Books in the Sociology Re-Wired series

"All Media Are Social offers an introduction to the wide-ranging field of media sociology. Covering political economy, media representation, and media effects, Lindner and Barnard synthesize empirical findings, while explaining with examples and clear prose"--

"The Black Circuit examines Chitlin Circuit musicals, from Langston Hughes to Tyler Perry. Through historical and sociological research, Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon identifies how these popular, yet alienated, events shed new and light on the reception of black performances by black spectators and African American theatre-making"--

Suitable for use as a core or secondary text in lower division social inequalities or social problems courses, this book explains how the changing nature and uses of the Internet not only mirror today's social inequalities, but also are at the heart of how stratification is now taking place.

A sociological account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. It highlights the prewar experiences, agentive decision-making and risk-taking, and collective networks that helped the brothers elude the death grip of the Nazi regime.

A reference that develops a sub-field on violence in vulnerable populations, with attendant approaches to theory and method.

Offers a life-history study of wheelchair athletes associated with a premier collegiate wheelchair basketball program. This book, which grapples with the intersection of biography and history in society, situates the study in broader context with background on the history and sociology of disability and disability sports.

Addresses a 'relationship' to television, a 'televisionship', a one dimensional imprinting relationship without dialogue or living human interaction. This book examines a relationship with Plato's 'cave' and the contemporary media matrix that continues its existence.

A study of Nevada's brothels that situates America's only legal brothel industry in the political economy of contemporary tourism. It brings social theory on globalizing economies, politics, leisure consumption, and emotional labor in interactive service work together with research on contemporary prostitution and sexual commerce.

GIS is a methodological and conceptual approach that allows for the linking together of spatial data, or data that is based on a physical space, with non-spatial data. This book offers sociologists, criminologists, and other social scientists with the methodological logic and techniques for doing spatial analysis in their chosen fields of inquiry.

Why do individuals and groups hold distinctive theological views? In what ways do theological interpretations influence concepts of spiritual and political justice? This work explores the impact of theological interpretations about God, the individual, society, church, and government on attitudes toward procedural and distributive justice.

The New Black Sociologists follows in the footsteps of 1974's pioneering text Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, by tracing the organization of its forbearer in key thematic ways. This new collection of essays revisits the legacies of significant Black scholars.

The New Black Sociologists follows in the footsteps of 1974's pioneering text Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, by tracing the organization of its forbearer in key thematic ways. This new collection of essays revisits the legacies of significant Black scholars.

Caged Women: Incarceration, Representation, & Media brings together scholars to consider both media representations as well as the social issues for female inmates alluded to in the Orange is the New Black series.