New Approaches in Sociology

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1. The Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights

   Facing off in Cincinnati

   By Kimberly B. Dugan

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   In November 1993 voters in Cincinnati, Ohio passed Issue 3, an amendment to the City Charter eliminating gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons' legal protection against discrimination and prohibiting their recognition as a group or class. This Christian right initiative emerged largely in response to...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Domestic Democracy

   At Home in South Africa

   By Jennifer Fish

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Parenting for the State

   An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care

   By Teresa Toguchi Swartz

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of our troubled foster care system....

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. Unequal Partnerships

   Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration

   By Ira Silver

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Through an examination of the Chicago Initiative, Silver analyzes how elite philanthropists exercise social control over community organizations that do work in poor neighborhoods....

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. No Place Like Home

   Organizing Home-Based Labor in the Era of Structural Adjustment

   By David Staples

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   No Place Like Home examines the emergence of home-based women workers as paradigmatic figures of contemporary capitalism, neoliberal governmentality, and socio-political contestation. Far from an isolated or contingent situation, home-based work constitutes today an enormous arena of 'invisible'...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Negotiating Decolonization in the United Nations

   Politics of Space, Identity, and International Community

   By Vrushali Patil

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Combining discourse and comparative historical methods of analysis, this book explores how colonialists and anti-colonialists renegotiated transnational power relationships within the debates on decolonization in the United Nations from 1946-1960. Shrewdly bringing together Sociology, Women’s...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Social Organization of Policy

   An Institutional Ethnography of UN Forest Deliberations

   By Lauren E. Eastwood

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   This book provides a specific case study--based upon direct research with UN processes--which enables the reader to situate larger theoretical arguments regarding civil society, globalization, and sustainable development within the context of the actual activities of practitioners working within...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
8. Striving and Surviving

   A Daily Life Analysis of Honduran Transnational Families

   By Leah Schmalzbauer

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   Drawing on data the author gathered in Honduras and the United States from weekly time diaries, in-depth interviews, participant observation and interpretive focus groups, she looks specifically at the experience and prospects of transmigrant labor in the United States; the aspirations and...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
9. Minority within a Minority

   Black Francophone Immigrants and the Dynamics of Power and Resistance

   By Amal Ibrahim Madibbo

   Series: New Approaches in Sociology

   This book examines the institutional racism and language discrimination that Black Francophones – who constitute a racial minority situated within a linguistic minority – face and identifies the strategies of resistance Black Francophones invent to gain access to power structures....

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Everyday Lives of Sex Workers in the Netherlands

    By Katherine Gregory

    Series: New Approaches in Sociology

    This ethnographic account details the experiences of migrant and transgendered streetwalkers, and window prostitutes in The Netherlands. Through the in-depth interviews and observations, the author explores the meaning sex-workers give to their work and personal lives....

    Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge