Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture
(Routledge, 2004; 325 pp.)
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Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation
(Russell Sage Foundation, 2004; 448 pp.)
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Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work and Social Life
(Russell Sage, September 2004; 384 pp)
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Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States
(Russell Sage Foundation, 2004; 390 pp.)
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The Criminal Justice System and Women: Offenders, Prisoners, Victims, and Workers (Third Edition)
(McGraw-Hill, 2004; 624 pages) Read more
Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives
(Columbia University Press, 2003)
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(Rowman and Littlefield, 2003)
Read moreHow Class Works: Power and Social Movement
(Yale University Press, 2003)
Read moreRobert Alford, an esteemed political sociologist, died Friday, February 14, in New York of pancreatic cancer. He lived in Manhattan, and also maintained a second home in Avery, California. Although 74 years old, the cancer caught him suddenly and unawares in the midst of his very active work as Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Read more
At Sea in the City
(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2002; 232 pp.)
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