The Blackwell Companion to Sociology

by Blau, Judith R.

• ISBN13: 9780631213185
• ISBN10: 063121318X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Blackwell Companion to Sociology is a milestone collection of new essays by renowned sociologists, covering both the traditions and strengths of the field as well as newer developments and directions. bull; bull;Contains 31 definitive essays by an international panel of renowned figures in sociology bull;Covers traditional topics in sociology, such as theory, stratification, political sociology, and the sociology of education and social movements, as well as emerging areas such as immigration studies, the sociology of space and time, and the sociology of intimate relations and religion bull;Considers the most recent advances in communications, political mobilization, and analyses of the nation-state, reflecting the rapid changes wrought by globalization bull;Includes a comprehensive list of sociological data resources available on the web. Authors from the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere have contributed to this all-in-one reference work highlighting the relevance of interdisciplinary and international perspectives, while at the same time representing the scope and quality of sociology in its current form.

Author Biography

Judith R. Blau is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and President of the US chapter of Sociologists without Borders, an international NGO. She is the author of Architects and Firms (1984), The Shape of Culture (1989), and Social Contracts and Economic Markets (1993), and Race in the Schools (2003), and has published articles on organizations, networks, economic inequalities, crime, sociology of science, urban sociology, historical sociology, medical sociology, and sociology of education.

Table of Contents

Preface	x
List of Contributors	xvii
Part I Referencing Globalization	1	(70)
The Sociology of Space and Place	3	(13)
John Urry
Media and Communications	16	(14)
John Durham Peters
Modernity: One or Many?	30	(13)
Peter Wagner
Emerging Trends in Environmental Sociology	43	(15)
Frederick H. Buttel
August Gijswijt
Bringing in Codependence	58	(13)
Judith R. Blau
Part II Relationships and Meaning	71	(70)
Civil Society: a Signifier of Plurality and Sense of Wholeness	73	(13)
Barbara A. Misztal
Human Rights	86	(14)
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Sociology of Religion	100	(14)
Christian Smith
Robert D. Woodberry
Intimate Relationships	114	(14)
Raine Dozier
Pepper Schwartz
Immigrant Families and Their Children: Adaptation and Identity Formation	128	(13)
Carola Suarez-Orozco
Part III Economic Inequalities	141	(70)
On Inequality	143	(18)
Siddiqur Rahman Osmani
The Persistence of Poverty in a Changing World	161	(17)
Melvin L. Oliver
David M. Grant
Racial Economic Inequality in the USA	178	(18)
William A. Darity, Jr
Samuel L. Myers, Jr
Rediscovering Rural America	196	(15)
Bonnie Thornton Dill
Part IV Science, Knowledge, and Ideas	211	(40)
The Sociology of Science and the Revolution in Molecular Biology	213	(14)
Troy Duster
Structures of Knowledge	227	(9)
Richard E. Lee
Immanuel Wallerstein
The New Sociology of Ideas	236	(15)
Charles Camic
Neil Gross
Part V Politics and Political Movements	251	(44)
Political Sociology	253	(15)
Mike Savage
Why Social Movements Come into Being and Why People Join Them	268	(14)
Bert Klandermans
Social Movement Politics and Organization	282	(13)
Debra C. Minkoff
Part VI Structures: Stratification, Networks, and Firms	295	(48)
Occupations, Stratification, and Mobility	297	(17)
Donald J. Treiman
Social Networks	314	(13)
Bonnie Erickson
Networks and Organizations	327	(16)
David Knoke
Part VII Individuals and Their Well-Being	343	(78)
Social Inequality, Stress, and Health	345	(16)
Joseph E. Schwartz
Two Research Traditions in the Sociology of Education	361	(14)
Maureen T. Hallinan
Aging and Aging Policy in the USA	375	(14)
Madonna Harrington Meyer
Pamela Herd
Immigration and Ethnicity: the United States at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century	389	(18)
Ruben G. Rumbaut
Social Psychology	407	(14)
Lynn Smith-Lovin
Part VIII Social Action	421	(43)
Immigrant Women and Paid Domestic Work: Research, Theory, and Activism	423	(14)
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
The Subject and Societal Movements	437	(13)
Alain Touraine
The Myth of the Labor Movement	450	(14)
Rick Fantasia
Appendix: Data Resources on the World Wide Web	464	(60)
Kathryn Harker
Bibliography	524	(64)
Index	588