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Beth Eck
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Professor of Sociology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Social Theory Now - Spanish Translation
Chemically Imbalanced
Understanding the Sacred: Sociological Theology for Contemporary People
To Fix Or To Heal
Gender and Development: The Economic Basis of Women's Power, Co-edited with Samuel Coh
Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality
Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas
Feminist Reception Studies in a Post-Audience Age: Returning to Audiences and Everyday Life
Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped The World
Media and Class: TV, Film and DIgital Culture
Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos
Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessments for the 21st Century
Development in Crisis: Threats to human well-being in the Global South and Global North
The Sins of the Fathers: Germany, Memory, Method
Freaks, Geeks and Cool Kids: Teenagers in an Era of Consumerism, Standardized Tests, and Social Media
Elites: A General Model
The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Insecure Age
The Idea of Englishness
Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates
The Problem of Post-Racialism
Conservatives vs. Wildcats: A Sociology of Financial Conflict
Beyond Liquidity
Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives
Whither the Child? Causes and Consequences of Low Fertility
The Collective Memory Reader
Thrift and Thriving in America: Capitalism and Moral Order from the Puritans to the Present
Moral Time
Group Experiment and Other Writings: The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Postwar Germany
Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
The Behavior of Law, special edition
Guilt and Defense: On the Legacies of National Socialism in Postwar Germany
The New Media Environment: An Introduction
Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture
The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility
Accounts of Innocence: Sexual Abuse, Trauma, and the Self
In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat,1943-1949
Soft Patriarchs and New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands
Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: American Teenagers, Schools, and the Culture of Consumption
From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society: New Theories of the Contemporary World
The Making of English National Identity
States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection
Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements
Against Essentialism: A Theory of Culture and Society
1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals
Identity and Social Change
The Classless Society
The Death of Character
Crosscurrents: West Indian Immigrants and Race
Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women
Public and Private in Thought and Practice
Nationalism and Literature: The Politics of Culture in Canada and the United States
Engendering Wealth and Well-Being
Status and Sacredness: A General Theory of Status Relations and an Analysis of Indian Culture
Before the Shooting Begins: Searching for Democracy in America's Culture War
The Social Structure of Right and Wrong
Utopias and the Millennium
Utopianism
Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation in the American Television Experience
Gender, Family, and Economy: The Triple Overlap
Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America
Articles of Faith - Articles of Peace: The First Amendment Religion Clauses and the American Public Philosophy
The High Status Track: Studies of Elite Schools and Stratification
The Sociology of Public Issues
Sociological Justice
The Rise of Modern Society: Aspects of the Social and Political Development of the West
Evangelicalism: The Coming Generation
Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times
The Wages of Writing: Per Word, Per Piece, or Perhaps
Making Sense of Modern Times: Peter L. Berger and the Vision of Interpretive Sociology
Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermans
Dilemmas of Liberal Democracies: Studies in Fred Hirsch's Social Limits to Growth
American Evangelicalism: Conservative Religion and the Quandary of Modernity
Maternity Policies and Working Women
Toward A General Theory of Social Control: Volume 1 - Fundamentals
Toward A General Theory of Social Control: Volume 2 - Selected Problems
Machine Politics in Transition: Party and Community in Chicago
Unequal Care: A Case Study of Interorganizational Relations in Health Care
The Manners and Customs of the Police
Stratification: Socioeconomic and Sexual Inequality
Prophecy and Progress: The Sociology of Industrial and Post-Industrial
Familial Organization: A Quest for Determinants
The Behavior of Law
The Social Organization of Law
The Illusion of Equality: The Effects of Educational Opportunity on Inequality and Conflict
Revolution: The Theory and Practice of a European Idea
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