Sociology

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Rachael Levay
Senior Editor, Sociology & Anthropology -
Rebecca Brennan
Senior Editor, Social Sciences (Europe)
91桃色’s sociology list publishes bold and original scholarship that betters our understanding of compelling social matters. It encompasses qualitative and quantitative research in such areas as cultural sociology, economic sociology, urban sociology, and computational sociology.
Featuring work that is empirically rich, theoretically significant, and methodologically innovative, the list represents some of the most important contributions to contemporary sociological thought.
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David Garland on Law and Order Leviathan
How could America, that storied land of liberty, be home to mass incarceration, police killings, and racialized criminal justice? In Law and Order Leviathan, David Garland explains how America鈥檚 racialized political economy gives rise to this extraordinary outcome.
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鈥淗e鈥檒l never see it鈥: Why am I the only one who notices the mess?
When I asked Colleen, a 40-something lawyer and mother of two tweens, to recall any disagreements she鈥檇 had with her husband Ted about housework, she identified one major gripe: 鈥淗e鈥檚 not great about self-starting house stuff.鈥
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Bailey Brown on Kindergarten Panic
Drawing on interviews with more than a hundred parents of elementary school students in New York City, Bailey A. Brown shows how inequality manifests itself as parents and students deal with the uncertainties of the school choice process.
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Long Live Queer Nightlife
Amin Ghaziani explores a spectacular, if seldom-seen, vision of a queer world shimmering with self-empowerment, inventiveness, and joy.
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Taxing thoughts
鈥淒on鈥檛 tax you, don鈥檛 tax me, tax that man behind the tree,鈥 the legendary Democratic senator from Louisiana, Senator Russell B. Long, once quipped. Taxes might be key to funding government, but most of us would rather not pay.