Departmental Acquisitions: Sociology- Title: Africa's turn? / Edward Miguel ; foreword by William Easterly.
- Title: After America : narratives for the next global age /Paul Starobin.
- Title: After the car / Kingsley Dennis and John Urry.
- Title: Against the machine : being human in the age of the electronic mob /Lee Siegel.
- Title: Against the wall : poor, young, Black, and male /edited by Elijah Anderson.
- Title: Aging in America / John C. Cavanaugh ... [et al.].
- Title: The aging population and the competitiveness of cities : benefits to the urban economy /Peter Karl Kresl and Daniele Ietri.
- Title: Alaska Native cultures and issues : responses to frequently asked questions /edited by Libby Roderick.
- Title: All a twitter : a personal and professional guide to social networking with Twitter /Tee Morris.
- Title: America and the pill : a history of promise, peril, and liberation /Elaine Tyler May.
- Title: American grace : how religion divides and unites us /Robert D. Putnam, David E. Campbell with the assistance of Shaylyn Romney Garrett.
- Title: American Sociological Association style guide.
- Title: American swastika : inside the white power movement's hidden spaces of hate /Pete Simi and Robert Futrell.
- Title: Asian American dreams : the emergence of an American people /Helen Zia.
- Title: Atomic America : how a deadly explosion and a feared admiral changed the course of nuclear history /Todd Tucker.
- Title: Becoming deviant / David Matza ; with a new introduction by Thomas G. Blomberg.
- Title: Belonging : a culture of place /Bell Hooks.
- Title: Belonging in an adopted world : race, identity, and transnational adoption /Barbara Yngvesson.
- Title: The best kept secret : single black fathers /Roberta L. Coles.
- Title: Between Barack and a hard place : racism and white denial in the age of Obama /Tim Wise.
- Title: Beyond the average divorce / David H. Demo, Mark A. Fine.
- Title: Beyond the miracle worker : the remarkable life of Anne Sullivan Macy and her extraordinary friendship with Helen Keller /Kim E. Nielsen.
- Title: The black-white achievement gap : why closing it is the greatest civil rights issue of our time /Rod Paige, Elaine Witty.
- Title: Blended nation : portraits and interviews of mixed-race America /photographs and interviews by Mike Tauber ; co-produced by Pamela Singh ; introduction by Rebecca Walker ; foreword by Ann Curry ; essay by Alan H. Goodman.
- Title: Blurring the color line : the new chance for a more integrated America /Richard Alba.
- Title: Border crosser : one gringo's illicit passage from Mexico into America /Johnny Rico.
- Title: The business of martyrdom : a history of suicide bombing /Jeffrey W. Lewis.
- Title: The challenge for Africa / Wangari Maathai.
- Title: Child care today : getting it right for everyone /Penelope Leach.
- Title: Children and the Internet : great expectations, challenging realities /Sonia Livingstone.
- Title: Civil rights in Richard Wright's Native son / Candice L. Mancini, book editor.
- Title: Click : when we knew we were feminists /edited by Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan.
- Title: Coming to Miami : a social history /Melanie Shell-Weiss.
- Title: The conflict : how modern motherhood undermines the status of women /Elisabeth Badinter ; translated by Adriana Hunter.
- Title: Country driving : a journey through China from farm to factory /Peter Hessler.
- Title: Cruel creeds, virtuous violence : religious violence across culture and history /Jack David Eller.
- Title: Delusions of gender : how our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference /Cordelia Fine.
- Title: Design to thrive : creating social networks and online communities that last /Tharon W. Howard.
- Title: Digital literacy : tools and methodologies for information society /Pier Cesare Rivoltella.
- Title: Disability hate crimes : does anyone really hate disabled people? /Mark Sherry.
- Title: Everything you know about Indians is wrong / Paul Chaat Smith.
- Title: Extra lives : why video games matter /Tom Bissell.
- Title: Extraordinary, ordinary people : a memoir of family /Condoleezza Rice.
- Title: Eyes on the prize America's civil rights years.
- Title: Families without fathers : fathers, marriage and children in American society /David Popenoe ; with a new introduction by the author.
- Title: Fatherhood : evolution and human paternal behavior /Peter B. Gray, Kermyt G. Anderson.
- Title: Filling the hole in the nuclear future : art and popular culture respond to the bomb /edited by Robert Jacobs.
- Title: Fun Inc. : why gaming will dominate the twenty-first century /Tom Chatfield.
- Title: Girls on the edge : the four factors driving the new crisis for girls : sexual identity, the cyberbubble, obsessions, environmental toxins /Leonard Sax.
- Title: Giving : how each of us can change the world /Bill Clinton.
- Title: Globesity : a planet out of control? /Francis Delpeuch ... [et al.].
- Title: Googled : the end of the world as we know it /Ken Auletta.
- Title: Haiti after the earthquake / Paul Farmer ; edited by Abbey Gardner and Cassia Van Der Hoof Holstein ; with Joia S. Mukherjee ... [et al.].
- Title: The healing of America : a global quest for better, cheaper, and fairer health care /T.R. Reid.
- Title: Hollowing out the middle : the rural brain drain and what it means for America /Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas.
- Title: The honor code : how moral revolutions happen /Kwame Anthony Appiah.
- Title: The house at the end of the road : the story of three generations of an interracial family in the American South /W. Ralph Eubanks.
- Title: How to achieve a heaven on earth / edited by John E. Wade II.
- Title: How to retire happy : the 12 most important decisions you must make before you retire /Stan Hinden.
- Title: Human trafficking / Kathryn Cullen-DuPont ; foreword by Jessica Neuwirth and Taina Bien-Aimâe.
- Title: Humanity on a tightrope : thoughts on empathy, family, and big changes for a viable future /Paul R. Ehrlich and Robert E. Ornstein.
- Title: I am an emotional creature : the secret life of girls around the world /Eve Ensler.
- Title: Idolized : music, media, and identity in American idol /Katherine Meizel.
- Title: The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot.
- Title: Imperial / William T. Vollmann.
- Title: Inside el barrio : a bottom-up view of neighborhood life in Castro's Cuba /Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.
- Title: The integration of Major League Baseball : a team by team history /Rick Swaine.
- Title: Invasion of the mind snatchers : television's conquest of America in the fifties /Eric Burns.
- Title: The Japanification of children's popular culture : from godzilla to miyazaki /edited by Mark I. West.
- Title: Joint custody a new kind of family /produced and directed by Josephine Hayes Dean.
- Title: Journey into America : the challenge of Islam /Akbar Ahmed.
- Title: Judging victims : why we stigmatize survivors, and how they reclaim respect /Jennifer L. Dunn.
- Title: Life after high school : a guide for students with disabilities and their families /Susan Yellin and Christina Cacioppo Bertsch.
- Title: The lifestyle puzzle : who we are in the 21st century /Henrik Vejlgaard.
- Title: Light, bright, and damned near white : biracial and triracial culture in America /Stephanie Rose Bird.
- Title: A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier /Ishmael Beah.
- Title: Lost and found in Russia : lives in a post-Soviet landscape /Susan Richards.
- Title: The making of an elder culture : reflections on the future of America's most audacious generation /Theodore Roszak.
- Title: The making of the American landscape / edited by Michael P. Conzen.
- Title: Making virtual worlds : Linden Lab and Second Life /Thomas M. Malaby.
- Title: Marriage and cohabitation / Arland Thornton, William G. Axinn, Yu Xie.
- Title: The marriage-go-round : the state of marriage and the family in America today /Andrew J. Cherlin.
- Title: Miami Babylon : crime, wealth, and power--a dispatch from the beach /Gerald Posner.
- Title: Michael Moore : filmmaker, newsmaker, cultural icon /Matthew H. Bernstein, editor.
- Title: Mirage men : an adventure into paranoia, espionage, psychological warfare, and UFO's /Mark Pilkington.
- Title: Mom : the transformation of motherhood in modern America /Rebecca Jo Plant.
- Title: More than just race : being black and poor in the inner city /William Julius Wilson.
- Title: The next 100 years : a forecast for the 21st century /George Friedman.
- Title: The nonprofit almanac 2008 / Kennard T. Wing, Thomas H. Pollak, and Amy Blackwood ; foreword by Elizabeth T. Boris.
- Title: Not fit for our society : nativism and immigration /Peter Schrag.
- Title: Not quite adults : why 20-somethings are choosing a slower path to adulthood, and why it's good for everyone /Rick Settersten and Barbara E. Ray.
- Title: Online research essentials : implementing and designing research studies /Brenda Russell, John Purcell.
- Title: The other Wes Moore / Wes Moore.
- Title: Our patchwork nation : the surprising truth about the "real" America /Dante Chinni and James Gimpel.
- Title: Outliers : the story of success /Malcolm Gladwell.
- Title: Peer pressure / Lorraine Savage, book editor.
- Title: Pictures at a revolution : five movies and the birth of the new Hollywood /Mark Harris.
- Title: Post Black : how a new generation is redefining African American identity /Ytasha L. Womack ; foreword by Derek T. Dingle.
- Title: The protest singer : an intimate portrait of Pete Seeger /Alec Wilkinson.
- Title: Queer questions, clear answers : the contemporary debates on sexual orientation /Thomas S. Serwatka.
- Title: Research methods for the social sciences a Promedion production ; producer, Banning K. Lary ; director, Milos Fortunato ; writers, Marcus Gunn, Marcia Swift.
- Title: Restless cities / edited by Matthew Beaumont and Gregory Dart.
- Title: Resurrection after rape / Matt Atkinson, with contributions by Shannon Doherty, Victoria Bailey, and many others.
- Title: Rights and wrongs of children's work / Michael Bourdillon ... [et al.].
- Title: The road to Woodstock / Michael Lang ; with Holly George-Warren.
- Title: Same-sex marriage : a reference handbook /David E. Newton.
- Title: Scottsboro an American tragedy /produced by Daniel Anker and Barak Goodman ; written and directed by Barak Goodman ; WGBH Boston.
- Title: Sexism in America : alive, well, and ruining our future /Barbara J. Berg.
- Title: Shocking cases from Dr. Henry Lee's forensic files / Henry C. Lee and Jerry Labriola.
- Title: Sizwe's test : a young man's journey through Africa's AIDS epidemic /Jonny Steinberg.
- Title: Social entrepreneurship : what everyone needs to know /David Bornstein and Susan Davis.
- Title: The social movements reader : cases and concepts /edited by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper.
- Title: A sociological smorgasbord : readings in sociology /edited by Irene Jung Fiala.
- Title: Sold American a documentary film by Richard Boehm.
- Title: SPSS 15 made simple / Paul R. Kinnear, Colin D. Gray.
- Title: Suburban nation : the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream /Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck.
- Title: Teaching for social justice? : voices from the front lines /Connie E. North.
- Title: Thinking differently / Alain Touraine ; translated by David Macey.
- Title: Ties that bind : familial homophobia and its consequences /Sarah Schulman.
- Title: Travels in a gay nation : portraits of LGBTQ Americans /Philip Gambone.
- Title: The uncivil university : intolerance on college campuses /Gary A. Tobin, Aryeh Kaufman Weinberg, & Jenna Ferer ; foreword by Marc Dollinger ; introduction to the revised edition by Kenneth L. Marcus.
- Title: Unfriendly fire : how the gay ban undermines the military and weakens America /Nathaniel Frank.
- Title: Welcome to the urban revolution : how cities are changing the world /Jeb Brugmann.
- Title: The wellbeing of children in care : a new approach for improving developmental outcomes /Kwame Owusu-Bempah.
- Title: What children need / Jane Waldfogel.
- Title: When everything changed : the amazing journey of American women, from 1960 to the present /Gail Collins.
- Title: You can adopt : an adoptive families guide /Susan Caughman and Isolde Motley ; with the editors and readers of Adoptive Families magazine.
- Title: Zeitoun / Dave Eggers.