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Privilege - The Making Of An Adolescent Elite At St. Paul'S School

by Shamus Rahman Khan

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 As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain of America's wealthiest sons. This title provides an inside look at an institution that has been the private realm of the elite.
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How Civic Action Works - Fighting For Housing In Los Angeles

by Paul Lichterman

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 The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective actionHow Civic Action Works renews the tradition of inquiry into collective, social problem solving. Paul Lichterman follows grassroots activists, nonprofit organization staff,
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On Justification - Economies Of Worth

by Laurent Thevenot e Luc Boltanski

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 Presents a foundational work of post-Bourdieu sociology that examines a range of situations where people justify their actions. This book argues that justifications fall into six main logics exemplified by six authors: civic (Rousseau), market (Adam Smith), industrial (Saint-Simon), domestic (Bossuet), inspiration (Augustine), and fame (Hobbes).
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Privilege - The Making Of An Adolescent Elite At St. Paul''S School

by Shamus Rahman Khan

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 As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain of America's wealthiest sons. This title provides an inside look at an institution that has been the private realm of the elite.
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There Goes The Gayborhood?

by Amin Ghaziani

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 Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often unsafe world. But as our society increasingly accepts gays and lesbians into the mainstream, are "gayborhoods" destined to disappear? Amin Ghaziani provides an incisive look at th
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Interaction Ritual Chains

by Randall Collins

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 Attempts to develop a "radical microsociology". This book proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy, while failed rituals drain emotional energy.
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Disrupting Science - Social Movements, American Scientists, And The Politics Of The Military, 1945-1975

by Kelly Moore

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 In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and technological progress. They were also widely criticized for their increasingly close ties to military and governmental power--not only by outside activists but from among the ranks of scientists themselves. Disrupting Science tells the
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Kingdom Of Children - Culture And Controversy In The Homeschooling Movement

by Mitchell Stevens

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 Places home schoolers within longer traditions of American social activism. This work reveals that home schooling is not a random collection of individuals but an elaborate social movement with its own celebrities, networks, and characteristic lifeways. It shows what happens when progressive ideals meet conventional politics.
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Economists And Societies - Discipline And Profession In The United States, Britain, And France, 1890s To 1990s

by Marion Fourcade

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 Compares the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and explains why economics, far from being a uniform science, differs in important ways among these three countries.
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Partisan Publics - Communication And Contention Across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks

by Ann Mische

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 During the 1980s and 1990s, Brazil struggled to rebuild its democracy after 20 years of military dictatorship, experiencing financial crises, political protest and electoral contention. This work argues that youth activists of various stripes played a vital role, contributing new forms of political talk and action to Brazil's emerging democracy.
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The Taylorized Beauty Of The Mechanical - Scientific Management And The Rise Of Modernist Architecture

by Mauro F. Guillén

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 The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. Since its early twentieth-century peak, this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. This book tells the story of the emergence of modernist architecture as a romance with the ideas of scientific management.
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On Justification - Economies Of Worth

by Laurent Thevenot e Luc Boltanski

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 Presents a foundational work of post-Bourdieu sociology that examines a range of situations where people justify their actions. This book argues that justifications fall into six main logics exemplified by six authors: civic (Rousseau), market (Adam Smith), industrial (Saint-Simon), domestic (Bossuet), inspiration (Augustine), and fame (Hobbes).
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Interaction Ritual Chains

by Randall Collins

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 Attempts to develop a "radical microsociology". This book proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy, while failed rituals drain emotional energy.
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Data-Driven Hollywood - The New Data Professionals In The Age Of Streaming

by Violaine Roussel

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Data-Driven Hollywood - The New Data Professionals In The Age Of Streaming

by Violaine Roussel

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The Death And Life Of Gentrification - A New Map Of A Persistent Idea

by Japonica Brown-Saracino

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The Jewish World Of Alexander Hamilton

by Andrew Porwancher

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Revolution Of Things - The Islamism And Post-Islamism Of Objects In Tehran

by Kusha Sefat

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Soul Dust - The Magic Of Consciousness

by Nicholas Humphrey

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Revolution Of Things - The Islamism And Post-Islamism Of Objects In Tehran

by Kusha Sefat

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Settling For Less - Why States Colonize And Why They Stop

by Lachlan Mcnamee

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Inside The Criticsâ€™ Circle - Book Reviewing In Uncertain Times

by Phillipa K. Chong

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 An inside look at the politics of book reviewing, from the assignment and writing of reviews to why critics think we should listen to what they have to sayTaking readers behind the scenes in the world of fiction reviewing, Inside the Critics' Circle explores the ways that critics evaluate books despite the inherent subjectivity involved, and th
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Magazines And The Making Of America - Modernization, Community, And Print Culture, 1741â€“1860

by Heather A. Haveman

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 From the colonial era to the onset of the Civil War, Magazines and the Making of America looks at how magazines and the individuals, organizations, and circumstances they connected ushered America into the modern age. How did a magazine industry emerge in the United States, where there were once only amateur authors, clumsy technologies for product
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The Extreme Gone Mainstream - Commercialization And Far Right Youth Culture In Germany

by Cynthia Miller-Idriss

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