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The University of Chicago Press Shared Fantasy
Book SynopsisThis study analyzes the, often misunderstood, subculture of fantasy role-playing games such as 'Dungeons and Dragons'.Gary Alan Fine immerses himself in several different gaming systems, offering insightful details on the nature of the games and the behaviour of the players.Trade Review"Fine's analysis of the intricacies of role-playing in context carries an authority and acuteness denied to mere observers.... His inside knowledge enables him to make fine distinctions in the strategies and functions of these games that are lost to most outside analysts." - Bill Ellis, Journal of American Folklore "As an ethnography of fantasy role-playing games and gamers, Fine's book respects his subjects and honors the complexity of their enterprise. And as an analysis of the overlap between that world and other more familiar worlds, Fine's book both honors and clarifies the still incredible skills we nevertheless take so much for granted." - Prue Rains, Sociology and Social Research
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The University of Chicago Press Healing Powers Alternative Medicine Spiritual
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The University of Chicago Press Passionate Politics Emotions and Social
Book SynopsisEmotions are back. Once at the corner of the study of politics, emotions have receded into the shadows, with no place in the rationalistic, structural and organizational models that dominate academic political analysis. This collection of essays reverses the trend.
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The University of Chicago Press Center Ideas Institutions Ideas and Institutions
Book SynopsisThere are several concepts within the social sciences that refer to the fundamental realities on which the various disciplines focus their attention. The concept of the center, as defined by Edward Shils, has such a status in sociology, for it deals with and attempts to provide an answer to the central question of the disciplinethe question of the constitution of society. Center is a commonly used term with a variety of meanings. According to editors Liah Greenfeld and Michel Martin, center carries a twofold meaning when used as a concept. In its first sense, it is a synonym for central value system, referring to irreducible values and beliefs that establish the identity of individuals and bind them into a common universe. In its second sense, center refers to central institutional system, the authoritative institutions and persons who often express or embody the central value system. Both meanings imply a corresponding idea of periphery, referring both to the elements of society that need to be integrated and to institutions and persons who lack authority. The original essays compiled in this volume examine and apply the concept of the center in different contexts. The contributors come from a broad range of disciplinesclassics, religion, philosophy, history, literary criticism, anthropology, political science, and sociologywhich serves to underscore the far-reaching significance of the Shilsean theory of society. The interrelated subsets of the center-periphery theme addressed here include: symbolic systems, intellectuals, the expansion of the center into the periphery, parallel concepts in the work of other scholars besides Shils, and the paths of research inspired by these concepts. The volume features an introspective essay by Shils himself, in which he reexamines his central ideas in the light of new experiences and the ideas of others, some of them contained in this volume. By drawing together such diverse scholars around a unified idea, this collection achieves a cohesion that makes it an exciting contribution to the comparative analysis of social and cultural systems. A collective effort in social theory, Center: Ideas and Institutions is a testimony to the breadth and complexity of one of man's ideas.
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The University of Chicago Press Marginal Gains Monetary Transactions in Atlantic
Book SynopsisThis study reveals how popular economic systems work in Africa, and elsewhere in the Third World.
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The University of Chicago Press Drunk Driving An American Dilemma Studies in
Book SynopsisSociology faces troubling developments as it enters its second century in the United States. A loss of theoretical coherence and a sense of disciplinary fragmentation, a decline in the quality of its recruits, the cooptation of its clients, a muted public voice, and sinking prestige in governmental circlesthese are only a few of the trends signalling a need for renewed debate about how sociology is organized. In this volume, some of the most authoritative voices in the field confront these conditions, offering a variety of perspectives as they challenge sociologists to self-examination.
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The University of Chicago Press Foreign News Exploring the World of Foreign
Book SynopsisForeign News gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Ulf Hannerz also compares the way correspondents and anthropologists report from one part of the world to another.
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The University of Chicago Press Portrait of a Greek Imagination An Ethnographic
Book SynopsisAnthropologist Michael Herzfeld first met Greek novelist Andreas Nenedakis in the drafty courtyard of a public library. This encounter led to an enduring intellectual relationship that prompted Herzfeld to reconsider both the contours of fiction and the nature of anthropology. Portrait of a Greek Imagination, part biography and part ethnography, is Herzfeld's contextualization of Nenedakis's life, as it was both lived and fictionalized. Herzfeld explores how personal vision intersects with national cultures by examining the Greek author's novels and recollections as historical accounts. Bringing together the methods of the novelist and the anthropologist in their common concern with both social and lived experience, Herzfeld shows how different perspectives shape the historical record. Nenedakis has endured persecution, exile, imprisonment, and torture under Greece's military dictatorship, and his novelsexcerpted here in English for the first timeoffer an individual version of historical events. As one of his characters ask, For was not his life, and are not the lives of all of us, a novel?
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The University of Chicago Press Pragmatism and Social Theory
Book SynopsisRising concerns among scholars about the intellectual and cultural foundations of democracy have led to a revival of interest in the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism. In this book, Hans Joas shows how pragmatism can link divergent intellectual efforts to understand the social contexts of human knowledge, individual freedom, and democratic culture. Along with pragmatism's impact on American sociology and social research from 1895 to the 1940s, Joas traces its reception by French and German traditions during this century. He explores the influences of pragmatismoften misunderstoodon Emile Durkheim's sociology of knowledge, and on German thought, with particularly enlightening references to its appropriation by Nazism and its rejection by neo-Marxism. He also explores new currents of social theory in the work of Habermas, Castoriadis, Giddens, and Alexander, fashioning a bridge between Continental thought, American philosophy, and contemporary sociology; he shows how the mis
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The University of Chicago Press Citizen Jane Addams and the Struggle for
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The University of Chicago Press Modernity on Endless Trial
Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays, Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time.
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The University of Chicago Press Science Incarnate Historical Embodiments of
Book SynopsisWe have specific images of the kinds of bodies that house great minds. Focusing on the 17th century to the present, this book examines how intellectuals have sought to establish the value and authority of their ideas through public displays of their private life.
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The University of Chicago Press Criticism and Social Change
Book SynopsisCriticism and Social Change speaks with special timeliness to the role of the political intellectual (here embodied in Kenneth Burke). Lentricchia's provocative analysis demands serious reflection by American radicals.Frederic Jameson A profound meditation on relations obtaining among writing, political consciousness, and criticismthis last taken in its most general sense. It is written with passion and grace; it is shot through with learning, intimate knowledge of the critical tradition, and a deep (though by no means uncritical) understanding of the work (as well as social significance) of Kenneth Burke.Hayden White
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The University of Chicago Press German Idealism and the Jew
Book SynopsisUncovering the deep roots of anti-semitism in the German philosophical tradition, this work offers an analytical account of the connection between the two.
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The University of Chicago Press The Struggle for Utopia Rodchenko Lissitzky
Book SynopsisFollowing 1917, a new artistic-social avant-garde emerged aiming to engage the artist in the building of social life. Through close readings of the works of three artists, this book examines the way in which they negotiated the changing relations between their social ideals and political realities.
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The University of Chicago Press Getting Justice and Getting Even Legal
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The University of Chicago Press Social Adaptation to Food Stress A Prehistoric
Book SynopsisCombining anthropology, archeology, and evolutionary theory, Paul E. Minnis develops a model of how tribal societies deal with severe food shortages. While focusing on the prehistory of the Rio Mimbres region of New Mexico, he provides comparative data from the Fringe Enga of New Guinea, the Tikopia of Tikopia Island, and the Gwembe Tonga of South Africa. Minnis proposes that, faced with the threat of food shortages, nonstratified societies survive by employing a series of responses that are increasingly effective but also are increasingly costly and demand increasingly larger cooperative efforts. The model Minnis develops allows him to infer, from evidence of such factors as population size, resource productivity, and climate change, the occurrence of food crises in the past. Using the Classic Mimbres society as a test case, he summarizes the regional archeological sequence and analyzes the effects of environmental fluctuations on economic and social organization. He concludes that th
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The University of Chicago Press Inside Science
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The University of Chicago Press On Feeling Knowing and Valuing Selected Writings
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The University of Chicago Press Alfred Schutz on Phenomenology and Social
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The University of Chicago Press The Constitution of Society Heritage of Sociology
Book SynopsisEdward Shils's attempt to work out a macrosociological theory which does justice both to the spiritual and intellectual dispositions and powers of the mind and to the reality of the larger society is an enterprise that has spanned several decades. In his steps toward the development of this theory he has not proceeded deductively; rather he has worked from his own concrete observations of Western, Asian, and African societies. Thus, despite the inevitable abstractness of marcrosociological theory, the papers in this volumewhich have been published separately since the Second World Warhave a quality of vivid substantiality that makes the theoretical statements they present easier to comprehend. Professor Shils has attempted to develop a theory that has a place for more than those parts of society that are generated from the biological nature of human beings and those parts that are engendered by the desires of individuals, acting for themselves or for groups and categories of individual
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The University of Chicago Press Empowering Education Critical Teaching for Social
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The University of Chicago Press Anonymous
Book SynopsisA rich sociological analysis of how and why we use anonymity. In recent years, anonymity has rocked the political and social landscape. There are countless examples: An anonymous whistleblower was at the heart of President Trump's first impeachment, an anonymous group of hackers compromised more than 77 million Sony accounts, and best-selling author Elena Ferrante resolutely continued to hide her real name and identity. In Anonymous, Thomas DeGloma draws on a fascinating set of contemporary and historical cases to build a sociological theory that accounts for the many faces of anonymity. He asks a number of pressing questions about the social conditions and effects of anonymity. What is anonymity, and why, under various circumstances, do individuals act anonymously? How do individuals accomplish anonymity? How do they use it, and, in some situations, how is it imposed on them? To answer these questions, DeGloma tackles anonymity thematically, dedicating each chapter to a distinct type of anonymous action, including ones he dubs protective, subversive, institutional, and ascribed. Ultimately, he argues that anonymity and pseudonymity are best understood as performances in which people obscure personal identities as they make meaning for various audiences. As they bring anonymity and pseudonymity to life, DeGloma shows, people work to define the world around them to achieve different goals and objectives. Trade Review“Anonymous does what sociology does best: to take a concept (in this case anonymity and pseudonymity) and explore it as a performative practice, a practice of sociality, and as linked to institutional structures. This book is a major addition to the sociological canon.” -- Gary Alan Fine, author of Fair Share: Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of Resistance"Attention must be paid! In this performance, grounded in the traditions of symbolic interaction, Thomas DeGloma has produced a foundational book for an emerging field, a field badly in need of one. As digital technologies continue to alter the, meaning, discovery, hiding and validation of identity, understanding anonymity and its’ extended family (e.g. pseudonymity, pseudo-anonymity, secrecy, privacy, surveillance and so much more), is ever more important. The book’s useful concepts bring coherence and integration to a plentitude of engaging empirical examples across cultures and time periods. Most welcome!" -- Gary T. Marx, author of Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High TechnologyTable of ContentsChapter 1. Anonymous Acts The Social Dynamics of Anonymous Acts Naming, Namelessness, and Pseudo-Names Freedom and Constraint in the Breach of Personal Identity The Exhibitionist and the Voyeur: Anonymity and Information Control Impersonal Agencies: Someone, Anyone, Everyone, and No One Culture and Meaning in the Performance of Anonymity Outline of the Book Chapter 2. Protective Anonymity Concealed Authorship and the Performance of Elena Ferrante Social Ethics of Anonymity Anonymous Altruism and Charity The Screened Confession and the Masquerade The Impartiality of Impersonality and the Performance of Academic Evaluation Anonymous Communities and Forums Anonymous Therapeutics and the Case of Alcoholics Anonymous Computer-Mediated Anonymous Forums Anonymous Consumption and Exchange Exploiting Protective AnonymityChapter 3. Subversive Anonymity Subversive Art and Literature Masked Social Movements and Anonymous Rebellion The Religious, Theatrical, and Festive Roots of Masked Social Protest Masked Movements and Their Subversive World Orders The Anonymous Performances of Ku Klux Klan Terror Performing the Digital Guerrilla Insurgency: The Hacker Networks of Anonymous The Klan and Anonymous: Shared Characteristics of Subversive Anonymity FBI Counterintelligence and the Anonymous Subversion of Subversive Activity Chapter 4. The Anonymity of Social Systems Institutions and Systems as Cover Representations Wall Street and the Financial Crisis Corporate Personhood and Electoral Politics The NSA, Big Tech, and Electronic Surveillance Distance Killing and the Nation at War The Modern State as “Humane” Executioner Anonymous Labor and Systems of ProductionChapter 5. The Anonymity of Types and Categories Typification and Social Performance Anonymous Others in Situated Encounters The Anonymity of Class and Occupation Anonymous Sex Racial Typification, Law Enforcement, and Police Violence Cisgaender Typification and the Segregation of Public Restrooms Analytic Typifications Chapter 6. The Social Contradictions of Our Hidden Identities Unmasking Acts Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press On the Practice of Sociology
Book SynopsisPitirim Sorokin rose from a peasant childhood in Russia to become a major figure in the history of sociology. However, he was considered both a pioneer and an outcast. This text includes essays by this controversial thinker which range from his early Russian years to his final work in the 1960s.
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The University of Chicago Press Policing Welfare
Book SynopsisMeans-tested government assistance in the United States requires recipients to meet certain criteria and continue to maintain their eligibility so that benefits are paid to the truly needy. Welfare is regarded with such suspicion in this country that considerable resources are spent policing the boundaries of eligibility, which are delineated by an often confusing and baroque set of rules and regulations. Even minor infractions of the many rules can cause people to be dropped from these programs, and possibly face criminal prosecution. In this book, Spencer Headworth offers the first study of the structure of fraud control in the welfare system by examining the relations between different levels of governmental agencies, from federal to local, and their enforcement practices. Policing Welfare shows how the enforcement regime of welfare has been constructed to further stigmatize those already living in poverty and deepens disparities of class, race, and gender in our society.Trade Review“This highly original, insightful, and carefully researched book takes us into the inner workings of welfare fraud investigation units, revealing how the obsessions of policymakers with rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse are expressed in ways that at once ‘police welfare’ and the people who count on it to feed and house their children and extend the logics of policing into the administration of poverty policy in the United States. The analysis of the ‘welfare police’ and theory of ‘punitive adversarialism’ Headworth advances in these pages will shape political and urban sociology, the broad and interdisciplinary punishment and society literature, and work in legal theory and the life of the law for decades to come. This is precisely the book we’ve needed to grasp the work of the administrative state in what is shaping up to be the long twenty-first century.” -- Reuben Jonathan Miller, author of?Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration“Policing Welfare is a breakthrough book, a close-up examination of how welfare fraud investigation units institutionalize surveillance and punishment as the chief imperatives of contemporary welfare bureaucracies in the United States. Spencer Headworth’s rich empirical study skillfully integrates insights from the sociology of law, stratification, and organizations to show how welfare enforcement erodes the dignity of impoverished citizens literally struggling to purchase a simple loaf of bread. It is a remarkable accomplishment that shows how debates on inequality and policing must be broadened to include welfare agents and the criminalization of poverty.” -- Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, author of Dying Inside: The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison"Countless studies have documented how the deeply problematic distinction between the 'deserving' and the 'undeserving' poor undermines and distorts programs to relieve poverty and deprivation. This important book builds on and extends these findings by examining how welfare agencies are organized to identify and prevent fraudulent claims to social assistance. Ostensibly, it would seem essential to ascertain whether an individual requesting social assistance meets the criteria for receiving such services, an obviously rational requirement of achieving the goal of the social program, not unlike the requirement to demonstrate that one can drive safely in order to get a driver’s license. By examining the self-understandings of those who work in fraud investigation units and their relationships to others charged with administering welfare programs and law enforcement, Headworth shows how the policing of welfare creates a culture of 'punitive adversarialism' that exacerbates the social conditions that create deprivation and undermines the equal status of citizens. This is a work of real significance. The writing is clear and accessible, and draws effectively on the extensive literature in this area. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"Through an in-depth organizational ethnography of welfare fraud bureaus in five states, Policing Welfare provides a meticulous portrait of the painstaking ways that the bureaucracies managing Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and their employees attempt to distinguish who does and does not deserve aid... Headworth provides an incredibly thorough, well-researched, and meticulously analyzed contribution to the scholarly literature on just how difficult it is to be poor, and the people and structures that make it so." * Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Books *"In the US, welfare is regarded with suspicion, and considerable resources are spent policing the boundaries of eligibility, which are delineated by an often confusing and baroque set of rules and regulations. Headworth studies the structure of fraud control in the welfare system by examining the relations between different levels of governmental agencies, from federal to local, and their enforcement practices. He concludes that the enforcement regime has been constructed to further stigmatize those already living in poverty and that it deepens disparities of class, race, and gender." * Law & Social inquiry *"In Policing Welfare: Punitive Adversarialism in Public Assistance, Spencer Headworth describes how designated welfare fraud units police the boundary between 'deserving' and 'underserving' poor Americans, and he makes a compelling case for the centrality of surveillance and categorization in contemporary public assistance programs." -- Victoria Mayer * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Chapter 1. The Strings Attached Chapter 2. One Nation, Finding Fraud Chapter 3. The Mill and the Grist Chapter 4. The Welfare Police Chapter 5. Occupational Frames and Identities in Fraud Control Work Chapter 6. Fraud Control as Performance Chapter 7. The Blame Game Chapter 8. Finding Welfare Rule Violators Chapter 9. Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Model Cases
Book SynopsisIn Model Cases, Monika Krause asks about the concrete material research objects behind shared conversations about classes of objects, periods, and regions in the social sciences and humanities. It is well known that biologists focus on particular organisms, such as mice, fruit flies, or particular viruses when they study general questions about life, development, and disease. Krause shows that scholars in the social sciences and humanities also draw on some cases more than others, selecting research objects influenced by a range of ideological but also mundane factors, such as convenience, historicist ideas about development over time, schemas in the general population, and schemas particular to specific scholarly communities. Some research objects are studied repeatedly and shape our understanding of more general ideas in disproportionate ways: The French Revolution has profoundly influenced our concepts of revolution, of citizenship, and of political modernity, just like studies Trade Review“Krause has written a powerful, illuminating argument about how the social sciences should work. It is a worthy successor to Max Weber's Science as a Vocation.” -- Richard Sennett, Urban Initiatives, United Nations Habitat“Model Cases is an ambitious and compelling contribution to our understanding of the practice of scholarship, whose inner logic Krause perceptively dissects across different disciplines and methodologies. Her account of how scholars relate to the objects they study offers foundational insights into how we argue and perform research within the humanities." -- Carlos Spoerhase, professor of German literature, Bielefeld University"If the book didn’t already have a subtitle, On Canonical Research Objects and Sites, Monika Krause could have titled it Model Cases: On the Metaphysics of the Syllabus. Her fascinating book is an examination–even a deconstructive analysis–of the two- or three-page document traditionally handed out in the first class on a university program but now usually posted on class management systems like Blackboard." * University World News *"What do we as scholars look at when we do research? That is the simple but effective question that underlies Monika Krause’s highly instructive new book, Model Cases... It is a book that makes us think about the collective research patterns that we are a part of." * LSE Review of Books *"Model Cases would be excellent for a graduate seminar on the philosophy, theory, or methodology of a number of social science disciplines." * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Material Research Objects and Privileged Material Research Objects 2. How Material Research Objects Are Selected 3. Model Cases and the Dream of Collective Methods 4. How Subfield Categories Shape Knowledge 5. The Schemas of Social Theory 6. The Model Cases of Global Knowledge Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy Revolution and
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The University of Chicago Press BrainsPracticesRelativism Social Theory After
Book SynopsisIn a series of tightly argued essays, Turner traces out implications that discarding the notion of shared frameworks has for relativism, social constructivism, normativity and a number of other concepts.
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The University of Chicago Press Terms of Exchange
Book SynopsisA collective intellectual biography that sheds new light on the Annales school, structuralism, and racial democracy. Would the most recognizable ideas in the French social sciences have developed without the influence of Brazilian intellectuals? While any study of Brazilian social sciences acknowledges the influence of French scholars, Ian Merkel argues the reverse is also true: the French social sciences were profoundly marked by Brazilian intellectual thought, particularly through the University of São Paulo. Through the idea of the cluster, Merkel traces the intertwined networks of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Fernand Braudel, Roger Bastide, and Pierre Monbeig as they overlapped at USP and engaged with Brazilian scholars such as Mário de Andrade, Gilberto Freyre, and Caio Prado Jr.. Through this collective intellectual biography of Brazilian and French social sciences, Terms of Exchange reveals connections that shed new light on the Annales school, structuralism, and racial democracyTrade Review"An essential contribution for reflecting on what is at stake in academic exchange based on empirical research." * Brésil(s) *"What Merkel proposes is a subversion of what are seen as the traditional logics of intellectual history, an approach whose importance derives from the names involved. Even the most firmly established figures in Brazilian intellectual history, unanimously recognized in their country of origin as seminal in their respective areas of specialization, ultimately could not manage to escape erasure. That is the state of things that Terms of Exchange proposes to reverse." * Revista de História (São Paulo) *“A rich examination of the intriguing crossings between Brazilian and French social sciences from the 1930s to the 1950s, Terms of Exchange offers the first history of the interactions among such characters as Roger Bastide, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Arthur Ramos, Caio Prado Jr., Florestan Fernandes, Paul Rivet, Gilberto Freyre, and Fernand Braudel.” * Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, University of Chicago *“This book reconsiders the intellectual itineraries of the French professors who came to São Paulo to found USP. Challenging traditional geographies of knowledge, Merkel situates the Brazilian experience of social scientists such as Braudel and Lévi-Strauss at the center of important epistemological inflections of the mid-twentieth century.” * Gabriela Pellegrino Soares, University of São Paulo *“Merkel explores with brio a little-known episode of transatlantic intellectual history: the prewar dialectics of exchange between a small group of not-yet-famous French visiting professors at the University of São Paulo and their Brazilian hosts. The great merit of the book is to highlight the weight of their Brazilian experience on those who later deeply transformed the French social sciences.” * Philippe Descola, author of Beyond Nature and Culture *"Merkel's work is a welcome addition to both Brazilian history and to the charting of the twentieth-century social sciences." * The Latin Americanist *"Attempts to show the close relationship of Northern social sciences to Southern thinkers have been reduced in scope and impact so far. This is why the book Terms of Exchange by Ian Merkel is more than welcome." * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"Terms of Exchange is a relevant contribution to the history of the intellectuals and an important global history exercise that shows, through at least two superposed ‘mana circulation systems’, how entangled the relations among intellectuals from different parts of the world could be if well analyzed." * Storia della Storiografia *Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction Chapter 1: São Paulo, the New Metropolis with a French University Chapter 2: Atlantic Crossings and Disciplinary Reformulation Chapter 3: Getting to Know Brazil: The New Country behind the Methodology Chapter 4: Four Approaches to Global and Social-Scientific Crisis Chapter 5: Brazil and the Reconstruction of the French Social Sciences Chapter 6: Racial Democracy, Métissage, and Decolonization between Brazil and France En Guise de Conclusion Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations and Archives Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Wasted Education
Book SynopsisAn urgent reality check for America's blinkered fixation on STEM education. We live in an era of STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies dominate American enterprise and economic growth while complaining of STEM shortages, but we also need scientific solutions to impending crises. As a society, we have poured enormous resourcesincluding billions of dollarsinto cultivating young minds for well-paid STEM careers. Yet despite it all, we are facing a worker exodus, with as many as 70% of STEM graduates opting out of STEM work. Sociologist John D. Skrentny investigates why, and the answer, he shows, is simple: the failure of STEM jobs. Wasted Education reveals how STEM work drives away bright graduatesas a result of burn and churn management practices, lack of job security, constant training for a neverending stream of newand often socially harmfultechnologies, and the exclusion of women, people of color, and older workers. Wasted Education shows that if we have any hope of improving the return on our STEM education investments, we have to change the way we're treating the workers on whom our future depends.Trade Review"[Wasted Education] asks important questions that encourage readers to think more deeply about what a meaningful education is (and is for) and the nature of meaningful work." * Science *"For Skrentny, the purpose of [Wasted Education] is not to deny the need for STEM skills but rather to ‘rebalance a debate’ that is dominated by what he calls the ‘STEM education industrial complex’—namely, large corporations that lobby for more STEM workers but make little effort to retain staff by stamping out the toxic work cultures that push so many staff to leave." * Times Higher Education *“With research rigor and bracing clarity, Wasted Education reveals America’s real STEM problem—and the real costs of a hustling, relentless corporate culture.” -- Margaret O’Mara | author of "The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America"“This important book highlights how the unprecedented effort to push students into STEM degrees is both misguided and wasted by the lack of opportunity when they hit the job market. The STEM effort to do economic planning with students should be the biggest issue in economic policy. ” -- Peter Cappelli | author of "Our Least Important Asset: How the Relentless Focus on Finance and Accounting Hurts Workers and Business"“Wasted Education is a welcome and crucially important perspective on American education and workforce policy. Skrentny’s argument—that employers must share responsibility with schools for nurturing and rewarding STEM talent throughout their lives—must become a mantra if we're to see anything more than minimal improvement in our national human-capital system.” -- Mitchell Stevens | Stanford UniversityTable of Contents1 Introduction: The Great Investment in STEM Education 2 The Exodus from STEM Jobs 3 Burn and Churn: How Management Strategies Can Drive Away STEM Workers 4 The Precariousness of the STEM Job 5 Training and the STEM-Skills Treadmill 6 How STEM Employers Contribute to Their Own Diversity Problems 7 STEM Education for What? Investors, Employers, and the Purpose of STEM Work Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Moral Minefields How Sociologists Debate Good
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Important. . . We live in an era in which scholarly debates, inside and outside the classroom, are increasingly viewed through a moral or political lens. As Dromi and Stabler quite rightly maintain, we must navigate through a scholarly landscape strewn with moral land mines." * Inside Higher Ed *"This book makes a significant contribution to sociology with its well-supported thesis that explains how sociologists can engage in heated debate about their research. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *“Moral Minefields offers an explosion of insight into how to approach the seemingly always politically charged project of conducting sociological research. Throughout its history, the discipline has stood between commitments to scientific inquiry and the pursuit of truth, and commitments to addressing social inequality, socio-economic disadvantage, and other moral concerns. Rather than try to resolve the push and pull emanating from both sides of this divide, readers are guided to think more critically and carefully about what constitutes the pursuit of good research that is indelibly tied to visions—either by the sociologists producing their work or the audiences receiving it—of morally sound research. Dromi and Stabler seek not to resolve the tension, but rather expose readers to sociology’s courageous embracing of it and, therefore, guide readers to think more effectively about how it can be managed going forward.” -- Alford Young, Jr., University of Michigan“Dromi and Stabler skillfully puncture a stalled debate between the value-free and deliberately activist camps of contemporary sociology, showing how scholars within our methodologically and substantively diverse field form judgments about what counts as ‘good research.’ Weaving together a range of powerful examples—from secularism to breastfeeding, cosmopolitanism, and racial inequality—their framework of moral repertoires shines new light on the field. Equally valuable to both the seasoned sociologist and the young researcher.” -- Jenny Trinitapoli, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface: Eternity in Cincinnati Introduction: Rules of the Road 1: Navigating in a Minefield Moral Repertoires and Sociological Research 2: Academic No-Go Zones On Social-Gene Interactions, Cultures of Poverty, and Forbidden Knowledge Claims in Sociology 3: Moral Highways and Byways Connecting New Critiques with Old Insights in the Study of Nationalism 4: Chartered Trips Remapping Controversy and the Renewal of Research on the Family Conclusion: On Moral Grounds Afterword: Researching the Good in Research Justifications Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Anonymous The Performance of Hidden Identities
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Anonymous does what sociology does best: to take a concept (in this case anonymity and pseudonymity) and explore it as a performative practice, a practice of sociality, and as linked to institutional structures. This book is a major addition to the sociological canon.” -- Gary Alan Fine, author of Fair Share: Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of Resistance"Attention must be paid! In this performance, grounded in the traditions of symbolic interaction, Thomas DeGloma has produced a foundational book for an emerging field, a field badly in need of one. As digital technologies continue to alter the, meaning, discovery, hiding and validation of identity, understanding anonymity and its’ extended family (e.g. pseudonymity, pseudo-anonymity, secrecy, privacy, surveillance and so much more), is ever more important. The book’s useful concepts bring coherence and integration to a plentitude of engaging empirical examples across cultures and time periods. Most welcome!" -- Gary T. Marx, author of Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High TechnologyTable of ContentsChapter 1. Anonymous Acts The Social Dynamics of Anonymous Acts Naming, Namelessness, and Pseudo-Names Freedom and Constraint in the Breach of Personal Identity The Exhibitionist and the Voyeur: Anonymity and Information Control Impersonal Agencies: Someone, Anyone, Everyone, and No One Culture and Meaning in the Performance of Anonymity Outline of the Book Chapter 2. Protective Anonymity Concealed Authorship and the Performance of Elena Ferrante Social Ethics of Anonymity Anonymous Altruism and Charity The Screened Confession and the Masquerade The Impartiality of Impersonality and the Performance of Academic Evaluation Anonymous Communities and Forums Anonymous Therapeutics and the Case of Alcoholics Anonymous Computer-Mediated Anonymous Forums Anonymous Consumption and Exchange Exploiting Protective AnonymityChapter 3. Subversive Anonymity Subversive Art and Literature Masked Social Movements and Anonymous Rebellion The Religious, Theatrical, and Festive Roots of Masked Social Protest Masked Movements and Their Subversive World Orders The Anonymous Performances of Ku Klux Klan Terror Performing the Digital Guerrilla Insurgency: The Hacker Networks of Anonymous The Klan and Anonymous: Shared Characteristics of Subversive Anonymity FBI Counterintelligence and the Anonymous Subversion of Subversive Activity Chapter 4. The Anonymity of Social Systems Institutions and Systems as Cover Representations Wall Street and the Financial Crisis Corporate Personhood and Electoral Politics The NSA, Big Tech, and Electronic Surveillance Distance Killing and the Nation at War The Modern State as “Humane” Executioner Anonymous Labor and Systems of ProductionChapter 5. The Anonymity of Types and Categories Typification and Social Performance Anonymous Others in Situated Encounters The Anonymity of Class and Occupation Anonymous Sex Racial Typification, Law Enforcement, and Police Violence Cisgaender Typification and the Segregation of Public Restrooms Analytic Typifications Chapter 6. The Social Contradictions of Our Hidden Identities Unmasking Acts Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Art of Surrender Decomposing Sovereignty at
Book SynopsisExplores the ritual concessions as acts of warfare, performances of submission, demonstrations of power, and representations of shifting, unstable worlds. The author considers the limits of sovereignty at conflict's end, showing how the ways we concede loss can be as important as the ways we claim victory.
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The University of Chicago Press Unpopular Culture The Ritual of Complaint in a
Book SynopsisJohn R. Weeks based his study on long-term observations made at the British Armstrong Bank in the UK. Not one person, from the CEOs to the junior clerks had anything good to say about its corporate culture, yet the way things were done never seemed to alter.
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The University of Chicago Press Unpopular Culture The Ritual of Complaint in a
Book SynopsisJohn R. Weeks based his study on long-term observations made at the British Armstrong Bank in the UK. Not one person, from the CEOs to the junior clerks had anything good to say about its corporate culture, yet the way things were done never seemed to alter.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Canvases and Careers Institutional Change in the
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The University of Chicago Press Acts of Hope
Book SynopsisThis study aims to teach the reader how to read and judge claims of authority made by others and how to decide to which institutions and practices should authority be granted. Thinkers such as Plato, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Mandela and Lincoln are incorporated into the discussion.
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The University of Chicago Press Time Maps Collective Memory and the Social Shape
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McGill-Queen's University Press Just One Rain Away
Book SynopsisRivers are alive and impulsive, shaped by history and geology. Just One Rain Away provides a starting point for cross-cultural discussions about how expert knowledge and practice should inform egalitarian decision-making about flood control and decolonize current ways of thinking, being, and becoming with rivers.Trade Review“A fascinating, lively, and intimate portrait of a complex technical issue, Just One Rain Away evokes the complexity of flood control through a sprawling appreciation of geology, politics, technology, and metrology, as well as ethnography and literature. Ambitious and impressive, both the technical rigour and the imaginative scope of materials and descriptions makes this a major achievement.” Kregg Hetherington, author of The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops“This book provides an apt starting point for those who wish to better understand these pressing issues, and perhaps even move toward the decolonization of flood control itself.” International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
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Columbia University Press Programmed to Learn An Essay on the Evolution of
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Columbia University Press The Psychiatric Society
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the American mental health care system and its relationship with society and government."
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Columbia University Press The Camel and the Wheel
Book SynopsisWhy, for many centuries, was the wheel abandoned in the Middle East in favor of the camel as a means of transport? This richly illustrated study explains this anomaly. Drawing on archaeology, art, technology, anthropology, linguistics, and camel husbandry, Bulliet explores the implications for the region's economic and social development during the Middle Ages and into modern times.
£27.00
Columbia University Press From Tea Leaves to Opinion Polls
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth analysis of the link between politicians' behavior and opinion polls. Exploring political action within a broad historical context, the book develops a theory to show how the behavior of politicians, and the unfolding of political change, have been irrevocably altered since the advent of opinion polling in the 1930s.
£24.00
Columbia University Press Social Preconditions of National Revival in
Book SynopsisOffers historical and political background to the profusion of nationalist movements in Eastern Europe. This book demonstrates empirically the concept of a three-stage process of nationalist mobilization. It shows how the character of a state's nationalism is shaped by the timing of each of these phases in relation to other social transformations.
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Columbia University Press The Holy Family and Its Legacy Religious
Book SynopsisRanging over two millennia of history and culture, Koschorke considers such thinkers as Freud, Weber, Rousseau, and Kleist in an exploration that illuminates issues of historical, religious, artistic, psychological, and cultural importance.Trade ReviewAn interesting dance of signs going back through the epochs Die Zeit This book demands a careful read. -- Linda J. Strozdas Family Ministry Theologians can find some help in this book for the history and the cannons of their on discipline. -- Mary Ann Donovan Theological StudiesTable of ContentsPreface to the American Edition Part I Dispositions 1. Around the Year Zero 2. Faith and Code 3. Positions I: Jesus and His Fathers 4. Positions II: Mary and the Trinity 5. From the Jewish Birth Family to the Christian Destination Family 6. The Man Joseph and Monotheistic Religion 7. The Inimitable Model 8. Combinatorics I: The Mother-Son Axis 9. Combinatorics II: The Sacred Marriage 10. Combinatorics III: The Father-Son Axis 11. The Dissolution of Distinctions Part II Theories 12. The Family Novel of Religions 13. Beyond Gender 14. The Question of Power Part III Consequences 15. Christianity: On the Road to Becoming the Religion of the Empire 16. The Church's Marriage Policy in the Middle Ages 17. The Protestant Holy Family 18. The Return of Joseph 19. Joseph, Abelard, Saint-Preux 20. Holy Family, Bourgeois Family 21. Christ and Oedipus: Freud's Coup 22. Remnant Families in the Welfare State 23. Theology and Family in George Lucas's Star Wars Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Intimacies
Book SynopsisExamines how different cultures rationalize the expression of passionate and comfort love and physical sex. This book maps out the intricacies of the love/sex conundrum and the psychological dilemma of reconciling these competing forces.Trade ReviewRecommended. Choice
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Columbia University Press Men to Boys
Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] perceptive, eloquent book. Publishers Weekly Gary Cross slides through twentieth-century culture in loping, eloquent paragraphs. He gives us informed wryness--as when he observes that the patron saint of modern manhood has morphed from Cary Grant (mature) to Hugh Grant (not)--and then tells us what it means. -- Dan Zak Washington Post [A] thoughtful journey through the male-strom of modern masculinity. -- Kay Hymowitz Wall Street Journal An interesting take on the history and development of boy-men... Highly recommended. Library Journal A thought-provoking read for men and women of all walks of life. Futurist Cross contributes important lessons to gender and masculinity studies in this roller coaster ride through an intersection of biography and history... Essential. Choice [This] copiously researched, subtly argued, and lucidly written account of modern immaturity... serves as a needed hair shirt for the regressive adult. -- Christopher Benson Weekly Standard An important contribution to our understanding of major shifts in cultural values in the second half of the twentieth century. -- Lisa Jacobson H-Childhood [E]xtremely readable, informative The Family in AmericaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Where Have All the Men Gone? 1. When Fathers Knew Best (or Did They?) 2. Living Fast, by (Sometimes) Dying Young 3. Talking About My Generation 4. My Generation Becomes the Pepsi Generation 5. New Stories, by New Rebels 6. Endless Thrills 7. Life Beyond Pleasure Island Acknowledgments Index
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Columbia University Press Youth Gangs and Community Intervention
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