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Self and Community
1. Keyword: The Self, Robert Zussman
2. Keyword: Emotions, Jack Barbalet
3. Social Networks: The Value of Variety, Bonnie Erickson
4. Connecting Communities: On and off Line. Barry Wellman
5. Why Are There so Many "Minorities"? Mitch Berbrier
6. Panic: Myth or Reality? Lee Clarke
Families
7. Keyword: Families, Tey Meadow and Judith Stacey
8. Caring for our Young: Child Care in Europe and the United States, Dan Clawson and Naomi Gerstel
9. Should the Government Promote Marriage? Andrew Cherlin
10. Unmarried with Children, Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
11. Breaking the Last Taboo: Interracial Marriage in America. Zhenchao Qian
Education and Youth
12. English-Only Triumphs, but the Costs are High, Alejandro Portes
13. The Black-White Test Score Gap, George Farkas
14. Growing Up is Harder to Do, Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. et al
15. Chess, Chopin, Cheerleading: What Will Get You into College? Jay Gabler and Jason Kaufman
Culture and Media
16. Keyword: Culture, Joseph Gusfield
17. Roll Over, Beethoven, There's a New Way to be Cool, Richard A. Peterson
18. Do Video Games Kill? Karen Sternheimer
19. Do Media Monsters Devour Diversity? Joshua Gamson and Pearl Latteier
20. Black Public Intellectuals: From Du Bois to the Present, Patricia Hill Collins
Poverty and Inequality
21. Keyword: Inequality, Robert Max Jackson
22. Street People, David A. Snow and Leon Anderson
23. As American as Apple Pie: Poverty and Welfare, Mark R. Rank
24. The Compassion Gap in American Poverty Policy, Fred Block, Anna C. Korteweg, and Kerry Woodward
Work and the economy
25. Keyword: Markets, Richard Swedberg
26. Is Job Discrimination Dead? Cedric Herring
27. American Cronyism: How Executive Networks Inflated the Corporate Bubble, Gerald F. Davis
28. The Work-Home Crunch, Kathleen Gerson and Jerry Jacobs
29. Consumers with a Conscience: Will They Pay More? Howard Kimeldorf, Rachel Meyer, Monica Prasad, and Ian Robinson
Gender and Sexualities
30. Keyword: Sexualities, Michael Kimmel and Rebecca Plante
31. After the Second Revolution: Gender Politics in Teen Dating, Barbara Risman and Pepper Schwartz
32. The Sanctity of Sunday Afternoon Football: Why Men Love Sports, Douglas Hartmann
33. Detours on the Road to Equality: Women, Work and Higher Education, Jerry Jacobs
34. Learning from Drag Queens, Verta Taylor and Leila Rupp
Race and Ethnicity
35. Keyword: Race, Ann Morning
36. Race as Class, Herbert Gans
37. Just the Numbers, Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur
38. Forty Acres and a Mule: What If America Pays Reparations, Dalton Conley
39. Are Asian Americans Becoming "White"? Min Zhou
40. Beyond Black and White: Remaking Race in America. Jennifer Lee, Frank D. Bean, and Kathy Sloane
Religion
41. Abiding Faith, Mark Chaves and Dianne Hagaman
42. Bin Laden and other Thoroughly Modern Muslims, Charles Kurzman
43. Yoga and Rebirth in America: Asian Religions are here to Stay, Wendy Cadge and Courtney Bender
44. Religion and the Domestication of Men, W. Bradford Wilcox
Medicine and Health
45. Targeting HMOs: Stalemate in the U.S. Health Care Debate, David Mechanic
46. The Health Divide, Lisa F. Berkman
47. The Epidemic in Mental Illness: Clinical Fact or Survey Artifact? Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield
48. A Brave New World: How Genetic Technology Could Change Us, John H. Evans
Crime and Deviance
49. Keyword: The Normal, Allan Horwitz
50. Crime Decline in Context, Richard Rosenfeld
51. Beyond Crime and Punishment: Prisons and Inequality, Bruce Western and Becky Pettit
52. Legalize It? A Bulletin from the War on Drugs, Erich Goode
53. Is Violence against Women about Women or about Violence? Richard B. Felson
Politics
54. Keyword: Power, Steven Lukes
55. Making Sense of the Senseless: Understanding Genocide, Daniel Chirot and Jennifer Edwards
56. Is Congress Really for Sale? Paul Burstein
57. How Social Movements Matter, David S. Meyer
58. The Art of Reframing Political Debates, Charlotte Ryan and William A. Gamson
Environments, Local and Global
59. Life and Death in the City: Neighborhoods in Context, John Logan
60. Salsa and Ketchup: Transnational Migrants Straddle Two Worlds, Peggy Levitt
61. The U.S. at a Time of Global Conflict: Challenges We Face Beyond War, Saskia Sassen
62. Fences and Neighbors: Segregation in 21st-century America. John E. Farley and Gregory D. Squires
Methods
63. Keyword: Science, Stephen Shapin
64. Sense and Nonsense about Surveys, Howard Schuman
65. From Summer Camps to Glass Ceilings: The Power of Experiments, Michael J. Lovaglia
66. The Promise and Pitfalls of Going into the Field, Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler
67. In their own Words: Making the Most of Qualitative Interviews, Robert S. Weiss

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