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By Mario Luis Small and Jessica McCrory Calarco, authors of Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview ResearchSuppose you are given two books, each based entirely on one year of ethnographic observations and interviews, and are told that one of them is a sound piece

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 award-winning sociologists. All the authors below have won distinguished scholarship awards

"The debate about methodological nationalism has clearly influenced our approach, and the possibility of a social science less bound by national traditions and the nation state as the seemingly 'natural' unit of analysis"

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 students of punishment and beyond."—Sandra Susan Smith, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim

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 for the discipline, her approach to mentorship, and the role of sociologists toda

By Ken Kolb, author of Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert DebateThe mass murder of ten Black residents in Buffalo on May 14th was a horrific act of racist terrorism. The fact that it took place in a grocery store—Tops Friendly Market—added unspeakable pain. Tops had been a symbolic vic

Phaedra Pezzullo.Phaedra C. Pezzullo is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication in the College of Media, Communication, and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder. She also is founding co-director of the Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change.

This year's American Sociological Association conference is back and in-person in Los Angeles from August 5-9! This year, we have several of our esteemed authors participating in Book Forums that you won't want to miss. #ASA2022Saturday, August 6thJosh Seim, author of Bandage, Sort, and Hus

By Dan Immergluck, author of Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century AtlantaRising home prices and rents are on everyone’s mind these days. In the wake of COVID-19, housing costs rose rapidly in most cities. Yet the U.S. housing crisis is not new, and has been worsenin

By Lisa Hajjar, author of The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against TortureI made my first trip to Guantánamo in July 2010 after years of researching the fight against US torture during the “war on terror.” At the time, Guantánamo’s well-deserved description as a “legal black hole” felt pe