Sociology

The present studies on Brazilian modern art seek to specify some of the dominant contradictions of capitalism's combined but uneven development as ...

One hundred thousand Palestinians fled to Syria after being expelled from Palestine upon the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Integrat...

How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal courtand denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of colorThe ...

The Unconscious knows no time, it has no before-and-after, it does not have a history of its own. Yet, it does not always remain the same. Differen...

Rethinking Private Higher Education takes the university as a core, yet changing, institution in modern nation states. It offers fresh insights int...

Precarity has become a buzzword in academia as well as among activists. This collection of essays examining precarity as both a condition of margin...

In this provocative and original monograph, Krier and Swart argue that NASCAR and the carnivalesque displays at Sturgis's mass motorcycle rallies r...

This groundbreaking work argues that the origins of American capitalism planted its roots in the strong farmers' movements that were so central to ...

In China: Promise or Threat? Helle compares the cultures of China and the West through both private and public spheres. He argues that, for China, ...

Military metaphors have long played a role in framing questions of Marxist political strategy. Most famously, Gramsci articulated much of his socia...

In Ali Shariati and the Future of Social Theory, Dustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri bring together a collection of essays by a variety of scholars...

Stanford University psychology professor Geoffrey L. Cohen has used science to show that when people dont have a sense of belonging, negative conse...

Filter Shift describes the notion of unconscious filters: how we create them, how we perceive the world through them, and how they control us. The ...

While much needs to be done in order to minimize the suicide attempts and suicides of adolescents, the work of Stop Youth Suicide (SYS) campaign an...