By Shay O’Brien (Harvard University) Title: Born to Ruleby Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves “One of the perennial problems in writing about elites,” Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman (p. 6) observe in their new book, “is figuring out exactly who you’re talking about.” Indeed, this is the first question for any study of the “elite:” who are they, anyway? Born to Rule: The Making and … Continue reading Book Review – Born to Rule
Book Review by Joselyn QuirozPhD Candidate, Department of SociologyUniversity of California – Los Angeles In Alka Menon’s new book, Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards, she identifies the ways in which cosmetic surgeons generate and apply knowledge, theory, and technique using racial categories, thereby reshaping and refashioning racial categories on an individual, interactional, and broader cultural scale. Menon examines the case … Continue reading Book Review by Joselyn Quiroz: Refashioning Race by Alka Menon
By Oded Marom PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology University of Southern California In his new book, Fair Share: Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of Resistance, Gary Fine takes on two distinct, yet related tasks. First, the book seeks to solve an original empirical puzzle regarding senior citizens and political action., Seniors in America, Fine tells us, face a curious predicament. On the one … Continue reading Book Review: Fair Share by Gary Alan Fine
Lichterman, Paul. 2021. How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles. Princeton University Press. Notes for Paul: How Civic Action Works Ann Mische University of Notre Dame It’s such a joy to have the chance to read and reflect on “How Civic Action Works”! I remember discussing this project with Paul over a decade ago when it was still a twinkle in his … Continue reading SSHA Book Symposium: How Civic Action Works
By Tania Aparicio Morales, PhD Full-Time Lecturer, Program in Arts Administration Teachers College Columbia University How did Italy become a global cultural power? In Ruling Culture, Fiona Greenland argues that Italian state patrimony became an influential culture powerhouse because of unique dynamics of internal disputes and intimidation among tomb robbers, artifacts, policies, policing, and soil. Her book is the result of many transformations: the natural … Continue reading Book Review: Ruling Culture
By Mari Sanchez PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology Harvard University Amidst Census predictions of an impending minority-majority future, scholars and pundits across the political spectrum have taken demographic trends at face value to debate the implications for American society. Figures for the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change (Princeton University Press 2021), a co-winner of the Mary Douglas Award for Best … Continue reading Book Review: Figures of the Future
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