New Books in Sociology

1835 Episodes

1. Paul Seabright, "The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/19/2025
2. Yingyao Wang, "Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State" (Columbia UP, 2024)

   Published: 3/18/2025
3. Mia Consalvo et al., "Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch" (MIT Press, 2025)

   Published: 3/17/2025
4. Sally Coulthard, "A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects" (HarperCollins UK, 2024)

   Published: 3/17/2025
5. Margaret K. Nelson, "Sociology Meets Memoir: An Exploration of Narrative and Method" (NYU Press, 2024)

   Published: 3/16/2025
6. Jade S. Sasser, "Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question" (U California Press, 2024)

   Published: 3/15/2025
7. Fiona Handyside, "Girls' Hairstories: Sparkle and Resilience in Contemporary Screen Cultures" (Edinburgh UP, 2025)

   Published: 3/14/2025
8. Karl Berglund, "Reading Audio Readers: Book Consumption in the Streaming Age" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

   Published: 3/13/2025
9. Lea David, "A Victim's Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights"(Columbia UP, 2025)

   Published: 3/11/2025
10. "Steadfast Democrats" Five Years Later: A Conversation with Chryl N. Laird

    Published: 3/10/2025
11. Brendan A. Galipeau, "Crafting a Tibetan Terroir: Winemaking in Shangri-La" (U Washington Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/6/2025
12. Christian Gerlach, "Conditions of Violence" (de Gruyter, 2024)

    Published: 3/6/2025
13. Alfie Bown, "Post-Comedy" (Polity, 2025)

    Published: 3/5/2025
14. Waiyee Loh, "Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy" (SUNY Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/3/2025
15. Deborah Reed-Danahay, "Sideways Migration: Being French in London" (Routledge, 2025)

    Published: 3/3/2025
16. John Boswell et al., "The Art and Craft of Comparison" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

    Published: 3/3/2025
17. Paul G. Keil, "The Presence of Elephants: Shared Lives and Landscapes in Assam" (Routledge, 2024)

    Published: 3/2/2025
18. Noam Leshem, "Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

    Published: 3/1/2025
19. Laureen D. Hom, "The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles" (U California Press, 2024)

    Published: 2/27/2025
20. Sybil Derrible, "The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives" (Prometheus Books, 2025)

    Published: 2/27/2025