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If you are a PSA member and have published a book in 2006, 2007, or will be published in 2008 and want it listed on this page, please contact the PSA Office at psa@csus.edu 

Ismael Abu-Saad and Duane Champagne (eds), Indigenous Education and Empowermentd: International Perspectives, Rowman and Littlefield, 2006

 

Joan Acker, Class Questions: Feminist Answers, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005

 

David L. Altheide, Terrorism and the Politics of Fear, AltaMia Press, 2006

 

Eric Anderson, In the Game: Gay Athletes and the Cult of Masculinity , SUNY Press 2006

Earl Babbie, Fred Hally, and Jeanne Zaino, Adventures in Social Research, 6th ed, Sage 2007

Berch Berberglu, The State and Revolution in the Twentieth Century, Rowman & Littlefield, 2007

 

Bonnie Berry, Beauty Bias: Discrimination and Social Power, Praeger/Greenwood Press, 2007

 

Lawrence Bobo and Mia Tuan, Prejudice in Politics, Harvard University Press, 2006

 

William Bogart, Don't Call It Sprawl, Cambridge University Press, 2006

 

Robert C. Bulman, Hollywood Goes to High School: Cinema, Schools, and American Culture , Worth Publishers 2005

Peter J. Burke, ed., Contemporary Social Psychological Theories, Stanford University Press, 2006

 

Leonard D Cain, A Man's Grasp Should Not Exceed His Reach: A Biography of Sociologist Austin Larimore Porterfield , University Press of America, 2005

Kathy Charmaz, Constructing Grounded Theory, Sage, 2006

 

Edith Wen-Chu Chen and Glenn Omatsu (eds) Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans: Effectiveness Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classroom and Communities, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006

 

Mary Danico, 1.5 Generation: Becoming Korean American in Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 2004

 

Mary Danico (with Franklin Ng) Asian American Issues, Greenwood Press, 2004

 

G. Reginald Daniel, Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006

 

William Domhoff, Who Rules Amercian?, fifth edition, McGraw Hill, 2006

 

Kathleen Farr, Sex Trafficking and the Global Market in Women and Children , Worth Publishers, 2004

John Foran Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions , Cambridge University Press, 2005

Glenn A. Goodwin and Martin D. Schwartz (eds), Professing Humanist Sociology , 5 th ed., ASA 2005

Glenn A. Goodwin and Joseph A. Scimecca, Classical Sociological Theory: Rediscovering the Promise of Sociology , Wadsworth 2006

Patricia A. Gwartney, The Telephone Interviewer's Handbook: How to Conduct Standardized Conversations, Jossey-Bass, 2007

 

Margaret Hunter , Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone , Routledge, 2005

Mark Hutter, Experiencing Cities, Allyn & Bacon, 2006

 

Janja Lalich and Madeleine Tobias, Take Back Your Lie: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships, Bay Tree Publishers, 2007

 

Anna Leon-Guerrero: Social Problems, Pine Forge Press, 2006

 

Rhonda Levine, ed., Social Class and Stratification, 2nd edition, Rowman & Liuttlefield, 2006

 

Rhonda Levine, Enriching the Sociological Imagination: How Radical Sociology Changed the Discipline, Paradigm Publishers, 2005

 

Paul Lichterman, Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America's Divisions , Princeton University Press, 2005

Ivan Light, Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets and Regulation in Los Angeles, Russell Sage, 2006

 

Dennis Loo and Peter Phillips (eds), Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney, Seven Stories Press, New York 2006

 

Monica McDermott, Working-Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations, University of California Press, 2006

Michael A. Messner, Out of Play:  Critical Essays on Gender and Sport.  State University of New York Press, 2007

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Terance D. Miethe, Simple Statistics: Application in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Roxbury, 2006

 

Calvin Morrill, David A. snow, and Cindy H. White (eds.), Together Alone, University of California Press 2005

 

Peter Nardi, Doing Survey Research: A Guide to Quantitative Research Methods, Allyn & Bacon, 2nd edition, 2006

 

Peter Nardi, Interpreting Data: A Guide to Understanding Research, Allyn & Bacon, 2006

 

Chava Frankfort-Nachmias and Anna Leon-Gurerro, Social Statistics for a Diverse Society, 4th ed, Sage, 2006

 

Enrique C. Ochoa and Gilda L. Ochoa (eds), Latino Los Angeles: Transformations, Communities and Activism , University of Arizona Press 2005

Gilda L. Ochoa, Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power Conflict and Solidarity , University of Texas Press 2004

Gilda L. Ochoa, Learning from Latino Teachers, Jossey Bass 2007

Nicole Raeburn, Changing Corporate America from Inside Out: Lesbian and Gay Workplace Rights , University of Minnesota Press, 2004

C. J. Pascoe, Dude, You're a Fag, University of California Press, 2007

 

Malcolm Potter, Introductory Sociology Workbook, Pro Printing, 2007

 

Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbaut, Immigrant America, University of California Press, 2006

 

Jennifer A. Reich, Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System NY: Routledge, 2005

 

Ellen Reese, Backlash Against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present , University of California Press, 2005

Mary Romero and Eric Margolis (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities, Blackwell, 2005

 

Thomas Scheff, Goffman Unbound! A New Paradigm , Paradigm Publishers, 2006

Karen Seccombe, Families and Their Social Worlds, Allyn & Bacon, 2008

 

Karen Seccombe and Kim Hoffman, Just Don't Get Sick: Access to Health Care in the Afermath of Welfare Reform, Rutgers University Press, 2007

 

Karen Seccombe, So You Think I Drive a Cadillac: Welfare Recipients' Perpsectives on the System and Its Reform, 2nd edition, Allyn & Bacon, 2007

 

Karen Seccombe, Families and Poverty, Allyn & Bacon, 2006

 

Megan Seely, Fight Like a Girl, New York University Press, 2007

 

Dorothy Smith, Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People , Rowan and Littlefield, 2005

Steven J. Steinberg and Sheila L. Steinberg, Geographic Information Systems for the Social Science: Investigating Space and Place , Sage Publications, 2005

Karen Sternheimer, Kids These Days, Rowman & Littlefield, 2006

 

Edward Telles, Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil, Princeton University Press 2004

 

Diana G. Tumminia, When Prophecy Never Fails: Myth and Reality in a Flying-Saucer Group , Oxford University Press, 2005

Jonathan Turner and Alexandra Maryanski, On the Origin of Societies by Natural Selection, Paradigm Publishers, 2008

Jonathan Turner and Jan Stets, The Sociology of Emotions , Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005

Jonathan Turner and Alexandra Maryanski, Incest: Origins of the Taboo, Paradigm Publishers, 2005

 

Deidre Tyler, Our Corner of the World: Utah African American Women Tell Their Stories 1940-2002 , Oxford University Press 2005

Clare Weber, Visions of Solidarity: US Peace Activists in Nicaragua from War to Women's Activism and Globalization, Lexington Books, 2006

 

Kevin Wehr, America's Fight Over Water: The Environmental and Political Effects of Large-Scale Water Systems , Routledge, 2004

Amy Wharton, The Sociology of Gender, Blackwell, 2004

 

Amy Wharton, Working in America, third edition, McGraw Hill, 2007

 

Amy S. Wharton, ed. , Sociology of Organizations, Roxbury, 2007

 

Donald Winiecki, Discipline and Governmentality at Work: Making the Subject and Subjectivity in Modern Tertiary Labour. Free Association Books, London 2006

 

Dan Zuberi, Differences that Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada , Cornell University Press 2006

Richard L. Zweigenhaft and William Domhoff, Diversity in the Power Elite, 2nd edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2006