Department of Sociology

Department of Sociology

James Hawdon

1992

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Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute - Blacksburg,

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

Social Theory Now - Spanish Translation

Feminist Reception Studies in a Post-Audience Age: Returning to Audiences and Everyday Life

Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality

Unequal Family Lives

Unequal Family Lives: Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas

Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped The World

Media and Class: TV, Film and DIgital Culture

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

Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos

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

Beyond Liquidity

Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives

Whither the Child? Causes and Consequences of Low Fertility

The Problem of Post-Racialism

Conservatives vs. Wildcats: A Sociology of Financial Conflict

Moral Time

Group Experiment and Other Writings: The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Postwar Germany

Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses

The Collective Memory Reader

Thrift and Thriving in America: Capitalism and Moral Order from the Puritans to the Present

The New Media Environment: An Introduction

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

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

From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society: New Theories of the Contemporary World

Soft Patriarchs and New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands

Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: American Teenagers, Schools, and the Culture of Consumption

States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection

The Making of English National Identity

Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements

1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals

Against Essentialism: A Theory of Culture and Society

The Classless Society

The Death of Character

Identity and Social Change

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

Before the Shooting Begins: Searching for Democracy in America's Culture War

Status and Sacredness: A General Theory of Status Relations and an Analysis of Indian Culture

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

The Sociology of Public Issues

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

Sociological Justice

The Rise of Modern Society: Aspects of the Social and Political Development of the West

Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times

Evangelicalism: The Coming Generation

Making Sense of Modern Times: Peter L. Berger and the Vision of Interpretive Sociology

The Wages of Writing: Per Word, Per Piece, or Perhaps

Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermans

American Evangelicalism: Conservative Religion and the Quandary of Modernity

Maternity Policies and Working Women

Dilemmas of Liberal Democracies: Studies in Fred Hirsch's Social Limits to Growth

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

Toward A General Theory of Social Control: Volume 1 - Fundamentals

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

Police on Campus