Volume 9, Number 1, January 31, 2016

Richard M. Simon
The Conflict Paradigm in Sociology and the Study of Social Inequality: Paradox and Possibility

Zac Henson
Sustainable Community Systems: Commoning and Spatial Production

Joseph H. Michalski
Overcoming Sociological Naïveté in the Animal Rights Movement

Omar Swartz
Law, Social Justice, and Marriage: An Anti-Essentialist View

Robert M. Worley
Book Review: Alice Goffman, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. New York: Picador, 2014. ISBN: 978-1250065667 (Paperback). 279 Pages. $16.00.

George S. Diamond
Book Review: Howard Jacobson, J: A Novel. New York: Hogarth, 2015. ISBN: 978-0553419559 (Paperback). 352 Pages. $15.00.