Award-Winning Books: Sociology
Another Arabesque
Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil
232 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-59213-540-0 $31.95 Dec 06
HC: 978-1-59213-539-4 $81.50 Dec 06
Ebook: 978-1-59213-541-7 $31.95 Dec 06
Winner of the Roberto Reis BRASA Book Award, 2008
Arab American National Museum Book Award in the Adult Non-Fiction Category, 2007
Asian American Panethnicity
Bridging Institutions and Identities
238 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-096-5 $30.95 Feb 93
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0556-2 $30.95
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1994
Behind the Backlash
Muslim Americans after 9/11
230 pages
6 x 9
1 tables, 3 figs.
PB: 978-1-59213-983-5 $30.95 Oct 10
HC: 978-1-59213-982-8 $86.50 Oct 10
Ebook: 978-1-59213-984-2 $30.95 Oct 10
Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association's section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity, 2013
Midwest Sociological Society Distinguished Book Award, 2012
Blue Juice
Euthanasia in Veterinary Medicine
244 pages
6 x 9
1 table
PB: 978-1-4399-0706-1 $33.95 Jun 12
HC: 978-1-4399-0705-4 $91.50 Jun 12
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0707-8 $33.95 Jun 12
Midwest Sociological Society Distinguished Book Award, 2015
A City within a City
The Black Freedom Struggle in Grand Rapids, Michigan
248 pages
6 x 9
3 tables, 12 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-0922-5 $31.95 Dec 12
HC: 978-1-4399-0921-8 $91.50 Dec 12
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0923-2 $31.95 Dec 12
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2013
Closure
The Rush to End Grief and What It Costs Us
228 pages
6 x 9
1 table
PB: 978-1-4399-0577-7 $27.95 Aug 11
HC: 978-1-4399-0576-0 $81.50 Aug 11
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0578-4 $27.95
Charles Horton Cooley Award for Best Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2013
Honorable Mention from the Sociology of Emotions section of the American Sociological Association, 2012
Comprehending Columbine
264 pages
6 x 9
1 tables, 6 figs., 20 halftones, 1 maps
PB: 978-1-59213-491-5 $30.95 Feb 07
HC: 978-1-59213-490-8 $81.50 May 07
Ebook: 978-1-59213-492-2 $30.95 Feb 07
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2009
Conceiving Masculinity
Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity
228 pages
5.5 x 8.25
1 table
PB: 978-1-4399-1042-9 $30.95 Apr 14
HC: 978-1-4399-1041-2 $90.50 May 14
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1043-6 $30.95
British Sociological Association's Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, 2015
Consuming Catastrophe
Mass Culture in America's Decade of Disaster
228 pages
5.5 x 8.25
5 tables
PB: 978-1-4399-1370-3 $28.95 Oct 16
HC: 978-1-4399-1369-7 $89.50 Oct 16
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1371-0 $28.95 Nov 16
American Sociological Association's Sociology of Emotions Section award for Recent Contribution Award, 2018
Contemporary Social Constructionism
Key Themes
214 pages
5.5 x 8.25
PB: 978-1-4399-0925-6 $30.95 Jan 15
HC: 978-1-4399-0924-9 $50.50 Apr 14
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0926-3 $30.95
Melvin Pollner Prize in Ethnomethodology by the American Sociological Association's section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, 2018
The Cost of Being a Girl
Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap
208 pages
6 x 9
11 tables, 8 line drawings
PB: 978-1-4399-1349-9 $27.95 Dec 17
HC: 978-1-4399-1348-2 $94.50 Dec 17
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1350-5 $27.95 Dec 17
Honorable Mention from the National Women's Studies Association for the Sara A. Whaley Book Prize, 2018
Cultural Compass
Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America
272 pages
7 x 10
1 table 5 figures
PB: 978-1-56639-773-5 $33.95 Jun 00
HC: 978-1-56639-772-8 $88.50 Jun 00
Cultural Studies Book Award, given by the Association for Asian American Studies, 2000
Cultural Politics and Social Movements
384 pages
6 x 9
2 tables 10 figures
PB: 978-1-56639-323-2 $36.95 Jul 95
HC: 978-1-56639-322-5 $69.95 Jul 95
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0454-1 $36.95
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1996
Dangerous Passage
The Social Control of Sexuality in Women's Adolescence
304 pages
PB: 978-1-56639-077-4 $27.95 Jan 93
HC: 978-0-87722-824-0 $77.50 Jun 91
Eliot Freidson Outstanding Book in Medical Sociology, American Sociological Association, 1993
The Death and Life of the Single-Family House
Lessons from Vancouver on Building a Livable City
262 pages
6 x 9
7 tables, 11 figs., 4 halftones, 6 maps
PB: 978-1-4399-1394-9 $34.95 Oct 16
HC: 978-1-4399-1393-2 $94.50 Oct 16
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1395-6 $34.95 Oct 16
Canadian Sociological Association's John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award, 2017
The Delinquent Girl
360 pages
6 x 9
17 tables, 29 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-952-1 $35.95 Mar 10
HC: 978-1-59213-951-4 $66.50 Jan 09
Ebook: 978-1-59213-953-8 $35.95 Jan 09
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2009
Deviance and Medicalization
From Badness to Sickness
352 pages
7 x 10
PB: 978-0-87722-999-5 $44.95 Oct 92
HC: 978-0-87722-998-8 $59.95 Oct 92
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0349-0 $44.95
Charles Horton Cooley Book Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1981
Dilemmas of the American Self
304 pages
6 x 9
HC: 978-0-87722-656-7 $34.95 Dec 89
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0357-5 $37.95
Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1990
Disability and Passing
Blurring the Lines of Identity
216 pages
5.5 x 8.25
1 halftone
PB: 978-1-4399-0980-5 $31.95 May 13
HC: 978-1-4399-0979-9 $86.50 May 13
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0981-2 $31.95
Contributor Dea H. Bolster, won the Disability History Association Award for Best Book Chapter, 2015
Doing Comparable Worth
Gender, Class, and Pay Equity
272 pages
6 x 9
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0572-2 $34.95 Feb 91
Jessie Bernard Prize of the American Sociological Association for Life Achievement, 1989
Dominican Baseball
New Pride, Old Prejudice
200 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-4399-1088-7 $25.95 Mar 14
HC: 978-1-4399-1087-0 $90.50 Mar 14
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1089-4 $25.95
Outstanding Book Award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, 2015
Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling
Lessons from the Inside
224 pages
5.5 x 8.25
13 tables 2 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-643-8 $28.95 Jan 08
HC: 978-1-59213-642-1 $76.50 Jan 08
Ebook: 978-1-59213-644-5 $28.95
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2008
The End of White World Supremacy
Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line
264 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-59213-573-8 $32.95 Jul 09
HC: 978-1-59213-572-1 $86.50 Jul 09
Ebook: 978-1-59213-574-5 $32.95
Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Award from the American Sociological Association conference, 2010
Family Ties
Enduring Relations between Parents and Their Grown Children
304 pages
6 x 9
61 tables, 25 figs.
PB: 978-1-56639-472-7 $32.95 Jul 97
HC: 978-1-56639-471-0 $90.50 Sep 96
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0411-4 $32.95 Sep 96
William J. Goode Distinguished Book Award, Sponsored by the Family Section of the American Sociological Association, 1997
Feminist Generations
The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement
320 pages
5.5 x 8.25
3 tables
PB: 978-1-56639-282-2 $34.95 Jun 95
HC: 978-1-56639-281-5 $59.95 Jun 95
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0535-7 $34.95 Jun 95
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1995
Final Negotiations
A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness
Revised and Expanded
416 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-4399-1716-9 $37.95 Oct 18
HC: 978-1-4399-1715-2 $104.50 Oct 18
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1717-6 $37.95 Oct 18
International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Best Book Award, 2019
Financialization of Daily Life
240 pages
5.5 x 8.25
PB: 978-1-56639-988-3 $29.95 Oct 02
HC: 978-1-56639-987-6 $71.50 Oct 02
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0597-5 $29.95 Oct 02
Randy Martin is the recipient of the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015
The First Suburban Chinatown
The Remaking of Monterey Park, California
240 pages
6 x 9
14 tables, 2 figs., 8 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-262-4 $35.95 Jul 94
HC: 978-1-56639-123-8 $85.50 Jan 94
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0463-3 $35.95
Donald H. Pflueger Local History Award, Historical Society of Southern California, 1999
Outstanding Book Award in the Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies, 1995
From Black Power to Hip Hop
Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism
256 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-59213-092-4 $27.95 Jan 06
HC: 978-1-59213-091-7 $71.50 Jan 06
Ebook: 978-1-59213-790-9 $27.95 Jan 06
Honorable Mention at the 2006 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards
The Gold Standard
The Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care
280 pages
6 x 9
4 tables, 1 figs., 4 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-188-4 $30.95 Jun 03
HC: 978-1-59213-187-7 $70.50 Jun 03
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0281-3 $30.95 Jun 03
Winner of the Robert Merton Professional Book Award from the Science, Knowledge, and Society section of the American Sociological Association for the best book published in the past three years in the area of science studies, 2005
Growing Up with Television
Everyday Learning Among Young Adolescents
224 pages
6 x 9
1 tables
PB: 978-1-56639-953-1 $39.95 May 02
HC: 978-1-56639-952-4 $69.50 May 02
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0580-7 $29.95
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2002
Hegemony
The New Shape of Global Power
296 pages
6 x 9
10 tables, 4 figs., 9 halftones, 3 maps
PB: 978-1-59213-153-2 $39.95 Apr 05
HC: 978-1-59213-152-5 $76.50 Apr 05
Ebook: 978-1-59213-767-1 $39.95
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2005
I Wanna Be Me
Rock Music and the Politics of Identity
304 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-903-6 $30.95 Oct 01
HC: 978-1-56639-902-9 $69.50 Oct 01
Co-Winner of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Book Award, 2002
Inner Speech and the Dialogical Self
212 pages
6 x 9
3 tables, 3 figs.
PB: 978-1-4399-1328-4 $25.95 May 16
HC: 978-1-4399-1327-7 $80.50 May 16
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1329-1 $25.95 May 16
Co-winner of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction's Charles Horton Cooley Book Award, 2017
Knowledge LTD
Toward a Social Logic of the Derivative
280 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-4399-1224-9 $30.95 May 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1223-2 $90.50 May 15
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1225-6 $30.95 Jul 15
Randy Martin is the recipient of the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015
Laotian Daughters
Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice
216 pages
6 x 9
1 tables
PB: 978-1-4399-0815-0 $31.95 Dec 11
HC: 978-1-4399-0813-6 $91.50 Dec 11
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0814-3 $31.95 Dec 11
Association for Asian American Studies' Outstanding Book Award in the category Social Science, 2014
Honorable Mention, Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association, 2013
Livestock/Deadstock
Working with Farm Animals from Birth to Slaughter
248 pages
6 x 9
2 tables
PB: 978-1-59213-649-0 $33.95 May 10
HC: 978-1-59213-648-3 $81.50 May 10
Ebook: 978-1-59213-650-6 $33.95 May 10
British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for the Best First and Sole-Authored Book within the discipline of Sociology, 2011
Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Animals and Society Section of the American Sociological Association, 2011
Mobilizing an Asian American Community
304 pages
6 x 9
4 tables, 4 figs., 4 maps
PB: 978-1-59213-262-1 $30.95 Jun 04
HC: 978-1-59213-261-4 $81.50 Jun 04
Social Science Book Honorable Mention, Association for Asian American Studies, 2006
Model City Blues
Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven
296 pages
6 x 9
1 tables, 5 figs., 45 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-604-9 $31.95 Apr 08
HC: 978-1-59213-603-2 $81.50 Apr 08
Ebook: 978-1-59213-605-6 $31.95
Urban Communication Foundation Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Publication Award, 2008
Movements in Times of Democratic Transition
390 pages
6 x 9
34 tables, 16 figs.
PB: 978-1-4399-1181-5 $35.95 Jan 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1180-8 $95.50 Jan 15
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1182-2 $35.95
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015
The New Left Revisited
280 pages
7 x 10
PB: 978-1-56639-976-0 $33.95 Jan 03
HC: 978-1-56639-975-3 $96.50 Jan 03
Ebook: 978-1-59213-797-8 $33.95 Jan 03
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2003
New Social Movements
From Ideology to Identity
368 pages
6 x 9
3 tables, 1 figs.
PB: 978-1-56639-187-0 $37.95 Aug 94
HC: 978-1-56639-186-3 $81.50 Aug 94
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0141-0 $37.95 Aug 94
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1995
Nisei/Sansei
Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics
280 pages
6 x 9
1 tables
PB: 978-1-56639-659-2 $31.95 Jun 98
HC: 978-1-56639-550-2 $52.50 Nov 97
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books Awards, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1997
No More Invisible Man
Race and Gender in Men's Work
212 pages
5.5 x 8.25
3 tables
PB: 978-1-4399-0973-7 $27.95
HC: 978-1-4399-0972-0 $81.50
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0974-4 $27.95
Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association's section on Race, Gender and Class, 2014
Richard A. Lester Prize from the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University, 2014
Nuclear Power and Social Power
208 pages
5.5 x 8.25
1 tables
PB: 978-1-56639-486-4 $32.95 Nov 96
HC: 978-1-56639-485-7 $83.50 Nov 96
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1997
Of Others Inside
Insanity, Addiction, and Belonging in America
248 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-59213-404-5 $30.95 Sep 05
HC: 978-1-59213-403-8 $76.50 Sep 05
Ebook: 978-1-59213-405-2 $30.95 Sep 05
Melvin Pollner Prize in Ethnomethodology by the American Sociological Association Section on Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis, 2011
On the Margins of Citizenship
Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America
240 pages
6 x 9
4 figs.
PB: 978-1-59213-698-8 $32.95 May 10
HC: 978-1-59213-697-1 $66.50 Jul 09
Ebook: 978-1-59213-699-5 $32.95
Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association, 2010
Politics and the Class Divide
Working People and the Middle Class Left
320 pages
6 x 9
4 tables, 3 figs.
PB: 978-1-56639-255-6 $36.95 Dec 94
HC: 978-1-56639-254-9 $84.50 Dec 94
Finalist for Transformational Politics Book Award, American Political Science Association, 1996
Rave Culture
The Alteration and Decline of a Philadelphia Music Scene
240 pages
6 x 9
8 tables, 2 figs., 9 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-934-7 $30.95 Jun 09
HC: 978-1-59213-933-0 $86.50 Jun 09
Ebook: 978-1-59213-935-4 $30.95
Charles Horten Cooley Award, 2010
Regarding Animals
256 pages
5.5 x 8.25
PB: 978-1-56639-441-3 $30.95 Jun 96
HC: 978-1-56639-440-6 $81.50 Jun 96
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0388-9 $30.95
Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1997
Rethinking Rental Housing
296 pages
PB: 978-0-87722-538-6 $36.95 Dec 87
HC: 978-0-87722-498-3 $59.50 Dec 87
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0671-2 $36.95
Robert E. Park Award, American Sociological Association, 1989
Separate Societies
Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities
268 pages
6 x 9
12 tables, 25 figs.
PB: 978-1-4399-0292-9 $35.95 Jun 10
HC: 978-1-4399-0291-2 $86.50 Jun 10
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0293-6 $35.95
Paul Davidoff Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, 1993
Shifting Borders
Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's Proposition 187
264 pages
6 x 9
1 figs.
PB: 978-1-56639-917-3 $29.95 Jan 02
HC: 978-1-56639-916-6 $72.50 Jan 02
Critical and Cultural Studies Division of the National Communication Association's Book of the Year Award, 2004
Something Left to Lose
Personal Relations and Survival among New York's Homeless
224 pages
5.5 x 8.25
PB: 978-1-56639-514-4 $29.95 Apr 97
HC: 978-1-56639-513-7 $80.50 Apr 97
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1997
Street Woman
216 pages
5.5 x 8.25
PB: 978-0-87722-509-6 $32.95 Apr 87
HC: 978-0-87722-417-4 $34.95 Apr 86
Distinguished Scholar Award, American Sociological Association Criminology Section, 1987
Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR
272 pages
6 x 9
3 figs.
PB: 978-1-56639-716-2 $30.95 Jul 99
HC: 978-1-56639-715-5 $59.50 Jul 99
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0513-5 $30.95 Jul 99
Nominated for the C. Wright Mills Book Award, 2000
The Temp Economy
From Kelly Girls to Permatemps in Postwar America
232 pages
5.5 x 8.25
2 tables, 7 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-0081-9 $30.95 Nov 10
HC: 978-1-4399-0080-2 $76.50 Nov 10
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0082-6 $30.95
Honorable Mention, Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association, 2012
The Textures of Time
Agency and Temporal Experience
192 pages
6 x 9
2 tables
PB: 978-1-4399-0263-9 $29.95 Nov 10
HC: 978-1-4399-0262-2 $76.50 Nov 10
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0264-6 $29.95
Charles Horton Cooley Award for Best Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2012
Under New Management
Universities, Administrative Labor, and the Professional Turn
272 pages
6 x 9
1 tables
PB: 978-1-4399-0696-5 $32.95 Jun 12
HC: 978-1-4399-0695-8 $76.50 Jun 11
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0697-2 $32.95 Jun 11
Randy Martin is the recipient of the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015
Understanding Dogs
Living and Working with Canine Companions
224 pages
6 x 9
8 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-690-5 $31.95 Apr 99
HC: 978-1-56639-689-9 $61.50 May 99
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0524-1 $31.95 Apr 99
Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2000
Undocumented Fears
Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania
226 pages
6 x 9
1 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-1268-3 $28.95 Feb 16
HC: 978-1-4399-1267-6 $89.50 Feb 16
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1269-0 $28.95 Feb 16
North Central Sociological Association's scholarly achievement awards, 2017
Veils and Daggers
A Century of National Geographic's Representation of the Arab World
224 pages
6 x 9
34 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-752-0 $33.95 Feb 00
HC: 978-1-56639-751-3 $70.50 Feb 00
The American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Critics’ Choice Award, 2001
Weaving Work and Motherhood
240 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-700-1 $31.95 Jun 99
HC: 978-1-56639-699-8 $59.50 Jun 99
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0874-7 $31.95
William J. Goode Book Award, American Sociological Association Family Section, 2000
The White Savior Film
Content, Critics, and Consumption
230 pages
6 x 9
12 tables, 2 figs.
PB: 978-1-4399-1001-6 $30.95 Apr 14
HC: 978-1-4399-1000-9 $90.50 Apr 14
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1002-3 $30.95
Southwest Sociological Association Outstanding Publication Award, 2016
A World without Words
The Social Construction of Children Born Deaf and Blind
336 pages
5.5 x 8.25
1 tables, 1 figs.
PB: 978-1-56639-216-7 $37.95 Jun 94
HC: 978-1-56639-215-0 $59.95 Jun 94
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0579-1 $37.95
Co-winner of the John Horton Cooley Book Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 1995
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