. It also contributes to the body of research on the sociology of the body and the sociology of the family." * American Journal of Sociology *"Why more men are becoming stay-at-home dads" * CNBC *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: The Manhood Dilemma Part I The Body Dilemma 1 Ritual Violence in a Two-Car Garage 2 Fighting Back 3 Seeking Growth: The Penis Health Club 4 Compensating for Body Failures Part II The Breadwinner Dilemma 5 Non-Breadwinners: Unemployed Men and Stay-at-home Dads 6 Unemployment Blues and Backlash 7 Redefining Manhood: Stay-at-home Dads as Real Men Part III The Future of the Manhood Dilemma Conclusion: Making Manhood Possible Appendix: Studying Men and Manhood Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how international migration re-shapes women’s senses of themselves. Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women who negotiate and resist the social and psychological effects of the processes of immigration and settlement. Trade Review"The Resilient Self examines how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women. Gu's fresh perspective positions these women as social agents and producers of knowledge, not simply as recipients of social forces." -- Eliza Noh * California State University, Fullerton *"An interesting, clearly written book that articulates how sociocultural factors shape women's individual voices, self development, and lived experiences. It adds novel information and hidden knowledge about this particular group of migrants from Taiwan." -- Esther Ngan-ling Chow * editor of Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia *"A study of middle-class, educated Taiwanese women and their efforts to redefine their lives after immigration as dependent spouses initially unable, by the terms of their visas, to work outside the home." * Chronicle of Higher Education *"[The book] empathize[s] with these women's experiences and to celebrate their adaptation to and acceptance of their new lives and circumstances. Readers seeking these kinds of narratives and microstudy data will be the best served by The Resilient Self." * Journal of Asian Studies *“The Resilient Self contains many fascinating vignettes about the experiences of Taiwanese immigrant women in the United States. It also highlights the effect immigration can have on the mental health of women..Its theoretical framing…holds promise for future work in migration studies.” * Gender & Society *"The Resilient Self examines how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women. Gu's fresh perspective positions these women as social agents and producers of knowledge, not simply as recipients of social forces." -- Eliza Noh * California State University, Fullerton *"An interesting, clearly written book that articulates how sociocultural factors shape women's individual voices, self development, and lived experiences. It adds novel information and hidden knowledge about this particular group of migrants from Taiwan." -- Esther Ngan-ling Chow * editor of Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia *"A study of middle-class, educated Taiwanese women and their efforts to redefine their lives after immigration as dependent spouses initially unable, by the terms of their visas, to work outside the home." * Chronicle of Higher Education *"[The book] empathize[s] with these women's experiences and to celebrate their adaptation to and acceptance of their new lives and circumstances. Readers seeking these kinds of narratives and microstudy data will be the best served by The Resilient Self." * Journal of Asian Studies *“The Resilient Self contains many fascinating vignettes about the experiences of Taiwanese immigrant women in the United States. It also highlights the effect immigration can have on the mental health of women..Its theoretical framing…holds promise for future work in migration studies.” * Gender & Society *Table of Contents1. Introduction 1 2. Immigration, Culture, Gender, and the Self 17 3. Searching for Self in the New Land 38 4. Negotiating Egalitarianism 69 5. Performing Confucian Patriarchy 95 6. Fighting for Dignity and Respect in Racialized America 127 7. Suffering and the Resilient Self 154 Acknowledgments 165 Appendix: Demographic Information of Subjects 167 Notes 171 References 181 Index 191

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how international migration re-shapes women’s senses of themselves. Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women who negotiate and resist the social and psychological effects of the processes of immigration and settlement. Trade Review"The Resilient Self examines how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women. Gu's fresh perspective positions these women as social agents and producers of knowledge, not simply as recipients of social forces." -- Eliza Noh * California State University, Fullerton *"An interesting, clearly written book that articulates how sociocultural factors shape women's individual voices, self development, and lived experiences. It adds novel information and hidden knowledge about this particular group of migrants from Taiwan." -- Esther Ngan-ling Chow * editor of Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia *"A study of middle-class, educated Taiwanese women and their efforts to redefine their lives after immigration as dependent spouses initially unable, by the terms of their visas, to work outside the home." * Chronicle of Higher Education *"[The book] empathize[s] with these women's experiences and to celebrate their adaptation to and acceptance of their new lives and circumstances. Readers seeking these kinds of narratives and microstudy data will be the best served by The Resilient Self." * Journal of Asian Studies *“The Resilient Self contains many fascinating vignettes about the experiences of Taiwanese immigrant women in the United States. It also highlights the effect immigration can have on the mental health of women..Its theoretical framing…holds promise for future work in migration studies.” * Gender & Society *"The Resilient Self examines how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women. Gu's fresh perspective positions these women as social agents and producers of knowledge, not simply as recipients of social forces." -- Eliza Noh * California State University, Fullerton *"An interesting, clearly written book that articulates how sociocultural factors shape women's individual voices, self development, and lived experiences. It adds novel information and hidden knowledge about this particular group of migrants from Taiwan." -- Esther Ngan-ling Chow * editor of Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia *"A study of middle-class, educated Taiwanese women and their efforts to redefine their lives after immigration as dependent spouses initially unable, by the terms of their visas, to work outside the home." * Chronicle of Higher Education *"[The book] empathize[s] with these women's experiences and to celebrate their adaptation to and acceptance of their new lives and circumstances. Readers seeking these kinds of narratives and microstudy data will be the best served by The Resilient Self." * Journal of Asian Studies *“The Resilient Self contains many fascinating vignettes about the experiences of Taiwanese immigrant women in the United States. It also highlights the effect immigration can have on the mental health of women..Its theoretical framing…holds promise for future work in migration studies.” * Gender & Society *Table of Contents1. Introduction 1 2. Immigration, Culture, Gender, and the Self 17 3. Searching for Self in the New Land 38 4. Negotiating Egalitarianism 69 5. Performing Confucian Patriarchy 95 6. Fighting for Dignity and Respect in Racialized America 127 7. Suffering and the Resilient Self 154 Acknowledgments 165 Appendix: Demographic Information of Subjects 167 Notes 171 References 181 Index 191

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Book SynopsisJudson G. Everitt takes readers into the everyday worlds of teacher training. Using rich qualitative data, he analyzes how people make sense of their prospective jobs as teachers, and how their introduction to this profession is shaped by the institutionalized rules and practices of higher education, K-12 education, and gender. Trade Review"An excellent and exciting addition to the field. Lesson Plans makes important contributions to existing work through its treatment of teacher education programs as sites of cultural negotiation between future teachers and the institutional and organizational expectations for their teaching." -- Lisa M. Nunn * author of Defining Student Success *"Lesson Plans is a rich and wonderful study, perhaps the most interesting treatise on teachers since Lortie's seminal Schoolteacher." -- Tim Hallett * Indiana University *"A remarkably informative and exceptionally insightful study that is impressively accessible in both organization and presentation, Lesson Plans is a unique and critically important addition both college and university library Teacher Education collections and supplemental studies lists." * Midwest Book Review *"Lesson Plans is a much-needed addition to the body of work on professional socialization, and can be taught both for its topical focus as well as an example of how to use qualitative data to construct arguments that link levels of analysis." * Symbolic Interaction *"Everitt’s ethnographic analysis offers a novel look at how teacher candidates respond to accountability standards." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Social Institutions and the Professional Socialization of New Teachers 1 1 Compulsory Education and Constructivist Pedagogy 22 2 The Challenges and Assumptions of Adapting to All Students 48 3 Accountability and Bureaucracy 72 4 Dilemmas of Coverage and Control 95 5 The Injunction to Adapt, Autonomy, and Diversity of Practice 118 6 The Demands of Becoming a Teacher 142 Appendix: Site, Context, and My Role As an Ethnographer 165 Acknowledgments 179 Notes 181 Bibliography 197 Index 207

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Book SynopsisJudson G. Everitt takes readers into the everyday worlds of teacher training. Using rich qualitative data, he analyzes how people make sense of their prospective jobs as teachers, and how their introduction to this profession is shaped by the institutionalized rules and practices of higher education, K-12 education, and gender. Trade Review"An excellent and exciting addition to the field. Lesson Plans makes important contributions to existing work through its treatment of teacher education programs as sites of cultural negotiation between future teachers and the institutional and organizational expectations for their teaching." -- Lisa M. Nunn * author of Defining Student Success *"Lesson Plans is a rich and wonderful study, perhaps the most interesting treatise on teachers since Lortie's seminal Schoolteacher." -- Tim Hallett * Indiana University *"A remarkably informative and exceptionally insightful study that is impressively accessible in both organization and presentation, Lesson Plans is a unique and critically important addition both college and university library Teacher Education collections and supplemental studies lists." * Midwest Book Review *"Lesson Plans is a much-needed addition to the body of work on professional socialization, and can be taught both for its topical focus as well as an example of how to use qualitative data to construct arguments that link levels of analysis." * Symbolic Interaction *"Everitt’s ethnographic analysis offers a novel look at how teacher candidates respond to accountability standards." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Social Institutions and the Professional Socialization of New Teachers 1 1 Compulsory Education and Constructivist Pedagogy 22 2 The Challenges and Assumptions of Adapting to All Students 48 3 Accountability and Bureaucracy 72 4 Dilemmas of Coverage and Control 95 5 The Injunction to Adapt, Autonomy, and Diversity of Practice 118 6 The Demands of Becoming a Teacher 142 Appendix: Site, Context, and My Role As an Ethnographer 165 Acknowledgments 179 Notes 181 Bibliography 197 Index 207

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Book SynopsisPsychiatric Encounters presents an intimate portrait of a public inpatient psychiatric facility in the Southeastern state of Yucatan, Mexico. The book explores the experiences of patients and psychiatrists as they navigate the challenges of public psychiatric care in Mexico.Trade Review“This ethnography of a single psychiatric hospital broadens into a trenchant critique of the persistence of colonial structures in the Mexican state and the psyche of its citizens. Reyes-Foster analyzes intimate clinical encounters through a double optic: Mexico’s neoliberal political economy and its ambivalent modernization. The book is ultimately a tragic story of how subjective, institutional and national fractures all mirror each other. But its intellectual breadth–from Fanon to Foucault to contemporary indigenous anthropology–charts a new course for the cultural study of psychiatry.” -- Paul E. Brodwin * author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Lines of Community Psychiatry *“A bold and original study of a mental asylum in Mexico. Theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich, Reyes-Foster links discourses and experiences of coloniality, madness and modernity in creative, important ways.” -- Angela Garcia * author of The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande *"Recommended." * Choice *"A welcome intervention to psychiatric anthropology as well as to the field of global mental health." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"The clear strength of Psychiatric Encounters lies in its complex yet compelling account of how relations of power shaping contemporary psychiatric practice are products of Mexico's troublesome histories of coloniality and neoliberal modernity." * American Anthropologist *“This ethnography of a single psychiatric hospital broadens into a trenchant critique of the persistence of colonial structures in the Mexican state and the psyche of its citizens. Reyes-Foster analyzes intimate clinical encounters through a double optic: Mexico’s neoliberal political economy and its ambivalent modernization. The book is ultimately a tragic story of how subjective, institutional and national fractures all mirror each other. But its intellectual breadth–from Fanon to Foucault to contemporary indigenous anthropology–charts a new course for the cultural study of psychiatry.” -- Paul E. Brodwin * author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Lines of Community Psychiatry *“A bold and original study of a mental asylum in Mexico. Theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich, Reyes-Foster links discourses and experiences of coloniality, madness and modernity in creative, important ways.” -- Angela Garcia * author of The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande *"Recommended." * Choice *"A welcome intervention to psychiatric anthropology as well as to the field of global mental health." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"The clear strength of Psychiatric Encounters lies in its complex yet compelling account of how relations of power shaping contemporary psychiatric practice are products of Mexico's troublesome histories of coloniality and neoliberal modernity." * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Text Foreword 1 Introduction: Las Lomas at the Threshold of Modernity 2 Coloniality, La Zona del Estar, and Yucatan’s Maya Heritage 3 Making the Matrix 4 Modernity: Problem and Promise of Mexican Psychiatry 5 Psychiatric Encounters 6 In the Heart of Madness 7 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisPsychiatric Encounters presents an intimate portrait of a public inpatient psychiatric facility in the Southeastern state of Yucatan, Mexico. The book explores the experiences of patients and psychiatrists as they navigate the challenges of public psychiatric care in Mexico.Trade Review“This ethnography of a single psychiatric hospital broadens into a trenchant critique of the persistence of colonial structures in the Mexican state and the psyche of its citizens. Reyes-Foster analyzes intimate clinical encounters through a double optic: Mexico’s neoliberal political economy and its ambivalent modernization. The book is ultimately a tragic story of how subjective, institutional and national fractures all mirror each other. But its intellectual breadth–from Fanon to Foucault to contemporary indigenous anthropology–charts a new course for the cultural study of psychiatry.” -- Paul E. Brodwin * author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Lines of Community Psychiatry *“A bold and original study of a mental asylum in Mexico. Theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich, Reyes-Foster links discourses and experiences of coloniality, madness and modernity in creative, important ways.” -- Angela Garcia * author of The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande *"Recommended." * Choice *"A welcome intervention to psychiatric anthropology as well as to the field of global mental health." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"The clear strength of Psychiatric Encounters lies in its complex yet compelling account of how relations of power shaping contemporary psychiatric practice are products of Mexico's troublesome histories of coloniality and neoliberal modernity." * American Anthropologist *“This ethnography of a single psychiatric hospital broadens into a trenchant critique of the persistence of colonial structures in the Mexican state and the psyche of its citizens. Reyes-Foster analyzes intimate clinical encounters through a double optic: Mexico’s neoliberal political economy and its ambivalent modernization. The book is ultimately a tragic story of how subjective, institutional and national fractures all mirror each other. But its intellectual breadth–from Fanon to Foucault to contemporary indigenous anthropology–charts a new course for the cultural study of psychiatry.” -- Paul E. Brodwin * author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Lines of Community Psychiatry *“A bold and original study of a mental asylum in Mexico. Theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich, Reyes-Foster links discourses and experiences of coloniality, madness and modernity in creative, important ways.” -- Angela Garcia * author of The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande *"Recommended." * Choice *"A welcome intervention to psychiatric anthropology as well as to the field of global mental health." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"The clear strength of Psychiatric Encounters lies in its complex yet compelling account of how relations of power shaping contemporary psychiatric practice are products of Mexico's troublesome histories of coloniality and neoliberal modernity." * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Text Foreword 1 Introduction: Las Lomas at the Threshold of Modernity 2 Coloniality, La Zona del Estar, and Yucatan’s Maya Heritage 3 Making the Matrix 4 Modernity: Problem and Promise of Mexican Psychiatry 5 Psychiatric Encounters 6 In the Heart of Madness 7 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisA gripping ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, anthropologist Stéphanie Larchanché explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to migrants.Trade Review"Cultural Anxieties provides rich food for thought on a range of topics, but its greatest contribution lies in the book’s nuanced analysis of the distinctive approach to “cultural competence” undergirding Centre Minkowska’s work. A timely, fascinating, and vitally important ethnography that elegantly captures the heart of Centre Minkowska’s ethos as well as its distinct approach to cultural competence."— EuropeNow “Stéphanie Larchanché’s Cultural Anxieties is a timely and compelling account not only of contemporary French politics of mental health, difference, and migration, but also of a broad and pervasive sense of anxious living which informs and shape the institutional practices of care and cure in many Western liberal democracies. Larchanché is particularly well positioned – both as a medical anthropologist and as a therapist – to reflect upon the work of anxiety within and outside clinical settings, providing an important ethnography of the contemporary.” — Cristiana Giordano, author of Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy "Cultural Anxieties offers a nuanced, thoughtful and engaged anthropological look at the management of cultural difference in a country where universalism is the national ideology. Taking the transcultural psychiatry clinic as a laboratory and a site of contestation, Larchanché refuses easy critiques, instead drawing attention to the difficult work of everyday care, and how it can build a politics of hospitality in the face of racism, injustice and inequality." — Miriam Ticktin, author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in FranceTable of ContentsForeword by Lenore Manderson List of Abbreviations / Glossary Introduction: Cultural Anxieties A Day at Centre Minkowska Part I The Context 1 A Genealogy of “Migrant Suffering” 2 Transcultural Practice at Centre Minkowska Part II Referral Narratives and Ethical Double-Binds 3 Cultural and Linguistic Difference as Obstacles to Care 4 Managing “Migrant Youth” Part III Ethical Deliberations 5 Enacting Cultural Competence 6 Psychotherapy at the Borderland 7 Beyond Anxieties: Praxis Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCultural Anxieties is a compelling ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, Stéphanie Larchanché explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to migrants, and she identifies practical routes for improving caregiving practices.Trade Review“Stéphanie Larchanché’s Cultural Anxieties is a timely and compelling account not only of contemporary French politics of mental health, difference, and migration, but also of a broad and pervasive sense of anxious living which informs and shape the institutional practices of care and cure in many Western liberal democracies. Larchanché is particularly well positioned – both as a medical anthropologist and as a therapist – to reflect upon the work of anxiety within and outside clinical settings, providing an important ethnography of the contemporary.” -- Cristiana Giordano * author of Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy *"Cultural Anxieties offers a nuanced, thoughtful and engaged anthropological look at the management of cultural difference in a country where universalism is the national ideology. Taking the transcultural psychiatry clinic as a laboratory and a site of contestation, Larchanché refuses easy critiques, instead drawing attention to the difficult work of everyday care, and how it can build a politics of hospitality in the face of racism, injustice and inequality." -- Miriam Ticktin * author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France *"Cultural Anxieties provides rich food for thought on a range of topics, but its greatest contribution lies in the book’s nuanced analysis of the distinctive approach to “cultural competence” undergirding Centre Minkowska’s work. A timely, fascinating, and vitally important ethnography that elegantly captures the heart of Centre Minkowska’s ethos as well as its distinct approach to cultural competence." * EuropeNow *“Stéphanie Larchanché’s Cultural Anxieties is a timely and compelling account not only of contemporary French politics of mental health, difference, and migration, but also of a broad and pervasive sense of anxious living which informs and shape the institutional practices of care and cure in many Western liberal democracies. Larchanché is particularly well positioned – both as a medical anthropologist and as a therapist – to reflect upon the work of anxiety within and outside clinical settings, providing an important ethnography of the contemporary.” -- Cristiana Giordano * author of Migrants in Translation: Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy *"Cultural Anxieties offers a nuanced, thoughtful and engaged anthropological look at the management of cultural difference in a country where universalism is the national ideology. Taking the transcultural psychiatry clinic as a laboratory and a site of contestation, Larchanché refuses easy critiques, instead drawing attention to the difficult work of everyday care, and how it can build a politics of hospitality in the face of racism, injustice and inequality." -- Miriam Ticktin * author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France *"Cultural Anxieties provides rich food for thought on a range of topics, but its greatest contribution lies in the book’s nuanced analysis of the distinctive approach to “cultural competence” undergirding Centre Minkowska’s work. A timely, fascinating, and vitally important ethnography that elegantly captures the heart of Centre Minkowska’s ethos as well as its distinct approach to cultural competence." * EuropeNow *Table of ContentsForeword by Lenore Manderson List of Abbreviations / Glossary Introduction: Cultural Anxieties A Day at Centre Minkowska Part I The Context 1 A Genealogy of “Migrant Suffering” 2 Transcultural Practice at Centre Minkowska Part II Referral Narratives and Ethical Double-Binds 3 Cultural and Linguistic Difference as Obstacles to Care 4 Managing “Migrant Youth” Part III Ethical Deliberations 5 Enacting Cultural Competence 6 Psychotherapy at the Borderland 7 Beyond Anxieties: Praxis Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMissing from debates over what caused the rise in childhood obesity and how to fix it are the children themselves. By investigating how contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children.Trade Review"Weighty Problems is an engaging and well-written exploration of the ways in which current cultural framings of childhood obesity are experienced by children. In focusing on how children navigate the cultural meanings of fatness, Backstrom shows that the internalization of these messages carries over into adulthood." -- Natalie Boero * author of Killer Fat *"Fat camps are ostensibly designed to help kids lose weight by a compulsory diet. Like every other diet, it does not work. What the kids take away and keep is that their self-worth depends on their body size and that they do not measure up to societal expectations, learning that they must change themselves rather than celebrate what makes us all different. Weighty Problems is a wake-up call to adults to rethink what we are teaching children. A must-read for those interested in child health and well-being." -- Abigail C. Saguy * author of What’s Wrong with Fat? *"Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsContents 1 Embodied Inequality, Childhood Obesity, and the “Problem Child” 2 Studying Camp Odyssey 3 Learning Embodied Inequality through Social Comparisons 4 “It’s Not A Fat Camp:” The Decision to Attend Camp 5 Change Your Body, Change Yourself: Camp Resocialization 6 The Benefits of Weight Loss Camp…and the Dark Side 7 “They Were Born Lucky:” Weight Attribution among the Campers 8 Conclusion Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisBy investigating how contemporary cultural discourses of childhood obesity are experienced by children, Laura Backstrom illustrates how deeply fat stigma is internalized during the early socialization experiences of children.Trade Review"Weighty Problems is an engaging and well-written exploration of the ways in which current cultural framings of childhood obesity are experienced by children. In focusing on how children navigate the cultural meanings of fatness, Backstrom shows that the internalization of these messages carries over into adulthood." -- Natalie Boero * author of Killer Fat *"Fat camps are ostensibly designed to help kids lose weight by a compulsory diet. Like every other diet, it does not work. What the kids take away and keep is that their self-worth depends on their body size and that they do not measure up to societal expectations, learning that they must change themselves rather than celebrate what makes us all different. Weighty Problems is a wake-up call to adults to rethink what we are teaching children. A must-read for those interested in child health and well-being." -- Abigail C. Saguy * author of What’s Wrong with Fat? *"Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsContents 1 Embodied Inequality, Childhood Obesity, and the “Problem Child” 2 Studying Camp Odyssey 3 Learning Embodied Inequality through Social Comparisons 4 “It’s Not A Fat Camp:” The Decision to Attend Camp 5 Change Your Body, Change Yourself: Camp Resocialization 6 The Benefits of Weight Loss Camp…and the Dark Side 7 “They Were Born Lucky:” Weight Attribution among the Campers 8 Conclusion Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisProvides a much-needed analysis for those seeking to understand how Muslim youth and other groups of immigrant youth negotiate their identities as AmericansTrade ReviewThis work complexly and richly captures the diversity in the lived identities of Muslim-American youth, highlighting the power and potential of mixed methodologies in studying the phenomenon of life on the hyphen. * Harvard Educational Review *This book provides a unique, powerful, rich, and nuanced understanding of identity development among Muslim-American youth. The publication of Muslim American Youth is a landmark event in developmental science. -- Richard M. Lerner,Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science, Tufts UniversitySirin and Fine...render visible the complex lives of a profoundly maligned and misunderstood group—Muslim-American youth. They deploy surveys, focus groups, in-depth interviews, and identity maps to explore how Muslim-American youth are creating and re-creating themselves within these politically and socially charged times . . . This is a must read. -- M. Brinton Lykes,Lynch School of Education and Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Boston CollegeThis book will be particularly useful for any professional who needs well-researched support for what their instinct tells them their community needs. * VOYA Voices of Youth Advocates *With heart and eloquence, the authors illuminate vital concerns about our society’s treatment of Muslim-American youth. * Youth Today *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Carola Suarez-Orozco: Designated "Others": Young, Muslim, and American Growing Up in the Shadow of Moral Exclusion Meet Aisha: Challenging and Laughing Her Way through Suspicion, Surveillance, and Low Expectations Muslim Americans: History, Demography, and Diversity Meet Sahar: A Hyphen with Holes in It...Allowing Her to Sometimes Fall Through Moral Exclusion in a "Nation of Immigrants": An American Paradox Meet Yeliz: A Young Woman of Conviction, Distinct across Contexts The Weight of the Hyphen: Discrimination and Coping Meet Ayyad: "A Regular Cute Guy" Negotiating the Muslim American Hyphen: Integrated, Parallel, and Conflictual Paths Meet Taliya: Seeking Safe Spaces for Social Analysis and Action Contact Zones: Negotiating the Space between Self and Others Meet Masood: Grounded in Islam, Crossing Borders 7 Researching Hyphenated Selves across Contexts Appendix A: Survey Measures Appendix B: Individual Interview Protocol Appendix C: Focus-Group Protocols Appendix D: Identity Maps Coding Sheet Notes References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisReveals the artistic subjectivity of the scientific notion of depression.Trade Review"The Aesthetics of Disengagement is the only book on contemporary art that provides a satisfying and profound theory of why art looks the way it does today and how this art is related to broader and deeper structures of subjectivity and meaning in North American and European culture." -Amelia Jones, author of Body Art/Performing the SubjectTable of ContentsContents List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Withering of Melancholia2. The Laboratory3. Image-Screens, or the Aesthetic Strategy of Disengagement4. Nothing to See?5. Against the De-mentalization of the Subject NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTwins Talk is an ethnographic study of identical twins in the United States, a study unique in that it considers what twins have to say about themselves, instead of what researchers have written about them.Trade Review“Twins as well as students of anthropology, sociology, and psychology will enjoy this study that differs from others in its blend of personal experiences and scholarship.” * Library Journal *“Davis’s affective, autoethnographic proximity to her interviewees is at once an engaging and revealing feature of this book. … Twins Talk is an invaluable record of a particularly voluble minority of festival-going twins who are willing, eager, and capable of presenting themselves as talking twins, sympathetic to their biographies being raised to anthropological significance.” * American Anthropologist *“Twins Talk … is a valuable and much needed contribution to scholarly work on twins. It suggests intriguing new directions for anthropological research on a topic that has been predominantly explored from biomedical and psychological perspectives. … With this book, Davis gives a compelling demonstration of the value of studying twins as twins, and shows that twins’ life stories—not just their genomes—are rich with meaning and worthy of analysis.” * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“Dona Lee Davis adds the perspective of identical twins to the domain of ‘twins research,’ which is mostly research on twins. In her book, she presents the voices of twins, with their always interesting, often entertaining, and at times upsetting stories, views, and accounts of their lives alone and with each other.”“Dona Lee Davis, an established anthropologist and identical twin, offers an insightful critical and cultural analysis of twin research and twinship while highlighting what twins tell us about our ‘selves.’ Most importantly the voices of twins are heard loud and clear.”

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