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Suggested Readings SR3
Writing Papers for Sociology
Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft
of Research, 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. How to
plan a paper, build an argument, anticipate and respond to the reservations
of readers, and create introductions and conclusions that answer the de-
manding question, “So what?”
Richlin-Klonsky, Judith, William G. Roy, Ellen Strenski, and Roseann Gi-
arusso, eds. The Sociology Writing Group. A Guide to Writing Sociology
Papers, 6th ed. New York: Worth, 2007. The guide walks students through
the steps in writing a sociology paper, from choosing the initial assignment
to doing the research and turning in a finished paper. Also explains how to
manage time and correctly cite sources.
Chapter 6: Societies to Social
Networks
Cross, Robert, and Andrew Parker. The Hidden Power of Social Networks:
Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations. Cambridge,
Mass: Harvard Business School Press, 2004. Based on their research and
experience in organizations, the authors explain how understanding net-
works can improve communication and productivity.
Homans, George C. The Human Group. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transac-
tion, 2001. First published in 1950. In this classic work, the author devel-
ops the idea that all human groups share common activities, interactions,
and sentiments.
Hughes, Richard L., Robert C. Ginnett, and Gordon J. Curphy.
Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience, 5th ed. New York: Mc-
Graw-Hill, 2006. Supplementing empirical studies with illustrative anec-
dotes, the authors focus on what makes effective leaders.
Janis, Irving L. Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and
Fiascoes, 2nd ed. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. Janis analyzes how
groups can become cut off from alternatives, interpret evidence in light of
their preconceptions, and embark on courses of action that they should
have seen as obviously incorrect.
Newman, Mark, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, and Duncan J. Watts, eds. The
Structure and Dynamics of Networks, 6th ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press, 2007. The authors of these papers analyze the significance
of social networks for individuals and the functioning of society.
Purcell, Patrick, ed. Networked Neighborhoods: The Connected Community
in Context. New York: Springer, 2007. The authors of these papers analyze
the impact of the Internet on our social relationships, community, work
patterns, and lifestyles.
Small, Mario Luis. Unexpected Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in
Everyday Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. The author’s
thesis is that some people have larger, more supportive, or useful networks
because of the organization in which they participate: colleges, firms, gyms,
day care centers, beauty salons, and churches.
Venkatesh, Sudhir. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the
Streets. New York: Penguin Press, 2008. The adventures of a naïve graduate
student in sociology as he explores a drug-dealing gang in a Chicago pub-
lic housing project.
Wilson, Gerald L. Groups in Context: Leadership and Participation in Small
Groups, 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005. An overview of principles
and processes of interaction in small groups, with an emphasis on how to
exercise leadership.
Chapter 7: Bureaucracy and Formal
Organizations
Ackoff, Russell L., and Sheldon Rovin. Beating the System: Using Creativ-
ity to Outsmart Bureaucracies. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2005. This
analysis can be applied to everyday situations, such as avoiding getting lost
in a maze as you try to solve a problem with the phone company or some
other bureaucracy.
Crouter, Ann C., and Alan Booth, eds. Work-Life Policies. Washington
D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 2008. The authors examine work policies that
make life better for both the employees and the company.
Fineman, Stephen, Gabriel Yiannis, and David P. Sims. Organizing and
Organizations, 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2006. The authors
draw on many firsthand accounts to help enliven the study of formal or-
ganizations.
Freidson, Eliot. Professionalism: The Third Logic: On the Practice of Knowledge.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. The author distinguishes profes-
sions, technical occupations, and crafts, analyzing how they differ by knowl-
edge base, educational requirements, career paths, organization, and ideology.
Low, Albert. Conflict and Creativity at Work: Human Roots of Corporate Life.
East Sussex, UK: Sussex University Press, 2008. The author’s thesis is that
employers have the obligation to structure work in such a way that it ben-
efits the workers, which will result in greater creativity and better mental
health.
Parkinson, C. Northcote. Parkinson’s Law. Boston: Buccaneer Books, 1997.
Although this exposé of the inner workings of bureaucracies is delightfully
satirical, if what Parkinson analyzes were generally true, bureaucracies
would always fail.
Ritzer, George. The McDonaldization of Society: An Investigation into the
Changing Character of Contemporary Life, 5th ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine
Forge Press, 2007. The author examines how Durkheim’s predictions about
the rationalization of society are coming true in everyday life.
Tolbert, Pamela S., and Richard H. Hall. Organizations: Structures, Processes,
and Outcomes, 10th ed. Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Prentice Hall, 2009. The
focus of this review of the literature on social organizations is on the impacts
that organizations have upon individuals and society.
Want, Jerome. Corporate Culture: Illuminating the Black Hole. New York:
St. Martin’s Press, 2007. The author uses real-life examples to show how
culture determines the success of an organization.
Chapter 8: Deviance and Social
Control
Clear, Todd R. Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes
Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse. New York: Oxford University Press,
2009. The author’s thesis is that mass incarceration breaks up family and
social networks; deprives siblings, spouses, and parents of emotional and fi-
nancial support; and threatens the economic and political infrastructure
of struggling neighborhoods.
Cusac, Anne-Marie. Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in
America. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009. The author an-
alyzes why the United States has become more punitive toward lawbreakers.
Deflin, Mathieu. Surveillance and Governance: Crime Control and Beyond.
Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 2008. The use of increasingly powerful sur-
veillance techniques to monitor terrorists and other violent criminals is
usually taken for granted—but what is to keep those same methods from
being turned against ordinary citizens?
Domanick, Joe. Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America’s
Golden State. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. A history of
California’s three-strikes law and the reaction to its unintended injustice.
Goffman, Erving. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. New
York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. First published in 1968. The author out-
lines the social and personal reactions to “spoiled identity,” appearances
that—due to disability, weight, ethnicity, birth marks, and so on—do not
match dominant expectations.
Goode, Erich, and D. Angus Vail, eds. Extreme Deviance. Thousand Oaks,
Calif.: Pine Forge Press, 2007. As the authors of these articles examine be-
haviors that bring extreme negative reactions, they analyze vocabularies
of motive, deviance neutralization, the acquisition of a deviant identity,
and the formation of deviant subcultures.
Heiner, Robert, ed. Deviance Across Cultures. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2007. Cross-cultural norms and behavior are the focus of this collec-
tion of classic and contemporary articles on deviance.
Parmentier, Stephen, and Elmar Weitekamp. Crime and Human Rights.
Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 2008. The authors analyze how the empha-
sis on human rights is changing the ways crime and criminal justice are
viewed and how this is impacting the U.S. and European justice systems.
SR4 Suggested Readings
Rathbone, Cristina. A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars.
New York: Random House, 2006. A journalist’s account of the four years
she spent investigating MCI Framingham, the oldest women’s prison in
the United States.
Reiman, Jeffrey. The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class,
and Criminal Justice, 8th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2007. An analysis
of how social class works to produce different types of criminals and dif-
ferent types of justice.
Simon, David R. Elite Deviance, 9th ed. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2008. A
broad overview of deviance, from scandals to organized crime syndicates.
Journals
Contemporary Justice Review, Criminology and Public Policy, Deviant Behav-
ior, and Journal of Law and Society examine the social forces that shape de-
viance and reaction to it.
Chapter 9: Global Stratification
Bales, Kevin, and Ron Soodalter. The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking
and Slavery in America Today. Berkeley: University of California Press,
2009. The authors’ thesis is that there is slavery in the United States—from
prostitutes to dishwashers, people work under threat of violence and can-
not walk away—and that we can put an end to it.
Grusky, David B., ed. Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Soci-
ological Perspective. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2008. This reader of
over 100 articles and 1,000 pages examines almost every aspect of social
stratification, from causes and consequences to likely futures.
Gu, George Zhibin, and Andre Gunder Frank. China’s Global Reach: Mar-
kets, Multinationals, and Globalization, rev. ed. Palo Alto, Calif.: Fultus
Corp., 2006. The author tries to identify the causes and consequences of
global development, with a comparison of corporations in China and other
nations.
Holzner, Burkart, and Leslie Holzner. Transparency in Global Change: The
Vanguard of the Open Society. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press,
2006. The tension between transparency and secrecy as information flows
within and across international boundaries.
Lechner, Krank J., and John Boli, eds. The Globalization Reader, 3rd ed.
Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. A thorough introduction to glob-
alization, including a link with environmentalism.
Ritzer, George. The Globalization of Nothing. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks,
Calif.: Pine Forge Press, 2007. The author expresses concerns about the
short- and long-term effects of globalization.
Rothkopf, David. Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are
Making. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. The author of this
overview of the world’s wealthiest families has many connections with these
elite, powerful people.
Sernau, Scott. Worlds Apart: Social Inequalities in a Global Economy, 2nd ed.
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, 2005. The author’s thesis is that
the market-driven global economy contributes to rather than reduces so-
cial inequality.
Wan, Ming. The Political Economy of East Asia: Striving for Wealth and Power.
Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2008. The author analyzes the politics and
policies that are increasing the power and wealth of east Asia.
Zakaria, Fareed. The Post-American World. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008.
The author analyzes political and economic megatrends that are making
fundamental changes in the distribution of world power.
Chapter 10: Social Class in the
United States
Beeghley, Leonard. The Structure of Social Stratification in the United States,
5th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2008. The author presents a concise overview of
the U.S. social classes.
Eitzen, D. Stanley, and Janis E. Johnston, eds. Inequality: Social Class and
Its Consequences. Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm, 2007. Written from the con-
flict perspective (class struggle), these selections examine class formation,
cultures, and politics.
Engels, Friedrich. Condition of the Working Class in England. Sydney,
Australia: Read How You Want, 2007. First published as Die Lage der ar-
beitenden Klasse in England, in 1844. One of the significant books in world
history, this analysis of people who lived in poverty (the working class of
the time) is based on the author’s research and parliamentary reports.
Gilbert, Dennis. The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing In-
equality, 7th ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, 2008. This basic
text on the U.S. social class structure, filled with facts about class, grapples
with the question of why social mobility in the United States is decreasing.
McNamee, Stephen J., and Robert K. Miller, The Meritocracy Myth, 2nd ed.
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. The authors evaluate talent,
attitude, work ethic, and character as elements of merit and social status;
race, heritage, and wealth as elements of nonmerit.
Newman, Katherine S., and Victor Tan Chen. The Missing Class: Portraits
of the Near Poor in America. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007. The story of nine
families who live on the edge of poverty: their experiences in education,
leisure, child rearing, romance, work, the police, courts, welfare, shopping,
and debt.
Perucci, Robert, and Earl Wyson. The New Class Society, 3rd ed. Lanham,
Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. An overview of the U.S. social class struc-
ture, with the suggestion that no longer is there a middle class.
Sherman, Rachel. Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels. Berke-
ley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2007. Based on participant ob-
servation, the author explores the relationship between workers and guests
at a luxury hotel.
Sumner, William Graham. What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other.
Charleston, South Carolina: BiblioBazaar, 2008. First published in 1883.
Written when sociology had a largely conservative orientation, the author
explains why the government should not redistribute wealth.
Van Galen, Jane A., and George W. Noblit, eds. Late to Class: Social Class
and Schooling in the New Economy. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 2007. The authors of these articles compare the educational experi-
ences of poor, working-class, and middle-class students, illustrating how
education reproduces social class and suggesting ways to open educational
opportunity.
Journals
Journal of Children and Poverty and Journal of Poverty analyze issues that
affect the quality of life of people who live in poverty.
Race, Gender, and Class publishes interdisciplinary articles on the topics
listed in its title.
Chapter 11: Sex and Gender
Andersen, Margaret L. Thinking About Women: Sociological Perspectives on
Sex and Gender, 8th ed. New York: Allyn and Bacon, 2008. An overview of
the main issues of sex and gender in contemporary society, ranging from
sexism and socialization to work and health.
Brettell, Caroline B., and Carolyn F. Sargent, eds. Gender in Cross-Cultural
Perspective, 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2008. The net
is spread wide as the authors examine gender and biology, in prehistory, at
home, and the division of labor, and the body, property, kinship, religion,
politics, and the global economy.
Casey, Emma, and Lydia Martens, eds. Gender and Consumption: Domestic
Cultures and the Commercialization of Everyday Life. Burlington, Vt.: Ash-
gate, 2007. The articles in this short book focus on how gender is constructed
and communicated through the purchase and use of objects.
Colapinto, John. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl, P.S.
New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. A detailed account of the event summa-
rized in this chapter of the boy whose penis was accidentally burned off.
DeFrancisco, Victoria Priun, and Catherine Helen Palczewski.
Communicating Gender Diversity: A Critical Approach. Los Angeles: Sage
2007. Probably the polar opposite of the Colapinto book; gender is viewed
not as something that people are but as something that people do; an em-
phasis on how gender is constructed through communication.
Fuller, Linda K., ed. Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and
Media Representations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. The articles in
Suggested Readings SR5
Ross, Jeffrey Ian, and Larry Gould, eds. Native Americans and the Criminal
Justice System. Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm, 2006. The authors of these articles
address crime by Native Americans within historical, cultural, and legal
contexts and the issue of criminal justices and tribal sovereignty.
Russell, James W. Class and Race Formation in North America. Toronto: Uni-
versity of Toronto Press, 2009. As the author explores how race–ethnicity and
social class formed in Canada, Mexico, and the United States, he examines
the effects and possible future consequences of NAFTA.
Schaefer, Richard T. Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 5th ed. Upper
Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2009. The data and analyses of
this basic text can help cut through some of the emotional blinders that
often accompany this topic.
Sutton, Mark Q. An Introduction to Native North America, 3rd ed. Boston:
Allyn and Bacon, 2007. An overview of the cultures of Native Americans,
with an emphasis on the effects of the European invasion.
White, Michael J., and Jennifer E. Glick. Achieving Anew: How New Im-
migrants Do in American Schools, Jobs, and Neighborhoods. New York: Rus-
sell Sage Foundation, 2009. This examination of immigrant life at school,
at work, and in communities and shows that recent immigrants and their
children are not forming an underclass but are making substantial progress
in entering the mainstream.
Williams, Philip J., Timothy Steigenga, and Manual A. Vasquez, eds. A
Place to Be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida’s
New Destinations. The authors analyze the challenges, resources, and strate-
gies of immigrants as they form community and establish identity.
Piscataway, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Wilson, William Julius. More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the
Inner City. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009. The author analyzes both
cultural and structural factors that maintain poverty in the inner city.
Includes policy recommendations.
Zeitz, Joshua M. White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of
Postwar Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Examines the sometimes contentious, fractious, and fragile coalition that
became politically and culturally significant in this area of the United States.
Chapter 13: The Elderly
Booth, Alan, Ann C. Crouter, Suzanne Bianchi, , and Judith A. Seltzer.
Intergenerational Caregiving. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press,
2008. Considers effects on social policies of our changing family rela-
tionships: divorce, extramarital childbearing, cohabitation, remarriage, and
longer life expectancy.
Buettner, Dan. Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve
Lived the Longest. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2008.
The author interviewed elderly people around world to find out how
lifestyles affect longevity.
Gass, Thomas Edward, and Bruce C. Vladeck. Nobody’s Home: Candid Re-
flections of a Nursing Home Aide. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2004. A first-
hand account of the reality of life in a nursing home.
Harris, Diana K., and Michael L. Benson. Maltreatment of Patients in Nurs-
ing Homes: There Is No Safe Place. New York: Routledge, 2006. An exami-
nation of the physical, financial, and psychological abuse of
patients—restraints, verbal abuse, sexual abuse, the theft of belongings,
childlike treatment, and learned helplessness.
Hooyman, Nancy, and H. Asuman Kiyak. Social Gerontology: A Multidis-
ciplinary Perspective, 8th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2008. As the au-
thors consider factors that influence how people experience old age, they
review differences by age and cohort, gender, race–ethnicity, sexual orien-
tation, and socioeconomic status.
Nilan, Pam, and Carles Feixa, eds. Global Youth? Hybrid Identities, Plural
Worlds. New York, Routledge, 2006. The authors of these articles report re-
search on Eastern youth cultures.
Quadagno, Jill S. Aging and the Life Course: An Introduction to Social Geron-
tology, 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008. In this review of major is-
sues in gerontology, the author examines how the quality of life that people
experience in old age is the result of earlier choices, opportunities, and con-
straints.
this short book focus on how gender is communicated in sports; includes
both historical materials and contemporary case studies.
Gilbert, Paula Ruth, and Kimberly K. Eby, eds. Violence and Gender: An
Interdisciplinary Reader. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2004. The
authors of these articles examine violence and youth, the human body, war,
intimacy, sports, the media, and how to prevent violence.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Man-Made World or, Our Androcentric
Culture. New York: Charlton, 1911. Reprinted in 1971 by Johnson
Reprint. This early book on women’s liberation provides an excellent view
of gender relations at the beginning of the last century.
Gonas, Lena, and Jan Ch Karlsson, eds. Gender Segregation: Divisions of
Work in Post-Industrial Welfare States. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2006.
This short book of ten articles focuses on the gendered division of labor.
Hanson, Sandra L. Swimming Against the Tide: African American Girls in
Science Education. Philadelphia, PA.: Temple University Press, 2009. Ex-
amines how gender and race–ethnicity coalesce to discourage African
American females from becoming scientists.
Johnson, Allan G. Privilege, Power, and Difference, 2nd ed. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 2006. The author helps us see the nature and consequences
of privilege and our connection to it.
McDonagh, Eileen, and Laura Pappano. Playing with the Boys: Why
Separate Is Not Equal in Sports. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
A detailed history of how women have challenged men’s sports; filled with
anecdotes and contains fascinating historical photos.
Nelson, Robert L., and William P. Bridges. Legalizing Gender Inequality:
Courts, Markets and Unequal Pay for Women in America. New York: Cam-
bridge University Press, 2008. The authors analyze how organizations pro-
duce pay disparities between the sexes and how the courts legitimate them.
Siltanen, Janet, and Andrea Doucet. Gender Relations: Intersectionality and
Beyond. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. The authors look at
how gender differences and inequalities play out in the lives of men and
women throughout the life course.
Journals
These journals focus on the role of gender in social life: Feminist Studies;
Gender and Behavior; Gender and Society; Forum in Women’s and Gender
Studies; Gender and History; Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist
Geography; Journal of Gender, Culture, and Health; Journal of Interdiscipli-
nary Gender Studies; Journal of Men’s Health and Gender; Sex Roles; and
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
Chapter 12: Race and Ethnicity
Blackmon, Douglas A. A Different Kind of Slavery, The Re-Enslavement of Black
Americans from the Civil War to World War II. New York, Doubleday, 2008.
The author documents the horrible conditions African Americans suffered in
Georgia during “post-slavery,” especially in its criminal “justice” system.
Bullard, Robert D., and Beverly Wright, eds. Race, Place, and Environmental
Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize
New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2009. Among
the other issues of race and place (geography) that the authors examine are the
health and environment and what they call “the color of opportunity.”
Glover, Karen S. Racial Profiling: Research, Racism, and Resistance.
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. The author analyzes racial
profiling in traffic stops—associating criminality with race–ethnicity—in
terms of the rights of citizenship.
Higginbotham, Elizabeth, and Margaret L. Andersen, eds. Race and Eth-
nicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 2nd ed. Belmont, Calif.:
Wadsworth, 2008. From race–ethnicity as a social issue to its relationship
to beliefs, ideology, and personal identity, the authors provide a thorough
overview of this topic.
Idler, Jose Enrique. Officially Hispanic: Classification Policy and Identity.
Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2007. How official categories are inade-
quate for representing the racial–ethnic experience.
Parrillo, Vincent N. Strangers to These Shores: Race and Ethnic Relations in
the United States, 9th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2009. This text reviews
the experiences of more than 50 racial–ethnic groups.
SR6 Suggested Readings
Schaie, K. Warner, and Laura Carsgtensen. Social Structures, Aging, and
Self-Regulation in the Elderly. New York: Springer, 2006. The focus is how
social location, especially social class, influences the lives, even the brains,
of the elderly; recommended for advanced students.
Schultz, James H., and Robert H. Binstock. Aging Nation: The Economics
and Politics of Growing Older in America. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2008. The authors look at the future in the light of fal-
tering employer pensions, health care, workplace conditions, and entitle-
ment programs.
Xi, Jieying, Yunxiao Sun, and Jin Jian Xiao, eds. Chinese Youth in Transition.
Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2006. The authors of these articles analyze
the changing youth culture of China.
Journals
Elderly Latinos; The Gerontologist, Journal of Aging and Identity, Journal of
Aging and Social Policy, Journal of Aging Studies, Journal of Cross-Cultural
Gerontology, Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, Journal of Gerontology, Jour-
nal of Long Term Home Health Care, and Journal of Women and Aging focus
on issues of aging, while Youth and Society and Journal of Youth Studies ex-
amine adolescent culture.
Chapter 14: The Economy
Bales, Kevin. Documenting Disposable People: Contemporary Global
Slavery. Berkeley: Hayward Press, 2008. Documents human oppression
to extract money from child labor in Bangladesh to sex slavery in the
Ukraine.
Davis, Gerald F. Managed by the Markets: How Finance Has Re-Shaped
America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Analyzes how we got
into the financial crisis and examines how the well-being of society is linked
to financial markets.
Eitzen, D. Stanley, and Maxine Baca Zinn, eds. Globalization: The Trans-
formation of Social Worlds. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 2008. The authors
of these articles examine the process of globalization and analyze how glob-
alization is reshaping society and groups within it.
Friedman, Thomas L. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First
Century. New York: Picador, 2007. Examines implications of it now being
“possible for more people than ever to collaborate and compete in real time
with more people on more different kinds of work from more different
corners of the planet and on a more equal footing than at any previous
time in the history of the world.”
Kenway, Jane, Elizabeth Bullen, Johannah Fahey, and Simon Robb.
Haunting the Knowledge Economy. New York: Routledge, 2007. The au-
thors’ thesis is that alongside the dominant knowledge economy lie alter-
native marginalized risk, libidinal, gift, and survival economies.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyrich. The Development of Capitalism in Russia. Hon-
olulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2004. An English translation of
Lenin’s 1899 book.
Noland, Marcus, and Howard Pack. The Arab Economies in a Changing
World. Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economies, 2007.
Places the economies of the Middle East in global context, comparing them
with other transition economies.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. Making Globalization Work. New York: W. W. Norton,
2008. The author suggests ways that globalization can benefit the poor
and rich alike and solve the problems of the indebtedness of developing
countries, international fiscal instability, and worldwide pollution.
Sweet, Stephen A., and Peter F. Meiksins. Changing Contours of Work: Jobs
and Opportunities in the New Economy. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge
Press, 2008. The authors examine historical changes in work, explain how
U.S. workers have become part of an integrated global workforce, and
make recommendations for how the new economy can help overcome in-
equality and serve human dignity.
Volti, Rudi. An Introduction to the Sociology of Work and Occupations.
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, 2008. Reviewing work from
hunting and gathering societies to the information age, this basic introduc-
tion to the sociology of work stresses the impact of globalization on work
today.
Chapter 15: Politics
Amnesty International. Amnesty International Report. London: Amnesty In-
ternational Publications, published annually. Summarizes human rights vi-
olations around the world, country by country, listing specific instances and
names.
Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. New York: Far-
rar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007. This first-person account of a boy who was
forced into being a soldier in Sierra Leone provides an understanding of the
social dynamics that transform young teenagers into rapists, torturers, and
killers.
Domhoff, G. William. Who Rules America? Power and Politics, 5th ed. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 2006. An analysis of how the multinational corpora-
tions dominate the U.S. government.
DuBois, William, and R. Dean Wright. Politics in the Human Interest. Lan-
ham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2007. The authors explain how we can use so-
ciology to change politics so it serves the interests of the people.
Harrison, Lawrence E. The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change
a Culture and Save It From Itself. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Based on research on cultural values in dozens of nations, the author exam-
ines which values, beliefs, and attitudes best promote democracy, social
justice, and prosperity.
Lazreg, Marnia. Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007. Examines the
connection between colonial domination and torture, looking at the French
experience in Algeria and that of the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mills, C. Wright. The Power Elite, 2nd ed. New York: Textbook, 2003. First
published in 1956. This classic analysis elaborates the conflict thesis sum-
marized in this chapter—that U.S. society is ruled by the nation’s top cor-
porate leaders, together with elites from the military and political
institutions.
Nash, Kate. Contemporary Political Sociology: Globalization, Politics, and
Power. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2008. This overview of the sociology of
politics makes the point that globalization is ushering in a major transi-
tion, from the nation-state to the internationalized state.
Paxton, Pamela, and Melanie M. Hughes. Women, Politics, and Power: A
Global Perspective. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, 2007. The au-
thors survey women’s political participation in many countries and regions
of the world.
Research in Political Sociology: A Research Annual. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI
Press, published annually. Analyzes political topics of vital concern to our
well-being; recommended for advance students, as the findings and theo-
ries can be difficult and abstract.
Toussaint, Laura L. The Contemporary U.S. Peace Movement. New York:
Routledge, 2009. The author examines the impact on the peace movement
of the governent’s attempt to control dissent since 9/11.
Journals
Many sociology journals publish articles on politics, but these focus on this
area of social life: American Political Science Review, Behavioral Sciences of
Terrorism and Political Aggression, Journal of Political and Military Sociology,
Social Policy, and Social Politics.
Chapter 16: Marriage and Family
Agger, Ben, and Beth Anne Shelton. Fast Families, Virtual Children: A
Critical Sociology of Families and Schooling. Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm, 2007.
The authors analyze how technology has changed the way families con-
duct their lives, rear their children, and try to maintain a boundary be-
tween work and home.
Amato, Paul R., Alan Booth, David R. Johnson, and Stacy J. Rogers. Alone
Together: How Marriage in American Is Changing. Cambridge, Mass.: Har-
vard University Press, 2007. The authors’ controversial thesis is that the
significance of marriage is declining, that marriage is becoming just one
lifestyle choice among many.
Bianchi, Suzanne M., John P. Robinson, and Melissa A. Milkie. Changing
Rhythms of American Family Life. New York: Russell Sage, 2007. Based on
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time-diaries, the authors conclude that despite their greater participation in
the paid labor force U.S. mothers spend just as much time with their chil-
dren as the previous generation of women did.
Conley, Dalton. The Pecking Order: A Bold New Look at How Family and
Society Determine Who We Become. New York: Random House, 2009. An-
alyzes how the inequality in families—children ending up in different so-
cial classes—is related to the larger social forces that envelop the family:
gender expectations, the cost of education, divorce, early loss of a parent,
geographic mobility, religious and sexual orientation, trauma, and even
luck and accidents.
Coontz, Stephanie. Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage.
New York: Penguin 2006. This analysis of how the fundamental orienta-
tions to marriage have changed contains enlightening excerpts from the
past.
Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs, and Arne L. Kalleberg, eds. Fighting for Time:
Shifting Boundaries of Work and Social Life. New York: Russell Sage, 2006.
Explores changes in the time people spend at work and the consequences
of those changes for individuals and families.
McAdoo, Harriet Pipes, ed. Black Families, 4th ed. Beverly Hills, Calif.:
Sage, 2007. The authors of these 23 articles analyze gender relations, fam-
ily patterns, religion, social policy, and even funerary practices of African
Americans.
Stone, Pamela. Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head
Home. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. A study of high-
achieving, highly educated, privileged women who quit their fast-paced
professional work in order to become stay-at-home mothers—their deci-
sion, the transition, and the consequences.
Sullivan, Andrew, ed. Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con. New York: Random
House, 2009. In this even-handed anthology, the editor brings together
arguments and opinions concerning same-sex marriage.
Wallace, Harvey. Family Violence: Legal, Medical, and Social Perspectives,
5th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2008. This overview of violence, from
stalking to sexual harassment to sexual violence in the workplace, includes
case studies.
Journals
Family Relations, The History of the Family, International Journal of So-
ciology of the Family, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Journal of Di-
vorce, Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, Journal of Family and Economic
Issues, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Family Violence, Journal of Mar-
riage and Family, and Marriage and Family Review publish articles on almost
every aspect of marriage and family life.
Chapter 17: Education
Ansalone, George. Exploring Unequal Achievement in the Schools: The Social
Construction of Failure. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. The au-
thor’s thesis is that unequal achievement in school is facilitated both by stu-
dent attributes including gender, race, and class and by educational structures
and policies.
Attewell, Paul, David Lavin, Thurston Domina, and Tana Levey. Passing the
Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Gen-
erations? New York: Russell Sage, 2007. This study of women from poor
families who attended college under open admission programs shows that
their children are more likely to succeed in school and to earn college de-
grees themselves.
Ballantine, Jeanne H., and Floyd Hammock. The Sociology of Education: A
Systemic Analysis, 6th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2008. A
basic reader that covers current issues in education, and the social processes
that underlie education.
Cotterill, Pamela, Sue Jackson, and Gayle Letherby, ed. Challenges and Ne-
gotiations for Women in Higher Education. Dordrecht, Netherlands:
Springer, 2007. A short book of just twelve articles; addresses issues women
face in higher education, from feeling unwelcome to juggling families and
schooling.
Graham, Patricia Albjerg. Schooling America: How the Public Schools Meet
the Nation’s Changing Needs. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Ex-
amines the relationship between changes in society since 1900 and the ed-
ucational response to these changing needs.
Grant, Gerald. Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No
Bad Schools in Raleigh. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009.
The author compares the social class and racial–ethnic integration in the
schools of Raleigh, North Carolina, with the segregation of the schools in
Syracuse, New York.
Grubb, W. Norton. The Money Myth: School Resources, Outcomes, and Eq-
uity. New York: Russell Sage, 2009. The author’s thesis is that educational
success does not come from the money spent on schools but from leader-
ship, instruction, and tracking policies.
Hess, Frederick M. Common Sense School Reform. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005. Critical of current efforts to reform U.S. education, the
author makes the case that reform needs to be based around accountabil-
ity, competition, and leadership.
Kozol, Jonathan. Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope. New
York: Crown, 2001. To listen as these children from a dismal neighbor-
hood in South Bronx talk about life makes us more aware of the potential
that schools have to transform the lives of children in poverty.
Stevens, Michael L. Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the
Homeschooling Movement. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
This analysis of the homeschooling movement, based on interviews and
participant observation, contains numerous quotations that provide in-
sight into why parents homeschool their children.
Journals
The following journals contain articles that examine almost every aspect of
education: Education and Urban Society, Harvard Educational Review, So-
ciology and Education, and Sociology of Education.
Chapter 18: Religion
Cateura, Linda Brandi, and Omid Safi. Voices of American Muslims. New
York: Hippocrene Books, 2006. U.S. Muslims describe their religion, ex-
periences with suspicion and misunderstandings, and, in this heated period
of terrorist attacks by Muslims, their devotion to the United States.
Christiano, Kevin, William H. Swatos, Jr., and Peter Kivisto. Sociology of
Religion: Contemporary Developments, 2nd ed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and
Littlefield, 2008. Examines the foundations of the sociology of religion
and charts changes in this field.
Covington, Dennis. Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Re-
demption in Southern Appalachia. New York: Penguin Books, 1995. A fas-
cinating account by someone who became curious about snake handlers
and in his research handled snakes himself.
Crawford, Suzanne. Native American Religious Traditions. Upper Saddle
River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2006. An introduction to the religions tradi-
tions of the Lakota, Diné (Navajo), and Coast Salish tribes, placing them
within their historical, social, and political contexts.
Edwards, Korie L. The Elusive Dream: The Power of Race in Interracial
Churches. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. In this study of a
racially integrated church, the author found that African Americans con-
form to the expectations of white members.
Gilman, Sander. Jewish Frontiers: Essays on Bodies, Histories, and Identities.
New York: Macmillan, 2003. Analyzes Jewish identity from the framework
of living on a frontier, and the representation of this identity in the mass
media.
Hicks, Douglas A. With God on All Sides: Leadership in a Devout and Di-
verse America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. The author ana-
lyzes how civic leaders need to and can turn the cacophony of beliefs and
practices in their communities into a kind of citizenship worthy of the
American tradition of religious freedom.
Juergensmeyer, Mark. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Reli-
gious Violence, 3rd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. The
author’s summaries of religious violence provide a rich background for un-
derstanding this behavior.
Smith, Christian, and Melinda Denton. Soul Searching: The Religious and
Spiritual Life of American Teenagers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
U.S. teenagers describe the meaning of their spiritual life.
Thumma, Scott, and Dave Travis. Beyond Megachurch Myths: What We Can
Learn from America’s Largest Churches. New Jersey: Jossey-Bass, 2007. The
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authors analyze the similarities and diversities of the nation’s megachurches,
indicating how participants find community in the midst of the crowd.
Journals
These journals publish articles that focus on the sociology of religion:
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Review of Religious Research, and
Sociological Analysis: A Journal in the Sociology of Religion.
Chapter 19: Medicine and Health
Aday, Lu Ann, ed. Reinventing Public Health: Policies and Practices for a
Healthy Nation. Hoboken, New Jersey: Jossey-Bass, 2005. The authors an-
alyze how public policy must respond to changing societal characteristics
that influence a population’s health.
Barber, Charles. Comfortably Numb. New York: Random House, 2009.
The author examines the ways in which pharmaceutical companies first
create the need for a drug and then rush to fill it.
Gabe, Jonathan, and Michael Calnan. The New Sociology of the Health
Service. New York: Routledge, 2009. The authors analyze contemporary
health services issues, including consumerism, technology, evidence-
based practice, public health, managerialism, and social care.
Grob, Gerald N. The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America. Cam-
bridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. In this history of disease in
the United States, the author stresses relationships among society, environ-
ment, and human health.
Henderson, Gail E., and Sue E. Estroff, et al., eds. The Social Medicine
Reader, Volume Two: Social and Cultural Contributions to Health, Differ-
ence, and Inequality, 2nd ed. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005.
The authors combine first-person accounts with empirical studies, draw-
ing on findings in sociology, anthropology, and the history of medicine.
Hilts, Philip J. Rx for Survival: Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Chal-
lenge. New York: Penguin, 2007. The author makes the case that we must
take bold steps now in order to avoid a world crisis in disease that will make
terrorism pale by comparison.
Reverby, Susan M., ed. Tuskegee’s Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis
Study. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Analyses of
the syphilis experiments conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service at
Tuskegee Institute, which victimized African American men.
Sharp, Lesley A. A. Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies,
and the Transformed Self. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press,
2007. Analyzes how recipients of body organs, donor families, and med-
ical specialists make sense of the transfer of body parts from the dead to the
living.
Smedley, Brian D., Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson, eds. Unequal
Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Wash-
ington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2003. The authors of these arti-
cles examine how stereotyping and biases on the part of health care
providers, accompanied by barriers of language, geography, and culture,
contribute to inequality in health care.
Weitz, Rose. The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical
Approach, 5th ed. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 2009. With an emphasis on
how gender, race–ethnicity, and social class affect people’s experiences of
health and illness, the author examines the health care system, alternative
health care, and the experiences of those who live with illness or disability.
Journals
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and
Medicine, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Research in the Sociology of
Health Care, Social Science and Medicine, and Sociological Practice: A Jour-
nal of Clinical and Applied Sociology publish research articles and essays in
the field of medical sociology.
Chapter 20: Population
and Urbanization
Bull, Michael. Sounds Moves: Ipod Culture and Urban Experience. New York:
Routledge, 2008. Using the example of the Apple iPod, the author ana-
lyzes how urbanites use sound to construct key areas of their daily lives.
Connelly, Matthew. Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Pop-
ulation. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008. Analyzes how the
well-intentioned “breeding better people” (eugenics) movement of the
twentieth century went wrong and caused extensive suffering.
Department of Agriculture. Yearbook of Agriculture. Washington, D.C.:
Department of Agriculture, published annually. This yearbook focuses on
specific aspects of U.S. agribusiness, especially international economies and
trade.
Lang, Robert E., and Jennifer LeFurgy. Boomburgs: The Rise of America’s Ac-
cidental Cities. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007. Con-
tending that many fast-growing “cities” are really overgrown suburbs
(“boomburgs”), the authors look at what attracts people to them and how
they are governed.
Lin, Jan, and Christopher Mele, eds. The Urban Sociology Reader. New
York: Routledge, 2006. The authors of these articles review major issues in
urban change and development.
Palen, J. John. The Urban World, 8th ed. Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Pub-
lishers, 2008. A short, basic text that summarizes major issues in urban
sociology.
Rodriguez, Gregory. Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican
Immigration and the Future of Race in America. New York: Random House,
2007. A thorough overview, not just of the immigration of Mexicans to
the United States, but also of the tense and changing relationships between
Anglos and Mexican immigrants.
Wacquant, Loic. Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced
Marginality. Malden, Mass.: Polity, 2008. This analysis of U.S. ghettos and
French banlieue explores polarization, lived realities, and “reserved urban
spaces.”
Yaukey, David, and Douglas L. Anderton. Demography: The Study of
Human Population, 3rd ed. Bellevue, Wash.: Waveland Press, 2007. Focus-
ing on both the United States and the world, the authors analyze major is-
sues in population.
Zhao, Zhongwei, and Fie Guo. Transition and Challenge: China’s Popula-
tion at the Beginning of the 21st Century. New York: Oxford University Press,
2007. The authors analyze implications of China’s family planning policy,
changes in marital patterns, high rural-urban migration, and falling
birthrates coupled with a rising life expectancy.
Journals
City and Community, Journal of Rural Studies, Journal of Urban Affairs, Re-
view of Regional and Urban Development Studies, Rural Sociology, and Urban
Studies publish articles whose focus is the city, community, immigration,
migration, rural life, and suburbs.
Chapter 21: Collective Behavior
and Social Movements
Best, Joel. Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads. Berkeley, Calif.:
University of California Press, 2006. If you want to smile, perhaps even laugh,
as you read a sociological account, this little book is for you.
Brunvand, Jan Harold. Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Leg-
ends. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002. In this collection of over 200 urban
legends, you’ll probably find some that you heard and thought were true.
Cohen, Stanley. Folk Devils and Moral Panics, 3rd ed. New York: Rutledge,
2003. The author’s thesis is that the mass media create moral panics and sti-
fle rational discussion about social problems.
DiFonzo, Nicholas. The Watercooler Effect: A Psychologist Explores the Extra-
ordinary Power of Rumors. New York: Avery, 2008. Examines how rumors
work and why; contains interesting examples.
Goodwin, Jeff, and James M. Jasper, eds. The Social Movements Reader:
Cases and Concepts, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. The authors
answer such questions as why social movements occur, who joins them,
who drops out, and what social movements accomplish.
Gupta, Dipak K. Path to Collective Madness: A Study in Social Order and
Political Pathology. New York: Praeger, 2002. The author analyzes the
Suggested Readings SR9
process by which people participate in “collective madness”—such events
as parents poisoning their children in Jonestown and the genocide of
Rwanda.
Meyer, David S. The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Within the thesis that social move-
ments create vital social change, the author examines mobilization, organ-
ization, strategies, identities, and the culture of social movements.
Schnapp, Jeffrey T., and Matthew Tiews, eds. Crowds. Stanford, Calif.:
Stanford University Press, 2006. The role of crowds in modern life, based
on Stanford University’s “Big Humanities” project.
Solove, Daniel J. The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on
the Internet. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. In this analy-
sis of how the free flow of information in a digital world liberates and con-
strains, the author examines issues of shaming, free speech, anonymity,
privacy, and accountability.
Surowiecki, James. The Wisdom of Crowds. New York: Anchor, 2005. The
author proposes that the collective knowledge of the people who make up
crowds is greater than that of the individuals within them.
Tilly, Charles. The Politics of Collective Violence. New York: Cambridge Uni-
versity Press, 2003. The author analyzes causes, combinations, and settings
that underlie collective violence and tries to identify ways to reduce violence.
Journal
Social Movement Studies examines the origins, development, organization,
context, and impact of social movements.
Chapter 22: Social Change
and the Environment
Bavistar, Amita, ed. Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture, and Power.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Examines such aspects of the en-
vironment as waste, scarcity, security, territory, sovereignty, conflict, expertise,
and community from the perspective of power and culture.
Brown, Lester R., ed. State of the World. New York: Norton, published an-
nually. Experts on environmental issues analyze environmental problems
throughout the world; a New Malthusian perspective.
Conley, Dalton. Elsewhere U.S.A. New York, Random House, Inc., 2009.
Examines how technological change (Internet, e-mail, Blackberrys) are
changing our work and social relationships.
Council on Environmental Quality. Environmental Quality. Washington,
D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published annually. Each report
evaluates the condition of some aspect of the environment.
Hannigan, John. Environmental Sociology: A Social Constructionist Perspec-
tive, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2006. This basic text on environmen-
tal sociology links major disasters to environmental change and reviews the
escalating global conflict over freshwater resources.
McKibben, Bill. Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable
Future. New York: Holt, 2008. The author’s thesis is that we are on the
brink of environmental disaster and that we need to take corrective steps
now.
Leichenko, Robin, and Karen O’Brien, Environmental Change and Glob-
alization: Double Exposures. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Ex-
plores the connections between climate change and globalization and how
these two processes are related to growing inequalities, growing vulnerabil-
ities, and unsustainable rates of development.
Stahler-Sholk, Richard. Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-first
Century: Resistance, Power, and Democracy. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Lit-
tlefield, 2008. Focuses on the involvement of socially marginalized Latin
Americans in social movements, examining the origins, strategies, and out-
comes of their opening.
Stewart, Charles J., Craig Allen Smith, and Robert E. Denton, Jr.
Persuasion and Social Movements, 5th ed. Long Grove, Ill.: Waveland Press,
2007. The authors analyze social movements and countermovements in
the light of identity, values, and culture, showing how people have shaped
society collectively.
Zittrain, Jonathan L. The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It. New
Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009. The author expresses fears that
new communications systems will mark the end of privacy.
Journals
Earth First! Journal and Sierra, magazines published by Earth First! and the
Sierra Club respectively, are excellent sources for keeping informed of major
developments in the environmental movement.
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Aaron, Henry J., William B. Schwartz, and Melissa Cox. Can We Say No? The
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Aberg, Yvonne. Social Interactions: Studies of Contextual Effects and Endogenous
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