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Book SynopsisMathew Creighton develops a new model for understanding xenophobia by shining a light on the layers of intolerance concealed beneath the surface.Trade ReviewMathew Creighton has written a wonderful and potent book on the ways in which xenophobia and stigmatization pervade modern societies. He carefully unpacks how context-specific factors shape the ways xenophobia is covertly or overtly expressed and sanctioned by political elites and institutions. Anyone interested in the persistence of the marginalization of minority groups must read this book. -- Amaney A. Jamal, author of Of Empires and Citizens: Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All?Hidden Hate is an outstanding book on contemporary xenophobia and xenophobes. It shows that xenophobe beliefs are strategic: they can be hidden or out in the open, and they depend on the context. This book is unmatched in its deep sociological thinking about xenophobia, and it deserves serious attention from social scientists, policy makers, and many others. -- Katharine M. Donato, coauthor of Gender and International Migration: From the Slavery Era to the Global AgeThis brilliant book discusses the challenges of measuring xenophobia in contemporary Western societies. While the open expression of xenophobic feelings and attitudes is generally frowned upon in liberal societies, this does not mean that xenophobia has vanished. In many cases it has just become more difficult to observe directly. Creighton presents innovative, methodologically rigorous ways to measure xenophobia and discusses the importance of social context for its overt and covert expression. A must-read for any student of attitudes toward minorities. -- Zan Strabac, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyMathew Creighton's innovative analysis of the xenophobe and xenophobia is both theoretically and empirically rich. He skillfully investigates anti-immigrant attitudes in Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States, parsing their overt and covert dimensions. This is sociology at its finest. -- Edward Telles, coauthor of The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade, and Racial Politics in US-Mexico IntegrationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. A Practical and Theoretical Perspective on Xenophobic Expression1. Who Is the Xenophobe?2. The Stigma of IntolerancePart II. Economic Populism and the Politics of Xenophobic Expression3. If There Are No Dogs, Why Whistle? Intolerance and the Xenophobic Seeds of Populism4. Referenda and Borders: Brexit and the Role of the Xenophobe in the Division of EuropePart III. Race, Religion, and Refugees: The Expression of Targeted Intolerance5. Color-Blind or Intentionally Looking Away?6. Behind a Veil of Intolerance: Islamophobia and Overt Xenophobic Expression7. People, Immigrants, and RefugeesConclusion. Multiple Layers, Legal Remedies, Anonymous ActsAppendix 1. Chapter 3 Survey Experiment: The United States Before and After the Financial CrisisAppendix 2. Chapters 4 and 6 Survey Experiments: The United Kingdom Before and After the Brexit ReferendumAppendix 3. Chapter 5 Survey Experiments: Race and Ethnicity in Ireland and the NetherlandsAppendix 4. Chapter 6 Survey Experiments: Muslim Migrants in the United States, Ireland, and the NetherlandsAppendix 5. Chapter 7 Survey Experiment: People, Immigrants, and Refugees in NorwayNotes

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Book SynopsisMathew Creighton develops a new model for understanding xenophobia by shining a light on the layers of intolerance concealed beneath the surface.Trade ReviewMathew Creighton has written a wonderful and potent book on the ways in which xenophobia and stigmatization pervade modern societies. He carefully unpacks how context-specific factors shape the ways xenophobia is covertly or overtly expressed and sanctioned by political elites and institutions. Anyone interested in the persistence of the marginalization of minority groups must read this book. -- Amaney A. Jamal, author of Of Empires and Citizens: Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All?Hidden Hate is an outstanding book on contemporary xenophobia and xenophobes. It shows that xenophobe beliefs are strategic: they can be hidden or out in the open, and they depend on the context. This book is unmatched in its deep sociological thinking about xenophobia, and it deserves serious attention from social scientists, policy makers, and many others. -- Katharine M. Donato, coauthor of Gender and International Migration: From the Slavery Era to the Global AgeThis brilliant book discusses the challenges of measuring xenophobia in contemporary Western societies. While the open expression of xenophobic feelings and attitudes is generally frowned upon in liberal societies, this does not mean that xenophobia has vanished. In many cases it has just become more difficult to observe directly. Creighton presents innovative, methodologically rigorous ways to measure xenophobia and discusses the importance of social context for its overt and covert expression. A must-read for any student of attitudes toward minorities. -- Zan Strabac, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyMathew Creighton's innovative analysis of the xenophobe and xenophobia is both theoretically and empirically rich. He skillfully investigates anti-immigrant attitudes in Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States, parsing their overt and covert dimensions. This is sociology at its finest. -- Edward Telles, coauthor of The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade, and Racial Politics in US-Mexico IntegrationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. A Practical and Theoretical Perspective on Xenophobic Expression1. Who Is the Xenophobe?2. The Stigma of IntolerancePart II. Economic Populism and the Politics of Xenophobic Expression3. If There Are No Dogs, Why Whistle? Intolerance and the Xenophobic Seeds of Populism4. Referenda and Borders: Brexit and the Role of the Xenophobe in the Division of EuropePart III. Race, Religion, and Refugees: The Expression of Targeted Intolerance5. Color-Blind or Intentionally Looking Away?6. Behind a Veil of Intolerance: Islamophobia and Overt Xenophobic Expression7. People, Immigrants, and RefugeesConclusion. Multiple Layers, Legal Remedies, Anonymous ActsAppendix 1. Chapter 3 Survey Experiment: The United States Before and After the Financial CrisisAppendix 2. Chapters 4 and 6 Survey Experiments: The United Kingdom Before and After the Brexit ReferendumAppendix 3. Chapter 5 Survey Experiments: Race and Ethnicity in Ireland and the NetherlandsAppendix 4. Chapter 6 Survey Experiments: Muslim Migrants in the United States, Ireland, and the NetherlandsAppendix 5. Chapter 7 Survey Experiment: People, Immigrants, and Refugees in NorwayNotes

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Book SynopsisWhy is soccer the sport of choice in South America while baseball soared to popularity in the Caribbean? How did cricket become India''s national sport? Why is China a stronghold of table tennis? Maarten Van Bottenburg asserts that a hidden competition of social and international relations, rather than the particular qualities of a given sport, explains who plays what sport and why. Looking at Britain, Germany, the United States, and Japan, Van Bottenburg discusses how individual sports developed, what institutions and groups spread them to other nations, and why certain sports and not others found an international audience. As he shows, the nature of the relationship between the country of origin and the adopting country help determine how successfully a sport takes hold and to what degree new practitioners modify it. Other key factors include which groups dominated and promoted the various sports in their countries of origin, which groups appropriated them elsewhere, and the latteTrade Review"These data constitute the best available basis for this study, which is organized by sport and country. Although Van Bottenburg at first dismisses as simplistic factors such as climate, geography, religion, and economics, by the end of the book, he takes these factors--in combination with considerations, such as specific agencies, social class, cultural hegemony, and history--into consideration and expertly weaves them together." --Choice"Van Bottenburg has compiled this impressive study to find out how and why a specific sport finds popularity in one country but not another. . . . An insightful, academic look at why we play."--MultiCultural Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Packs the emotive power of a zillion 'race' memoirs precisely because it is the story of what happened when black and white workers collectively challenged the powers-that-be in the meanest city in the South."--Robin D. G. Kelley, The Nation"A vitally important contribution to the scholarly debate about the relationship between class and race in American history."--Bruce Nelson, Journal of American History"Among the best and most ambitious recent works on labor in the South. . . . Few readers of this book are likely to remain unmoved by Honey's account of the exceptional sacrifice, courage, and vision displayed by labor activists in Memphis."--Georgia Historical Quarterly"Sheds considerable light on numerous themes of importance to historians of a multiplicity of specialties, from labor and African American history, to historians of the South and twentieth-century America."--Labor History"A well-researched and carefully written book. . . . Anyone interested in the Southern labor movement must consult this work."--Mississippi Quarterly"A major contribution to the history of labor, race relations, and the twentieth-century South. . . . Honey vividly brings the labor movement to life and places Memphis in the wider context of southern and national history."--Pete Daniel, author of The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969"A major new study of how the Solid South restrained social reform and labor's strength in New Deal America."--David Montgomery, author of The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925Table of ContentsAcknowledgements xi INTRODUCTION: Labor and Civil Rights 1 I: Southern Apartheid and the Labor Movement ONE: Segregation and Southern Labor 13 TWO: No Bill of Rights in Memphis 44 II: Labor's Struggle for the Right to Organize THREE: The Rise and Repression of Industrial Unionism 67 FOUR: Black and White Unite 93 FIVE: Race, Radicalism, and the CIO 117 SIX: Black Scares and Red Scares 145 III: Industrial Unionism and the Black Freedom Movement SEVEN: War in the Factories 177 EIGHT: The CIO at the Crossroads 214 NINE: The Cold War against Labor and Civil Rights 245 CONCLUSION: Legacies 279 Abbreviations 293 Notes 295 Primary Sources Consulted 349 Index 353

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Book SynopsisCapturing the strident activist’s complexity during a formative period.Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2004. "Mesmerizing letters from the days when birth control was legally obscene and jail sentences were regularly given out for talking about it in public. Nearly a century ago, Margaret Sanger was defending woman's 'ownership of her own body' and linking access to contraception to civil liberties and personal freedom. Rights we take for granted have a long and sometimes surprising history that comes clear on these pages. Required reading for our own time, whichever side of Roe v. Wade you are on."-- Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship"These wonderful letters, diary excerpts, and essays dramatize women's long struggle for respect, self-awareness, independence, influence, and control over our bodies and our lives. To contemplate Margaret Sanger's harsh reality and the enduring vision of this courageous pioneer--while the war against women escalates on every front--is a heartening and galvanizing act of rebellion. Esther Katz and her splendid team have given us all a very great gift." -- Blanche Wiesen Cook, University Distinguished Professor, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and the author of Eleanor Roosevelt, volumes 1 and 2"This engrossing volume, meticulously edited and selected, captures Margaret Sanger in all her complexity during a formative period in her long career. Open to practically any page, and something will grab your historical attention."-- Susan Ware, editor of Notable American Women, volume 5 "[Katz et al.] have done their editing with scrupulous care, they have annotated the documents they reproduce with monk-like dispassion. . . . Sanger is a thoroughly fascinating figure, and the book makes for compulsive reading."--David Tell, The Weekly Standard "The work of Katz and her team is critical for a fuller understanding of first-wave feminism, family planning, and one of the century's most interesting women."-- Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering “Birth control was understood to be a tool of working-class liberation that would stall the capitalist engine and improve wages by limiting the supply of future workers. How the birth control movement (and, it could be argued the Left in general) began with such radical, expansive politics, and devolved into a struggle for the much narrower goal of individual privacy, is just one of the fascinating stories that will develop across this four-volume set of Margaret Sanger’s papers. . . . Every document is scrupulously annotated to identify unfamiliar people, places, events, and terminology. . . . An absorbing volume that provides an excellent introduction to Sanger’s life and work for the novice as well as an edifying source for the serious researcher.”-- Social Service Review“Because Sanger knew everyone in the world associated directly with sexual reform or research and, for a time, was very active in radical politics, her range of correspondents was enormous, from sexologists such as Havelock Ellis, to birth control pioneers such as Mary Stopes, to the communist Emma Goldman, the labor organizer Big Bill Haywood, the philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr., and writers and intellectuals such as H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw. . . . [The project] is scholarship at its highest level and when complete will be a standard work of reference for anyone interested in the development of birth control or the history of sex education not only in the United States but also in the rest of the world. It will also record the life of one of the most influential women of the twentieth century.”-- Archives of Sexual Behavior“This collection is a welcome addition to Sanger scholarship. It allows readers to explore all aspects of her complex life and ideas. Readers might find her admirable and inspiring, then turn the page and find her maddening, arrogant, or irresponsible. Introductions to each section add context; readers can provide their own interpretations. The collection offers a wonderful window into Sanger and the early-20th-century U.S.”-- CHOICE

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Book SynopsisCaught in the whirlwind of the postindustrial revolution, many members of today's labor force look upon the changing job landscape and feel displaced and devalued. Robert Sessions and Jack Wortman have compiled this selection of humanities readings to explore the many ways that work shapes and defines us, and to anticipate the ever-changing demands of the contemporary workplace. Although the humanities approach to studying work offers no predictions, statistics, or prognostications, it provides images and visions that aid in understanding the multiple meanings, values, and effects of work.Working in America is organized into three sections. Section I examines in detail the personal dimensions that underlie our experiences of work. Its purpose is to help the reader imagine, conceptualize, and deal with issues concerning work. Here the focus is on immediate experiences of work. Section II is concerned with broader social and historical questions and offers a brief lookTrade Review"Working in America will help all of us to realize more fully how our fundamental humanity is shaped by our work and how our work reflects our human values, meanings, aspirations, and perspectives." —John Walsh, Pueblo Community College"Presents a collection of poems, essays, and excerpts from literary works in order to explore the ways that work shapes and defines workers and to anticipate the changing demands of the contemporary workplace." —Journal of Economic Literature

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a lifetime of inquiry, travel, and teaching, Philip Wagner asserts that the drive for Geltung—personal standing, recognition, acceptance, esteem, and influence—shapes all of our interactions and defines the unique social character of human beinTable of Contents Preface Introduction. The Geltung Hypothesis One. Bodies Influence Bodies Two. Provocation Produces Results Three. Acts of Display Four. Show and Tell Five. Proverbial Geltung Six. Actions Speak Louder Seven. Selective Impressions Eight. Getting Around Nine. Spread the Word Ten. Working Together Eleven. Sources of Power Twelve. Limits of Force Thirteen. Borrowed Energies Fourteen. Conclusions Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn innovative and accessible guide to poetry writing by an award-winning poet and beloved professor.

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Book SynopsisIn the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the seamstress. Today, it has come for the writer, professor, physician, programmer and attorney

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This wide-ranging collection provides timely historiographical entry points to some of the most lively conversations in the field of African history, as well as case studies illustrating contemporary methodological approaches."D. McNutt, University of Tennessee ChattanoogaCHOICE, May 2019Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix 1 Introduction: Identities and (Mis)Representations 1William H. Worger PART I THE PERSONAL 13 2 Tracing the Roots of Common Sense about Sexuality in Africa 15Marc Epprecht 3 Masculinities 35Stephan F. Miescher 4 Colonialism, Christianity, and Personhood 59Nimi Wariboko 5 Settler Societies 77Nicola Ginsburgh and Will Jackson PART II WOMEN’S ROLES IN INSTITUTIONS OF POWER 93 6 Women, Authority, and Power in Precolonial Southeast Africa: The Production and Destruction of Historical Knowledge on Queen Mother Ntombazi of the Ndwandwe 95Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu 7 Love, Courtship, and Marriage in Africa 119Nwando Achebe 8 Slavery and Women in Africa: Changing Definitions, Continuing Problems 143Claire C. Robertson PART III FAMILY AND COMMUNITY 161 9 Kinship in African History 163James L. Giblin 10 Ethnicity in Southern Africa 179Michael R. Mahoney 11 Ethnicity and Race in African Thought 199Jonathon Glassman 12 Islam in African History 225Sean Hanretta and Shobana Shankar 13 Refugees in African History 247Brett Shadle PART IV AFRICANS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT 265 14 Science in Africa: A History of Ingenuity and Invention in African Iron Technology 267Peter R. Schmidt 15 Africa and Environmental History 28Gregory H. Maddox 16 Health and Medicine in African History 307Karen E. Flint 17 Wealth and Poverty in African History 329Morten Jerven PART V AFRICANS AND THE WORLD 351 18 The Idea of the Atlantic World from an Africanist Perspective 353Walter Hawthorne 19 Swahili Literature and the Writing of African History 367Ann Biersteker 20 Africa and the Cold War 383Timothy Scarnecchia 21 The Horn of Africa from the Cold War to the War on Terror 401Awet T. Weldemichael PART VI AFRICAN SELF‐REPRESENTATIONS 419 22 The Art of Memory and the Chancery of Sinnar 421Jay Spaulding 23 Apartheid Forgotten and Remembered 431Nancy L. Clark and William H. Worger 24 Cultural Resistance on Robben Island: Songs of Struggle and Liberation in Southern Africa 459Neo Lekgotla laga Ramoupi 25 African Historians and Popular Culture 483Charles Ambler Index 501

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Book SynopsisInternational in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction 1Laurie Ouellette Part One Producing Reality: Industry, Labor, and Marketing 9 1 Mapping Commercialization in Reality Television 11June Deery 2 Reality Television and the Political Economy of Amateurism 29Andrew Ross 3 When Everyone Has Their Own Reality Show 40Mark Andrejevic 4 Cast-aways: The Plights and Pleasures of Reality Casting and Production Studies 57Vicki Mayer 5 Program Format Franchising in the Age of Reality Television 74Albert Moran Part Two Television Realities: History, Genre, and Realism 95 6 Realism and Reality Formats 97Jonathan Bignell 7 Reality TV Experiences: Audiences, Fact, and Fiction 116Annette Hill 8 From Participatory Video to Reality Television 134Daniel Marcus 9 Manufacturing “Massness”: Aesthetic Form and Industry Practice in the Reality Television Contest 155Hollis Griffin 10 God, Capitalism, and the Family Dog 171Eileen R. Meehan Part Three Dilemmas of Visibility: Identity and Difference 189 11 The Bachelorette’s Postfeminist Therapy: Transforming Women for Love 191Rachel E. Dubrofsky 12 Fractured Feminism: Articulations of Feminism, Sex, and Class by Reality TV Viewers 208Andrea L. Press 13 “It’s Been a While Since I’ve Seen, Like, Straight People”: Queer Visibility in the Age of Postnetwork Reality Television 227Joshua Gamson 14 The Wild Bunch: Men, Labor, and Reality Television 247Gareth Palmer 15 The Conundrum of Race and Reality Television 264Catherine R. Squires 16 Tan TV: Reality Television’s Postracial Delusion 283Hunter Hargraves Part Four Empowerment or Exploitation? Ordinary People and Reality Television 307 17 Reality Television and the Demotic Turn 309Graeme Turner 18 DI(t)Y, Reality-Style: The Cultural Work of Ordinary Celebrity 324Laura Grindstaff 19 Reality Television’s Construction of Ordinary People: Class-Based and Nonelitist Articulations of Ordinary People and Their Discursive Affordances 345Nico Carpentier Part Five Subjects of Reality: Making/Selling Selves and Lifestyles 367 20 Mapping the Makeover Maze: The Contours and Contradictions of Makeover Television 369Brenda Weber 21 House Hunters, Real Estate Television and Everyday Cosmopolitanism 386Mimi White 22 Life Coaches, Style Mavens, and Design Gurus: Everyday Experts on Reality Television 402Tania Lewis 23 Reality Television Celebrity: Star Consumption and Self-Production in Media Culture 421Julie A. Wilson 24 Producing “Reality”: Branded Content, Branded Selves, Precarious Futures 437Alison Hearn Part Six Affective Registers: Reality, Sentimentality, and Feeling 457 25 A Matter of Feeling: Mediated Affect in Reality Television 459Misha Kavka 26 “Walking in Another’s Shoes”: Sentimentality and Philanthropy on Reality Television 478Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi Part Seven The Politics of Reality: Global Culture, National Identity, and Public Life 499 27 Reality Television, Public Service, and Public Life: A Critical Theory Perspective 501Peter Lunt 28 Reality Talent Shows in China: Transnational Format, Affective Engagement, and the Chinese Dream 516Ling Yang 29 Reality Television from Big Brother to the Arab Uprisings: Neoliberal, Liberal, and Geopolitical Considerations 541Marwan M. Kraidy Index 557

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAbout the Authors vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi 1 Public Relations: Socially Responsible or Work of the Devil 1 2 Role of Theory: Affirming and Advancing Professional Practice 27 3 Excellence Theory: Public Relations as Strategic Communication Management 55 4 Contingency Theory: Strategic Conflict Management 83 5 Rhetorical Theory: Shared Empowerment Through Discourse 115 6 Critical Theory: Critiquing Discourse Processes, Meaning, and Power 143 7 Issues, Crisis, and Risk Communication and Management 173 8 Public Relations and Measurement Challenges 201 9 Public Relations and Ethical Challenges: Being a Saint, Not a Sinner 223 10 Publics, Stakeholders, and Other Voices 249 11 Public Relations and Relationships 275 12 The Role of Public Relations Professionals and Leadership Challenges 301 13 Current Trends and Issues in Building Public Relations Theories 339 Index 369

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Book SynopsisDrugs and the American Dream presents an up-to-date anthology of contemporary readings that explore the myriad sociological correlates of licit and illicit drug use in the U.S. Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, the book addresses topics such as the origins and evolution of drug use in the U.S.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables xi Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Source Acknowledgments xxii About the Editors xxviii About the Contributors xxx Matrix of Drugs Addressed xliii Part I: Perspectives on Drug Use 1 History and Theory 1. Harvey A. Siegal and James A. Inciardi: A Brief History of Alcohol 4 2. David F. Musto: The American Disease: Narcotics in Nineteenth-Century America 9 3. James A. Inciardi and Theodore J. Cicero: Black Beauties, Gorilla Pills, Footballs, and Hillbilly Heroin: Prescription Drug Abuse over the Past 40 Years 18 4. Norman E. Zinberg and Wayne M. Harding: Control and Intoxicant Use: A Theoretical and Practical Overview 24 Drug Scares and Moral Panics 5. Joseph R. Gusfield: Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement 33 6. Craig Reinarman: The Social Construction of Drug Scares 40 7. Justin L. Tuggle and Malcolm D. Holmes: Blowing Smoke: Status Politics and the Smoking Ban 48 8. Dale D. Chitwood, Sheigla Murphy, and Marsha Rosenbaum: Reflections on the Meaning of Drug Epidemics 55 Part II: Social Correlates of Drug Use 61 Race/Ethnicity 9. Todd G. Pierce: Gen-X Junkie: Young White Heroin Users in Washington, DC 64 10. Avelardo Valdez, Kathryn Nowotny, and Alice Cepeda: The Intersection of Drug Use and Crime over the Life Course of Mexican-American Former Gang Members 72 11. Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg: Righteous Dopefi end 80 12. Karen A. Joe Laidler: The Lives and Times of Asian-Pacific American Women Methamphetamine Users 87 13. Paul Spicer: Toward a (Dys)functional Anthropology of Drinking: Ambivalence and the American Indian Experience with Alcohol 94 Social Class 14. Eloise Dunlap, Andrew Golub, and Bruce D. Johnson: The Severely Distressed African American Family in the Crack Era: Empowerment Is Not Enough 102 15. Matthew Petrocelli, Trish Oberweis, and Joseph Petrocelli: Getting Huge, Getting Ripped: An Exploration of Recreational Steroid Use 112 16. Dean A. Dabney and Richard C. Hollinger: Drugged Druggists: The Convergence of Two Criminal Career Trajectories 120 17. A. Rafi k Mohamed and Erik D. Fritsvold: Why Rich Kids Sell Street Drugs: Wankstaz, Wannabes, and Capitalists in Training 131 Gender 18. Katherine Sirles Vecitis: Drugs and Eating Disorders: Women’s Instrumental Drug Use for Weight Control 141 19. Robert L. Peralta: College Alcohol Use and the Embodiment of Hegemonic Masculinity among European American Men 152 20. Monica Hardesty and Timothy Black: Mothering Through Addiction: A Survival Strategy among Puerto Rican Addicts 161 Youth and Aging 21. Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler: Tinydopers: A Case Study of Deviant Socialization 174 22. Meika Loe and Leigh Cuttino: Grappling with the Medicated Self: The Case of ADHD College Students 184 23. Tammy L. Anderson and Judith A. Levy: Marginality among Older Injectors in Today’s Illicit Drug Culture: Assessing the Impact of Ageing 193 24. Miriam Williams Boeri, Claire E. Sterk, and Kirk W. Elifson: Baby Boomer Drug Users: Career Phases, Identity, Self-Concept, and Social Control 203 Part III: Drug Lifestyles 213 Managing Drug Use 25. Brian C. Kelly: Club Drug Use and Risk Management among “Bridge and Tunnel” Youth 215 26. René D. Drumm, Duane C. McBride, Lisa Metsch, Melodie Neufeld, and Alex Sawatsky: “I’m a Health Nut!” Street Drug Users’ Accounts of Self-Care Strategies 224 27. José A. Bauermeister: Latino Gay Men’s Drug Functionality 231 28. Wendy Chapkis: Cannabis, Consciousness, and Healing 240 29. Patricia A. Adler: The Dealing Lifestyle 249 The Economics of Drugs 30. Lisa Maher and Kathleen Daly: Women in the Street-Level Drug Economy: Continuity or Change? 257 31. Steven D. Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh: An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang’s Finances 266 Crime and Violence 32. Paul J. Goldstein: The Drugs/Violence Nexus: A Tripartite Conceptual Framework 277 33. Bruce A. Jacobs, Volkan Topalli, and Richard Wright: Managing Retaliation: Drug Robbery and Informal Sanction Threats 285 34. Stephanie Brophy: Mexico: Cartels, Corruption, and Cocaine: A Profi le of the Gulf Cartel 295 35. Peter Reuter: Systemic Violence in Drug Markets 305 Part IV: Societal Response to Drug Use 313 Education 36. Earl Wysong and David W. Wright: A Decade of DARE: Efficacy, Politics and Drug Education 316 37. Marsha Rosenbaum: Safety First: A Reality-Based Approach to Teens, Drugs, and Drug Education 327 Treatment 38. George De Leon: The Therapeutic Community: Perspective and Approach 336 39. Lee Garth Vigilant: Illness Narratives of Recovering on Methadone Maintenance 344 40. Robert Granfi eld and William Cloud: The Elephant that No One Sees: Natural Recovery among Middle-Class Addicts 351 41. James L. Nolan, Jr: Drug Treatment Courts and the Disease Paradigm 359 Policy 42. Stanton Peele: Reducing Harms from Youth Drinking 370 43. Duane C. McBride, Yvonne Terry-McElrath, Henrick Harwood, James A. Inciardi, and Carl Leukefeld: Refl ections on Drug Policy 378 44. Ethan Nadelmann: Think Again: Drugs 386 45. Harry G. Levine: The Secret of Global Drug Prohibition: Its Uses and Crises 391 Index 400

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Book SynopsisThe Student Study Guide accompanying the ninth edition of Sue Titus Reid''s Criminal Justice Essentials provides a comprehensive resource to aid and enhance student learning. Including chapter outlines, key concepts, and a variety of study questions and answer, the Student Study Guide offers the ideal complement to Criminal Justice Essentials. Represents the most thorough, legally accurate, and best-researched overview of the U.S. criminal justice system available today Anchored within the framework of the legal system and consistently includes legal decisions as a basis for much of its direction Accurately interprets the legal decisions which are cited Utilizes references to current affairs Available in full color, including over 100 color photographs Table of ContentsIntroduction vi Part I Introduction to Criminal Justice Systems 1 1 Criminal Justice: An Overview 2 2 Crime, Offenders, and Victims 22 Part II Entry into Criminal Justice Systems: Policing 43 3 The Emergence and Structure of Police Systems 44 4 Policing in a Modern Society 62 5 Problems and Issues in Policing 82 Part III Processing a Criminal Case: Criminal Court Systems 99 6 Criminal Court Systems 100 7 Prosecution, Defense, and Pretrial Procedures 118 8 Trial, Sentencing, and Appeal 140 Part IV Confi nement and Corrections 161 9 The History and Structure of Confinement 162 10 Life in Prison 180 11 Community Corrections, Probation, and Parole 198 Part V Juvenile Justice: A Special Case 219 12 Juvenile Justice Systems 220 Appendix Answers to the Questions 238

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Book SynopsisCovering philosophical issues ranging from tattooed religious symbols to a feminist aesthetics of tattoo, Tattoos and Philosophy offers an enthusiastic analysis of inking that will lead readers to consider the nature of the tattooing arts in a new and profound way. Contains chapters written by philosophers (most all with tattoos themselves), tattoo artists, and tattoo enthusiasts that touch upon many areas in Western and Eastern philosophy Enlightens people to the nature of tattoos and the tattooing arts, leading readers to think deeply about tattoos in new ways Offers thoughtful and humorous insights that make philosophical ideas accessible to the non-philosopher Trade ReviewReview from The Scotman 8 June 2012Table of ContentsI Ink, Therefore I Foreword x Rocky Rakovic I Am, Therefore I Ink: An Introduction to Tattoos – Philosophy for Everyone: I Ink, Therefore I Am xiv Robert Arp Acknowledgments xxvii SHEET I THE HISTORY AND NATURE OF TATTOOS 1 1 Tattoos and the Tattooing Arts in Perspective: An Overview and Some Preliminary Observations 3 Charles Taliaferro and Mark Odden 2 How to Read a Tattoo, and Other Perilous Quests 14 Juniper Ellis SHEET II TATTOOS AND ART 27 3 Are Tattoos Art? 29 Nicolas Michaud 4 Fleshy Canvas: The Aesthetics of Tattoos from Feminist and Hermeneutical Perspectives 38 Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray and Tanya Rodriguez SHEET III THE TATTOOED WOMAN 51 5 Female Tattoos and Graffiti 53 Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 6 Painted Fetters: Tattooing as Feminist Liberation 65 Nancy Kang SHEET IV PERSONAL IDENTITY 81 7 Tattoo You: Personal Identity in Ink 83 Kyle Fruh and Emily Thomas 8 Illusions of Permanence: Tattoos and the Temporary Self 96 Rachel C. Falkenstern 9 My Tattoo May Be Permanent, But My Memory of It Isn't 109 Clancy Smith SHEET V EXPRESSIONS OF FREEDOM 121 10 Tattoos are Forever: Bodily Freedom and the (Im)possibility of Change 123 Felipe Carvalho 11 Bearing the Marks: How Tattoos Reveal Our Embodied Freedom 135 Jonathan Heaps SHEET VI EXPERIENCES AND STORIES SURROUNDING TATTOOS 149 12 Never Merely 'There': Tattooing as a Practice of Writing and a Telling of Stories 151 Wendy Lynne Lee 13 Something Terribly Flawed: Philosophy and ‘The Illustrated Man' 165 Kevin S. Decker SHEET VII ETHICAL CONCERNS 179 14 The Vice of the Tough Tattoo 181 Jennifer Baker 15 To Ink, or Not To Ink: Tattoos and Bioethics 193 Daniel Miori 16 Writing on the Body: The Modern Morality of the Tattoo 206 Simon Woods SHEET VIII EASTERN AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES 219 17 Is a Tattoo a Sign of Impiety? 221 Adam Barkman 18 Confessions of a Tattooed Buddhist Philosopher 230 Joseph J. Lynch 19 An Atheist and a Theist Discuss a Cross Tattoo and God's Existence 242 Robert Arp Notes on Contributors 261

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Book SynopsisNow revised and updated to reflect the impact of emerging technologies, this new edition of Advertising and Society: Controversies and Consequences examines the evolution of advertising and its influence on society. Expanded with five new chapters covering the impact of emerging technologies, including the evolution of Direct to Consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising; product placement in various media; and the growing intrusiveness of Internet marketing Explores a broad range of topics including alcohol, tobacco, and sex in advertising; the pros and cons of negative political adverts; advergrames; and the use of stereotypes Examines the impact of advertising through its distinctive point/counterpoint' format designed to spark discussion and help students understand the complexities of the issues being presented Lends substantial clarity to the subject, uniquely balancing criticism and practice within one text IncludesTrade Review"I highly recommend the excellent and engaging book Advertising and Society: An Introduction, 2nd Edition edited by Carol J. Pardun, Ph.D., to any academics and undergraduate students in business, advertising, marketing, media, communications, journalism, the social sciences or any other related field where the impact of advertising is felt in society. This book is a challenging guide for reconsidering the student's own viewpoints about advertising, and enhancing their ability to think critically about the issues surrounding this controversial topic." (Blog Business World, 24 September 2013) Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii 1 Introduction: Why Does Everyone Have an Opinion about Advertising? 1 Carol J. Pardun Part I Enduring Issues 7 2 The Economic Impact of Advertising 9 ARGUMENT C. Ann Hollifield 12 Advertising lowers prices for consumers 12 COUNTERARGUMENT Penny Abernethy 17 Advertising makes products more expensive 17 3 Advertising to Children 24 ARGUMENT J. Walker Smith 28 Children are smarter than we think. Let’s respect them as the consumers they are! 28 COUNTERARGUMENT Dan Panici 34 Children need more protection from advertising! 34 4 Political Advertising 43 ARGUMENT Anne Johnston 45 What’s so positive about negative advertising? 45 COUNTERARGUMENT Albert R. Tims 52 Why negative political advertising is bad advertising 52 5 Tobacco Advertising 61 ARGUMENT R. Michael Hoefges 64 The strong First Amendment right to promote lawful products COUNTERARGUMENT Timothy Dewhirst 74 Rationales for the regulation of tobacco advertising and promotion 74 6 Alcohol Advertising 84 ARGUMENT Jon P. Nelson 87 Not so fast! Evidence-informed alcohol policy requires a balanced review of advertising studies 87 COUNTERARGUMENT Esther Thorson 96 Abandonment of alcohol advertising regulation carries a high social cost 96 7 Sex in Advertising 106 ARGUMENT Tom Reichert 108 Sex in advertising: No crime here! 108 COUNTERARGUMENT Kathy Roberts Forde 113 Using sex in advertising is never a good idea 113 8 Stereotypes in Advertising 121 ARGUMENT Jane Marcellus 124 What’s the harm in advertising stereotypes? 124 COUNTERARGUMENT Margaret Morrison 130 Stereotypes are a necessary and appropriate strategy for advertising 130 Part II Emerging Issues 135 9 Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising 137 ARGUMENT Beth E. Barnes 139 Doctor knows best: Why DTC advertising of prescription medications is bad for patients 139 COUNTERARGUMENT 1 Michael L. Capella and Charles R. Taylor 146 Pharmaceutical DTC advertising provides valuable information to health-care consumers 146 COUNTERARGUMENT 2 Debbie Treise and Wan Seop Jung 154 Feel empowered! Enhanced health knowledge! 154 10 Hyper-Niche Markets and Advertising 161 ARGUMENT Joe Bob Hester 164 Hyper-targeted and social: Why Facebook advertising may be advertising at its best 164 COUNTERARGUMENT Tom Weir 169 Today is the new 1984: Big Brother is not only watching you – he is selling to you 169 11 Advertising and Product Placement in Entertainment Media 175 ARGUMENT Geah Pressgrove 179 Product placement is simply good advertising strategy 179 COUNTERARGUMENT Kathy Brittain Richardson 186 Placing products in entertainment media does not enhance the media experience 186 12 Advertising in Previously Hands-Off Journalistic Environments 191 ARGUMENT Beth E. Barnes 193 This is news? Maybe not, but that’s okay! 193 COUNTERARGUMENT Charles Bierbauer 200 Advertising in strong journalistic environments is never a good idea 200 13 Advergames 208 ARGUMENT Adrienne Holz Ivory and James D. Ivory 210 Food and beverage advergames are playing with children’s health 210 COUNTERARGUMENT Kevin Wise and Saleem Alhabash 218 Evidence of advergame effectiveness 218 14 Advertising and Sporting Events 229 ARGUMENT Erin Whiteside 232 Advertising unhealthy products during sporting events makes sense as an advertising strategy 232 COUNTERARGUMENT Marie Hardin 239 Sporting events and advertising products are contrary to athletes’ lifestyles: The consequences of mixed messages 239 15 Advertising to Captive Audiences 246 ARGUMENT Angeline G. Close 248 Why advertising is acceptable (almost) everywhere 248 COUNTERARGUMENT Charles Pearce 259 Who wants to be held captive by advertisers? Not me! 259 16 Advertising and Social Responsibility 265 ARGUMENT Debra Merskin 267 Companies are wise – and ethical – to use “social responsibility” as a creative strategy 267 COUNTERARGUMENT Peggy Kreshel 275 Cause-related marketing as a business strategy is ethically flawed 275 Index 295

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Book Synopsis50 Great Myths of Human Sexuality seeks to dispel commonly accepted myths and misunderstandings surrounding human sexuality, providing an enlightening, fascinating and challenging book that covers the fifty areas the author s believe individuals must understand to have a safe, pleasurable and healthy sex life.Table of ContentsPreface ix 1 Body Parts Who Has What and How It Works 1 #1 Bigger Penises Are Better 1 #2 Vaginas Are Dirty, Ugly, and Smell Bad 6 #3 Male Circumcision Is Dangerous and Completely Unnecessary 14 #4 The G-spot Is the Most Orgasmic Part of a Woman’s Body 22 #5 Testosterone Is the Main Predictor of Sex Drive in Men, and You Can Always Add More 26 #6 Everyone Is Born Either Male or Female 31 2 Orientation and Identity Who We Are and Who We Want 41 #7 You Can Tell If Someone Is Gay Just by Looking at Him/Her 41 #8 No One Is Really Bisexual 44 #9 Most Transgender Individuals Get Surgery 49 #10 Homosexuality Can Be Cured 55 #11 Same-Sex Relationships Are Inherently Different from Those Between One Man and One Woman 64 #12 Children of Same-Sex Parents Have Psychological Issues and Usually End Up Gay 69 #13 Most Child Molesters Are Gay Men 77 3 Sexual Stats Who Has Sex? How Often? How Hot? 83 #14 Single People Have the Best Sex Life Since They’re Not Tied Down 83 #15 Married Sex Is Boring, and Boring Sex Is Bad 87 #16 Grandma Doesn’t Have Sex (and I Doubt that Mom Does Either) 91 #17 Young People Are Sexually Wild, Promiscuous, and Irresponsible 97 #18 Anal Sex is Not Normal 102 4 Performance Lights, Camera, Orgasm 110 #19 The First Time You Have Sex Is One of the Best and Most Meaningful Events of Your Life 110 #20 Good Sex Always Ends With Simultaneous Orgasms 117 #21 No Partner of Mine Has Ever Faked an Orgasm 123 #22 Women Want to Be Dominated in Bed, Rough Sex Is the Most Fun 126 #23 Only People Who Aren’t Getting Any Masturbate 129 #24 Not Horny? Horny Goat Weed Can Help 132 5 Conception and Contraception Illusions and Delusions 137 #25 She’s Not Going to Get Pregnant if We Just Do It This Once 137 #26 The Pill and Other Birth Control Methods are Actually Dangerous to a Woman’s Health 141 #27 Withdrawal Is Just as Good as Any Other Contraceptive Method 151 #28 Condoms Don’t Work Very Well, Plus They Take All the Fun Out of Sex Anyway 156 #29 Abortion Causes Breast Cancer and a Host of Mental Health Issues 162 6 STIs and Protection The Risks of Romance 167 #30 There’s a Cure for HIV and AIDS 167 #31 STIs Are No Big Deal as Long as You Take Your Medicine 174 #32 HPV Vaccines (and Other Prevention Methods) Turn Girls into Sluts 183 7 Relationships Dating and Desire 190 #33 Hooking Up Never Leads to a Relationship 190 #34 If You Feel Attracted to Someone Else, There Must Be Something Wrong With Your Relationship 194 #35 Most Female Fantasies Revolve Around a Love Story 196 #36 Men Cheat, Women Rarely Do 203 #37 Most Couples have Matched Sexual Appetites 211 8 When Sex is Unhealthy Sex and Trouble 216 #38 Jealousy Is Romantic 216 #39 Alcohol Makes Sex Better 220 #40 Alcohol and Sex Are a Harmless Combination 225 #41 For Girls, Sometimes Sex Just Hurts 229 #42 Men Under 40 Rarely Have Trouble With Erections 234 #43 People Can Get Addicted to Sex, Just Like They’re Addicted to Alcohol or Drugs 241 #44 She Was Asking For It, and Other Common Myths About Sexual Assault 248 #45 Pornography Is Dangerous 253 9 The Not-So-Private Side of Sex Sex, Society, and the Law 262 #46 Sex Education Makes Kids More Sexually Active 262 #47 Men Who Have a Lot of Sex Are Studs, Women Are Sluts 270 #48 Sexting is a Dangerous Epidemic Among Teens 276 #49 If Sex Is Consensual, It Can Never Be Illegal 283 #50 The Struggle for Gay Rights Is Over 292 Index 301

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Book SynopsisThe only book that links psychological wellness with organizational and community health, Promoting Well-Being provides you with important insight into how these domains interact as well as strategies for helping clients harness the benefits of these interactions.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. PART I: APPING WELL-BEING. 1. Webs of Wellness: The Sites of Well-Being. 2. Webs of Growth: the SPEC of Well-Being. 3. Webs of Values: The Morals of Well-Being. 4. Webs of Strategies: The Practice of Well-Being. PART II: PERSONAL WELL-BEING. 5. What is It? Signs of Personal Well_being. 6. Where Does It Come From? Sources of Personal Well-Being. 7. How to Promote It? Strategies for Personal Well-Being. PART III: ORGIATIONAL WELL-BEING. 8. What Is It? Signs of Organizational Well-Being. 9. Where Does It Come From? Sources of Organizational Well-Being. 10. How to Promote It? Strategies for Organizational Well-Being. 11. What Is It? Signs of Community Well-Being. 12. Where Does It Come From? Sources of Community Well-Being. 13. How to Promote It? Strategies for Community Well-Being. PART V: CHALLENGS AND CONCLUSIONS. 14. Disability. 15. Injustice. 16. Arrogance, Complacency, and Blinders. 17. Conclusions. References. Author Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisThe 2003 edition of Cops, Teachers, Counselors has become one of the more visible books in this field of research. It was based on NSF-supported field research in two US states and five different agencies. This new edition wraps an expanded theoretical framing around the original chapters.Table of Contents List of Stories Foreword Acknowledgments for the First Edition Acknowledgments for the New Edition Part 1. Two Narratives of Street-Level Work 1. Dealing with Faces 2. State Agents, Citizen Agents 3. Story Worlds, Narratives, and Research 4. Physical and Emotional Spaces Part II. Enacting Identities in the Workplace and on the Streets 5. Workers Unite: Occupational Identities and Peer Relations 6. Organizational and Social Divisions among Street-Level Workers 7. Putting a Fix on People: Identity, Conduct, and Street-Level Work Part III. Normative Decision Making: Moralities over Legalities 8. Who Are the Worthy? 9. Responding to the Worthy 10. Street-Level Worker Knows Best 11. Getting the Bad Guys 12. Streetwise Workers and the Power of Storytelling Part IV. Reframing Frontline Inquiry 13. Encounters, Agency, and Pragmatism 14. Three Narratives: Citizen-Agent, State-Agent, Knowledge Agent Afterword Appendix A. Methodology Appendix B. Entry Interview Appendix C. Questionnaire and Exit Interview Appendix D. Story Cover Page Appendix E. Story Codes Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWhile the tragedy of the commons is real, there are many instances where institutions develop to protect against overexploitation. In this important work, the authors explore empirically, theoretically, and experimentally the nature of such institutions and the way they come about.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with journalists, editors, and executives at a newspaper in Guangzhou, The Currency of Truth brings its readers into the lives of the people who write, publish, and profit from news in this milieu.Trade Review"Emily H. C. Chua's book provides a rare ethnographic insight into the work of Chinese journalists at a Beijing and Guangzhou-based weekly newspaper. . .All in all, although focused on China, the book's ethnographic insights and theoretical framing of news as currency would be of interest to researchers from around the world." —European Journal of Communication "The book has four significant contributions to the journalism literature. First, it offers insights into the Chinese media system, which is understudied. Second, it explores an exciting conceptualization of the news as a currency. Third, it joins other scholars (Almiron, 2010; Anderson, 2013; Boyer, 2013; Henry, 2007; Carlson, 2017) in exploring the transformation of newsmaking influenced by technological advancement and expanding it to China. Fourth, the book offers an interesting insight into what the institution of news can be in a post-socialist society." —JournalismTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Contested Medium Chapter 3: From Propaganda to Publicness Chapter 4: An Ethic of Efficacy Chapter 5: News as Currency Chapter 6: The Newsmakers’ Jianghu Epilogue Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSince the 1960s, theorists have elaborated different solutions to the collection action problem. During the same period, students of conflict have explored questions about protest and rebellion. This book examines what happens when one brings the full richness of collective action theories to bear on the many complex problems of collective dissent.Trade Review. . . a significant contribution to the understanding of collective behavior, protest, and rebellion." —Choice"The book is interesting and thought-provoking, and its insights extend beyond the narrow subject of rebellion to help illuminate many issues related to organizing groups to undertake collective action." —Public Choice"[Lichbach's] book is monumental and pivotal. . . . [It] consolidates over three decades of research on collective action problems and sets the agenda for future studies of collective dissent and rebellion. . . . [This] book is a major step forward. It will have an enormous impact in the field of conflict studies and belongs on the shelf of anyone even casually interested in dissent, rebellion, and revolution. . . . [This] book is a major step forward. It will have an enormous impact in the field of conflict studies and belongs on the shelf of anyone even casually interested in dissent, rebellion, and revolution." —American Political Science Review"For scholars interested in game-theoretic analyses of politics . . . essential reading." —Manus I. Midlarsky, Journal of Politics"Lichbach has to be praised for providing valuable insight on the logic of collective dissent. . . ." —Political Studies

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Book SynopsisPresents a configuration of the important elements to be found in contemporary Japanese social life, and attempts to shed new light on Japanese society. The author deals with his own society as a social anthropologist using some of the methods which he was accustomed to applying in examining any other society.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter One: Criteria of Group Formation 1. Attribute and Frame 2. Emotional Participation and One-to-One Relationships Chapter Two: The Internal Structure of the Group 1. The Development of Ranking 2. The Fundamental Structure of Vertical Organization 3. Qualification of the Leader and Interpersonal Relations in the Group 4. The Undifferentiated Role of the Group Member Chapter Three: The Overall Structure of the Society Chapter Four: Characteristics and Value Orientation of Japanese Man 1. From School to Employment 2. The Web of Comradeship 3. Localism and Tangibility Concluding Remarks Index

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Book SynopsisWestern rationalism - nature, of course, and genesis - was Max Weber's dominant historical interest. It was the grand theme of his two world historical studies, Economy and Society and The Economic Ethics of the World Religions. This book presents the systematic analysis and elaboration of Weber's sociology as a developmental history of the West.

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Book SynopsisCovering groups from peasants to urban laborers, and from women to merchants, this title includes essays that depict a various non-confrontational forms of resistance and contestatory behaviors that challenge our usual assumptions about the overt nature of resistance to dominant powerholders.

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Book SynopsisTracing the life course of American teenagers in the mid-twentieth century, this book presents a historical portrait of growing up.

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Book SynopsisThis examination of the social history of modernization investigates the centuries that followed the year 1000, when a new kind of society emerged in Europe. The text highlights both the top-down and bottom-up changes that characterized the social experience of early modernization.Trade Review"He is done it again! No one else combines David Levine's deep knowledge of population processes, unforced mastery of Western European social history, quick eye for unlikely connections, graceful way with a phrase, and sheet enthusiasm for historical discovery. Read him for pleasure and illumination." - Charles Tilly, author of Durable Inequality"

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Book SynopsisThis is an analysis of the observable, human side of faith. The text combines theorizing with discussion as it moves from considering the religiousness of individuals to the dynamics of religious groups to the workings of entire societies as religious groups contend for support.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Atheism, Faith, and the Social Scientific Study of Religion PART ONE • PARADIGMS IN CONFLICT 1. A New Look at Old Issues 2. Rationality and the “Religious Mind” 3. Secularization, R.I.P. PART TWO • THE RELIGIOUS INDIVIDUAL 4. The Micro Foundations of Religion 5. Religious Choices: Conversion and Reaffiliation PART THREE • THE RELIGIOUS GROUP 6. Religious Group Dynamics 7. Catholic Religious Vocations: Decline and Revival PART FOUR • THE RELIGIOUS ECONOMY 8. A Theoretical Model of Religious Economies 9. Religious Competition and Commitment: An International Assessment 10. Church-to-Sect Movements Appendix: Propositions and Definitions Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically. This book brings the highly gendered and racialized dimensions of these changes into sharp relief. It explores the gendered politics of ethno-nationalism in Sri Lanka, the post-Yugoslav states, and Israel and Palestine.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments PART ONE: FEMINIST APPROACHES TO GENDER AND CONFLICT 1. Introduction: Gender and Conflict in a Global Context Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman 2. The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace Cynthia Cockburn 3. The Sounds of Silence: Feminist Research across Time in Guatemala Cathy Blacklock and Alison Crosby PART TWO: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN WAR AND POSTWAR TIMES 4. Like Oil and Water, with a Match: Militarized Commerce, Armed Conflict, and Human Security in Sudan Audrey Macklin 5. No "Safe Haven": Violence against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan Shahrzad Mojab 6. From Pillars of Yugoslavism to Targets of Violence: Interethnic Marriages in the Former Yugoslavia and Thereafter Mirjana Morokvasic-Muller 7. Geographies of Violence: Women and Conflict in Ghana Valerie Preston and Madeleine Wong 8. Gender, the Nationalist Imagination, War, and Peace Nira Yuval-Davis PART THREE: FEMINIST ANALYSES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ASYLUM 9. Refugee Camps as Conflict Zones: The Politics of Gender Jennifer Hyndman 10. The "Purity" of Displacement and the Reterritorialization of Longing: Muslim IDPs in Northwestern Sri Lanka Malathi de Alwis 11. Escaping Conflict: Afghan Women in Transit Asha Hans 12. War, Flight, and Exile:Gendered Violence among Refugee Women from Post-Yugoslav States Maja Korac 13. The Gender Relations of Multilateralism in the Post-Yugoslav States: Intervention, Reconstruction, and Globalization Edith Klein PART FOUR: FEMINIST FUTURES: NEGOTIATING GLOBALIZATION, SECURITY, AND HUMAN DISPLACEMENT 14. New Directions for Feminist Research and Politics Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman References List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisBangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, the author captures the intimate effects of the global economy in this vibrant city.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Transliteration and Dates Introduction: Intimate Economies 1. From Shophouse to Department Store 2. The Economies of Intimacy in the Go-Go Bar 3. MBK: The Retail Revolution and the Infrastructure of Romance 4. The Flexible Citizens of IBC Cable TV 5. The Avon Lady, the Amway Plan, and the Making of Thai Entrepreneurs Conclusion: The Intimacy of Capitalism Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisProvides a critical perspective on the central importance of ideas about language in the reproduction of gender, class, and race divisions in modern Japan. Focusing on a phenomenon commonly called "women's language," in modern Japanese society, this title considers the history and social effects of this language form.Trade Review"Miyako Inoue's Vicarious Language is a work of scholarly distinction and cultural insight. She explores the texture of Japanese modernity, its national rituals and social practices, by way of a sustained, semiotic analysis of womens' language - the language of self-expression that women use in intimate and institutional contexts, and the language used to define the gendered roles assigned to women within the powers of patriarchy. This is a work that allows you to participate in the lifeworld of the Japanese language, at the illuminating moment when gender relations are writ large in the social syntax of national life." - Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F.Rothenberg Professor, Harvard University "Inoue has accomplished an extraordinary task, which is without precedent in the East Asian Fields. To my knowledge, no author has ever demonstrated as persuasively as she does that the issues concerning women's Japanese can be explored in such an innovative, engaging way." - Naoki Sakai, author of Voices of the Past: The Status of Language in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Discourse"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Note on Japanese Names and the Romanization of Japanese Language Introduction: Women's Language and Capitalist Modernity in Japan part one: language, gender, and national modernity: the genealogy of japanese women's language, 1880s--1930s 1. An Echo of National Modernity: Overhearing "Schoolgirl Speech" 2. Linguistic Modernity and the Emergence of Women's Language 3. From Schoolgirl Speech to Women's Language: Consuming Indexicality in Women's Magazines, 1890--1930 part two: the nation's temporality and the death of women's language 4. Capitalist Modernity, the Responsibilized Speaking Body, and the Public Mourning of the Death of Women's Language part three: re-citing women's language in late modern japan Introduction 5. "Just Stay in the Middle": The Story of a Woman Manager 6. Defamiliarizing Japanese Women's Language: Strategies and Tactics of Female Office Workers Afterword: This Vicarious "Japanese Women's Language" Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 2004, Michael Burawoy, speaking as president of the American Sociological Association, generated far-reaching controversy when he issued an ambitious and impassioned call for a 'public sociology'. He argued that sociology should speak beyond the university. This book features the debate on the perils and the potentials of his challenge.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments INTRODUCTORY Introduction--Robert Zussman and Joya Misra For Public Sociology--Michael Burawoy INSTITUTIONALIZING PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY Public Sociology and the End of Society--Alain Touraine Stalled at the Altar? Conflict, Hierarchy, and Compartmentalization in Burawoy's Public Sociology--Sharon Hays If I Were the Goddess of Sociological Things--Judith Stacey Going Public: Doing the Sociology That Had No Name--Patricia Hill Collins POLITICS AND THE PROFESSION Speaking to Publics--William Julius Wilson Do We Need a Public Sociology? It Depends on What You Mean by Sociology--Lynn Smith-Lovin Speaking Truth to the Public, and Indirectly to Power--Arthur L. Stinchcombe The Strength of Weak Politics--Douglas S. Massey From Public Sociology to Politicized Sociologist--Frances Fox Piven FALSE DISTINCTIONS: CONCEPTUAL RESERVATIONS The Sociologist and the Public Sphere--Immanuel Wallerstein About Public Sociology--Orlando Patterson For Humanist Sociology--Andrew Abbott INTERDISCIPLINARITY Whose Public Sociology? The Subaltern Speaks, but Who Is Listening?--Evelyn Nakano Glenn A Journalist's Plea--Barbara Ehrenreich REJOINDER The Field of Sociology: Its Power and Its Promise--Michael Burawoy Editors and Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAn intellectual history of Japanese social science, since the 1890s, this work considers the various forms of modernity that the processes of development or rationalization have engendered and the role social scientists have played in their emergence.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Social Science as History 2. The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: An Overview 3. Doubly Cruel: Marxism and the Presence of the Past in Japanese Capitalism 4. Thinking through Capital: Uno Kozo and Marxian Political Economy 5. School's Out? The Uno School Meets Japanese Capitalism 6. Social Science and Ethics: Civil Society Marxism 7. Imagining Democracy in Postwar Japan: Maruyama Masao as a Political Thinker Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFocuses on Starbucks, the world's most famous coffee company, looking beyond baristas, movie cameos, and Paul McCartney CDs to understand what Starbucks can tell us about America.Trade Review"Those who frequent Starbucks will enjoy Simon's range of topics, from business matters to the music played to the (very American) concept of 'self-gifting.'" Publishers Weekly "Simon's book is a fascinating, sometimes dispiriting look at how Starbucks is emblematic of some deeper socioeconomic phenomena at work in this country over the past decade and a half." -- Mike Miliard Boston Phoenix "A thoughtful, in-depth study." World Wide WorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introducing the Starbucks Moment 1 1. Real Coffee 21 2. Predictability the Individual Way 58 3. It Looks like a Third Place 82 4. Self-Gifting and Retail Therapy 122 5. Hear Music for Everyday Discoverers 149 6. Not-So-Green Cups 173 7. Sleeping Soundly in the Age of Globalization 201 Afterword 239 A Note on the Research 247 Notes 253 Selected Bibliography 279 Index 289

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Book SynopsisSongs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise. Drawing on fieldwork in churches, concert halls, and schools of music, Harkness argues that the European-style classical voice has become a specifically Christian emblem of South Korean prosperity. By cultivating certain qualities of voice and suppressing others, Korean Christians strive to personally embody the social transformations promised by their religion: from superstition to enlightenment; from dictatorship to democracy; from sickness to health; from poverty to wealth; from dirtiness to cleanliness; from sadness to joy; from suffering to grace. Tackling the problematic of voice in anthropology and across a number of disciplines, Songs of Seoul develops an innovative semiotic approach to connecting the materiality of body and sound, the social life of speech and song, and the cultural voicing of perspective and personhood.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Romanization Introduction PART ONE. THE QUALITIES OF VOICE 1. Transformations of Voice 2. Voicing an Advanced Korea 3. Cultivating the Christian Voice 4. The Clean Voice PART TWO. THE SOCIALITY OF VOICE 5. Tuning the Voice 6. The Voice of Homecoming 7. Feeling the Voice Conclusion Notes References Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Provides an important ethnographic contribution to the implications of long-distance trade and the deconstruction of different visions of justice in ethical trade." -- Julia Poerting Mountain Research and Development "This richly detailed ethnography provides unique and important insights into the 21st century plantation economy.; Impressive field work." -- Kristin Plys International Journal of Comparative Sociology "Engaging ... The Darjeeling distinction is an important critique ... a vital and timely comment on the burgeoning ethical trade." -- Saee Haldule Social Anthropology "Extensive research ... intriguing; Besky offers insightful solutions." -- Alexandra Hatzakis Gastronomica "Besky has pushed forward several debates in sociology, anthropology, geography, and economics about the promises and perils of globalization ... impressive theoretical analysis ... essential reading." -- Jamie K. McCallumt Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal "An excellent example of local ethnography ... an important contribution." -- Daniel Reichman American Ethnologist "The Darjeeling Distinction is a brilliant and entertaining book... Its accessible and narrative style will surely appeal to a wide audience." -- Daniel Munster Alegra Laboratory "This is an important book and one of the very few to really understand that Fair Trade is refracted through local processes, ideas, and politics... It has an important and sober message to impart." Review of Agricultural & Environmental Studies "An important book and one of the very few to really understand that Fair Trade is refracted through local processes, ideas, and politics and needs to be understood in that light. It has an important and sober message to impart." Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental StudiesTable of ContentsList of Maps and Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Orthography and Usage Introduction: Reinventing the Plantation for the Twenty-first Century 1. Darjeeling 2. Plantation 3. Property 4. Fairness 5. Sovereignty Conclusion: Is Something Better Than Nothing? Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal-welfare legislation. This book focuses on the fragile and contingent relational practices that constitute salmon aquaculture.Trade Review"The book is both a keenly insightful exploration of the mutual effect of salmon and the people who raise them, and an engaging love letter to ethnography, which illuminates the ways in which such work can expand the boundaries of how we think about vexing issues of science and society... Here is anthropology that speaks to all of us about our food systems and the animals caught up in them, and about the inevitability of uncertainty, offered with no closure and with a masterly voice." Times Literary Supplement "A timely contribution... Overall, Becoming Salmon is a detailed and illuminating study of a rapidly growing industry, offering key insights into the practices of care that literally bring fish as food animals to, and through, life." Anthropology of Work Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A timely and important contribution to the emerging anthropological critique of 'suicide' as a kind of human behaviour and as an object for social and medical intervention." -- Dr. Tom Widger Centre for Medical HumanitiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note Introduction PART ONE. The "Problem" of Striving 1 Between the Devil and the Deep Sea 2 Gazing at the Stars, Aiming for the Treetops 3 Tales the Dead Are Made to Tell PART TWO. On Living in a Time of Suicide 4 Care-full Acts 5 Anywhere but Here 6 Fit for the Future Afterword Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHow do Muslims relate to Islam in societies that experienced seventy years of Soviet rule? How did the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world by extirpating religion from it affect Central Asia? This title combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history to answer these questions.Trade Review"Thoughtful, insightful, and reflective." -- Ruqaiyah Hibell The Muslim World Book ReviewTable of ContentsList of Maps and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Islam in Central Asia 2. Empire and the Challenge of Modernity 3. The Soviet Assault on Islam 4. Islam as National Heritage 5. The Revival of Islam 6. Islam in Opposition 7. The Politics of Antiterrorism Conclusion: Andijan and Beyond Afterword Glossary Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTakes the reader on a tour of the melon and corn harvesting fields of California's Central Valley to understand why farmworkers suffer heatstroke and chronic illness at rates higher than workers in any other industry. The author documents in detail how a tightly interwoven web of public policies and private interests create needless suffering.Trade Review"Horton keenly advocates for measures to remedy farmworkers' health, such as ending policies of agricultural exceptionalism, reforming the health care and immigration systems, and promoting labor policies to improve farmworkers' health." * CHOICE *"Captivating... Horton’s book comes at a critical moment to enter into discussions about undocumented migration in the US. It represents a substantial contribution to exposing the hidden reality of migrant farmworkers’ stressful lives, and also highlights potential areas of policy and law reform. Her in-depth analysis of the legal, historical, and cultural causes of migrant exploitation makes her work a relevant and eye-opening read for anyone who consumes produce in the US." * Border Criminologies *"They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields will become an essential text in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. Horton has made a clear theoretical contribution to the academic fields of anthropology, the social sciences, public health, and immigration studies, and her captivating narrative will appeal to the larger general public interested in migrant health...Horton’s analysis of the structural violence experienced by undocumented farmworkers will draw a wide readership and bring much-deserved attention to this marginalized and exploited population." * American Ethnologist *"Sarah Horton’s book is a strong reminder of why and how we should be doing ethnography in solidarity with the communities we research and write about." * Anthropology of Work Review *"An excellent example of how to successfully produce engaged ethnographic writing that grapples with concerns of positionality, enhances empathy for vulnerable populations, and makes anthropological theory accessible to a broader readership, all of which is no easy feat." * American Anthropologist *"Horton’s work provides a platform from which people not only lend their voice but also employ their power to promote strategies for change." * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Burning Up: Heat Illness in California’s Fields 2. Entering Farm Work: Migration and Men’s Work Identities 3. Ghost Workers: The Labor Consequences of Identity Loan 4. Presión Alta: The Physiological Toll of Farm Work 5. Álvaro’s Casket: Heat Illness and Chronic Disease at Work 6. Desabilitado: Kidney Disease and the Disability- Assistance Hole Conclusion: Strategies for Change Appendix A. On Engaged Anthropology and Ethnographic Writing Appendix B. Methods Appendix C. Core Research Participants Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWhether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference. This book explores the challenges of accommodating difference, however difficult such accommodation may be.Trade Review"An inspiring book which advocates a challenging new approach of how to act and live together in ethnically diverse communities... Offers an attractive vision of how to increase tolerance." Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Story of Practice 2. A Pedagogy of Community 3. A Community of Pedagogy 4. Ethnographies of Difference 5. Living with Difference 6. On Boundaries, Difference, and Shared Worlds Conclusion Appendix A. Signposts for Organizers Appendix B. Guide for Evaluators Appendix C. Study Questions for Discussion Appendix D. Further Readings Notes Bibliography Index

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