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Neighborhood That Never Changes Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity

Brown-Saracino Japonica

ISBN: PB: 9780226076638, ISBN: HB: 9780226076621, University of Chicago Press, February 2010
352 pp., 21.8x14.7 cm, 3 maps, 10 tables, 22 halftones

Newcomers to older neighborhoods are usually perceived as destructive, tearing down everything that made the place special and attractive. But as "A Neighborhood That Never Changes" demonstrates, many gentrifiers seek to preserve the authentic local...

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Telling About Society

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226041261, ISBN: HB: 9780226041254, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 15 line drawings

"I Remember", one of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs – each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analy...

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Sociology in America A History

Calhoun Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780226090955, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
880 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 9 maps, 6 tables

Though the word "sociology" was coined in Europe, the field of sociology grew most dramatically in America. Despite that disproportionate influence, American sociology has never been the subject of an extended historical examination. To remedy that s...

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Mathematical Models of Social Evolution A Guide for the Perplexed

McElreath Richard, Boyd Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226558271, ISBN: HB: 9780226558264, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
432 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 55 line drawings, 99 tables, 41 boxes

Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. But students in these disciplines often seriously lack the tools to understand them. A primer on behavio...

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Logic of Social Research

Stinchcombe Arthur L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226774923, ISBN: HB: 9780226774916, University of Chicago Press, July 2005
344 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Arthur L. Stinchcombe has earned a reputation as a leading practitioner of methodology in sociology and related disciplines. Throughout his distinguished career he has championed the idea that to be an effective sociologist, one must use many methods...

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For the Love of It Amateuring and Its Rivals

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065861, ISBN: HB: 9780226065854, University of Chicago Press, October 2000
248 pp., 23x15 cm

"For the Love of It" is a story not only of one intimate struggle between a man and his cello, but also of the larger struggle between a society obsessed with success and individuals who choose challenging hobbies that yield no payoff except the love...

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