Between us : healing ourselves and changing the world through sociology /

This heartfelt collection is a testament to sociology's power to heal people and transform societies. The world is a tough place right now. Climate change, income inequality, racist violence and the erosion of democracy have exposed the vulnerability of our individual and collective futures. Bu...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lindholm, Marika (Editor), Wood, Elizabeth Anne (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2024].
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Table of Contents:
  • Discovering the power of the sociological imagination. My son with Autism breaks the rules / Annette Lareau
  • Saving the world, one blush at a time / Francesca Polletta
  • Mediocre / Abigail Saguy
  • An accidental sociologist learns the power of listening / Jessie Daniels
  • From hubris to humility on the softball field / Edwin Amenta
  • How to world works 101 / Robin Rogers
  • Navigating social structure, culture, and identity. The valentine's dilemma / Joshua Gamson
  • Hair play / Robyn Autry
  • Being Black (and American) in Paris / Jean Beaman
  • The only girl on the loading dock / Marika Lindholm
  • Dream with your eyes open / Harry Edwards
  • Facing our families and communities. Boy! / Tony N. Brown
  • On being a marginal woman / Kathleen Gerson
  • Ghost(s) of Detroit / Waverly Duck
  • Solidarity in Tunisia and Texas / Mounira M. Charrad
  • I joined a cult because I didn't fit in - and then I didn't fit in! / Victoria Reyes
  • The room feel queer / Amin Ghaziani
  • Confronting class and status. All in the family / Myra Marx Ferree
  • My mother's bequest / Douglas S. Massey
  • My daughter is not a bourgeois girl / Gloria González-López
  • When a Harvard degree is not enough / Vivian Louie
  • The luxury of knowing / Theresa Rocha Beardall
  • Crossing borders and ethnic divides. Watch it, white boy! / Tomás R. Jiménez
  • Scars of shame / Marta Tienda
  • K-pop and me / Grace Kao
  • A bittersweet graduation / Julie Park
  • La vida Chicana and the art of savage discovery / Mary Romero
  • Resisting racism. High yella / Angela Jones
  • Growing up white in a Black neighborhood / Tanya Golash-Boza
  • April 29, 1992 / Adia Harvey Wingfield
  • White supremacy and grandma / Nicola Beisel
  • Dancing in white spaces / Heather M. Washington
  • Why aren't you pregnant yet? / Linsey Edwards
  • Rewriting the rules of sex and gender. My first girlfriend's kitchen / Tey Meadow
  • And just like that, she was gone / Katharine M. Donato
  • No such thing as a paper girl / Ruth Milkman
  • Hard lessons at Yale / Pepper Schwartz
  • Bad at being a boy / Tristan Bridges
  • Big dick at the beach / C Ray Borck
  • Healing and changing the world. I am Neo / Michael L. Walker
  • Systemic racism is...you! / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
  • Horshshoe crab lessons / Lisa Jean Moore
  • When ideology and empathy collide / R. Danielle Egan
  • Firefighting in Barcelona / Gerard Torrats-Espinosa
  • Flying trapeze / Elizabeth Anne Wood.