Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews

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Pro Tips on Writing Book Reviews: CS Editor Kelsy Burke Interviews Steven Gump
Steven E. GumpKelsy Burke
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Turning Suffering into Activism: The Politicization and Mobilization of Mothers of Disappeared People in Mexico
Rosario de la Luz Rizzo Lara
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Sociology and the Holocaust
Lutz Kaelber
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Dualisms Old and New
James B. Rule
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Goffman’s Predilections and Lasting Impact
Enrique S. Pumar
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Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion
Lucrecia Mena-Meléndez
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We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big
Barry Eidlin
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Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum,Struggling for Relevance
Ulrike Bialas
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See Jane Run: How Women Politicians Matter for Young People
Shauna Shames
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Disreputable Women: Black Sex Economies and the Making of San Diego
Angela Jones
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Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions
Robert M. Adelman
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The Global Journey of Racism
Kim Sunmin
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Parents Talking Algorithms: Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies
Catherine Page Jeffery
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Social Structure: Relationships,Representations,and Rules
Tom VanHeuvelen
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The New Reproductive Order: Technology,Fertility,and Social Change around the Globe
Heather Jacobson
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Black Girls and How We Fail Them
LeConté J. Dill
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Working-Class Kids and Visionary Educators in a Multiracial High School: A Story of Belonging
Karen Wells
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Doubled Up: Shared Households and the Precarious Lives of Families
Jenifer L. Bratter
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Governing the Global Clinic: HIV and the Legal Transformation of Medicine
Amy Zhou
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Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration,Citizenship,and Urban Governance
Grace Yukich
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After Violence: Russia’s Beslan School Massacre and the Peace that Followed
Georgi Derluguian
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The Crimes of Digital Capitalism: Corporate Crime in an Age of Exploitation
Laureen Snider
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The Southern Fault Line: How Race,Class,and Region Shaped One Family’s History
James Michael Thomas
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Identities Matter: The Politics of Immigration and Incorporation
Yasmin Ortiga
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Gardens of Hope: Cultivating Food and the Future in a Post-Disaster City
Miranda J. Martinez
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The Pathogens of Finance: How Capitalism Breeds Vector-Borne Disease
S. Harris Ali
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Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice
Calvin Rashaud Zimmermann
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Americans Thinking America: Elements of American Social Thought
Ben Moodie
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Grassroots Responses to Extractivism: Case Studies from around the World
Aseem Hasnain
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Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States
Nicholas Wilson
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Test,Measure,Punish: How the Threat of Closure Harms Students,Destroys Teachers,and Fails Schools
Joseph Sageman
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Canaries in the Code Mine: Precarity and the Future of Tech Work
Sigrid Willa Luhr
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Visions of Financial Order: National Institutions and the Development of Banking Regulation
Aaron Z. Pitluck
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Policing Not Protecting Families: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance
Gillian Slee
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Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom
Karlyn J. Gorski
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Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba
Heba Gowayed
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Playing through Pain: The Violent Consequences of Capitalist Sport
Douglas Hartmann
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Growing Up Godless: Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England
Joseph O. Baker
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Volume 55, Issue 4, July 2026