Sociology

Riders for God

The Story of a Christian Motorcycle Gang

Author: Rich Remsberg
Pub Date: 2000

A beautifully done photo-documentary book that explores the highly unusual world of a subset of Bikers who coninue their Biker lifestyle, but in the service of Christianity. learn more...

Selected Works of Herbert Blumer

A Public Philosophy for Mass Society

Author: Edited, with Critical Commentary and an Afterword, by Stanford M. Lyman and Arthur J. Vidich
Pub Date: 2000

The editors provide a realistic appraisal and consideration of Blumer’s work as it addresses America’s racial, political, and labor problems--his ‘Public Philosophy”--refuting the characterization of Blumer as primarily a social psychologist of the self. learn more...

Small Town in Mass Society

Class, Power, and Religion in a Rural Community (rev. ed.)

Author: Arthur J. Vidich and Joseph Bensman
Pub Date: 2000

Invaluable for understanding the place of the small town in a growing society, with new material detailing the town’s reaction to the publication of the book learn more...

Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles

Author: Chad Berry
Pub Date: 2000

Examines one of the largest internal immigrations in the U.S., allowing those migrating workers the opportunity to talk about how their migration influenced their lives and futures learn more...

Them and Us

Questions of Citizenship in a Globalizing World

Author: Rob Kroes
Pub Date: 2000

In an unsettling world in the process of globalization, Them and Us explores the similar and divergent developments in North America and Europe and seeks new and meaningful definitions for citizenship as we all become participants in a new political culture. learn more...