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The Age of American Unreason — Susan Jacoby

The Age of American Unreason

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

On Rumours How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done — Cass R Sunstein

On Rumours How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done — Cass R Sunstein

Cass R. Sunstein

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

Meet the Beatles A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World — Steven D. Stark

Meet the Beatles A Cultural History of the Band That Shook Youth, Gender, and the World

Steven D. Stark

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

White Rural Rage The Threat to American Democracy — Tom Schaller

White Rural Rage The Threat to American Democracy

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

The Giant on the Skyline On Home, Belonging and Learning to Let Go — Clover Stroud

The Giant on the Skyline On Home, Belonging and Learning to Let Go

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

Everything But the Coffee Learning about America from Starbucks — Bryant Simon

Everything But the Coffee Learning about America from Starbucks

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

Revolutionary Nostalgia Retromania, Neo-Burlesque, and Consumer Culture — Marie-Cécile Cervellon

Revolutionary Nostalgia Retromania, Neo-Burlesque, and Consumer Culture

Marie-Cécile Cervellon

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

Media Spectacle — Douglas Kellner

Media Spectacle

Douglas Kellner

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion The Punk and Post-punk Worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975-80 — Nick Crossley

Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion The Punk and Post-punk Worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975-80

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

The Playdate Parents, Children, and the New Expectations of Play — Tamara R. Mose

The Playdate Parents, Children, and the New Expectations of Play

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music — John Shepherd

The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

Culture Wars Opposing Viewpoints — Mary E. Williams

Culture Wars Opposing Viewpoints

Mary E. Williams

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

High Culture and Tall Chimneys Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780-1914 — James Moore

High Culture and Tall Chimneys Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780-1914

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

One Perfect Day The Selling of the American Wedding — Rebecca Mead

One Perfect Day The Selling of the American Wedding

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

Wrath America Enraged — Peter W. Wood

Wrath America Enraged

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

Celebrity Culture and the American Dream Stardom and Social Mobility — Karen Sternheimer

Celebrity Culture and the American Dream Stardom and Social Mobility

Karen Sternheimer

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

This Must Be the Place How Music Can Make Your City Better — Shain Shapiro

This Must Be the Place How Music Can Make Your City Better

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

Good Trouble How Deviants, Criminals, Heretics, and Outsiders Have Changed the World for the Better — Brian Wolf

Good Trouble How Deviants, Criminals, Heretics, and Outsiders Have Changed the World for the Better

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

The Balance of Power in Society — Frank Tannenbaum

The Balance of Power in Society

Frank Tannenbaum

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

Power, Racism and Privledge — William J. Wilson

Power, Racism and Privledge

William J. Wilson

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

This Little Britain How One Small Country Changed the Modern World — Harry Bingham

This Little Britain How One Small Country Changed the Modern World

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

Brown Boys and Rice Queens Spellbinding Performance in the Asias — Eng-Beng Lim

Brown Boys and Rice Queens Spellbinding Performance in the Asias

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

Superfreakonomics Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance — Steven D. Levitt

Superfreakonomics Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

Steven D. Levitt

Themes: Popular Culture • Sociology • Social Science

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