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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Seeking to shed light on how we might end mass incarceration, The Price of Freedom compares the histories and goals of the American and German justice systems. Drawing on repeated in-depth interviews with incarcerated young men in the United States and Germany, Michaela Soyer argues that the apparent relative lenience of the German criminal justice system is actually founded on the violent enforcement of cultural homogeneity at the hands of the German welfare state. Demonstrating how both societies have constructed a racialized underclass of outsiders over time, this book emphasizes that criminal justice reformers in the United States need to move beyond European models in order to build a truly just, diverse society.

Exploring the social implications of digital transformation, as well as demonstrating how we might use digital transformation to further sociological knowledge, this incisive Handbook provides an extensive overview of cutting-edge research on the digital turn of modern society.Bringing together contributions from more than 60 experts spanning a wide range of disciplines, Jan Skopek explores how digital technologies inextricably permeate the ways we go about our everyday lives, from how we seek information and carry out economic transactions to how we construct our identities and pursue and maintain social relationships. Chapters investigate timely issues related to social theory and social research in the digital age, including the study of online behaviour, digital social inequalities, and the micro- and macro-level consequences of digital technological change. Covering state-of-the-art quantitative and qualitative research methodologies in digital sociology, this Research Handbook serves as a comprehensive resource for teaching and research in a continually developing field. Cross-disciplinary in scope, this dynamic Research Handbook will be essential reading for a diverse audience of academics, researchers, students, and practitioners, particularly in the fields of sociology, demography, computer and information sciences, economics, business, and psychology.

Perché parlare ancora di diseguaglianze scolastiche, e perché farlo dalla prospettiva degli studenti stranieri? Come ha mostrato anche la crisi pandemica, il nostro sistema formativo resta distante dall'ideale di pari opportunità: il contesto familiare continua a incidere fortemente sulle possiblità di apprendimento e di realizzazione di studenti e studentesse, producendo divari che la scuola non è in grado di appianare. Per chi ha origini straniere, gli ostacoli sono anche maggiori. Eppure, i figli degli immigrati rappresentano il futuro delle nostre società, afflitte dall'invecchiamento demografico: in Italia, nella scuola primaria, un alunno su dieci è ormai di origine immigrata. Allo stesso tempo, la crescente emigrazione italiana fa sì che sempre più spesso, in Europa, gli stranieri sui banchi siamo noi. Partendo dai più recenti studi internazionali, l'autrice ricostruisce i divari educativi fra studenti stranieri ed autoctoni in Europa e si interroga sul ruolo che le istituzioni possono giocare nel ridurli.