Sociology

A sweeping history of social theories about war and peace, from Hobbes to the twenty-first centuryThis book, the first of its kind, provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Hobbes to the present.

Peter F.

Agent-based computational modeling is changing the face of social science.

The first book to address nutrition's complex role in biologyNutrition has long been considered more the domain of medicine and agriculture than of the biological sciences, yet it touches and shapes all aspects of the natural world.

African Americans and Latinos earn lower grades and drop out of college more often than whites or Asians.

In this landmark work of economic sociology, Lucien Karpik introduces the theory and practical tools needed to analyze markets for singularities.

For any market to work properly, certain key elements are necessary: competition, pricing, rules, clearly defined offers, and easy access to information.

Music, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuable tool for movements reconfiguring the social landscape.

Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models.

How Machiavelli's Christianity shaped his political thoughtTo many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check.

Faith in the Fight tells a story of religion, soldiering, suffering, and death in the Great War.

Why major changes to America's social safety net have always required bold presidential leadershipAmericans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship.

The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand.

Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none.

Why are elite jewelers reluctant to sell turquoise, despite strong demand?

Why corporate stars often lose their luster after changing jobsIt is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed.

Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from being a uniform science, differs in important ways among these three countries.

Insurgent citizenships have arisen in cities around the world.

Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent is the first book to fully explore the expansive and ill-understood role that Russia's ancient Christian faith has played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise of Russian nationalism today.

For more than a century, the American medical profession insisted that doctors be rigorously trained in medical science and dedicated to professional ethics.

Anyone who has been employed by an organization knows not every official workplace regulation must be followed.

Much has been written about the profound impact the post-World War II baby boomers had on American religion.

Building on their important findings in The Source of the River, the authors now probe even more deeply into minority underachievement at the college level.

Whether you are a politician caught carrying on with an intern or a minister photographed with a prostitute, discovery does not necessarily spell the end of your public career.

In 2004, Spain's Banco Santander purchased Britain's Abbey National Bank in a deal valued at fifteen billion dollars--an acquisition that made Santander one of the ten largest financial institutions in the world.

The religious and political winds are changing.

Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others.

Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others.

Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team.

Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe.

Is it time to give up on rehabilitating criminals?

This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321.

Somewhere in the 1970s liberals in the United States lost their way.

There is a struggle for the hearts and minds of Muslims unfolding across the Islamic world.

School vouchers.

School vouchers.

Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency.

American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations.

What did the founders of America think about religion?

In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy.

How we die reveals much about how we live.

America was built on stories: tales of grateful immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, Horatio Alger-style transformations, self-made men, and the Protestant work ethic.

During the Allied bombing of Germany, Hitler was more distressed by the loss of cultural treasures than by the leveling of homes.

Humanity lives inside 4 unyielding constraints, the speed of light, conservation of mass-energy, inefficiency in conversion of heat to work, and the law of demand.

Superb.

Prehistoric archaeologists cannot observe their human subjects nor can they directly access their subjects' ideas.

Prehistoric archaeologists cannot observe their human subjects nor can they directly access their subjects' ideas.

This pioneering work examines changes in the life and values of the English working class in response to mass media.

If your workplace feels like a battle zone and colleagues sometimes act like adversaries, you ore not alone.

The author of The Modern Girl's Guide to Life asks fifty experts, artists, business leaders, trendsetters, doctors, athletes, environmentalists, and intellectualsWhat will the next decade look like?