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Tamil Brahmans The Making of a Middle-Class Caste

Fuller C. J., Narasimhan Haripriya

ISBN: PB: 9780226152745, ISBN: HB: 9780226152608, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 tables

A cruise along the streets of Chennai – or Silicon Valley – filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In the twenty-first century, Indians have acquired a new kind of global visibility, one of rapid economic...

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Renegade Dreams Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago

Laurence Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226032719, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 3 line drawings, 3 tables

Every morning Chicagoans wake up to the same stark headlines that read like some macabre score: "13 shot, 4 dead overnight across the city" and nearly every morning the same elision occurs: what of the nine other victims? As with war, much of our foc...

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Trapped in America's Safety Net One Family's Struggle

Campbell Andrea Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780226140445, ISBN: HB: 9780226140308, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 figures, 1 table

When Andrea Louise Campbell's sister-in-law, Marcella Wagner, was run off the freeway by a hit-and-run driver, she was seven-and-a-half months pregnant. She survived – and, miraculously, the baby was born healthy. But that's where the good news ends....

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Becoming Mead The Social Process of Academic Knowledge

Huebner Daniel R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226171401, ISBN: HB: 9780226171371, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 3 line drawings

George Herbert Mead is a foundational figure in sociology, best known for his book "Mind, Self, and Society", which was put together after his death from course notes taken by stenographers and students and from unpublished manuscripts. Mead, however...

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What About Mozart? What About Murder? Reasoning From Cases

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226166490, ISBN: HB: 9780226166353, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end...

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Health & Wellbeing

Fitting In and Getting Happy How Conformity to Societal Norms Affects Subjective Well-being

Stavrova Olga

ISBN: PB: 9783593500560, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
196 pp., 22x13.9 cm

Do unemployment, religiosity, or morality play a role in people's perception of happiness and well-being? Using large-scale survey data from more than seventy countries, Olga Stavrova shows in "Fitting In and Getting Happy" that to a large extent ha...

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Genetics

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Misbehaving Science Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics

Panofsky Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226058450, ISBN: HB: 9780226058313, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 6 tables

Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the "criminal chromosome" to the "gay gene", claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. Ma...

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Feelings at the Margins Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia

Rottger-Rossler Birgitt, Stodulka Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9783593500058, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, June 2014
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 halftones

"Feelings at the Margins" offers a uniquely interdisciplinary take on the contemporary phenomenon of marginalization in Indonesia and its emotional impact on affected individuals and groups. By combining anthropological, political, and historical per...

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Performing Afro-Cuba Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History

Wirtz Kristina

ISBN: PB: 9780226119052, ISBN: HB: 9780226118864, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 halftones

Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere: in popular music and folklore shows, paintings and dolls of Santeria saints in airport shops, and even restaurants with plantation themes. In "Performing Afro-Cuba",...

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Pulled Over How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship

Epp Charles R., Maynard-Moody Steven, Haider-Markel Donald P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226113999, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line drawings, 13 tables

In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Each year, twelve percent of drivers in the United States are stopped by the police, and the figure is almost double among racial minorities. Police stops are among the m...

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