New Sociology Titles from Penguin Random House

By Spenser Stevens | March 7 2024 | General

Browse these new and notable titles for use in your Sociology courses. To request complimentary exam copies for course-use consideration, click here. 

The Unclaimed
The Unclaimed
Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
Stefan Timmermans, Pamela Prickett
9780593239056
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclaimed dead in America today—and what it says about the state of our society.
$30.00 US
Mar 12, 2024
Hardcover
336 Pages
Crown
The Anxious Generation
The Anxious Generation
How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt
9780593655030
From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind, an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.
$30.00 US
Mar 26, 2024
Hardcover
400 Pages
Penguin Press
The Politics of Fear
The Politics of Fear
The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia
Arthur Goldwag
9780593467060

From the author of Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, a probing exploration of the bizarre and dangerous conspiracies that have roiled America over the past decade and captured the minds of so many Americans.

$19.00 US
Mar 05, 2024
Paperback
304 Pages
Vintage
Thunder Song
Thunder Song
Essays
Sasha LaPointe
9781640096356
The author of the award-winning memoir Red Paint returns with a razor-sharp, clear-eyed collection of essays on what it means to be a proudly queer indigenous woman in the United States today.
$27.00 US
Mar 05, 2024
Hardcover
256 Pages
Counterpoint
The Black Box
The Black Box
Writing the Race
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
9780593299784
A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country’s history.
$30.00 US
Mar 19, 2024
Hardcover
304 Pages
Penguin Press
On Gold Hill
On Gold Hill
A Personal History of Wheat, Farming, and Family, from Punjab to California
Jaclyn Moyer
9780807045305

A young South Asian American woman’s story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farming.

$28.95 US
Mar 26, 2024
Hardcover
336 Pages
Beacon Press
Mother Island
Mother Island
A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico
Jamie Figueroa
9780553387681

A searing memoir that explores the institutions that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself.

$28.00 US
Mar 19, 2024
Hardcover
272 Pages
Pantheon
Egyptian Made
Egyptian Made
Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation
Leslie T. Chang
9780525509219

An incisive exploration of women and work, showing how globalization’s promise of liberation instead set the stage for repression—from the acclaimed author of Factory Girls.

$30.00 US
Mar 12, 2024
Hardcover
368 Pages
Random House
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