This new reading of Erving Goffman's work shows how his analyses of everyday life portray interactional analogs of larger Cold War realities. Rather than viewing Goffman as microsociologist of the mundane, he is shown to be a powerful social theorist of the American Cold War.
Transforming Collective Harm beyond the Punishment Paradigm
White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility addresses the problem of white denial. Rejecting punitive moralities that reproduce white innocence and encourage absolution, Eva Boodman makes the case for a transformative whiteness that dismantles the moral, racial, political, and affective constructs that keep racial capitalism in place.
Developing a Model for Understanding Power and Leadership
This book introduces the Social Power Dynamic Model, which helps explain how culture and society impact power. Tolkien's works are used in sample applications of the SPDM, which demonstrates the value of this new model and provides insight into Tolkien's views on power.
Corruption in Society: Multidisciplinary Conceptualizations is the first book to address the notion of corruption in a truly multidisciplinary manner, augmented with empirical evidence. The prevalent definition in books and articles on corruption is that it is a dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those with political and/or economic power, ......
Accessible and sharply focused, The Myth of Individualism is the perfect introduction to understanding the ways social forces influence, shape, and control our lives
The question of imaginary starts where its opposition to reality ends. Once this opposition is dismissed, it becomes possible thinking of imaginary as a mean of construction and transformation of the social reality. A series of essays - regarding the taking form of socio-anthropological environments; the collective dynamics of social integration; ......
In Sociology of Waiting, Paul Christopher Price investigates how people wait and analyzes what individuals do while waiting. It is a key feature within U.S. and other societies; waiting is universal. Sociologically, waiting gets at order and our ability or inability to pause. Crowds cannot rush into concert venues and supermarket clerks cannot ......
This book examines how police related deaths occur, and why officers are rarely held accountable for them. It argues that such deaths are the result of systemic and structural issues that are deeply embedded in US society and institutions.
Constructive Conflicts provides a powerful analytical and empirical framework for analyzing and intervening in large-scale social and political conflicts. Readers follow conflicts as they emerge, escalate, de-escalate, become settled, and sometimes re-emerge, learning how destructive cycles of contention can be disrupted and even reversed.
Constructive Conflicts provides a powerful analytical and empirical framework for analyzing and intervening in large-scale social and political conflicts. Readers follow conflicts as they emerge, escalate, de-escalate, become settled, and sometimes re-emerge, learning how destructive cycles of contention can be disrupted and even reversed.
With in-depth empirical analysis of a range of case studies, this book offers a comprehensive genealogy of the concepts of economy, despotism and voluntary servitude and provides a thorough and coherent reflection on the wider socio-political agenda of contemporary societies.
This book explores the recent rise in different types of men using digital media to sexualise their bodies. Using four different case studies - the celebrity male nude leak, the 'spornosexual', RuPaul's Drag Race and chemsex - it argues that they do this to live out, negotiate or resist neoliberalism during the post-2008 conjuncture.
Human-Nature Bonding and Protecting the Natural World
This book explores human-nature connectedness through deep ecological philosophy and conservation social science. Emphasizing ecologically-inclusive identities, it argues that connection to nature is more important than many environmental advocates realize and that deep ecology contributes much to the increasingly pressing conversations about it.
This book examines the strengths and weaknesses of four salient epistemological orientations in the field - positivism, relativism, interpretivism, and intersubjectivism - to identify the characteristics of a theoretically-informed epistemology for social science.
The stresses of the 21st century have exposed the fault lines in Higher Education, both as an instructional space that facilitates student growth and as a social space that shapes our economic, political, and religious institutions. This book uses Paul Ricoeur's rigorous writings to envision a Just University necessary for the years ahead.
