Sociology
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Rachael Levay
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Rebecca Brennan
Senior Editor, Social Sciences (Europe)
Princeton’s sociology list publishes bold and original scholarship that betters our understanding of compelling social matters. It encompasses qualitative and quantitative research in such areas as cultural sociology, economic sociology, urban sociology, and computational sociology.
Featuring work that is empirically rich, theoretically significant, and methodologically innovative, the list represents some of the most important contributions to contemporary sociological thought.
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Listen in: The Last Human Job
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe.
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The life of American Afterlives
I first became aware of Shannon Dawdy’s American Afterlives during the fall of 2019, when her friend and fellow New Orleanian, the literary scholar and Princeton author Bryan Wagner, suggested that she contact Princeton University Press about her manuscript.
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The unexpected dividends of a congressional internship
When I first set foot on Capitol Hill 18 years ago to begin my summer internship, I was immediately struck by the awe-inspiring presence of the Capitol.
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A sermon from a mountebank? Religious messaging in the age of AI
The news that the religious group Catholic Answers was obliged to “defrock” an AI priest called Father Justin after it gave answers falsely claiming to be a real priest has caused widespread alarm among the faithful and glee among the skeptical.
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Michelle S. Phelps on The Minneapolis Reckoning
Drawing on years of fieldwork, “The Minneapolis Reckoning” describes how Minneapolis arrived at the brink of police abolition and what happened next.