Assistant Professor Of Sociology: 3 books

Book cover of Working to Laugh

Working to Laugh

Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues

by James M. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015

Through intensive fieldwork lasting over eighteen months, this book demonstrates that the stand-up comedy venue is a dynamic space where social actors contest and reproduce dominant understandings of race, class, and gender in ways that transcend the joke-work performed on stage. Situated within the...
Book cover of Globalization and America

Globalization and America

Race, Human Rights, and Inequality

by Amy E. Ansell, Cynthia Bejarano, Judith R. Blau
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008

As globalization expands, more than goods and information are traded between the countries of the world. Hattery, Embrick, and Smith present a collection of essays that explore the ways in which issues of human rights and social inequality are shared globally. The editors focus on the United States'...
Book cover of Affective Labour

Affective Labour

(Dis) assembling Distance and Difference

by James M. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015

Affective Labour explores four distinct landscapes in order to demonstrate how collective feelings are organized by social actors in order to both reproduce and contest hegemony. Utilizing a variety of methods, including participant observation, in-depth interviews across field sites, and content...
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