Sociology: NYU Press

60 books

“At This Defining Moment”

Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race

By Enid Lynette Logan

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: American Studies Politics Sociology

Crack Cocaine, Rap Music, and the War on Drugs

By Dimitri A. Bogazianos

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Criminology Sociology

A Queer New York

Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers

By Jen Jack Gieseking

Published: 2020

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: History LGBTQ & Sexuality New York City & Regional Interest Sociology

Adventures of the Mind

The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney

By Natalie Clifford Barney

Translated by John Spalding Gatton

Published: 1992

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: Literature & Literary Studies Sociology Women's & Gender Studies

Against All Odds

The Struggle for Racial Integration in Religious Organizations

By Brad Christerson, Michael Oluf Emerson, and Korie Little Edwards

Published: 2005

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Religion Sociology

All You That Labor

Religion and Ethics in the Living Wage Movement

By C. Melissa Snarr

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Clergy Misconduct in Modern America

Edited by Anson D. Shupe, William A. Stacey, and Susan E. Darnell

Published: 2000

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Bodies in Protest

Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge

By Steve Kroll-Smith and H. Hugh Floyd

Published: 1997

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: Health & Medicine Sociology

Breaking into the Lab

Engineering Progress for Women in Science

By Sue V. Rosser

Published: 2012

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Sociology Women's & Gender Studies

Can Unions Survive?

The Rejuvenation of the American Labor Movement

Edited by Charles B. Craver

Published: 1993

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: Law Sociology

Catholic Activism Today

Individual Transformation and the Struggle for Social Justice

By Maureen K. Day

Published: 2020

Subjects: Religion Sociology

The Dynamics and Consequences of Americans’ Shifting Religious Identities

By Darren E. Sherkat

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Clarity, Cut, and Culture

The Many Meanings of Diamonds

By Susan Falls

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: Anthropology Sociology Women's & Gender Studies

Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present

By Mark Pittenger

Published: 2012

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Sociology

Community Criminology

Fundamentals of Spatial and Temporal Scaling, Ecological Indicators, and Selectivity Bias

By Ralph B. Taylor

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: Criminology Sociology

Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith

Haitian Religion in Miami

By Terry Rey and Alex Stepick

Foreword by Archbishop Thomas Wenski

Published: 2013

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Law and Science in America

By Steven Goldberg

Published: 1994

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: Law Sociology

Dangerous or Endangered?

Race and the Politics of Youth in Urban America

By Jennifer Tilton

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: American Studies Anthropology Sociology

The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet

By Robert Glenn Howard

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Media & Technology Religion Sociology

Divine Callings

Understanding the Call to Ministry in Black Pentecostalism

By Richard N. Pitt

Published: 2012

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: African American Studies Religion Sociology

Does God Make the Man?

Media, Religion, and the Crisis of Masculinity

By Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Media & Technology Religion Sociology

Embracing the Other

Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism

Edited by Pearl Oliner, Samuel P. Oliner, Lawrence Baron, and Lawrence Blum

Published: 1992

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: Psychology Sociology

Every Time I Feel the Spirit

Religious Experience and Ritual in an African American Church

By Timothy Nelson

Published: 2004

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: African American Studies Religion Sociology

Everyday Courage

The Lives and Stories of Urban Teenagers

By Niobe Way

Published: 1998

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: Psychology Sociology

Fair Trade and Social Justice

Global Ethnographies

By Mark Moberg

Edited by Sarah Lyon

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: Anthropology Sociology

Freezing Fertility

Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging

By Lucy van de Wiel

Published: 2020

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Anthropology Health & Medicine Sociology

Labor Markets, Economic Opportunity, and Crime

By Robert D. Crutchfield

Published: 2014

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: Criminology Sociology

Growing God’s Family

The Global Orphan Care Movement and the Limits of Evangelical Activism

By Samuel L. Perry

Published: 2017

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Hare Krishna Transformed

By E. Burke Rochford

Published: 2007

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace

By Phillip Luke Sinitiere and Shayne Lee

Published: 2009

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Religion Sociology

A Comparative View of Immigration

By Nancy Foner

Published: 2005

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Sociology

Japanese Lessons

A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children

By Gail R. Benjamin

Published: 1997

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: Anthropology Sociology

Judging Addicts

Drug Courts and Coercion in the Justice System

By Rebecca Tiger

Published: 2012

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: Criminology Sociology

Mexican Americans Across Generations

Immigrant Families, Racial Realities

By Jessica Vasquez-Tokos

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Anthropology Latino/a Studies Sociology

Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism

The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America

By Jody David Armour

Published: 1997

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: African American Studies Law Sociology

Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America

By Richard K Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway

Published: 1997

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: Politics Sociology

Pagan Family Values

Childhood and the Religious Imagination in Contemporary American Paganism

By S. Zohreh Kermani

Published: 2013

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Religion Sociology

Peer-Impact Diagnosis and Therapy

A Handbook for Successful Practice with Adolescents

By Vivian Center Seltzer

Published: 2009

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Health & Medicine Psychology Sociology

Playing to the Crowd

Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection

By Nancy K. Baym

Published: 2018

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Media & Technology Sociology

Policing Methamphetamine

Narcopolitics in Rural America

By William Garriott

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: Anthropology Criminology Sociology

Pride in the Projects

Teens Building Identities in Urban Contexts

By Nancy L. Deutsch

Published: 2008

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Health & Medicine History Law Sociology

Queer Words, Queer Images

Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality

Edited by Ronald Jeffrey Ringer

Published: 1994

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: LGBTQ & Sexuality Sociology

Shutting Down the Streets

Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era

By Luis A. Fernandez, Amory Starr, and Christian Scholl

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: Criminology Politics Sociology

Teaching What You're Not

Identity Politics in Higher Education

Edited by Katherine Mayberry

Published: 1996

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: Education Politics Sociology

The American Soul Rush

Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege

By Marion Goldman

Published: 2012

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: History Religion Sociology

The Assemblies of God

Godly Love and the Revitalization of American Pentecostalism

By Margaret M. Poloma and John C. Green

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Religion Sociology

The Bahá’ís of America

The Growth of a Religious Movement

By Mike McMullen

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: History Religion Sociology

The Chrysanthemum and the Eagle

The Future of U.S.-Japan Relations

By Ryuzo Sato

Published: 1994

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: Politics Sociology

The Lebanese Diaspora

The Arab Immigrant Experience in Montreal, New York, and Paris

By Dalia Abdelhady

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: American Studies Anthropology Sociology

Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet

By Thomas Streeter

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: American Studies Media & Technology Sociology

The Next Generation

Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective

Edited by Richard Alba and Mary C. Waters

Published: 2011

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Anthropology History Sociology

The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America

By James Darsey

Published: 1997

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: History Religion Sociology

The Sex Offender Housing Dilemma

Community Activism, Safety, and Social Justice

By Monica Williams

Published: 2018

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: Criminology Sociology

The Slave Soul of Russia

Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering

By Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

Published: 1995

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: Psychology Sociology

The Smart Culture

Society, Intelligence, and Law

By Robert L. Hayman, Jr.

Published: 1997

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: Law Psychology Sociology

The Sounds of Latinidad

Immigrants Making Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City

By Samuel K. Byrd

Published: 2015

Open Access Since: 2023

Subjects: Anthropology Latino/a Studies Sociology

This Time We Knew

Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia

Edited by Thomas Cushman and Stjepan Mestrovic

Published: 1996

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: History Sociology

To Be An American

Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation

By Bill Ong Hing

Published: 1997

Open Access Since: 2016

Subjects: African American Studies Law Politics Sociology

When Mothers Kill

Interviews from Prison

By Cheryl L. Meyer and Michelle Oberman

Published: 2008

Open Access Since: 2024

Subjects: Criminology Sociology Women's & Gender Studies

Why Girls Fight

Female Youth Violence in the Inner City

By Cindy D. Ness

Published: 2010

Open Access Since: 2021

Subjects: Psychology Sociology Women's & Gender Studies