sociology

	The Social Organization of Work:  In this volume, the contemporary landscape of business labor is framed by two important de- velopments represented by the transformation of global corporate capital- ism and by the economic downturn in the first decade of the twenty-first- century. The developments in global markets are, of course, concomitant with a restructuring of labor in the United States. The essays in this volume discuss the general issues in today’s multinational and corporate struc- tures, the changes encountered by workers and labor unions, and the overall stability of the American workforce. Taylorism, Fordism, & Post-Fordism, Wages & Compensation, The Rise of the Multinational Corporation, and Diversity in the Workplace.  Salem Press
	Early Theorists and the Science of Society:  Divided into three main parts, this volume offers an historical overview of the field and the foundational figures and theories related to the history of sociology. The first section surveys the pre-modern sociological movements of the nine- teenth-century, while the second studies the three major figures of modern sociology: Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber. The third section concludes the collection with an introduction to major sociological theories that emerge in the twentieth-century. Durkheim and Social Facts, Weber and Rationalization, Habermas and Communicative Actions, Mills and the Sociological Imagination, and Marcuse and Administration.  Salem Press
	Defining Class:  This volume offers an introduction to contemporary class issues in the United States, with an overview of economic issues and challenges specific to populations across a range of class levels. The Demographics of Poverty Salem Press
	The Effects of Povert & The Welfare State:  This volume brings together a collection of topics that provides and introductory survey of sociology and poverty. The Demographics of Poverty Salem Press
	Conversations in Private Spheres:  Reconstruction Habermas' Universal Pragmatics and Ideal Speech Situation in Private Spheres.  Makes the argument that "public spheres" do not exist and demonstrates how Habermas’s communicative actions, specifically Habermas’s concepts of universal pragmatics and the ideal speech situation, can be reconstructed in private spheres to formulate a more viable philosophical methodology for validating truth, constructing self-identities, and sustaining the social. University of Texas at Arlington
	In EBSCO Research Starters: Sociology. Ipswich, MA: EBSCO Publishing Inc. Casteel, PD. (2008). Postmodern Approaches to Sociological Theory.