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vii Titles listed are available to qualified instructors on a complimentary review basis. Request review copies at sagepub.com! SELVES, SYMBOLS, AND SEXUALITIES: An Interactionist Anthology Thomas S. Weinberg • Staci Newmahr, both at SUNY Buffalo State Offering an anthology of original articles on sexuality from a sociological perspective, this book focuses on the diverse and multi-layered meanings of sexuality, sexual behaviors, and sexual identities. The essays explore sexuality as a social process. As a whole, the book takes the perspective that what each of us understands to be sexual is constructed through everyday social processes and interaction, situated in particular spaces and moments, identified through our social-sexual presentations, and symbolized through language, objects and practices. PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4522-7665-6 • © 2015 • 344 PAGES • PERSPECTIVES ON DEVIANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL Michelle Inderbitzin, Oregon State University • Kristin A. Bates, Cal State University, San Marcos • Randy Gainey, Old Dominion University, Norfolk Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control is a core textbook that provides a sociological examination of deviance and social control in society. Derived from the successful text/ reader version, this concise and student-friendly resource uses sociological theories to explain a variety of issues related to deviant behavior and societal reactions to deviance. The authors briefly explain the development of major sociological theoretical perspectives and use current research and examples to show how those theories are used to think about and study the causes of deviant behavior and the reactions to it. PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4522-8885-7 • NOVEMBER 2014 • 368 PAGES online resources • THE STRUCTURE OF SCHOOLING: Readings in the Sociology of Education THIRD EDITION Richard Arum, New York University • Irenee R. Beattie, University of California, Merced • Karly Ford, New York University This title exposes students to examples of sociological research on schools with a focus on the school as community. Now in its Third Edition, this engaging reader has broadened its scope even more, presenting readings related to the sociology of pre-K and higher education. The book draws from classic and contemporary scholarship to examine current issues and diverse theoretical approaches to studying the effects of schooling on individuals and society. In addition to covering traditional areas such as stratification and racial inequality, the book also veers off the beaten path, including readings on such contemporary topics as trust in school, the social roots of school shootings, and sex, dating, and relationships on campus. PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4522-0542-7 • NOVEMBER 2014 • 550 PAGES • URBAN PEOPLE AND PLACES: The Sociology of Cities, Suburbs, and Towns Daniel Joseph Monti, Saint Louis University • Michael Ian Borer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Dartmouth College, Furman University • Lyn C. Macgregor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, University of Montana Providing a thorough and comprehensive survey of the contemporary urban world that is accessible to students, this book gives balanced treatment to both the process by which cities are built and the ways of life practiced by people that live and work in more urban places unlike most core texts in this area. Whereas most texts focus on the socio-economic causes of urbanization, this text analyses the cultural component: how the physical construction of places is, in part, a product of cultural beliefs, ideas, and practices and also how the culture of those who live, work, and play in various places is shaped, structured, and controlled by the built environment. PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4129-8742-4 • © 2015 • 224 PAGES • LGBT FAMILIES Nancy J. Mezey, Monmouth University Part of the SAGE Contemporary Family Perspective series, this book presents a comprehensive yet accessible understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families today by drawing upon and making sense of the burgeoning scholarly literature about LGBT families from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It pays particular attention to how structures of race, class, gender, sexuality, and age shape LGBT families, and how members of such families negotiate the social landscapes within which they exist. The book will help readers better understand the formation, experiences, challenges, and strengths of LGBT families, and address two main questions: Why are new family forms so threatening to certain groups of people in society? and How are new family forms beneficial to the society in which they exist? See more titles from the SAGE Contemporary Family Perspective series at sagepub.com/cpfseries. PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4522-1738-3 • © 2015 • 232 PAGES • SOCIOLOGISTS IN ACTION ON INEQUALITIES: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Shelley K. White, Worcester State University • Jonathan M. White, Bentley University • Kathleen Odell Korgen, William Paterson University This new title is a brief anthology of original readings that are perfect for courses taught through the central lens of diversity. Like its companion Sociologists in Action volume, on social change and social justice, this collection brings together dozens of accounts of sociologists who are using their sociology to make a positive impact on society. Each of the 30 selections describe, through firsthand experience, how sociology can be used to address enduring problems of prejudice and discrimination based on race, nationality, class, gender, and sexuality. PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4522-4202-6 • © 2015 • 208 PAGES •

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