How does the seduction, or “pick-up artist,” industry work? In her new book Seduction: Men, Masculinity, and Mediated Intimacy (Polity Press, 2018), Rachel O’Neill provides a sociological analysis…
How are the vulnerabilities of older adults in need of care and their care workers intertwined? In Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care (New…
How do young working-class men experience the transition to adulthood? In his new book Young Working-Class Men in Transition (Routledge, 2018), Steven Roberts talks directly to young men…
How do different professionals experience retirement? Michelle Pannor Silver’s new book Retirements and its Discontents: Why We Don’t Stop Working Even If We Can (Columbia University Press, 2018),…
How do systems of incarceration influence racial sorting inside and outside of prisons? And how do the social structures within prisons spill out into neighborhoods? In his new…
How does the juvenile justice system impact the lives of the young people that go through it? In her new book, Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of…
How does a group become defined as white? And does that group define themselves that way as well? Neda Maghbouleh‘s new book, Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and…