Sociology

15

Aug

A conversation with author C.J. Pascoe

A Q&A with author C.J. Pascoe on the shallow culture of kindness in American high schools

08

Aug

UC Press ASA Award-Winning Authors

UC Press’s award-winning Sociology publishing program is known for its focus on contemporary social problems, global health, racial justice, and human rights. We’re proud to be publishing the work of so many …

05

Aug

Watch: Author Lynne Haney previews her book Prisons of Debt

In this video, sociologist Lynne Haney offers a sneak peek at her book, Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers. “Prisons of Debt is a compelling and devastating account and a must-read for …

03

Aug

A Conversation with ASA President Cecilia Menjívar

UC Press is proud to call current ASA President Cecilia Menjívar a UC Press author. For the upcoming 2022 American Sociological Association conference, we interviewed Menjívar about her perspective on future directions …

03

Aug

Before the tragic Buffalo shooting, Tops represented a victory over retail inequality

By Ken Kolb, author of Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate The mass murder of ten Black residents in Buffalo on May 14th was a horrific act of racist terrorism. The …

07

Jun

Q&A with Michaela Soyer: First-gen Scholar and Accomplished UC Press Author

Michaela Soyer is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and a first-generation scholar. Her current work focuses on delinquency, incarceration, recidivism and social theory. She has also conducted research about …

04

Apr

The Enduring Relevance of Bob Blauner’s Black Lives, White Lives

Now with a new foreword, this timely reissue features a remarkable collection of oral histories that trace three decades of turbulent race relations and social change in the United States for a …

11

Mar

A New Way to Assess the Far-Reaching Impacts of Mass Incarceration

By Jessica T. Simes, author of Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment Despite growing attention to the problem of mass incarceration, we are still only beginning to capture its far-reaching harms. …

09

Mar

Why Place Matters to Reentry Experiences

By Andrea Leverentz, author of Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry In October 2014, a bridge that connected Long Island in Boston Harbor to Moon Island — as well as Squantum Peninsula …

18

Nov

Build Back Better? Why We Need Reimagine our Social Institutions

By Leslie Paik, author of Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality The pandemic has exposed so clearly how families everywhere in this country struggle to …