Sociology from House of Our Own Books

Seattle, WA, U.S.A.: University of Washington Press, 1985. This is a study of the inner world of Chinese children who became political activists in the People's Republic, where the Communist Party's political teachings shaped their social attitudes and psychology; it describes in detail the personality development of four subjects, comparing and contrasting them at each stage of their childhood and… Read more about this item

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 1986. This book attempts to clarify the relations between knowledge and power by grounding them in the institutions of professionalism in the United States; it provides an analysis of the crucial dimensions of professional power: expertise, credentialism, and autonomy (black covers with silver lettering on spine; white pictorial dust jacket with red &… Read more about this item

London, England, U.K.: Sage Publications, 2013. This is a signed copy of a study of events management which situates global events in questions of power and social control; inscribed, signed, and dated by the author on the title page (black covers with white lettering, very slight shelf wear on back; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition;… Read more about this item

Stanford, CA, U.S.A.: Hoover Institution Press, 1979. This is a signed copy of an ethnography of the British colonial service that examines the district officers in Ghana during the period between the world wars, their individual backgrounds, their collective value system, and their behavior patterns; this is the author's own copy of her first book, signed on the front… Read more about this item

University Park, PA, U.S.A.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. This book defines, clarifies, and proposes solutions to controversies in the field of sociology through commentary on the writings of influential social theorists (white cover with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from an independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. As… Read more about this item

London, England, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1974. This is a study of the Durham mining villages in the period 1870 to 1926 which examines the effects of Methodism on the political life of the villages during an important phase of trade union and political history (pictorial cover with photo of a Methodist choir in front of the chapel is slighlyt… Read more about this item

Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.: Princeton University Press, 2009. This is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why it,differs among these countries; based on interviews with economists, institutional analysis, and scholarly evidence, the author traces the history of economics in each country, showing how each political, cultural, and… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1991. Published in 1991, this book is identical to the 2016 reprint; it provides an overview and critique of recent work on the global context of urban growth, world cities, and the theory it has generated; it examines the transformation of London from imperial capital in the 19th and early 20th century to a center… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. This book, by the foremost theorist of the social construction of gender, argues for a degendering movement that dismantles the consideration of gender as a social status, with a focus on the family, work, and politics; inscribed by the author on the half title page (cover has slight corner crease;… Read more about this item

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Rand McNally & Company, 1971. This book is a collection of original theoretical essays on various topics related to socialization, the process by which individuals acquire the knowledge, skills, and disposition that enable them to participate effectively in social interaction; following an introduction by the editor, the twenty-nine essays are divided into four sections: Theoretical Approaches to… Read more about this item

Oxford, England, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1976. This book is a Marxist analysis of the social position, behavior, and ideology of artisans in 19th century Edinburgh; it attempts to answer questions about the nature of class domination and the social forces that might have challenged that domination (black cloth with gold lettering; orange dust jacket with white lettering has very… Read more about this item

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1992. This book attempts to show the relevance of Durkheim's sociology to the debate on modernity and postmodernism by examining how Durikheim's ideas can be applied to current social issues; it argues that there are parallels between the social context of the 1890s and the 1990s, that both share a common rhetoric of rebellion… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. A collection of essays by prominent British sociologists which attempt to integrate theoretical debate and empirical investigation on the issues of class and the division of labor; some essays focus directly on the division of labor and its relation to class domination, others are concerned with the labor process in capitalist production;… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Russell Sage Foundation, 1987. This volume, part of a series prepared for the National Committee for Research on the 1980 Census, uses census data, with its uniquely detailed information on small geographic areas, to bring into focus the concept of neighborhood; it examines nearly 6000 census tracts (approximating neighborhoods) in 21 representative metropolitan areas; the author… Read more about this item

Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.: Stackpole Books, 1970. This book applies a Marxist conceptual framework to the study of industrial relations,; it examines Marxist theories of class consciousness, collective bargaining, and revolutionary politics in terms of sociological data from Britain, Russia, the United States, China, and Yugoslavia (price-clipped dust jacket with slight edgewear; otherwise a bright, clean copy). First Edition. Hard… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Atheneum, 1969. Two volumes in one: Volume I: The Origins of Black Americans (378 pages); Volume II: The Black Community in Modern America (508 pages); includes essays by leading scholars in history, political science, and sociology (brown cloth with gold lettering; previous owner's name and date stamp on first page; glossy gray dust jacket with black… Read more about this item