A Sociological Summer Reading List
Just in case you’re looking for something to read this summer, I made a list of some of the books that will be discussed in the “Author Meets Critics” sessions at this summer’s annual conference of the American Sociological Association. These are the books listed on the preliminary program. (Click each title to find the book’s description on Amazon.com)
Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times (University of California Press, 2014) by Marianne Cooper
Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty (Oxford University Press, 2013) by Jennifer M. Silva
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality (Harvard University, 2013) by Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton
The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood (Russel Sage, 2014) by Karl L. Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda S. Olson
The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence and the American Dream (University of California Press, 2013) by Randol Contreras
What’s Wrong With Fat? (Oxford University Press, 2012) by Abigail Saguy
The Undeserving Rich: American Beliefs about Inequality, Opportunity, and Redistribution (Cambridge University Press, 2013) by Leslie McCall
The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty (Harvard University Press, 2012) by Monica Prasad
Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening (University of Chicago Press, 2012) by Stefan Timmermans
Ain’t No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why it Matters (University of California, 2013) by Judith Levine
A Theory of Fields (Oxford University Press, 2012) by Neil Fligstein and Doug McAdam
Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality (University of Chicago Press, 2013) by Patrick Sharkey
The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What it Means for American Schools (Russell Sage Foundation, 2013) by Thomas A. Diprete and Claudia Buchman
Claiming Society for God: Religious Movements and Social Welfare (Indiana University Press, 2012) by Nancy J. Davis and Robert V. Robinson
Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City (University of California, 2013) by Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson
The Emergence of Organizations and Markets (Princeton University Press, 2012) by John Padgett and Woody Powell
Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2012) by Andreas Wimmer
The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite (Harvard University, 2013) by Mark S. Mizruchi
Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind (Stanford University Press, 2013) by Osagie Obasogie
Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State (Princeton University Press, 2012) by Cybelle Fox
Happy Reading!
