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Sociology

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The Future of Digital Surveillance

Why Digital Monitoring Will Never Lose Its Appeal in a World of Algorithm-Driven AI

By Yong Jin Park
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Sociology, Psychology

We are willing participants in our own surveillance

Slaves to Fashion

Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops

By Robert Ross
Subjects: American Studies, Sociology, Economics, Labor, Health, and Educational Economics, Anthropology, Political Science, Political Economy, Class Studies

A provocative and accessible history and study of the sweatshop and a major contribution to the debate over its rebirth

A Unified Theory of Collective Action and Social Change

By Luis Medina
Subjects: Political Science, Political Methodology, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Political Economy, Economics, Sociology
Series: Analytical Perspectives on Politics

An intriguing examination of one of the most important unresolved problems in social choice theory: how do we best understand people's decision to pay the cost of a public good?

A Civil Economy

Transforming the Marketplace in the Twenty-First Century

By Severyn T. Bruyn
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Sociology
Series: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

An accessible overview of the concept of the civil economy and how it works

Social Science Knowledge and Economic Development

An Institutional Design Perspective

By Vernon W. Ruttan
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Anthropology, Sociology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Synthesizes various strands of social science research and thought, including evolution of thought about development in anthropology, sociology, political science, and growth economics

Globalizations and Social Movements

Culture, Power, and the Transnational Public Sphere

Edited by John Guidry, Michael D. Kennedy, and Mayer Zald
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Sociology

Explores how globalization affects social movements in different countries

Brokers and Bureaucrats

Building Market Institutions in Russia

By Timothy M. Frye
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Sociology, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Political Economy

Offers a new political explanation for the creation of market institutions as it investigates Russia's transition from a command economy

Regions, Institutions, and Agrarian Change in European History

By Rosemary Lynn Hopcroft
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, Political Economy, History, Sociology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An institutional approach to agricultural development in Europe leading to the "Rise of the West"

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