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New Textbook! The Power of Sociology: Grasping Our Unequal World

A brand-new textbook, The Power of Sociology: Grasping Our Unequal World, co-authored by Gudmundur Oddsson, Jenny M. Stuber, and James M. Thomas, has just been published by SAGE Publications. The Power of Sociology is a focused textbook that 1) uses the study of social inequality—the bread and butter of sociology—as a vehicle to survey the field; 2) is written explicitly from a cross-cultural and comparative perspective; and 3) challenges students to see themselves as global citizens capable of making a difference. What makes The Power of Sociology unique as an Introduction to Sociology textbook is its emphasis on power (arguably the most important concept in sociology) and its cross-cultural comparative approach. Click this link to learn more about The Power of Sociology (including sample chapters).

Recent Publications

Articles

Newly added publications are indicated in bold.

Axxe, E., J. L. Whiteside, V. J. Roscigno, and A. McDaniel. 2025. “First-Generation Inequalities, Adaptation, and Resilience.” Sociological Forum 1–16.

Blume Oeur, F. 2025. "Language Loss and Return in the Cambodian Diaspora: A Sociological Memoir." Critical Sociology, 0(0). 

Chávez-Moreno, L. C. 2025. Conceptualizing Latinx vis-à-vis Race in Education Research. Educational Researcher, 0(0).

Coley, Jonathan S., and Gabby Gomez. 2025. “Transmorphic Organizations: Racial Segregation and Discrimination against LGBTQ Students at Christian Colleges and Universities.” Social Forces, OnlineFirst.

Collis, R. B. 2025. "The design of the “Autistics in (educational) space: Building our own futures” doctoral project." Autism, OnlineFirst. 

Dawson, C. E. 2025. "Trauma Pouring: The Uses, Costs, and Risks of Retelling Trauma." Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 0(0).

Denice, P., and K. Andersen. 2025. "Trends in Postsecondary Enrollment During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Research Note." Demography.

Diaz, Estela B., & Rivera, Lauren A. 2025. "Essentializing Merit: Disability and Exclusion in Elite Private School Admissions." American Sociological Review, 90(3), 455-492. 

Ditlmann, Ruth, Berenike Firestone, and Oguzhan Turkoglu. 2025. “Participating in a digital history project mobilizes people for symbolic justice and better intergroup relations.” Psychological Science, OnlineFirst.

Drake, Sean J. and Jeff Guhin. 2025. “The Achievement Narrative and Alienation in School: A Typology of Academic Disconnection.” Sociology of Education. OnlineFirst.

Field, Elly. 2025. "Understanding the ‘Package Deal’: Disentangling Parents’ Intertwined Preferences for Schools and Neighborhoods." Social Forces. 

Gaddis, S. Michael, & Murphy, Joseph. 2024. "Can Adolescents Acquire Cultural Capital Through Social Capital Access and Exposure? Experimental Evidence of the Impact of Ties to College-Educated Adults." AERA Open, 10. 

Gast, M. J., Ovink, S. M., & Amoatey, S. 2025. “Giving Back”: Filipina and Latina Mothers’ Intersecting Burdens in Schools and Community-Based Organizations. Socius, 11. 

Gross, Nora. 2025. "The Hidden Toll of Grief after Youth Gun Violence." Contexts, 24(1): 34-39.
*Accompanying podcast interview: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/ctx/podcasts/index

Hailey, Chantal. 2025. "Racial prisms: experimental evidence on families’ race-based evaluations of school safety." Social Forces. 

Hailey, Chantal A. 2025. "Choosing Schools, Choosing Safety: How Multiple Dimensions of Safety Shape School Choices." AERA Open, 11. 

Hailey, Chantal A., & Murray, Brittany. 2025. "Disentangling the Threat: Experimental Evidence on White Parents’ Racialized Perceptions of Multiple Dimensions of School Safety." Socius, 11. 

Handsman, Emily & Siegler, Bonnie (equal co-authorship). 2025. "Inhabited Ideology: Diversity Ideology and Approaches to Racial Equity Across Institutional Sectors." Socius, 11.

Harrison, M. H. 2025. "Offering safe passage: grading systems and gendered enrollment patterns in undergraduate mathematics." Social Forces.

Holzman, B., Chukhray, I., & Thrash, C. 2025. "EMERGEing Educational Opportunities: The Effects of Social Capital on Selective College Outcomes." Education Finance and Policy. 

Holzman, B., Salazar, E. S., Chukhray, I., & Guo, W. 2025. "Sorted and Tracked: English Learners, College-Level Course-Taking in High School, and Postsecondary Opportunity." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Huang, Tiffany J. and Estela B. Diaz. 2025. "Inequality and moral meaning-making in the admissions consulting profession." Social Problems, OnlineFirst.

Jacob, J. and Trinidad, J.E., 2025. "District Demographic Predictors of Anti-“CRT” and Anti-LGBTQ Disruptions." American Journal of Education, OnlineFirst.

Jean-Pierre, Johanne, Maria Brisbane, Sabrin Hassan, Jonathan Bailey, and Hawa Barrie. 2025. “The influence of transnational cultural capital on Black immigrant and refugee youth perspectives of school discipline.” Pp 103-123 in Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, Volume 36, edited by L.E. Bass. Birmingham, UK: Emerald Publishing.

Jeffrey, Wesley. 2024. "Curricular Differentiation and Informal Networks: How Formal Grouping and Ranking Practices Shape Friendships among Students in College." Sociology of Education, OnlineFirst. 

Kraemer, M. R. 2025. “Race, Parents, and Schools: Understanding how Parental Racial Socialization Operates within Schools as Racialized Organizations.” Social Science Research, 127:103137. 

Kraemer, M. R. 2025. The Racialized Field of Education: Students’ Racialized Cultural Capital and the Meaning-making of Race in Schools. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 0(0): 1-20. 

Liang, Jiarui (Bruce), and Jonathan Horowitz. 2025. “Cultural Capital in Higher Education: A Case Study of Extension Requests.” Social Currents, OnlineFirst. 

London, R. A., Hartmann, D., Plankey-Videla, N., Borland, E., & Glasser, C. 2024. "Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline." Social Problems. 

Lyons, A. 2025. "‘I have to play the game to get what I want’: deconstructing social mobility through the lived experiences of women of color in higher education." Critical Studies in Education, 1–18. 

Lyons, A. 2025. ‘We Can Do Whatever We Want’: The Racialized Neoliberalism of Parent Organizations. Critical Sociology, 0(0). 

Martinez-Cola, Marisela. 2025. "At an HBCU, I'm a Scholar: A Chicana Feminist's Academic Journey from Performance to Peace." Humanity and Society, 0(0).

McCauley, E. 2025. "The Leniency of Low Expectations—Parental Incarceration, Race, and Teachers’ Evaluations of Student Writing." American Journal of Sociology.

​McCauley, E. 2025. "Career track or college bound? Parental incarceration, race, and teachers’ college or career track referrals." Social Problems.

McDaniel, T. W. 2025. "Segregated Activities, Segregated Schools? Neighborhoods, Activity Spaces, and Enrollments in Los Angeles." Socius, 11.

Mellon, Greer. 2025. “Competence over Partisanship: Party Affiliation Does Not Affect the Selection of School District Superintendents.” American Sociological Review 90 (4): 561–593.

Nelson, Jennifer L., and Tiffany D. Johnson. 2024. "How White Workers Navigate Racial Difference in the Workplace: Social-Emotional Processes and the Role of Workplace Racial Composition." Work and Occupations 51(3): 362-407.

Nelson, Jennifer L., Marisol Jimenez, and Paul Bruno. 2025. "Hiring Under Constraint: How School Administrators Perceive and Respond to Centralized Screening by the District." AERA Open 11.

Oh, Byeongdon. 2025. “STEM Immigration and U.S. STEM Workforce Development at the Intersections of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Immigration Status.” Socius, 11.

Pedota, J., Garces, L. M., Epstein, E. M. B., Ngaosi, N. C., & Khalayleh, N. 2025. "'We’re on Our Own Out Here': Faculty Member Responses to Legislative Threats to Academic Freedom and Scholarship on Race." The Journal of Higher Education, 1–28. 

Rangel, D. E., & Byrd, W. C. 2025. "Toward Clarifying Mechanisms of Racism as Fundamental Causes of Educational Inequality." Educational Researcher, 0(0).

Rauscher, E., Mellon, G., & Hodgman, S. 2025. School Spending and Student Achievement: Mechanisms. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, OnlineFirst.

Rauscher, E., Mellon, G., Loeb, S., & Abott, C. 2025. "When Money Matters Most: Unpacking the Effectiveness of School Spending." Sociology of Education, OnlineFirst.

Reyes, D. V. 2025. "Complicating Upward Mobility: Latinx College-educated Millennials Reflect on Life after Graduation." Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 0(0).

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco, Kimberly Garcia-Galvez and Melissa Quesada. 2025. “How The Student Loan Repayment Pause Increased Latinx Borrowers’ Agency and Diversified their Spectrum of Emotions.” Socius.

Trinidad, Jose Eos. 2025. "Educational Change Through Bureaucratic Effectiveness: The Role of Mid-Level Networks." Sociology of Education, OnlineFirst.

Trinidad, Jose Eos. 2025. “From Accountability to Algorithms: Interorganizational Learning and the Transformation of Quantification in Education.” Qualitative Sociology, OnlineFirst.

Trinidad, Jose Eos. 2025. “Mapping Organizational Theory with SCRIPTS.” Sociology Compass, 19(4), 1-13.

Trinidad, Jose Eos, Daniel Lancet, and Lin-Chiun Wang. 2025. “The Ecology of US Education
Nonprofits.” Journal of Education, OnlineFirst. 

Walker, Dominic T. 2025. "The Terms of Inclusion: Transitional School Programs in a Racialized Organizational Field." Sociology of Education, OnlineFirst.

Wang, Yapeng, and Josipa Roksa. 2025. “Gender Inequality in Publication Prestige Among Graduate Students in Biological Sciences.” Educational Researcher, 54(5), 289-292.

Warikoo, N. 2025. “The Demise of Affirmative Action in College Admissions.” Annual Review of Sociology. 

Welsh, R. O., Rodriguez, L. A., & Joseph, B. 2025. "Racial Threat, Schools, and Exclusionary Discipline: Evidence from New York City." Sociology of Education, 98(2), 87-109. 

Whiteside, J.L. 2025, "Obtaining and Maintaining Support: First-Generation Precarity and Structural Supports in Higher Education." Sociological Inquiry.

Wright, E., & Huang, C. 2024. "International schools in an era of rising nationalism: a tug-of-war between cosmopolitan and national forces." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 1–17. 

Books

Newly added books are indicated in bold

Chan, Esther. 2025. The Limits of Diversity. NYU Press.

Chávez-Moreno, L. C. 2025. How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America. Harvard Education Press.
*Winner, 2025 Early Career Scholar Book of the Year, AAHHE.
*Winner, 2025 Critics' Choice Book Award, AESA

Cross, Christina J. 2025. Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Crosnoe, Robert and Shannon Cavanagh. 2025. The Journey into Adulthood in Uncertain Times. New York: Russell Sage Rose Series.

Horwitz, Ilana. 2025. The Entrepreneurial Scholar: A New Mindset for Success in Academia and Beyond. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 

McCabe, Janice. 2025. Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends: How Campuses Shape College Students’ Networks. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Messner, Michael A. 2025. The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024. Rutgers University Press.  

Michaels, Erin. 2025. Test, Measure, Punish: How the Threat of Closure Harms Students, Destroys Teachers, and Fails Schools. NYU Press. 

Moss-Pech, Corey. 2025. Major Trade-Offs: The Surprising Truths about College Majors and Entry-Level Jobs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

Nelson, Ingrid A. 2024. Yet Another Costume Party Debacle: Why Racial Ignorance Persists on Elite College Campuses. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

Ray, Ranita. 2025. Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom. New York: St. Martin's Press/Macmillan.

Swartz, David L. 2025. The Academic Trumpists: Radicals Against Liberal Diversity. New York, NY: Routledge.

Trinidad, Jose Eos. 2025. Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education. Oxford and New York City: Oxford University Press.

Welsh, R.O. 2025. Suspended Futures: Transforming Racial Inequities in School Discipline. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Press. 

New Positions & Promotions

Public Engagement and Media

Janice McCabe. “I Study Friendship. Here’s How You Make Lasting Friends.” The New York Times. Online edition 1/3/26. Print edition 1/5/26, page A17.

Janice McCabe. “Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends at College.” Grown and Flown. 1/9/26.

Awards and Recognition

Dr. Johanne Jean-Pierre has been awarded the 2025 Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) Outstanding Service Award. Congratulations and thank you for your work!

Dr. Laura Chávez-Moreno has been awarded the 2025 Early Career Award from the CSREA. Congratulations!

Dr. S. Michael Gaddis is a winner of the Eastern Sociological Society's (ESS) 2025 Public Sociology Award, in part for his methodological work assisting the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division combat racial/ethnic discrimination. These awards seek to recognize sociologists who have both done cutting-edge sociological research and engaged in meaningful public work using that research.