American Sociology

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    • UFOs, Religion, Technology
    • By: D.W. Pasulka
    • Narrated by: Norah Tocci
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 996 ratings
    • American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions....

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    • American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
    • By: Christopher Lasch
    • Narrated by: Barry Press
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important....

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    • The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
    • By: Paul Starr
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries....

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    • A Lively Guide to the Bitter End
    • By: Harold Schechter
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In the tradition of Mary Roach's best-selling Stiff and Jessica Mitford's classic expose The American Way of Death comes this meticulously researched and refreshingly irreverent look at death from acclaimed author Harold Schechter....

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    • American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
    • By: Tim Alberta
    • Narrated by: Tim Alberta
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,511 ratings
    • Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in America today.

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    • The Politics of Morality in America
    • By: Anthea Butler
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 557 ratings
    • In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power....

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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,985 ratings
    • In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....

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    • American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
    • By: Charles Murray
    • Narrated by: Robert Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 310 ratings
    • This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, and discrimination....

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    • Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
    • By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 186 ratings
    • Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race....

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    • Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
    • By: Saidiya Hartman
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes....

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    • The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
    • By: Chris Hedges
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • We now live in two Americas. One - now the minority - functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other - the majority - is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic....

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    • The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 762 ratings
    • Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality....

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    • Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States
    • By: Leah Cardamore Stokes
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Series: Studies in Postwar American Political Development Series
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas....

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    • The Collapse and Revival of American Community
    • By: Robert D. Putnam
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 398 ratings
    • Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another ....

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    • Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled - and More Miserable Than Ever Before
    • By: Jean M. Twenge PhD
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • In this provocative new book, psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge documents the self-focus of what she calls "Generation Me"....

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    • Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30,524 ratings
    • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....

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    • The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
    • By: Gretchen Bakke
    • Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,324 ratings
    • The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

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