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  • Introducing Sociology Using the Stuff of Everyday Life

    by Josee Johnston, Kate Cairns, Shyon Baumann ...
    The challenges of teaching a successful introductory sociology course today demand materials very different from the norm. It is a question of making the practice of sociological thinking meaningful, rigorous, and relevant to today’s world of undergraduates.This comparatively concise, highly visual, and engaging book offers a refreshingly new way forward to reach students, using one of the most ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Happy Meat

    The Sadness and Joy of a Paradoxical Idea

    by Shyon Baumann, Emily Huddart Kennedy, Josee Johnston, Merin Oleschuk ...
    Series series Culture and Economic Life
    North Americans love eating meat. Despite the increased awareness of the meat industry's harms–violence against animals, health problems, and associations with environmental degradation–the rate of meat eating hasn't changed significantly in recent years. Instead, what has emerged is an uncomfortable paradox: a need to square one's values with the behaviors that contradict those values.Using a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Foodies

    Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape

    by Josee Johnston, Shyon Baumann ...
    Series series Cultural Spaces
    This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent ‘hole in the wall’ ethnic eateries, appreciate the pie found in working-class truck stops, and reject the snobbery of fancy French restaurants with formal table service. The second story describes how food operates as a source of status and distinction for economic and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Aging, Media, and Culture

    by C. Lee Harrington, Anthony R. Bardo, Rebecca G. Adams, Anne L. Balazs, Shyon Baumann, Nathalie Claessens, Kim de Laat, Justine Gunderson, Justin Harmon, Stephen Katz, Barbara L. Marshall, Leni Marshall, Rosa Martey, Kelly Quinn, Alexandra Raphael, Cornel Sandvoss, Christine Scodari, Merril Silverstein, Aagje Swinnen, Denise Bielby, Anne Barrett, Hilde Van den Bulck ...
    The intersections of aging, media, and culture are under-explored given trends in population aging, rapid increases in the mediation of everyday life, and the growing cultural significance of media consumption at the global level. This book brings together an international collection of critical scholars, both well-established and up-and-coming, from the various academic disciplines that share a ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Food Pedagogies

    Edited by Rick Flowers, Elaine Swan ...
    Series series Critical Food Studies
    In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow, buy, prepare, present, cook, taste, eat and dispose of food. In light of this, contributors to this book argue that food has become the target of intensified pedagogical activity across a range of domains, including schools, supermarkets, families, advertising and TV media. Illustrated ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Globalization of Nothing 2

    by George Ritzer ...
    The Globalization of Nothing is back in a revised and completely updated edition, with an even greater emphasis on the processes of globalization and how they relate to McDonaldization. As before, this book is structured around four sets of concepts addressing the issues of: "places/non-places," "things/non-things," "people/non-people," and "services/non-services." By drawing upon salient examples ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Conversations in Food Studies

    by Mary A. Beckie, Eva A. Bogdan, Mark Bomford, Jennifer A. Braun, Samara Brock, Robyn Bunn, Kirsten Valentine Cadieux, Chantal Clement, Anais Detolle, Arthur Green, Ankit Gupta, Robert Jennings, Josee Johnson, Emily Huddart Kennedy, Ahmed Khan, Keith Lee, Kristen Lowitt, Wanda Martin, Victoria Millious, Phil Mount, Erika Mundel, Alan Nash, Seriy Polyakov, Keren Rideout, Steffanie Scott, Tammara Soma, Cathryn Sprague, Jennifer Sumner, David Szanto, Lani Trenouth, Penny Van Esterik, Matt Ventresca, Cassie Wever, Carmen Wong, Konstantinos Zougris ...
    Few things are as important as the food we eat. Conversations in Food Studies demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the meaning of milk, to the bring-your-own-wine movement, to urban household waste, are the product of collaborating teams of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

    by Aubrey Gordon ...
    From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people.Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Trouble with Brunch

    Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure

    by Shawn Micallef ...
    Series series Exploded Views
    One of The Globe and Mail's Globe 100: Best Books of 2014Every weekend, in cities around the world, bleary-eyed diners wait in line to be served overpriced, increasingly outré food by hungover waitstaff. For some, the ritual we call brunch is a beloved pastime; for others, a bedeviling waste of time. But what does its popularity say about shifting attitudes towards social status and leisure? In ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Unlearning Shame

    How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power

    by Devon Price PhD ...
    Learn to identify—and combat—Systemic Shame, the feeling of self-hatred and disempowerment that comes from living in a society that blames individuals for systemic problems, with this invaluable resource from the social psychologist and author of Unmasking Autism.“Stop doomscrolling and read this book. You’ll feel better, I promise.”—Celeste Headlee, journalist and bestselling authorSystemic Shame ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Sum of Small Things

    A Theory of the Aspirational Class

    by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett ...
    How the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite, and how their consumer habits affect us allIn today’s world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry NPR tote bags, and breast-feed their babies. They care about discreet, inconspicuous consumption—like eating ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Myth of Making It

    A Workplace Reckoning

    by Samhita Mukhopadhyay ...
    **We can bury the girlboss, but what comes next? The former executive editor of Teen Vogue tells the story of her personal workplace reckoning and argues for collective responsibility to reimagine work as we know it.“One of the smartest voices we have on gender, power, capitalist exploitation, and the entrenched inequities of the workplace.”—Rebecca Traister, author of Good and Mad**“As I sat in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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