Political Sociology

While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below the radar promoting a wide range of causes. David Callahan charts the rise of these new power players and the ways they are converting the fortunes of a second Gilded Age into influence. He shows how this elite works behind the scenes on education, the environment, science, LGBT rights, and many other issues - with deep impact on government policy.

In this provocative book, Mugambi Jouet describes why Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues, including wealth inequality, health care, climate change, evolution, gender roles, abortion, gay rights, sex, gun control, mass incarceration, the death penalty, torture, human rights, and war.

The Fox Effect follows the career of Ailes from his early work as a television producer and media consultant for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush. Consequently, when he was hired in 1996 as the president of Rupert Murdoch’s flagship conservative cable news network, Ailes had little journalism experience, but brought to the job the mindset of a political operative. As Brock and Rabin-Havt demonstrate through numerous examples, Ailes used his extraordinary power and influence to spread a partisan political agenda....

In his 18 years as an opinion columnist for The New York Times, Herbert championed the working poor and the middle class. After filing his last column in 2011, he set off on a journey across the country to report on Americans who were being left behind in an economy that has never fully recovered from the Great Recession. The portraits of those he encountered fuel his new book, Losing Our Way.

Tech is often thought to be at the helm of innovation, yet the economic disparities between white, Black, and Latinx workers continue to persist. In What We Build with Power, activist and organizer David Delmar Sentíes argues that tech is in a position to move beyond empty platitudes and towards an organized workforce that values the economic wellbeing of Black and Latinx communities.

Racial Innocence will challenge what you thought about racism and bias and demonstrate that it’s possible for a historically marginalized group to experience discrimination and also be discriminatory. Racism is deeply complex, and law professor and comparative race relations expert Tanya Katerí Hernández exposes “the Latino racial innocence cloak” that often veils Latino complicity in racism. As Latinos are the second-largest ethnic group in the US, this revelation is critical to dismantling systemic racism.

Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America’s descent into a failed state and envisions a path toward overcoming our injustices, paralyses, and divides.

Wer wissen möchte, wie wir und vor allem unsere Kinder bald schon leben, welche Technologien sie und die Welt prägen werden, muss durch Shenzhen streifen. Die 12-Millionen-Metropole in Südchina gehört zu den innovativsten Städten der Welt. Eine Megacity, die quasi aus dem Nichts entstand, wo Nachhaltigkeit und moderne Lebensqualität selbstverständlich sind, aber eben auch Gesichtserkennung und der gläserne Mensch. Die Cloud in Shenzhen weiß alles. Die Shenzhener Techies stellen inzwischen das Silicon Valley in den Schatten, ihre Start-ups zählen zu den wertvollsten der Welt.

Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Robert Wuthnow brings us into America's small towns, farms, and rural communities to paint a rich portrait of the moral order -the interactions, loyalties, obligations, and identities - underpinning this critical segment of the nation. Wuthnow demonstrates that to truly understand rural Americans' anger, their culture must be explored more fully. Moving beyond simplistic depictions of the residents of America's heartland, The Left Behind offers a clearer picture of how this important population will influence the nation's political future.

A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the globe and more than two centuries of history, Mark Steven traces the history of class war from the Haitian Revolution to Black Lives Matter.

経済学者・官僚がこっそり読んだ『奇跡の経済教室』待望の第2弾。政治家に読ませたい本No.1!

この一冊でニュースの読み方が変わる！正々堂々と生きる「価値基準」を持つことができる！社会学者・宮台真司が、旬のニュースや事件にフォーカスし、この社会の〝問題の本質〟を解き明かした名著が新書版で誕生。

「現在も社会一般・経済分野でベストセラーの『目からウロコが落ちる 奇跡の経済教室【基礎知識編】』『全国民が読んだら歴史が変わる 奇跡の経済教室【戦略編】』の続編です。

読めば「？」が「！」になる、週刊文春連載最新版　ウクライナ侵攻後の世界は、今どうなってるの？　なぜそうなるの？　ニュースの謎を解く〝そもそも解説〟。

【１％の富裕層ではなく、99％の人々の生活を豊かにする！】日本は、経済指標、男女平等、報道の自由、大学ランキングなどあらゆるジャンルですでに「先進国から脱落した」と呼べる状況になっている。

【国際人権の視点から日本を考える】私たちは、生活のあらゆる場面において人権を「行使」している。しかし、国際的な人権基準と照らし合わせてみると、日本では人権が守られていない。

戦後日本で起きた怪事件の背後に何が存在したのか。米国・GHQの恐るべき謀略に肉薄した昭和史に残る名作の続編。戦後の混乱を生々しく伝え、今日の日本を考える貴重な資料である。

戦後の怪事件にメスを入れた不朽の名作　権力の圧力で真実解明を妨害された怪事件の封印を解いた衝撃の大作。

ベトナム人不法滞在者たちの地下ネットワークへの突撃ルポ！

The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and the ensuing trial of Derek Chauvin for murder a year later has rubbed raw the bloodiest stain on the United States’ history and its world reputation. The nine minutes and 29 seconds during which Chauvin’s knee crushed the spark of life out of Floyd was not unusual in the history of the United States. In roughly two centuries, Blacks have achieved nominal freedom. But, as this book’s opening chapter and expert essays that follow indicate, freedom has been conditional based on inequity of wealth, social, and legal discrimination.