'A very personal perspective on what has happened to the middle class in America.'-CHOICE

In a book that has sociology turning its attention to economics and politics, Basic Thinking is an exercise in hard thinking. MacNair shuns the popular 'current

A clear, accessible analysis of the worsening distribution of income and wealth in America.

Written by nationally recognized anthropologists Conrad Kottak and Lara Descartes, this ethnography of largely white, middle class families in a town in the mid

In the early 1880s, proponents of what came to be called “the social gospel” founded what is now known as social ethics. This ambitious and magisterial book