New Approaches in Sociology

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1. Striving and Surviving

   A Daily Life Analysis of Honduran Transnational Families

   By Leah Schmalzbauer

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Drawing on data the author gathered in Honduras and the United States from weekly time diaries, in-depth interviews, participant observation and interpretive focus groups, she looks specifically at the experience and prospects of transmigrant labor in the United States; the aspirations and...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. Judicial Reform and Reorganization in 20th Century Iran

   State-Building, Modernization and Islamicization

   By Majid Mohammadi

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Iran is now at the center of political and social developments in the Middle East. This book examines the reform of the judicial system in 20th century Iran and is the first to relate state-building process with rule of law promotion and judicial reform in the region. This subject occupies the...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights

   Facing off in Cincinnati

   By Kimberly B. Dugan

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   In November 1993 voters in Cincinnati, Ohio passed Issue 3, an amendment to the City Charter eliminating gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons' legal protection against discrimination and prohibiting their recognition as a group or class. This Christian right initiative emerged largely in response to...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Domestic Democracy

   At Home in South Africa

   By Jennifer Fish

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Parenting for the State

   An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care

   By Teresa Toguchi Swartz

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of our troubled foster care system....

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. No Place Like Home

   Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment

   By David Staples

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   No Place Like Home examines the emergence of home-based women workers as paradigmatic figures of contemporary capitalism, neoliberal governmentality, and socio-political contestation. Far from an isolated or contingent situation, home-based work constitutes today an enormous arena of 'invisible'...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Unequal Partnerships

   Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration

   By Ira Silver

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Through an examination of the Chicago Initiative, Silver analyzes how elite philanthropists exercise social control over community organizations that do work in poor neighborhoods....

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Minority within a Minority

   Black Francophone Immigrants and the Dynamics of Power and Resistance

   By Amal Ibrahim Madibbo

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   This book examines the institutional racism and language discrimination that Black Francophones – who constitute a racial minority situated within a linguistic minority – face and identifies the strategies of resistance Black Francophones invent to gain access to power structures....

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Everyday Lives of Sex Workers in the Netherlands

   By Katherine Gregory

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   This ethnographic account details the experiences of migrant and transgendered streetwalkers, and window prostitutes in The Netherlands. Through the in-depth interviews and observations, the author explores the meaning sex-workers give to their work and personal lives....

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
10. If I Only Had a Brain

    Deconstructing Brain Injury

    By Mark Sherry

    Series: New Approaches in Sociology

    This book offers a rich, insider's viewpoint of the lived experience of brain injury. Sherry, a survivor of brain injury himself, uses a cross-disciplinary theoretical approach (drawing upon the social and medical models of disability and combining them with lessons from feminism, queer theory,...

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge