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Sociology

The latest University of Chicago Press catalog in Sociology is available on this page in PDF form and as a hyperlinked list. The list below includes new titles published or announced since the printed catalog appeared. Please note that some of these titles are scheduled for release more than six months in the future. Unpublished titles can be ordered now; your credit card will not be charged for those titles until the books actually ship.

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The acquiring editor at the University of Chicago Press for this subject is Elizabeth Branch Dyson.

Featured Books

How Schools Really Matter

Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong

Douglas B. Downey

Black in White Space

The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life

Elijah Anderson

Gen Z, Explained

The Art of Living in a Digital Age

Roberta Katz

Being Somebody and Black Besides

An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life

George B. Nesbitt

Catalog Titles

Sociology and the City

    Black in White Space
    The Death Gap
    Beyond the Usual Beating
    Stacked Decks
    Upsold
    The City Creative
    Digital Lives in the Global City
    Deep South
    The Problem with Feeding Cities
    Nonprofit Neighborhoods
    Citizen Brown
    Making the Second Ghetto
    Urban Lowlands
    The World Is Always Coming to an End

    Sociology and Culture

      The Digital Factory
      How Green Became Good
      The Perfect Fit
      Worst Cases
      Dangerous Fun
      Chemically Imbalanced
      The Western Disease
      The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain
      Still Life
      Pandemic Exposures
      Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling
      Ruling Culture
      Everyone Loves Live Music
      Gen Z, Explained
      Speculative Communities
      Conflict Graffiti
      Underdogs
      Seeing Silicon Valley
      Inventing the Ties That Bind
      Front-Wave Boomers
      Tacit Racism
      To Flourish or Destruct
      Tangled Goods
      Phenomenal Blackness
      Fútbol in the Park
      Dead Reckoning
      Bound by Creativity

      Social Movements and Politics

        Digital Technology and Democratic Theory
        Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks
        Fat Activism (Second Edition)
        Shades of Black
        Fair Share
        The Hinge
        Prisms of the People
        Welfare for Markets
        Pain and Shock in America
        Diversity’s Child
        The Border Within

        Social Policy

          Migration and Health
          Sorting Sexualities

          Sociology and Education

            Cancel Wars
            The Channels of Student Activism
            Misconceiving Merit
            Ableism in Academia
            How Schools Really Matter
            Bankers in the Ivory Tower
            Ghosts in the Schoolyard
            Broke
            Charter School City
            Teaching Expertise in Three Countries
            The Fruits of Opportunism
            Redefining Geek
            Digital Divisions
            The Cost of Inclusion
            Suddenly Diverse
            Race at the Top

            Sociology and Knowledge

              How Slavoj Became Žižek
              Autistic Intelligence
              The Chattering Mind
              Limits of the Numerical
              Shaping Science
              Jim Crow Sociology

              Sociology and Religion

                Unequal Partners
                Believing in South Central

                Sociology and Sexuality

                  The Quest for Sexual Health

                  Sociology and History

                    Peculiar Places
                    Civic Gifts
                    Above the Fray
                    Being Somebody and Black Besides
                    The Punishment of Pirates
                    Power in Modernity
                    Power on the Inside
                    Living on the Edge
                    The Lost Black Scholar

                    Tools for the Field

                      Writing for Social Scientists, Third Edition
                      Model Cases
                      Listening to People
                      Data Analysis in Qualitative Research

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