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Paul Price's The Sociology of Waiting: How Americans Wait presents a comprehensive analysis of the ubiquitous process of waiting : a situation we often lament but do not often interrogate. Price's searing analysis of waiting in a host of social situations reveals the waiting game in ways that enable us to see waiting in a different light. After reading this book, you will never view waiting the same way. This book is a sociological delight! -- Melvin L. Oliver, President, Pitzer College In his new monograph, Price paints a revealing portrait of the culture of waiting. Readers are treated to his copious field notes and compelling observations that detail an ethnography of the queue, including the circumstances in which people are encouraged to 'hurry up and wait.' This work is illuminating, timely, and important. -- Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology, Yale University, author of The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life and Code of the Street

Paul Price’s The Sociology of Waiting: How Americans Wait presents a comprehensive analysis of the ubiquitous process of “waiting”: a situation we often “lament” but do not often “interrogate.” Price’s searing analysis of waiting in a host of social situations reveals “the waiting game” in ways that enable us to see waiting in a different light. After reading this book, you will never view waiting the same way. This book is a sociological delight! -- Melvin L. Oliver, President, Pitzer College In his new monograph, Price paints a revealing portrait of the culture of waiting. Readers are treated to his copious field notes and compelling observations that detail an ethnography of the queue, including the circumstances in which people are encouraged to 'hurry up and wait.' This work is illuminating, timely, and important. -- Elijah Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology, Yale University, author of The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life and Code of the Street

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Paul Christopher Price is associate professor of sociology at the Pasadena City College and author of Social Control at Opportunity Boys Home: How Staff Control Juvenile Inmates.

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