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Book SynopsisIn this penetrating study of urban religion, Gary Schwartz examines the nature of the relationship between religious belief and the social order. He shows how a person's experience in the social hierarchy shapes his response to competing religious ideologies and, in turn, how commitment to a particular sect ideology colors his attitude toward mundane affairs. The author studied and compared a Pentecostal group and a Seventh-day Adventist group in preparation for this work. The question which stimulated the investigation can be stated as a paradox. In the Adventist case, why should persons who firmly believe that God is soon to destroy the world work so diligently and against formidable odds to improve their own secular fortunes? In the Pentecostal case, why should persons who believe that God is available for direct aid in every human contingency not use this power for their own advancement? In theorizing about the relationship between an individual's position in the socioeconomic syst

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Book SynopsisThis text demonstrates the link between philosophy of science and scientific practice. Durkheim's sociology is examined as more than a collection of general observations about society, since the constructed theory of the meanings and causes of social life is incorporated.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments I: Creating a Niche 1: Interpreting Durkheim 2: Durkheim on the Division of Intellectual Labor II: The Explanation Goals and Methods of Inquiry of Durkheim's Research Program 3: Social Facts and Collective Representations 4: Durkheim's Concept of Sociological Explanation 5: Durkheim on Method III: An Analysis of Durkheim's Major Empirical Works 6: The Division of Labor in Society 7: Suicide 8: The Elementary' Forms of the Religious Life IV: An Evaluation of Durkheim's Sociological Research Program 9: Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis text demonstrates the link between philosophy of science and scientific practice. Durkheim's sociology is examined as more than a collection of general observations about society, since the constructed theory of the meanings and causes of social life is incorporated.

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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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Book SynopsisThis lively and controversial work critiques the conservative efforts in the 1970s and 1980s to undo the educational reforms of the 1960s, to reestablish control over the curriculum, and to change the nature of the debate and the goals of education. An outstanding work of educational theory and history.--John Coatsworth, University of Chicago

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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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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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Book SynopsisIn this exploration of the concept of formality, or governing by abstraction, Arthur Stinchcombe breathes life into an idea that scholars have all but ignored.

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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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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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Book SynopsisThe history of Christianity in America has been marked by recurring periods of religious revivals or awakenings. In this book, George M. Thomas addresses the economic and political context of evangelical revivalism and its historical linkages with economic expansion and Republicanism in the nineteenth century. Thomas argues that large-scale change results in social movements that articulate new organizations and definitions of individual, society, authority, and cosmos. Drawing on religious newspapers, party policies and agendas, and quantitative analyses of voting patterns and census data, he claims that revivalism in this period framed the rules and identities of the expanding market economy and the national policy. Subtle and complex...Fascinating.--Randolph Roth, Pennsylvania History [Revivalism and Cultural Change] should be read with interest by those interested in religious movements as well as the connections among religion, economics, and politics.--Charles L. Harper, Contempo

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Book SynopsisIn a series of tightly argued essays, Stephen Turner traces out the implications that discarding the notion of shared frameworks has for relativism, social constructivism, normativity and a number of other concepts.

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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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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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Book SynopsisTrade 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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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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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook not only succeeds but excels in guiding scholars through this process of revision. This pragmatic workbook walks an author through clear steps to identify the organizing principle of the book, write and revise the book’s central claims, and then ensure that the chapters actually function well together before the author sends the book to a press. Since scholars often only have one opportunity to convince a press to publish their book, working through this process before sending to editors is crucial—and this is an essential guide.” -- Rebecca K. Marchiel, University of Mississippi“Based on their years of helping academics revise their dissertations into books, Knox and Van Deventer have distilled their incredible depth of knowledge into a beautifully thought-out book that takes you step by step through the process of revising your dissertation. Too many writing books give vague advice without any practical guidance. This is not that book. From advice on crafting your book’s arc and organizing principle to drafting your book questions and producing chapter answers, this book takes all the guessing out of one of the most stressful tasks academics face. This is the best book I have seen on the topic.” -- Wendy Belcher, author of Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve WeeksTable of ContentsIntroduction: The What, Why, and How of This Workbook This Workbook’s Origins An Overview of the Work You’ll Do How This Workbook Invites You to Work Practice 1: Prioritize Action Practice 2: Aim for Progress, Not Perfection Practice 3: Reflect Intentionally and Capture Doubts Practice 4: Build Confidence by Asking Challenging Questions What You Won’t Do in This Workbook Decide Whether to Publish a Book or Articles Answer Questions about Your Book’s Publishability or Your Argument’s Significance Complete Your Book Manuscript Copyedit Your Book’s Prose Identify Your Book’s Target Audience and Possible Publishers Draft Your Book Proposal Gain Procedural Information on Publication How to Use This Workbook Completing the Workbook Exercises Recommended Pacing A Final Note: You Aren’t Alone! Chapter 1: Considering Your Book on Its Own Terms What to Expect Time Investment Common Discoveries in Chapter 1 Common Stumbling Blocks Exercises Step 1: Describing Your Book on Its Own Terms Step 2: Understanding the Alignment Between Scope, Claims, and Evidence Step 3: Troubleshooting Misaligned Claims, Scope, and Evidence Step 4: Freewriting to Assess Your Book as a Book Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting Chapter 2: Reviewing Your Book’s Organizing Principle What to Expect Time Investment Common Discoveries in Chapter 2 Common Stumbling Blocks Exercises Step 1: Recognizing Organizing Principles Step 2: Identifying Your Book’s Current Primary Organizing Principle Step 3: Imagining All of Your Book’s Potential Organizing Principles Step 4: Stating the Implied Questions Step 5: Choosing Your Organizing Principle Step 6: Reflecting on Your Organizing Principle Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting Chapter 3: Drafting Your First Book Question What to Expect Time Investment Common Discoveries in Chapter 3 Common Stumbling Blocks Exercises Step 1: Understanding Book Questions Step 2: Stress-Testing the Actors and Actions of Your Book Question Step 3: Revising Your Question Word Step 4: Checking Your Book Question Candidates Against Your Chapters Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting Chapter 4: Drafting Your Remaining Book Questions What to Expect Time Investment Common Discoveries in Chapter 4 Common Stumbling Blocks Exercises Step 1: Selecting Other Book Questions Step 2: Brainstorming Questions Related to Book Question 1 Step 3: Stress-Testing and Answering Your Book Questions Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting Chapter 5: Revising Your Book Questions What to Expect Time Investment Common Discoveries in Chapter 5 Common Stumbling Blocks Exercises Step 1: Checking Actors and Actions Step 2: Stress-Testing Your Terminology Step 3: Assessing Conceptual Relationships Step 4: Projecting Your Chapter Answers Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting Chapter 6: Assessing Your Chapters on Their Own Terms What to Expect Time Investment Common Discoveries in Chapter 6 Common Stumbling Blocks Exercises Step 1: Producing Chapter Snapshots Step 2: Surveying Your Chapters Within Your Book Step 3: Assessing the Alignment Between Your Chapters’ Evidence, Scope, and Claims Step 4: Evaluating Your Chapters’ Corpus Step 5: Adding Metacommentary Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting Chapter 7: Checking Your Chapters for Parallelism What to Expect Time Investment Common Discoveries in Chapter 7 Common Stumbling Blocks Exercises Step 1: Identifying Constants and Variables Step 2: Evaluating Your Book’s Variables Step 3: Handling Outlier Chapters Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting Chapter 8: Crafting Your Book’s Narrative Arc What to Expect Time Investment Common Discoveries in Chapter 8 Common Stumbling Blocks Exercises Step 1: Describing Your Chapter Order Step 2: Playing with Chapter Order Step 3: Settling on a Final Chapter Order Step 4: Identifying Narrative Interest Step 5: Laying Out Connections and Shifts Between Consecutive Chapters Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting Chapter 9: Producing Your Chapter Answers What to Expect Time Investment Common Discoveries in Chapter 9 Common Stumbling Blocks Exercises Step 1: Transforming Your Templates into Chapter Answers Step 2: Collecting Your Key Terms Step 3: Scrutinizing Your Terms Step 4: Noticing and Revising Optional Step 5: Expanding and Condensing Your Chapter Answers Step 6: Producing the Rest of Your Chapter Answers Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting Chapter 10: Revising Your Chapter Answers as a Group and Refining Your Book Questions What to Expect Time Investment Common Discoveries in Chapter 10 Common Stumbling Blocks Exercises Step 1: Reassessing Your Terminology Step 2: Checking for Parallelism in Actors (and Actions) Step 3: Noticing and Revising for Directionality Step 4: Reviewing Your Final Book Questions and Chapter Answers Step 5: Reading Aloud Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting Chapter 11: Reviewing Your Book’s Changes and Tying Up Loose Ends What to Expect Time Investment Common Discoveries in Chapter 11 Common Stumbling Blocks Exercises Step 1: Reviewing and Reflecting on Decisions Made Along the Way Step 2: Revisiting, Revising, and Extending Your Chapter 1 Work Step 3: Reviewing Your Book’s Structure and Arc Step 4: Reflecting on Your Chapters and Their Contributions Step 5: Capturing Threads Step 6: Dealing with Background Information Optional Step 7: Synthesizing Dissertation and Book Differences Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting Chapter 12: Assembling Your Book Argument What to Expect Time Investment Common Discoveries in Chapter 12 Common Stumbling Blocks Exercises Step 1: Writing Your Implicit Lesson(s) Step 2: Turning Your Book Questions into Statements Step 3: Pulling It All Together Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting Chapter 13: Assembling Your Two-Page Book Narrative What to Expect Time Investment Common Discoveries in Chapter 13 Common Stumbling Blocks Exercises Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting Interlude: Transitioning from “Working on” Your Book to “Working in” Your Book Work You’ve Done; What Lies Ahead FAQ as You Reach This Transition Point Am I ready to draft proposals now? Am I ready to talk to editors now? Which chapter(s) should I start with in Chapter 14? What about chapters I still need to draft? When should I plan to draft my book introduction? How long will revisions take? When should I plan to submit proposals? What if I want to change my plan? Chapter 14: Assembling a Chapter Collage What to Expect Time Investment Common Discoveries in Chapter 14 Common Stumbling Blocks Exercises Step 1: Gathering Your Materials Step 2: Using Your Chapter Answers to Produce a Chapter Structure and Roadmap Step 3: Assembling One Section by Mining Your Source Material Step 4: Making Notes and Filling Gaps Step 5: Repeating Steps 3–4 for Each Section Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting Chapter 15: Reverse Outlining Your Chapter Collage What to Expect Common Discoveries in Chapter 15 Common Stumbling Blocks Exercises Step 1: Assembling Your Materials and Preparing the Section Step 2: Claim Tagging (Reverse Outlining) Your Paragraphs Step 3: Function Tagging Your Paragraphs Step 4: Generating Your “Honest Outline” of the Section Step 5: Analyzing Your “Honest Outline” and Jotting Notes Step 6: Creating an Aspirational Outline Step 7: Assessing Your Aspirational Outline Step 8: Drafting Topic Sentences to Match Your Aspirational Outline Step 9: Fleshing Out Paragraphs by Drafting or Assembling Step 10: Revising Your Transitions Step 11: Repeating Steps 1–10 for the Other Body Sections Optional Step 12: Macro Revising, Using Targeted Questions Step 13: Adjusting Your Book Questions and Chapter Answers Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting Chapter 16: Citing with Confidence What to Expect Common Discoveries in Chapter 16 Common Stumbling Blocks Exercises Step 1: Deciding Whether and Where to Cite Step 2: Deciding How Much to Cite Step 3: Deciding How to Cite Debrief, Support, and Troubleshooting Final Words Acknowledgments Appendixes Appendix A: If Your Book Isn’t Based on a Dissertation Readiness Checklist Appendix B: If Your Scope Needs a Closer Look Appendix C: If You’re Unsure about Your Organizing Principle Question Step 1: Reprising Your Topic Statement Step 2: Review—Who’s Doing What to Whom? Step 3: Checking Against the Question Implied by the Organizing Principle Appendix D: If Your Book Question and Chapter Answer Terms Need a Closer Look Appendix E: If You Want Strategies for Drafting New Work Strategy 1: Close Reading Strategy 2: Asking and Answering Questions Strategy 3: Distilling Your Evidence Base Strategy 4: Dumping Everything You Know Strategy 5: Explaining to Yourself What You See Strategy 6: Talking as Thinking Strategy 7: Using a Topical Outline Appendix F: If You Want Some Tools for Micro Revising Considering the Topic Sentence Considering the Paragraph, Globally Considering Each Sentence Additional Resources for Micro Revising Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Risk Work is a masterful rethinking of US contemporary art since the 1960s, revealing how ‘guerrilla tactics’ constituted an interface between conceptual and performance-based art and the state’s intensified expansion of racialized policing. Gleisser offers a complex and theoretically rigorous model for historical research wherein state documents speak of the arts, just as the history of state-sanctioned violence can be found in artists’ archival papers.” -- Chon Noriega, editor, A Ver: Revisioning Art History book series“An accomplished work with surprising interdisciplinary insights. Gleisser has provided us with a much-needed study of the proliferative use of ‘guerrilla tactics’ in contemporary American art and performance. Drawing art history and performance studies into conversation with critical legal studies of race, this necessary text brilliantly illuminates the complex networks that flow between contemporary tactics in art and performance and the power effects of a state and legal structure that has increasingly invested in and expanded the racialized dynamics of police and carceral power.” -- Joshua Chambers-Letson, author of "After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life"“A seminal account of carceral governance’s effects in the art world. Situating guerrilla art’s rise within transnational movements against state violence, Risk Work shines new light on the nexus between artistic practice, political knowledge production, and resistance.” -- Brian Jordan Jefferson, author of "Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age"“Risk Work promises to be an important, eye-opening, and potentially field-transforming contribution to the ongoing historicization of progressive, activist art in the US. Gleisser reorganizes the most basic templates for understanding conceptual and performance art, while presenting an insistent appeal to acknowledge and call out whiteness. I am nearly in awe of the text. Its radically original approach demonstrates its hermeneutic value immediately and incontrovertibly.” -- Matthew Jesse Jackson, author of "The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes""With Risk Work, Gleisser cleverly frames a compelling discourse around artists' actions in public space as they relate to the politics of the racialized and gendered body, punitive literacy, and risk-taking. By assessing key legislation, political events, city development policies, policing, and media portrayals alongside art historical feedback and reception, Gleisser provides a comprehensive consideration of the privileges and risks inherent in performance art, and their legibility, both within public space and the art world." -- Allison Glenn, curator and writerTable of ContentsIntroduction. Punitive Literacy and Risk Work 1 Hit-and-Run Aesthetics: Asco, Chris Burden, and Relational Geographies of Risk, 1971–1976 2 Deputized Discernment: Adrian Piper, Jean Toche, and the Politics of Antiloitering Laws, 1974–1978 3 Rethinking Endurance: Pope.L, Tehching Hsieh, and Surviving Safety, 1978–1983 4 “¿Why Won’t You See Us?”: The Guerrilla Girls, PESTS, and the Limits of Anonymity, 1985–1987 Epilogue. At the Edges of Guerrilla Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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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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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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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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Book SynopsisThis heartfelt collection is a testament to sociology's power to heal people and transform societies. The world is a tough place right now. Climate change, income inequality, racist violence, and the erosion of democracy have exposed the vulnerability of our individual and collective futures. But as the sociologists gathered here by Marika Lindholm and Elizabeth Wood show, no matter how helpless we might feel, it's vital that we discover new paths toward healing and change. The short, accessible, emotionally and intellectually powerful essays in Between Us offer a transformative new way to think about sociology and its ability to fuel personal and social change. These forty-five essays reflect a diverse range of experiences. Whether taking an adult son with autism grocery shopping or fighting fires in Barcelona, contending with sexism at the beach or facing racism at a fertility clinic, celebrating one's immigrant heritage, or acknowledging one's KKK ancestors, this book shows studen

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the American mental health care system and its relationship with society and government."

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