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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 Unpublished titles can be ordered now; your credit card will not be charged for those titles until the books actually ship.

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Sociology and the City

Venice

Deener, Andrew
A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles
July 2012 New Book E-book

Blueprint for Disaster

Hunt, D. Bradford
The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing
July 2009 E-book

Seven Shots

Hunt, Jennifer C.
An NYPD Raid on a Terrorist Cell and Its Aftermath
October 2010 E-book

Global Pigeon

Jerolmack, Colin
March 2013 New Book E-book

Ghetto at the Center of the World

Mathews, Gordon
Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
June 2011 E-book

Black Picket Fences, Second Edition

Pattillo, Mary
Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class
June 2013 New Book E-book

Operation Fly Trap

Phillips, Susan A.
L. A. Gangs, Drugs, and the Law
July 2012 New Book E-book

Street Therapists

Ramos-Zayas, Ana Y.
Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark
April 2012 E-book

Building Globalization

Ren, Xuefei
Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China
May 2011 E-book

Great American City

Sampson, Robert J.
Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
February 2012 E-book

Stuck in Place

Sharkey, Patrick
Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality
April 2013 New Book E-book

Everyday Law on the Street

Valverde, Mariana
City Governance in an Age of Diversity
October 2012 New Book E-book

Harlem

Vergara, Camilo José
The Unmaking of a Ghetto
October 2013 New Book

Declining Significance of Race

Wilson, William Julius
Blacks and Changing American Institutions, Third Edition
June 2012 New Book E-book

Truly Disadvantaged

Wilson, William Julius
The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, Second Edition
July 2012 New Book E-book

Sociology and Culture

Contemporary Grandparenting

Arber, Sara
Changing Family Relationships in Global Contexts
August 2012 New Book

Opera Fanatic

Benzecry, Claudio E.
Ethnography of an Obsession
July 2011 E-book

Ancestors and Antiretrovirals

Decoteau, Claire Laurier
The Bio-Politics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa
October 2013 New Book

Subject of Murder

Downing, Lisa
Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer
May 2013 New Book E-book

Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling

Foucault, Michel
The Function of Avowal in Justice
October 2014 New Book E-book

Letting Stories Breathe

Frank, Arthur W.
A Socio-Narratology
November 2010 E-book

Wounded Storyteller

Frank, Arthur W.
Body, Illness, and Ethics, Second Edition
June 2013 New Book E-book

SuperVision

Gilliom, John
An Introduction to the Surveillance Society
November 2012 New Book E-book

Producing Local Color

Grams, Diane
Art Networks in Ethnic Chicago
November 2010 E-book

Agewise

Gullette, Margaret Morganroth
Fighting the New Ageism in America
April 2011 E-book

American Allegory

Hancock, Black Hawk
Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination
June 2013 New Book E-book

Italian Way

Harper, Douglas
Food and Social Life
February 2010 E-book

Thug Life

Jeffries, Michael P.
Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop
January 2011 E-book

Islands of Privacy

Nippert-Eng, Christena E.
September 2010 E-book

Job-Search Games

Sharone, Ofer
Chemistry, Self-Blame, and Unemployment Experiences
November 2013 New Book

Where the North Sea Touches Alabama

Shelton, Allen C.
September 2013 New Book

Solidarity in Strategy

Spillman, Lyn
Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations
August 2012 New Book E-book

Not Here, Not Now, Not That!

Tepper, Steven J.
Protest over Art and Culture in America
July 2011 E-book

Democratic Surround

Turner, Fred
Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
November 2013 New Book

Philadelphia Barrio

Wherry, Frederick F.
The Arts, Branding, and Neighborhood Transformation
July 2011 E-book

Van Gogh on Demand

Won Yin Wong, Winnie
China and the Readymade
November 2013 New Book

Tour Guide

Wynn, Jonathan R.
Walking and Talking New York
August 2011 E-book

Social Movements and Politics

Building Resilience

Aldrich, Daniel P.
Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery
August 2012 New Book E-book

Making the News

Boydstun, Amber E.
Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting
August 2013 New Book

Trading Democracy for Justice

Burch, Traci
Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation
August 2013 New Book

Invitation to Law and Society

Calavita, Kitty
An Introduction to the Study of Real Law
May 2010 E-book

Politics and Partnerships

Clemens, Elisabeth S.
The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present
February 2011 E-book

Global Social Policy in the Making

Deacon, Bob
The Foundations of the Social Protection Floor
August 2013 New Book

Identity, Belonging, and Migration

Delanty, Gerard
October 2008

Fair Play

Dorling, Danny
A Daniel Dorling Reader on Social Justice
February 2012

Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900

Forment, Carlos A.
Volume 1, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru
August 2003

Doctors and Demonstrators

Halfmann, Drew
How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada
November 2011 E-book

Man Is by Nature a Political Animal

Hatemi, Peter K.
Evolution, Biology, and Politics
September 2011 E-book

Democracy and the Left

Huber, Evelyne
Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America
September 2012 New Book E-book

Obama and the Biracial Factor

Jolivette, Andrew J.
The Battle for a New American Majority
April 2012

How Partisan Media Polarize America

Levendusky, Matthew
September 2013 New Book

Health and Care in Ageing Societies

Lloyd, Liz
A New International Approach
August 2012 New Book

Politics of Belonging

Masuoka, Natalie
Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration
September 2013 New Book

Think Tanks in America

Medvetz, Thomas
September 2012 New Book E-book

When Peace Is Not Enough

Omer, Atalia
How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice
June 2013 New Book E-book

Gender Equality in the Welfare State?

Pascall, Gillian
July 2012 New Book

Post-Ethical Society

Porpora, Douglas V.
The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular
August 2013 New Book

Empire's Children

Saada, Emmanuelle
Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies
March 2012 E-book

From Exclusion to Inclusion in Old Age

Scharf, Thomas
A Global Challenge
September 2012 New Book

Disciplining the Poor

Soss, Joe
Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race
November 2011 E-book

Cultures of Border Control

Zaiotti, Ruben
Schengen and the Evolution of European Frontiers
April 2011 E-book

Sociology and History

Roots of Radicalism

Calhoun, Craig
Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements
March 2012 E-book

Tramp in America

Cresswell, Tim
June 2004 E-book

Made in America

Fischer, Claude S.
A Social History of American Culture and Character
May 2010 E-book

Criminal Intimacy

Kunzel, Regina
Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
September 2008

Of War and Men

LaRossa, Ralph
World War II in the Lives of Fathers and Their Families
July 2011 E-book

Segregation

Nightingale, Carl H.
A Global History of Divided Cities
May 2012 New Book E-book

Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse

Peel, Mark
Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, Australia, and Britain
December 2011 E-book

Global Rivalries

Quark, Amy A.
Standards Wars and the Transnational Cotton Trade
August 2013 New Book

Death Tourism

Sion, Brigitte
Disaster Sites as Recreational Landscape
September 2013 New Book

Black Child-Savers

Ward, Geoff K.
Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice
June 2012 New Book E-book

Sociology and Education

Manufacturing Morals

Anteby, Michel
The Values of Silence in Business School Education
August 2013 New Book

Academically Adrift

Arum, Richard
Limited Learning on College Campuses
January 2011 E-book

Opting Out

Beasley, Maya A.
Losing the Potential of America's Young Black Elite
November 2011 E-book

Southern Stalemate

Bonastia, Christopher
Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia
February 2012 E-book

Making Failure Pay

Koyama, Jill P.
For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools
August 2010 E-book

Toxic Schools

Paulle, Bowen
High-Poverty Education in New York and Amsterdam
October 2013 New Book

Top Student, Top School?

Radford, Alexandria Walton
How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College
May 2013 New Book E-book

Completing College

Tinto, Vincent
Rethinking Institutional Action
April 2012 E-book

Wannabe U

Tuchman, Gaye
Inside the Corporate University
October 2009 E-book

Sociology and Religion

Finding Mecca in America

Bilici, Mucahit
How Islam Is Becoming an American Religion
December 2012 New Book E-book

Paging God

Cadge, Wendy
Religion in the Halls of Medicine
January 2013 New Book E-book

I Belong to This Band, Hallelujah!

Clawson, Laura
Community, Spirituality, and Tradition among Sacred Harp Singers
September 2011 E-book

Seeking the Straight and Narrow

Gerber, Lynne
Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America
January 2012 E-book

Promise of Salvation

Riesebrodt, Martin
A Theory of Religion
March 2010 E-book

What Is a Person?

Smith, Christian
Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up
September 2010 E-book

Living Faith

Sullivan, Susan Crawford
Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty
February 2012 E-book

Sociology and Sexuality

Is the Rectum a Grave?

Bersani, Leo
and Other Essays
December 2009 E-book

Sex and Salvation

Cole, Jennifer
Imagining the Future in Madagascar
December 2010 E-book

Unlimited Intimacy

Dean, Tim
Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking
June 2009 E-book

Blind to Sameness

Friedman, Asia
Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies
July 2013 New Book E-book

Sexual Fields

Green, Adam Isaiah
Toward a Sociology of Collective Sexual Life
December 2013 New Book

Slumming

Heap, Chad
Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
May 2009 E-book

Before Porn Was Legal

Heineman, Elizabeth
The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse
August 2011 E-book

People's Pornography

Jacobs, Katrien
Sex and Surveillance on the Chinese Internet
February 2012

Dominatrix

Lindemann, Danielle J.
Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon
October 2012 New Book E-book

Not Just Roommates

Pleck, Elizabeth H.
Cohabitation after the Sexual Revolution
June 2012 New Book E-book

Not Under My Roof

Schalet, Amy
Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex
November 2011 E-book

Just One of the Guys?

Schilt, Kristen
Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality
February 2011 E-book

Touching Encounters

Walby, Kevin
Sex, Work, and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting
September 2012 New Book E-book

Nuptial Deal

Whitehead, Jaye Cee
Same-Sex Marriage and Neo-Liberal Governance
December 2011 E-book

Sociology and Knowledge

Social Knowledge in the Making

Camic, Charles
October 2011 E-book

Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog

Collins, Harry
Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century
October 2013 New Book

Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition

Emerson, Robert M.
December 2011 E-book

In Defense of Disciplines

Jacobs, Jerry
Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Research University
October 2013 New Book

Cancer on Trial

Keating, Peter
Oncology as a New Style of Practice
February 2012 E-book

Challenging Operations

Kellogg, Katherine C.
Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery
July 2011 E-book

Hawking Incorporated

Mialet, Hélène
Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject
June 2012 New Book E-book

Interpretation and Social Knowledge

Reed, Isaac Ariail
On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences
September 2011 E-book

View of Life

Simmel, Georg
Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms
January 2011 E-book

Behind Closed Doors

Stark, Laura
IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research
February 2012 E-book

Saving Babies?

Timmermans, Stefan
The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening
December 2012 New Book E-book

Tools for the Field

SPSS Step by Step

Davis, Cole
Essentials for Social and Political Science
March 2013 New Book

Behind the Academic Curtain

Furstenberg, Frank F.
How to Find Success and Happiness with a PhD
September 2013 New Book

Studying Social Networks

Hennig, Marina
A Guide to Empirical Research
February 2013 New Book

Tales of the Field

Van Maanen, John
On Writing Ethnography, Second Edition
July 2011 E-book