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Sociology 2010
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Contents
1 new
8 economic & organizational sociology
14 princeton studies in cultural sociology
15 politics
18 religion
19 historical sociology
20 science
22 education
25 general interest
29 index
Forthcoming
Economic Lives
How Culture Shapes the Economy
Viviana A. Zelizer
“No one else does what Viviana Zelizer does, or in the way she does it.
With attractively rigorous scholarship, she reveals hidden meanings in
things we otherwise take for granted. Spanning Zelizer’s career to date,
Economic Lives is welcome for bringing key contributions together in
one volume.”
—Ronald S. Burt, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Over the past three decades, economic sociology has been reveal-
ing how culture shapes economic life even while economic facts
affect social relationships. This work has transformed the field into a
flourishing and increasingly influential discipline. No one has played a
greater role in this development than Viviana Zelizer, one of the world’s
leading sociologists. Economic Lives synthesizes and extends her most
important work to date, demonstrating the full breadth and range of
her field-defining contributions in a single volume for the first time.
Economic Lives shows how shared cultural understandings and interpersonal relations shape
everyday economic activities. Far from being simple responses to narrow individual incentives and
preferences, economic actions emerge, persist, and are transformed by our relations to others.
Distilling three decades of research, the book offers a distinctive vision of economic activity that
brings out the hidden meanings and social actions behind the supposedly impersonal worlds of
production, consumption, and asset transfer.
Providing an important perspective on the recent past and possible futures of a growing field,
Economic Lives promises to be widely read and discussed.
Viviana A. Zelizer is the Lloyd Cotsen ‘50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University.
November 2010. 480 pages.
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New
Remaking the Heartland
Middle America since the 1950s
Robert Wuthnow
“Remaking the Heartland is a compelling examination of the transforma-
tion of the Midwest in the postwar era. Combining an insider’s empathy
with the critical distance of someone who has moved away, Wuthnow
debunks the myths of the heartland’s decline and highlights the region’s
institutional riches and cultural creativity.”
—John Schmalzbauer, Missouri State University
For many Americans, the Midwest is a vast unknown. In Remaking the
Heartland, Robert Wuthnow sets to rectify this. He shows how the region
has undergone extraordinary social transformations over the past half-
century, and proven itself surprisingly resilient in the face of such hard-
ships as the Great Depression and the movement of residents to other
parts of the country. He examines the heartland’s reinvention throughout
the decades and traces the social and economic factors that have helped it to survive and prosper.
Remaking the Heartland offers an accessible look at the humble yet strong foundations that have
allowed the region to endure undiminished.
Robert Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger ’52 Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University.
2010. 472 pages. 23 tables
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Forthcoming
Privilege
The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School
Shamus Rahman Khan
As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul’s
School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain
of America’s wealthiest sons. But times have changed. Today, a new elite
of boys and girls is being molded at St. Paul’s, one that reflects the hope
of openness but also the persistence of inequality.
In Privilege, Shamus Khan returns to his alma mater to provide an inside
look at an institution that has been the private realm of the elite for the
past 150 years. He shows that St. Paul’s students continue to learn what
they always have—how to embody privilege. Yet, while students once
leveraged the trappings of upper-class entitlement, family connections,
and high culture, current St. Paul’s students learn to succeed in a more
diverse environment. To be the future leaders of a more democratic
world, they must be at ease with everything from highbrow art to everyday life—from Beowulf to
Jaws—and view hierarchies as ladders to scale.
Shamus Rahman Khan is assistant professor of sociology at Columbia University. He is an alumnus and
former faculty member of St. Paul’s School.
February 2011. 264 pages.
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Forthcoming New
The Entrepreneurial Group Who Cares?
Social Identities, Relations, and Public Ambivalence and Government
Collective Action Activism from the New Deal to the
Martin Ruef Second Gilded Age
Katherine S. Newman &
“This is a must-read
Elisabeth S. Jacobs
for anyone who wants
to understand how “The deep ambivalence
entrepreneurs build busi- Americans feel about
nesses and why growing government has always
an enterprise is a been central to our
team sport.” politics, and it’s an espe-
—Philip Anderson, cially vital matter now
INSEAD, director of the with the rise of Tea Party
Rudolf and Valeria Maag movements and other
International Centre for assaults on public power.
Entrepreneurship Americans often want
a smaller government
Recent surveys show that more than half of
that does more, a difficult recipe for politicians
American entrepreneurs share ownership in their
to follow. That’s why Who Cares? is so timely and
business startups rather than going it alone, and
so important. Katherine Newman and Elisabeth
experts in international entrepreneurship have
Jacobs have done a superb job tracing the his-
likewise noted the importance of groups in secur-
tory of our ambivalence and suggesting where
ing microcredit and advancing entrepreneurial
we might go from here. They will be the talk of
initiatives in the developing world. Yet the media
academia—and the talk shows.”
and many scholars continue to perpetuate the
—E. J. Dionne Jr., author of Souled Out and Why
myth of the lone visionary who single-handedly
Americans Hate Politics
revolutionizes the marketplace. The Entrepre-
neurial Group shatters this myth, demonstrating Americans like to think that they look after their
that teams, not individuals, are the leading force own, especially in times of hardship. Particularly
behind entrepreneurial startups. for the Great Depression and the Great Society
eras, the collective memory is one of solidarity
The Entrepreneurial Group reveals how studying
and compassion for the less fortunate. Who Cares?
the social structure of entrepreneurial action can
challenges this story by examining opinion polls
shed light on the creation of new organizations.
and letters to presidents from average citizens.
Martin Ruef is professor of sociology at Princeton
Katherine S. Newman is the Malcolm Forbes,
University.
Class of 1941, Professor of Sociology and Public
The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Affairs at Princeton University. Elisabeth S. Jacobs
August 2010. 312 pages. 29 line illus. 46 tables.
is a senior policy adviser to the Joint Economic
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Committee of the U.S. Congress.
2010. 240 pages. 36 line illus. 4 tables.
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Forthcoming New
Max Weber in America Learning by Example
Lawrence A. Scaff Imitation and Innovation at a
Global Bank
“Max Weber in America is a masterpiece. Scaff
David Strang
is recognized as a leading Weber scholar and
social theorist, and here he demonstrates the
“The best book I have
intellectual significance of Weber’s visit to the
read on benchmarking. A
United States both for Weber’s work and for its
penetrating account of
subsequent American reception. There is no
why firms benchmark,
comparable book.”
how they construct refer-
—Guenther Roth, Columbia University
ence groups, and how
Max Weber, widely considered a founder of they learn and unlearn
sociology and the modern social sciences, visited from examples.”
the United States in 1904 with his wife Marianne. —Hayagreeva Rao, Stan-
The trip was a turning point in Weber’s life and ford University Graduate
it played a pivotal role in shaping his ideas, yet School of Business and
until now virtually our only source of information author of Market Rebels
about the trip was Marianne Weber’s faithful
In business, as in other aspects of life, we learn
but not always reliable 1926 biography of her
and grow from the examples set by others. Imita-
husband. Max Weber in America carefully recon-
tion can lead to innovation. But in order to grow
structs this important episode in Weber’s career,
innovatively, how do businesses decide what
and shows how the subsequent critical reception
firms to imitate? And how do they choose what
of Weber’s work was as American a story as the
practices to follow? Learning by Example takes an
trip itself.
unprecedented look at the benchmarking initia-
Lawrence Scaff provides new details about tive of a major financial institution. David Strang
Weber’s visit to the United States—what he did, closely follows twenty-one teams of managers
what he saw, whom he met and why, and how sent out to observe the practices of other com-
these experiences profoundly influenced Weber’s panies in order to develop recommendations for
thought on immigration, capitalism, science and change in their own organization.
culture, Romanticism, race, diversity, Protestant-
Through extensive interviews, surveys, and archi-
ism, and modernity. Scaff traces Weber’s impact
val materials, Strang reveals that benchmarking
on the development of the social sciences in
promotes a distinctive managerial regime with
the United States following his death in 1920,
potential benefits and pitfalls. He explores the
examining how Weber’s ideas were interpreted,
organizations treated as models of best practice,
translated, and disseminated by American schol-
the networks that surround a bank and form its
ars such as Talcott Parsons and Frank Knight, and
reference group, the ways managers craft calls
how the Weberian canon, codified in America,
for change, and the programs implemented in
was reintroduced into Europe after World War II.
the wake of vicarious learning.
Lawrence A. Scaff is professor of political science
David Strang is professor of sociology at Cornell
and sociology at Wayne State University.
University.
March 2011. 304 pages. 6 halftones. 2 tables.
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Forthcoming New
Dead Ringers Codes of the Underworld
How Outsourcing is Changing the How Criminals Communicate
Way Indians Understand Themselves Diego Gambetta
Shehzad Nadeem
“[This book] looks at
“Dead Ringers is a brilliant exploration of the the fascinating array of
perplexing world that global outsourcing signals that criminals
has wrought. With lucid and engaging prose, use to recognize each
Nadeem shows how conspicuous consumption other, validate their
and exploitation are two sides of the same coin. claims of toughness, and
This smart and witty book is essential reading for induce trust or fear. This
anyone concerned about the future of work and comprehensive picture of
culture in a global age.” underworld communica-
—John Skrentny, University of California, tion will make a serious
San Diego impact on further studies
of organized crime.”
In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees —Marek Kaminski, University of California, Irvine
are expected to be “dead ringers” for the
more expensive American workers they have “This innovative book shows Gambetta’s nimble
replaced—complete with Westernized names, and subtle mind at its best. He combines strik-
accents, habits, and lifestyles that are organized ing analytical insights with rich ethnographic
around a foreign culture in a distant time zone. descriptions.”
Dead Ringers chronicles the rise of a workforce —Jon Elster, Columbia University
for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a
passion. In the process, the book deftly explores How do criminals communicate with each other?
the complications of hybrid lives and presents a Unlike the rest of us, people planning crimes
vivid portrait of a workplace where globalization can’t freely advertise their goods and services,
carries as many downsides as advantages. nor can they rely on formal institutions to settle
disputes and certify quality. They face uniquely
Through lively ethnographic detail and subtle intense dilemmas as they grapple with the basic
analysis of interviews with workers, managers, problems of whom to trust, how to make them-
and employers, Nadeem demonstrates the selves trusted, and how to handle information
culturally transformative power of globalization without being detected by rivals or police. In this
and its effects on the lives of the individuals at book, one of the world’s leading scholars of the
its edges. mafia ranges from ancient Rome to the gangs
of modern Japan, from the prisons of Western
Shehzad Nadeem is assistant professor of sociol-
countries to terrorist and pedophile rings, to
ogy at the City University of New York, Lehman
explain how despite these constraints, many
College.
criminals successfully stay in business.
March 2011. 304 pages. 3 line illus. 3 tables.
Cl: 978-0-691-14787-1 $35.00 | £24.95 Diego Gambetta is Official Fellow of Nuffield Col-
lege and professor of sociology at the University
of Oxford.
2009. 368 pages. 5 line illus. 3 tables.
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Forthcoming New
Winning Chasing Stars
Reflections on an American Obsession The Myth of Talent and the Portability
Francesco Duina of Performance
Boris Groysberg
“Winning takes a beauti-
ful and engaging look “The handful of dollars
at America’s love affair you spend on this book
with competition and could save you a fortune
with avoiding defeat at in mis-hires. Groysberg’s
all costs. Relying on a research sheds new light
comparative framework, on the complex interplay
Duina shows that Ameri- between employers and
can society pays a price their star talent. This is a
for emphasizing winning must-read for leaders who
precisely because Ameri- prefer not to waste their
cans are so often confused by what this means. time and money.”
With a wealth of superb examples drawn from —L. Kevin Kelly, CEO of the executive search firm
entertainment, sports, education, politics, and Heidrick & Struggles
business, Winning encourages us to step back
and reconsider our obsession with the ultimate
prize.” It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy
—Paulette Kurzer, University of Arizona that companies must employ the most talented
performers to compete and succeed. Many
“Duina’s accessible examination of the language firms try to buy stars by luring them away from
of winning and losing reveals that competition competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an
is not a human universal, but a historical and uncertain and disastrous practice this can be.
cultural phenomenon. Making ample use of ex-
After examining the careers of more than a
amples from popular culture, he shows that com-
thousand star analysts at Wall Street invest-
petition’s prominence in America arises from our
ment banks, and conducting more than two
unsatisfied desire for a clear, positive, and socially
hundred frank interviews, Groysberg comes to
approved identity. Winning is a worthy addition
a striking conclusion: star analysts who change
to the literature on the sociology of culture.”
firms suffer an immediate and lasting decline in
—Liah Greenfeld, Boston University
performance. Their earlier excellence appears
Most of us are taught from a young age to be to have depended heavily on their former firms’
winners and avoid being losers. But what does general and proprietary resources, organizational
it mean to win or lose? And why do we care so cultures, networks, and colleagues. There are a
much? Does winning make us happy? Winning few exceptions, such as stars who move with
undertakes an unprecedented investigation of their teams and stars who switch to better firms.
winning and losing in American society, what Female stars also perform better after changing
we are really after as we struggle to win, our jobs than their male counterparts do. But most
collective beliefs about winners and losers, and stars who switch firms turn out to be meteors,
much more. quickly losing luster in their new settings.
Francesco Duina is associate professor and chair Chasing Stars offers profound insights into the
of the Sociology Department at Bates College, fundamental nature of outstanding performance.
and visiting professor at the International Center
Boris Groysberg is associate professor in the organi-
for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business
zational behavior unit at Harvard Business School.
School.
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New New
The Great Brain Race Usable Theory
How Global Universities Are Analytic Tools for Social and
Reshaping the World Political Research
Ben Wildavsky Dietrich Rueschemeyer
“The Great Brain Race “Usable Theory is a boon
takes the reader to to everyone in search of
university campuses tools to understand the
around the globe in order social world.”
to powerfully make the —Peter B. Evans, Univer-
case that open borders sity of California, Berkeley
are as—and perhaps
In Usable Theory,
more— important in
distinguished sociologist
education as they are in
Dietrich Rueschemeyer
trade and economics. You
shows graduate students
can’t understand the way
and researchers how to construct theory
the world will work in this coming century with-
frames and use them to develop valid empirical
out understanding the phenomenon Wildavsky
hypotheses in the course of empirical social
reveals here. The Great Brain Race is an enormous
and political research. Combining new ideas as
contribution to the discussion.”
well as analytic tools derived from classic and
—Judy Woodruff, PBS Newshour
recent theoretical traditions, the book enlarges
In The Great Brain Race, former U.S. News & World the rationalist model of action by focusing on
Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents knowledge, norms, preferences, and emotions,
the first popular account of how international and it discusses larger social formations that
competition for the brightest minds is transform- shape elementary forms of action.
ing the world of higher education—and why this
Dietrich Rueschemeyer is professor emeritus of
revolution should be welcomed, not feared.
sociology at Brown University and a research
Ben Wildavsky is a senior fellow in research and professor at Brown’s Watson Institute for Interna-
policy at the Kauffman Foundation. tional Studies.
2010. 256 pages. 2009. 352 pages.
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Forthcoming
Group Problem Solving
Patrick R. Laughlin
“It is good to see this concise and well-organized textbook become available as there hasn’t been
one on this subject in decades. The research is solid and among the most rigorous and meticulous of
experimental work being conducted on group performance.”
—Verlin B. Hinsz, North Dakota State University
Patrick R. Laughlin is professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
March 2011. 168 pages. 28 line illus. 24 tables.
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New New
Taming the Beloved Beast Valuing the Unique
How Medical Technology Costs are The Economics of Singularities
Destroying Our Health Care System Lucien Karpik
Daniel Callahan Translated by Nora Scott
“This is the only major “[This book] is an exciting
book of which I am foray onto new ground
aware that places the for economic sociology.
escalating costs of In studying markets of
medical technology at singularities, Lucien
the center of the health Karpik provides a wealth
care reform maelstrom. of fascinating examples
Callahan explains why we of judgment devices
are facing a serious and whereby we value goods
urgent crisis in health and services that are
care spending and why incommensurable. A
a cultural revolution is needed to bring about singular achievement!”
meaningful and sustainable change.” —David Stark, author of The Sense of Dissonance:
—Alan B. Cohen, Boston University Health Accounts of Worth in Economic Life
Policy Institute
Lucien Karpik is a sociologist at the École des Mines
Daniel Callahan is senior researcher and presi- and the Centre Raymond Aron (EHESS) in Paris.
dent emeritus at the Hastings Center.
2010. 296 pages. 2 line illus. 5 tables.
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2009. 280 pages. 1 table.
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New
Orderly Fashion
A Sociology of Markets
Patrik Aspers
“Patrik Aspers shines a bright light on how markets come to seem orderly to
producers and consumers, so they can strive to enact the script of rational ac-
tors. His astute and subtle account of all aspects of branded garment retailing
sets a high bar for future studies of industry.”
—Mark Granovetter, Stanford University
Looking at how identities, products, and values create the ordered economic
markets of the global fashion business, Orderly Fashion has wide implications
for all modern markets, regardless of industry.
Patrik Aspers is associate professor of sociology at Stockholm University.
2010. 256 pages. 12 halftones. 2 line illus. 6 tables.
Cl: 978-0-691-14157-2 $35.00 | £24.95
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Forthcoming Forthcoming
Market Threads Cultivating Conscience
How Cotton Farmers and Traders How Good Laws Make Good People
Create a Global Commodity Lynn A. Stout
Koray Çalışkan
“This concise book makes
“Widely relevant, meaningful linkages be-
Market Threads makes a tween social science work
significant contribution and basic areas of the law
to the social science in ways that will engage
literature which explores and resonate with gen-
actual existing markets. eral readers. Cultivating
Conceiving markets Conscience offers much
as fields of power and food for reflection.”
tussle, Çalışkan brings —Robert C. Clark,
the formation of many Harvard Law School
kinds of prices to life in
Lynn A. Stout is the Paul Hastings Professor of
a meticulous, transcontinental, urban and rural,
Corporate and Securities Law at the UCLA School
multi-interest ethnography of the tangled global
of Law.
threads of cotton. An intellectual treasure chest.”
—Barbara Harriss-White, author of Rural Com- November 2010. 328 pages.
mercial Capital Cl: 978-0-691-13995-1 $27.95 | £19.95
Koray Çalışkan is assistant professor in the New Paperback
Department of Political Science and International
Free Trade Reimagined
Relations at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.
The World Division of Labor and the
October 2010. 248 pages. 6 halftones. 4 line illus. Method of Economics
Cl: 978-0-691-14241-8 $39.50 | £27.95
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Forthcoming
“This book represents a
Durkheim and the Birth of
bold attempt to question
Economic Sociology and restructure the
theory of comparative
Philippe Steiner
advantage and the idea
Translated by Keith Tribe
of free trade that springs
from it. . . . [I]t is replete
“The scholarship in this book is extremely
with new ideas and chal-
impressive. Steiner’s arguments testify to his
lenging propositions.”
enormously detailed and creative reading of
—Mordechai E. Kreinin,
Durkheim and the Durkheimians. No other book
World Trade Review
exists on Durkheimian economic sociology, and
I was impressed and delighted by this book’s
Roberto Mangabeira Unger served until recently
erudition and argument.”
as Brazil’s Minister of Strategic Affairs.
—Richard Swedberg, Cornell University
2010. 240 pages.
Philippe Steiner is professor of sociology at the Pa: 978-0-691-14588-4 $22.95 | £15.95
Université Paris, Sorbonne.
January 2011. 256 pages. 3 line illus. 5 tables.
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8 • Economic and Organizational Sociology