I can’t tell you how hard this is. I’m getting rid of some really good books. But they’re common, and by the time I ever decide to pick up my Ph.D. work again, they will probably be available for free on Kindle. But a few I’ve chosen to keep.
This might only be interesting if you know sociology, and feminist social theory at that. Nevertheless, and in no particular order:
Patricia Hill Collins ~ Black Feminist Thought
Nancy Folbre ~ The Invisible Heart
Dorothy Smith ~ The Everyday World is Problematic
Kathy Charmaz ~ Constructing Grounded Theory
Thomas Gieryn ~ Cultural Boundaries of Science
Michael Kimmel ~ Sexualities
Charles Lemert ~ Social Theory (I cheated this is an anthology of many of the books I’m getting rid of)
Nancy Holstrom ~ The Socialist Feminist Project
Douglas Kellner ~ Critical Theory and Society
Abel and Nelson ~ Circles of Care
Zimmerman et al ~ Global Dimensions of Care Work
Arlie Hochschild ~ The Commercialization of Intimate Life
Raya Dunayevskaya ~ Philosophy and Revolution
Caldwell ~ Statistics Unplugged (I won’t name the other ones but I did keep advanced statistics books)
Marjorie DeVault ~ Feeding the Family
Dorothy Smith ~ Institutional Ethnography
W.J. Wilson ~ When Work Disappears
Edin & Kefalas ~ Promises I Can Keep
And then a couple of books written by my professors.
If I write about the books I’m chucking I may be tempted to keep some of them. Out of sight, out of …. well that’s how I’m going about this move. Now on to Craig’s List to get rid of 88 books for free.
Comments on: "I’m keeping 22% of my sociology books. That’s 26 out of 118 books." (3)
W O W. I’ve benefited from you and Sarah purging a stack of books in the past, but this is major. I’d have a hard time cutting our sociology book collection in half, not to mention over 75%.
I’m glad you’re blogging again. Your posts are fun and interesting!
I have to add that none of these books were out of date texts. That’s would be too easy. Also none of them were pop-soci. For example, Fast Food Nation stays in the general reading section of our dwindling library.
So yes. This was tough. The trick was to build a “keep pile” instead of selecting what to get rid of.
Bee what are you eating in your pic? Is that a cookie?!