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Social Movements and Culture
Hank Johnston and Bert Klandermans, Editors
1995 Spring
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Reflecting the recent surge of interest in culture, this volume brings together top researchers in the field of social movements whose work represents the major approaches to movement analysis from a cultural perspective. The contributors address such issues as approaches to culture; how movements are affected by the culture of the larger society in which they act; and the internal cultures of these movements.
Contributors include Michael Billig, Rick Fantasia, Gary Alan Fine, William A. Gamson, Eric Hirsch, Jane Jenson, John Lofland, Alberto Melucci, Ann Swidler, Verta Taylor, and Nancy Whittier.
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Social Origins of Religion
Roger Bastide
2003 Spring
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A classic work that provides an essential framework for the study of the sacred
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Social Science
Beyond Constructivism and Realism
Gerard Delanty
1998 Spring
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An ambitious and wide-ranging text about the debates of social science.
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Social Semiotics as Praxis
Text, Social Meaning Making, and Nabokov’s Ada
Paul J. Thibault
1990 Fall
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Focusing on Nabokov's Ada, the author rescues semiotics from terminal formalism by developing a conception of social semiotics that is a form of both social action and political praxis.
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Socialism and Modernity
Peter Beilharz
2009 Fall
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Argues that both socialism and capitalism are fundamental to modernity
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Socialist Ensembles
Theater and State in Cuba and Nicaragua
Randy Martin
1994 Fall
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Adds the new dimension of theater to discussions of the evolution of socialist states.
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Socrates and Legal Obligation
R.E. Allen
None None
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Solar Adobe
Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture
Albert Narath
2024 Spring
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How a centuries-old architectural tradition reemerged as a potential solution to the political and environmental crises of the 1970s
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Solarities
Seeking Energy Justice
After Oil Collective
Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney, Editors
2022 Fall
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A collective engages and mirrors the critical need for energy justice and transformation
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Solidarity and Contention
Networks of Polish Opposition
Maryjane Osa
2003 Spring
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Offers an innovative model for understanding how social movements occur in repressive societies
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Solidarity Forever
An Oral History of the IWW
Stewart Bird, Dan Georgakas and Deborah Shaffer
None None
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Solitary Confinement
Social Death and Its Afterlives
Lisa Guenther
2013 Fall
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Why the living death of solitary confinement is both a form of political and racial violence and an attack on the structure of being itself
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Solo Viola
A Post-Exotic Novel
Antoine Volodine
2021 Spring
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A harrowing early novel by one of France’s most unusual contemporary writers
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Some Assembly Required
Michael Sorkin
2001 Fall
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The long-awaited collection by one of architecture’s most exciting voices.
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Something Completely Different
British Television and American Culture
Jeffrey S. Miller
1999 Fall
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The first comprehensive study of the influence British programming had on American television.
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Song of Sampo Lake
William Durbin
2011 Spring
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A gripping depiction of frontier life on the Minnesota Iron Range
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Sound Ideas
Music, Machines, and Experience
Aden Evens
2005 Spring
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A highly original approach to the philosophy of musical experience
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Sound, Image, Silence
Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World
Michael Gaudio
2019 Fall
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A visionary new approach to the Americas during the age of colonization, made by engaging with the aural aspects of supposedly “silent” images
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Sounds from the Other Side
Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music
Elliott H. Powell
2020 Fall
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A sixty-year history of Afro–South Asian musical collaborations
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South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come
Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom
Brenna Munro
2012 Spring
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Uncovers the story of how the politics of queer sexuality have played out in the struggle for multiracial democracy in South Africa