"People who run cities like to play Simcity to find out how impossible their jobs are. Hughes gives everyone a chance to play a kind of Simplanet, with outcomes far more complex and uncertain
"Thomas Scheff demonstrates why Goffman remains such a key figure for social scientists. Goffman may have been cautious about recognizing the role of emotions in social life, but Scheff boldl
One of the world's leading social critics and educational theorists, Henry A. Giroux has contributed significantly to critical pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, social theory, and cultural po
This collection of four essays by education scholars and researchers, including Henry Giroux, expresses deep concern over the changing state of education toward profit-driven and fear-based goals. The
In Haiti - Haitii Jean-Bertrand Aristide combines the artistry of Swahili with the poetic incisiveness of his native Kreyol to produce an eloquent critique of colonialism and an affirmation of humanis
Veterans' Journeys Home is a vivid portrayal of military life and its aftermath for US troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Highlighting the challenges US veterans face in today's changing
While American Indians have received recognition and a degree of prominence for their intellectual, artistic, and activist achievements, it may surprise many that at least in some instances American I
Birth rates are falling and fertility rates are well below replacement levels. At the same time, the economic crisis has forced governments to scale back public spending, reduce child support, and rai
Few phenomena in the Arab world are more controversial than Al Jazeera - the satellite television news channel that, despite its brief history, has made its impact known throughout the world and chang
During 1938 and 1939, Paul Neurath was a Jewish political prisoner in the concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald. He owed his survival to a temporary Nazi policy allowing release of prisoners wh
Not long after co-authoring The Port Huron Statement, the charter document of sixties activism, Tom Hayden completed, at the University of Michigan, an intellectual biography of eminent scholar C. Wri
Macedo (liberal arts and education, U. of Massachusetts Boston) and Gounari (applied linguistics, U. of Massachusetts Boston) compile 15 essays by an international group of scholars that argue with th
Scheff (professor emeritus, University of California-Santa Barbara) compares the imagined emotional world of popular song lyrics with the more realistic world of emotions and relationships as seen fro
A sociology conference held at the University if Innsbruck, Austria in June 2006 revolved around Stephen K. Sanderson's The Evolution of Human Sociality (2001). The 17 papers that survived to publicat
Written to be accessible to citizens and policymakers as well as students and scholars, this work introduces the fundamental theories of political science and international relations to illuminate the
If what is shaping up to be the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history has an upside, it is that the current war in Iraq should definitively, permanently settle a handful of critical questions
Based on periodic ethnographic fieldwork over a span of fifteen years, Martinez shows how impoverished plantation dwellers find ways of coping with the alienation that would be expected while laboring
Buechler (sociology, Minnesota State U., Mankato) provides an overview of critical sociology by applying concepts to issues in the US, considering how social structures create relations of domination
Zinn's classic The People's History of the United States startled and informed a generation of historians. In this new collection of essays and interviews, Zinn (history emeritus, Boston U.) describes
The old assumption that modernization leads to secularization is outdated. Yet the certainty that religion is an anthropological universal that can only be suppressed by governments is also dead. Thus
