New Approaches in Sociology
About the Book Series
This series offers a forum for emerging scholars to intervene in the freshest topics in modern sociology.
Queer Inclusion in the United Methodist Church
1st Edition
By Amanda Udis-Kessler
September 03, 2015
The United Methodist Church has been in conflict over lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender inclusion issues since 1972. That year, in response to the gay liberation and gay rights movements, wording was added to the UMC Book of Discipline (the compilation of denominational policies and doctrines) ...
Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran: State-Building, Modernization and Islamicization
1st Edition
By Majid Mohammadi
September 11, 2014
Iran is now at the center of political and social developments in the Middle East. This book examines the reform of the judicial system in 20th century Iran and is the first to relate state-building process with rule of law promotion and judicial reform in the region. This subject occupies the ...
No Place Like Home: Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment
1st Edition
By David Staples
October 23, 2013
No Place Like Home examines the emergence of home-based women workers as paradigmatic figures of contemporary capitalism, neoliberal governmentality, and socio-political contestation. Far from an isolated or contingent situation, home-based work constitutes today an enormous arena of 'invisible' ...
Domestic Democracy: At Home in South Africa
1st Edition
By Jennifer Fish
May 01, 2013
This study examines the dialectic relationship between social inequality and change in the newly democratic South Africa through the lens of paid domestic labor. The complexities of this institution provide an in-depth analysis of the tension between the race and gender priorities of South Africa's...
Parenting for the State: An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care
1st Edition
By Teresa Toguchi Swartz
May 01, 2013
Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of our troubled foster care system....
The Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights: Facing off in Cincinnati
1st Edition
By Kimberly B. Dugan
May 01, 2013
In November 1993 voters in Cincinnati, Ohio passed Issue 3, an amendment to the City Charter eliminating gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons' legal protection against discrimination and prohibiting their recognition as a group or class. This Christian right initiative emerged largely in response to ...
Unequal Partnerships: Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration
1st Edition
By Ira Silver
May 01, 2013
Through an examination of the Chicago Initiative, Silver analyzes how elite philanthropists exercise social control over community organizations that do work in poor neighborhoods....
Negotiating Decolonization in the United Nations: Politics of Space, Identity, and International Community
1st Edition
By Vrushali Patil
March 21, 2013
Combining discourse and comparative historical methods of analysis, this book explores how colonialists and anti-colonialists renegotiated transnational power relationships within the debates on decolonization in the United Nations from 1946-1960. Shrewdly bringing together Sociology, Women’s ...
The Social Organization of Policy: An Institutional Ethnography of UN Forest Deliberations
1st Edition
By Lauren E. Eastwood
March 21, 2013
This book provides a specific case study--based upon direct research with UN processes--which enables the reader to situate larger theoretical arguments regarding civil society, globalization, and sustainable development within the context of the actual activities of practitioners working within ...
Striving and Surviving: A Daily Life Analysis of Honduran Transnational Families
1st Edition
By Leah Schmalzbauer
January 11, 2013
Drawing on data the author gathered in Honduras and the United States from weekly time diaries, in-depth interviews, participant observation and interpretive focus groups, she looks specifically at the experience and prospects of transmigrant labor in the United States; the aspirations and ...
Minority within a Minority: Black Francophone Immigrants and the Dynamics of Power and Resistance
1st Edition
By Amal Ibrahim Madibbo
November 14, 2012
This book examines the institutional racism and language discrimination that Black Francophones – who constitute a racial minority situated within a linguistic minority – face and identifies the strategies of resistance Black Francophones invent to gain access to power structures. ...
The Contemporary US Peace Movement
1st Edition
By Laura Toussaint
October 10, 2012
As peace activists have faced increased government repression and accusations of being unpatriotic since 9/11, Toussaint examines how current attempts to control dissent impact the peace movement. This study offers an analysis of self-identified peace activists in terms of their demographic ...