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To Fulfill These Rights
Downsizing
Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions
Confronting Our Possessions in Later Life David J. Ekerdt
Amaka Okechukwu
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AWARD, SOCIOLOGY OF CONSUMERS AND CONSUMPTION SECTION, ASA
IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT BOOK AWARD, ASSOCIATION OF BLACK SOCIOLOGISTS EDUARDO BONILLA-SILVA OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD, SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS, DIVISION OF RACE AND ETHNIC MINORITIES’
In To Fulfill These Rights, Amaka Okechukwu offers a historically informed sociological account of the struggles over affirmative action and open admissions in higher education. Through case studies of policy retrenchment at public universities, she documents the rollback of inclusive policies in the context of shifting race and class politics.
Drawing on in-depth interviews with recent movers in over a hundred diverse U.S. households, David J. Ekerdt analyzes the downsizing process and what it says about the meaning and management of possessions. He details how households approach and accomplish downsizing, exploring the decision-making process and the effectiveness of different strategies. $26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18981-1 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18980-4 2020 280 pages 2 illus.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18309-3 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18308-6 2019 328 pages
Creative Control
Unnerved
The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries
Anxiety, Social Change, and the Transformation of Modern Mental Health
Michael L. Siciliano
Jason Schnittker
Jason Schnittker investigates the social, cultural, medical, and scientific underpinnings of the modern mental state. He explores how anxiety has been understood from the late nineteenth century to the present day and why it has assumed a more central position in how we think about mental health.
Michael L. Siciliano draws on nearly two years of ethnographic research as a participant-observer in a Los Angeles music studio and a multichannel YouTube network to explore the contradictions of creative work. Creative Control explains why “cool” jobs help us understand how workers can participate in their own exploitation.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20035-6
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19381-8
$145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-20034-9
$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19380-1
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