New Books in Sociology
Lee Humphreys, “The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life” (MIT Press, 2018)
Lee Humphreys
The Qualified Self
Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life
MIT Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network October 19, 2018 Jasmine McNealy

Physical journals, scrapbooks, and photo albums all offer their owners the opportunity to chronicle both mundane and extravagant events. But unlike social media posting, this analog memorializing of life happenings is not encumbered with the negative theorizing about why people choose to record experiences. In her new book, The Qualified... Read More
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, “What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize what They Do” (Columbia UP, 2017)
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
What Slaveholders Think
How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize what They Do
Columbia University Press, 2017

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 17, 2018 Felipe G. Santos

According to the Walk Free Foundation, there are currently 46 million slaves in the world. Despite being against international law, slavery is not yet culturally condemned everywhere. Despite being human rights violators, many perpetrators are respected members of their communities. In his new book, What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators... Read More
Rachel O’Neill, “Seduction: Men, Masculinity, and Mediated Intimacy” (Polity , 2018)
Rachel O'Neill
Seduction
Men, Masculinity, and Mediated Intimacy
Polity, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Sociology October 12, 2018 Sarah E. Patterson

How does the seduction, or “pick-up artist,” industry work? In her new book Seduction: Men, Masculinity, and Mediated Intimacy (Polity, 2018), Rachel O’Neill provides a sociological analysis of the seduction industry. By using ethnographic and interview methods, O’Neill engages with the industry to better understand how intimacy is portrayed through... Read More
Charlotte Greenhalgh, “Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain” (U California Press, 2018)
Charlotte Greenhalgh
Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain

University of California Press, 2018

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network October 9, 2018 Jess Clark

What role did elderly Britons have in shaping the twentieth-century welfare state? In her new book, Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain (University of California Press, 2018), Charlotte Greenhalgh offers a compelling portrait of a segment of Britain’s twentieth-century population that has, to date, received limited scholarly attention. Mobilizing a range of sources,... Read More
Peter Harries-Jones, “Upside-Down Gods: Gregory Bateson’s World of Difference” (Fordham UP, 2016)
Peter Harries-Jones
Upside-Down Gods
Gregory Bateson's World of Difference
Fordham University Press, 2016

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in Systems and CyberneticsNew Books Network October 4, 2018 Tom Scholte

The work of polymath Gregory Bateson has long been the road to cybernetics travelled by those approaching this trans-disciplinary field from the direction of the social sciences and even the humanities.  Fortunately for devotees of Bateson’s expansive vision, Peter Harries-Jones has continued the expert analysis that gave us 1995’s A Recursive Vision:... Read More

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