Sociology: Books/e-Books
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eBook Resources
Introduction to Sociological Theory by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781118471906Publication Date: 2013-11-18The extensively revised and updated second edition combines carefully chosen primary quotes with wide-ranging discussion and everyday illustrative examples to provide an in-depth introduction to classical and contemporary sociological theory.
Sociology in America by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780226090962Publication Date: 2008-09-15Though the word "sociology" was coined in Europe, the field of sociology grew most dramatically in America.
Social Things by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781442211636Publication Date: 2011-07-01In fifteen years, Charles Lemert's Social Things has become a much-loved modern classic among teachers, students, and many other readers for introducing the sociological imagination through lively, memorable stories and interpretations.
Death, the Dead and Popular Culture by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781787439436Publication Date: 2018-06-01Within popular culture, death is not the end, but instead a space where the dead can exert agency whilst entertaining the consumer. Popular culture enables the dead to be
Homicide and Violent Crime by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781787439405Publication Date: 2018-08-22This volume of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance addresses a variety of issues and concerns involved with the study of violent crime and homicide in the contemporary world.
Youth Who Trade Sex in the U. S. by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781439916223Publication Date: 2018-06-29When cases of domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) by predatory men are reported in the media, it is often presented that a young, innocent girl has been abused by bad men with their demand for sex and profit.
The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780472124275Publication Date: 2018-10-17While medical identification and treatment of gender dysphoria have existed for decades, the development of transgender as a "collective political identity" is a recent construct.
Twenty-First Century Celebrity by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781787439658Publication Date: 2018-09-13Over the first two decades of the 21st century, celebrity has undergone significant changes as mass media have shifted from a restricted broadcast model to a digital free-for-all.
Women Lifers : Lives Before, Behind, and Beyond Bars by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781538113035Publication Date: 2019The number of women in United States prisons has increased dramatically since the 1980s, and has in proportion outpaced that of men’s incarceration.
All In : The Spread of Gambling in Twentieth-Century United States by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781943859610Publication Date: 2018
Poverty and Welfare in America: Examining the Facts by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781440856457Publication Date: 2019-09-12Poverty and Welfare in America: Examining the Facts, like every book in the Contemporary Debates series, is intended to puncture rather than perpetuate myths that diminish our understanding of important policies and positions; to provide needed context for misleading statements and claims; and to confirm the factual accuracy of other assertions.
