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 1,002 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 196 ratings
    • When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important....

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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 1,525 ratings
    • Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in America today.

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    • A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
    • By: Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,909 ratings
    • A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....

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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
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    • 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 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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    • 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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    • 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 5,989 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 311 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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    • 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 399 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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    • 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 188 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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    • Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
    • By: Rosecrans Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Rosecrans Baldwin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Rosecrans Baldwin's Everything Now approaches the metropolis from unexpected angles, nimbly interleaving his own voice with a chorus of others, from canonical LA literature to everyday citizens....

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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 150 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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    • Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
    • By: Tiffany Lethabo King
    • Narrated by: Trei Taylor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal - an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea - as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies....

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    • Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril
    • By: Eugene Jarecki
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Vital listening at this crucial juncture as the nation grapples with the profound challenge of Iraq, Jarecki's penetrating examination is sure to generate wide acclaim and lively debate....

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