Sociology

Marxist Thought and the City Henri Lefebvre 2016 Fall

For the first time in English, Lefebvre’s essential work on how Marx and Engels conceptualized the development of the city

Urban Policy in the Time of Obama James DeFilippis, Editor 2016 Fall

How presidential policies have served—or failed to serve—America’s cities

Testing Fate Tay-Sachs Disease and the Right to Be Responsible Shelley Z. Reuter 2016 Fall

An unprecedented look at the racialized history of a “Jewish” disease

The Servant Class City Urban Revitalization versus the Working Poor in San Diego David J. Karjanen 2016 Fall

Exposes a dark side of the sunny city that has enticed workers and tourists for decades

Blood Sugar Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2016 Spring

How contemporary biomedicine has shaped race and racism as America’s health disparities increase

Program Earth Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet Jennifer Gabrys 2016 Spring

How sensors are changing our environmental relationships

Made to Hear Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children Laura Mauldin 2016 Spring

The social consequences of the medicalization of deafness, as seen in the experiences of parents and professionals working with cochlear implants

Freegans Diving into the Wealth of Food Waste in America Alex V. Barnard 2016 Spring

Freegans, who try to live on what we throw away, reveal the limits of capitalism but also the limits of consumer activism in changing it

Multiple Autisms Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science Jennifer S. Singh 2016 Spring

Investigates the ever-expanding meanings of autism to those who study the disorder and to those who live with it

The Straight Line How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality Tom Waidzunas 2015 Fall

The consequences, for science as well as public policy, of relegating ex-gay therapies to the scientific fringe

Civil Resistance Comparative Perspectives on Nonviolent Struggle Kurt Schock, Editor 2015 Fall

A much-needed cross-disciplinary survey of the most recent scholarship on nonviolent resistance

Security in the Bubble Navigating Crime in Urban South Africa Christine Hentschel 2015 Fall

Can high-crime cities become safer by changing perceptions of space?

Elusive Jannah The Somali Diaspora and a Borderless Muslim Identity Cawo M. Abdi 2015 Fall

The contrasting lives of Somali refugees and migrants on three continents

Leverage of the Weak Labor and Environmental Movements in Taiwan and South Korea Hwa-Jen Liu 2015 Fall

Why do social movements appear at different times in a nation’s development?

Chicago Hustle and Flow Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class Geoff Harkness 2014 Fall

Explores the symbiotic relationship between gangsta rap and Chicago street gangs

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