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  • From Contention to Democracy

    by William Gamson, Jack A. Goldstone, Michael Hanagan, Patricia L. Hispher, Timo Lyyra, Alberto Melucci, Florence Passy, Salvador A. M. Sandoval, Sidney Tarrow ...
    From Contention to Democracy addresses a crucial aspect of contemporary societies: the role of social movements for political and social change. The volume gathers together essays written by prominent social theorists who have been asked to reflect on the relationship between movements and processes of social, political and cultural change.Three broad types of movement-change nexus are ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Public Affairs

    Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals

    by Joshua Gamson, Ted Lowi ...
    Public affairs—or sex scandals—involving prominent politicians are as revealing of American culture as they are of individual peccadillos. Implicated in their unfolding are a broad range of institutions, trends, questions, and struggles, including political parties, Hollywood, the Christian right, new communications technologies, the restructuring of corporate media, feminist and civil rights ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • SIMSOC: Simulated Society, Participant's Manual

    Fifth Edition (Participant's Manual)

    by William A. Gamson ...
    The official guide to SIMSOC, the dynamic group simulation game whose “potential for stimulating the learning process is staggering” (Teaching Sociology), in which players grapple with the challenge of governing society.In SIMSOC, players confront issues like abuse of power, justice, diversity, trust, and leadership as they negotiate their way through labor-management strife, political turmoil, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Research and real-life examples that "lucidly connect some of the divisive social issues confronting us today to that thing we call 'the law'" ( Law and Politics Book Review).Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and ... Read more

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  • The Dumbest Generation

    How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)

    by Mark Bauerlein ...
    This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.The Dumbest Generation is a dire report on the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its impact on American democracy and culture.For decades, ... Read more

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  • Dog Whistle Politics

    How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

    by Ian Haney López ...
    Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare queens" and "strapping young bucks" buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfare run amok, Reagan never needed to mention race, because he was blowing a dog whistle: sending a message about racial minorities inaudible on one level, but clearly heard on another. In doing so, he ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The House That Race Built

    Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today

    Edited by Wahneema Lubiano ...
    In these essays, brought together by the scholar Wahneema Lubiano, some of today's most respected intellectuals share their ideas on race, power, gender, and society.The authors, including Cornel West, Angela Y. Davis, and Toni Morrison, argue that we have reached a crisis of democracy represented by an ominous shift toward a renewed white nationalism in which racism is operating in coded, quasi ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Deschooling Society

    by Ivan Illich ...
    Schools have failed our individual needs, supporting false and misleading notions of 'progress' and development fostered by the belief that ever-increasing production, consumption and profit are proper yardsticks for measuring the quality of human life. Our universities have become recruiting centres for the personnel of the consumer society, certifying citizens for service, while at the same time ... Read more

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  • The Meaning of Freedom

    And Other Difficult Dialogues

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Want to Better Understand Socialism? New York Magazine recommends The Meaning of FreedomWhat is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural, and sexual freedom. In this collection of twelve searing, previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts ... Read more

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  • What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?

    And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies

    by Alfie Kohn ...
    Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. Time magazine has called him'perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores.' And the Washington Post says he is 'the most energetic and charismatic figure standing in the way of a major federal effort to make standardized curriculums and tests ... Read more

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  • Our Divided Political Heart

    The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent

    by E.J. Dionne Jr. ...
    America today is at a political impasse; we face a nation divided and discontented. Acclaimed political commentator E.J. Dionne argues that Americans can't agree on who we are as a nation because we can't agree on who we've been, or what it is, philosophically and spiritually, that makes us "Americans."Dionne places our current quarrels in the long-standing tradition of struggle between two core ... Read more

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  • Paideia Proposal

    by Mortimer J. Adler ...
    The Paideia Proposal is a system of liberal education intended for all children. It was a response to what Adler characterized as the United States' antidemocratic or undemocratic educational system, a holdover from the 19th century, when the understanding of basic human rights fell short of 20th century expectations.The Paidea Proposal was based upon the following assumptions: 1) All children are ... Read more

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