Books in the New Social Formations series

This text looks at sociology as a social act in arguing for a public sociology that can more fully embrace and address crucial public issues. It describes how social science reproduces the existing social world, and shows how it could be crafted differently.

This text looks to the history of "the commons" in American and European social thought to better understand contemporary environmental problems. The authors reveal the law's insufficient comprehension of community rights and advocate realistic policy alternatives.

Richard Stivers rejects recent emphasis on genetic explanations of psychological problems, arguing that the very organization of technological societies is behind the pervasive experience of loneliness.