Writing 117-01 (Gingold, Fall 2023)

This concise encyclopedia is the most complete international survey of sociology ever created in one volume.

An international and inter-disciplinary roster of experts shed light by exploring such topics as hip hop culture; punk culture; social justice movements; video games; political activism; language and identity; post-feminism; television; rites of passage; heterosexuality and homosexuality; race and ethnicity; social class; poetry and literature; visual art; conceptions of beauty and body image; academics; sports; drugs; families; refugee youth; the Internet; youth journalism; fashion; and violence.

The most up-to-date and thorough compendium of scholarship on social movements.

This volume provides an essential new academic scrutiny of the concept of 'counterculture' and a critical examination of the period and its heritage.

This book explores the contributions of Hispanic, Black, Native American, Jewish and other cultures to a nation where many people still focus on the influences of Christian, capitalist, and ethnically European (particularly British) heritage. American culture has been both inclusive and intolerant. Now it stands at a crossroad and must decide what road to take. Are we to enter a renaissance or a dark age?