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01/15/2025
Morewitz, Stephen J. 2025. Forensic Social Sciences. Theory, Research, and Practice. Cognella, Inc.
Mueller, Jason C. 2025. "Medelacide: The Intentional and Systematic Destruction of Healthcare Infrastructure." Global Social Challenges Journal, 1-28.
Pericak, Kaitlin. 2025. Body Factory: Exploiting University Athletes’ Healthcare for Profit in the Training Room. Temple University Press.
Vasquez-Tokos, Jessica. 2025. Burdens of Belonging: Race in an Unequal Nation. New York: New York University Press.
05/07/2025
05/07/2025
LaBranche, Jillian and Savelsberg, Joachim. 2025. "Stigma management, group interaction, and cultural trauma: a Rwanda–Germany comparison." American Journal of Cultural Sociology (Online First).
05/07/2025
Moss-Pech, Corey. 2025. Major Trade-Offs: The Surprising Truths About College Majors and Entry-level Jobs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo246051255.html
Sáenz, Rogelio, Maria Cristina Morales, and Coda Rayo-Garza. 2025. Latina/os in the United States: Diversity and Change. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
05/07/2025
Ritzer, George, Chris Rojek, and J. Michael Ryan (eds.). 2025. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd edition. London: Wiley. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Wiley+Blackwell+Encyclopedia+of+Sociology%2C+12+Volumes%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9780470655504
05/08/2025
Ryan, J. Michael, George Ritzer and Hermann Strasser. 2025. "The McDonaldization of Academic Sociology," Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics: Vol. 10.nAvailable at: https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/sbg/vol10/iss1/6
05/08/2025
Ritzer, George and J. Michael Ryan. 2024. Introduction to Sociology, 6th edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/introduction-to-sociology/book275190
05/08/2025
Ryan, J. Michael, and Helen Rizzo (eds.). 2024. Sexuality in the Middle East and North Africa: Contemporary Issues and Challenges. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/6614/sexuality-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/
05/08/2025
Ryan, J. Michael, Valerie Visanich, and Gaspar Brandle (eds.). 2024. Transformations in Social Science Research Methods during the COVID-19 Pandemic. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Transformations-in-Social-Science-Research-Methods-during-the-COVID-19-Pandemic/Ryan-Visanich-Brandle/p/book/9781032646817
05/08/2025
Ryan, J. Michael. 2024. “Unshared Problems, Semi-shared Consequences, and Fully Shared Solutions: Ethical dilemmas in combating contemporary social challenges,” Sociology Journal.
05/08/2025
Ritzer, George, J. Michael Ryan, Sarah Hayes, Mark Elliot, and Petar Jandric. 2024. “McDonaldization and Artificial Intelligence,” Postdigital Science and Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-024-00475-3
05/08/2025
Zerai, Assata. 2025. Black Feminist Interventions to Decolonize the Westernized University: epistemology, citational justice, research methodology, and pedagogy. The Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXAFE. London: Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield.
05/09/2025
