Sociology Re-Wired
About the Book Series
This innovative series is for all readers interested in books that provide frameworks for making sense of the complexities of contemporary social life. Each of the books in this series uses a sociological lens to provide current critical and analytical perspectives on significant social issues, patterns and trends. The series consists of books that integrate the best ideas in sociological thought with an aim toward public education and engagement. These books are designed for use in the classroom as well as for scholars and socially curious general readers.
Latinx Feminist Thought: Ideas, Movements, and the Pursuit of Reproductive Justice
1st Edition
By Rocío R. García
September 08, 2026
Drawing on the influence of Collins’ Black Feminist Thought, this book explores how Latinx feminists create theories about intersecting inequalities via their social movement practice—particularly as these relate to reproductive justice. Many people in the United States associate reproductive ...
Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis
2nd Edition
Edited
By Zakiya Luna, Whitney Pirtle, Jasmine Kelekay
May 27, 2026
This new edition of Black Feminist Sociology offers revised and updated chapters on the history, contours, and prospects of the Black feminist tradition in sociology. This volume offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist sociological tradition that provide...
Introduction to Media Sociology: All Media Are Social
2nd Edition
By Andrew M. Lindner, Stephen R. Barnard
May 18, 2026
From streaming platforms to smartphone apps to good old-fashioned newspapers, media are nearly omnipresent in contemporary life and act as a powerful social institution. In this new edition of Introduction to Media Sociology, Lindner and Barnard encourage readers to think critically about topics ...
Social Statistics: Managing Data, Conducting Analyses, Presenting Results
5th Edition
By Thomas J. Linneman
July 31, 2025
With a clear, engaging writing style and fascinating examples using a variety of real data, this text covers the contemporary statistical techniques that students will encounter in the world of social research. It covers these techniques at an introductory level and carefully guides students ...
Cresheim Farm: An American History of Conquest, Privilege and Struggles for Freedom and Equality
1st Edition
By Antje Ulrike Mattheus
June 30, 2023
This book is a work of political archaeology. It focuses on the people and events at a particular colonial farm in Germantown, Pennsylvania; their stories provide a micro and macro view of economic, social, demographic, and agro-ecological change. Cresheim Farm shows how one mostly unknown but ...
Social Theory Re-Wired: New Connections to Classical and Contemporary Perspectives
3rd Edition
Edited
By Wesley Longhofer, Daniel Winchester
June 22, 2023
This third edition of Social Theory Re-Wired is a significantly revised edition of this leading text and its unique web learning interactive programs that "allow us to go farther into theory and to build student skills than ever before," according to many teachers. Vital political and social ...
Transforming Scholarship: Why Women's and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World
3rd Edition
By Michele Tracy Berger, Cheryl Radeloff
December 31, 2021
Transforming Scholarship offers an essential guide to one of the most richly rewarding yet often under-appreciated academic majors: Women's and Gender Studies. This fully updated and revised third edition answers the question of what you can do with a women’s and gender studies degree with ...
Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis
1st Edition
Edited
By Zakiya Luna, Whitney Pirtle
September 30, 2021
Black Feminist Sociology offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition. The book centers Black feminist sociology (BFS) within the sociology canon and widens is to feature Black feminist sociologists both outside the US and the academy. Inspired by a...
Incarceration without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice
1st Edition
By Mikaela Rabinowitz
July 15, 2021
Incarceration Without Conviction addresses an understudied fairness flaw in the criminal justice system. On any given day, approximately 500,000 Americans are in pretrial detention in the US, held in local jails not because they are considered a flight or public safety risk, but because they ...
All Media Are Social: Sociological Perspectives on Mass Media
1st Edition
By Andrew M. Lindner, Stephen R. Barnard
April 15, 2020
From TV to smartphone apps to movies to newspapers, mass media are nearly omnipresent in contemporary life and act as a powerful social institution. In this introduction to media sociology, Lindner and Barnard encourage readers to think critically about the power of big media companies, state-media...
The Black Circuit: Race, Performance, and Spectatorship in Black Popular Theatre
1st Edition
By Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon
March 24, 2020
The Black Circuit: Race, Performance, and Spectatorship in Black Popular Theatre presents the first book-length study of Chitlin Circuit theatre, the most popular and controversial form of Black theatre to exist outside the purview of Broadway since the 1980s. Through historical and ...
The New Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcus A. Hunter
July 03, 2018
The New Black Sociologists follows in the footsteps of 1974’s pioneering text Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, by tracing the organization of its forbearer in key thematic ways. This new collection of essays revisit the legacies of significant Black scholars including ...