The Blackwell Companion to Sociology

by Blau, Judith R.

• ISBN13: 9781405122672
• ISBN10: 1405122676
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-07
• 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	p. x
List of Contributors	p. xvii
Referencing Globalization	p. 1
The Sociology of Space and Place	p. 3
Media and Communications	p. 16
Modernity: One or Many?	p. 30
Emerging Trends in Environmental Sociology	p. 43
Bringing in Codependence	p. 58
Relationships and Meaning	p. 71
Civil Society: a Signifier of Plurality and Sense of Wholeness	p. 73
Human Rights	p. 86
Sociology of Religion	p. 100
Intimate Relationships	p. 114
Immigrant Families and Their Children: Adaptation and Identity Formation	p. 128
Economic Inequalities	p. 141
On Inequality	p. 143
The Persistence of Poverty in a Changing World	p. 161
Racial Economic Inequality in the USA	p. 178
Rediscovering Rural America	p. 196
Science, Knowledge, and Ideas	p. 211
The Sociology of Science and the Revolution in Molecular Biology	p. 213
Structures of Knowledge	p. 227
The New Sociology of Ideas	p. 236
Politics and Political Movements	p. 251
Political Sociology	p. 253
Why Social Movements Come into Being and Why People Join Them	p. 268
Social Movement Politics and Organization	p. 282
Structures: Stratification, Networks, and Firms	p. 295
Occupations, Stratification, and Mobility	p. 297
Social Networks	p. 314
Networks and Organizations	p. 327
Individuals and Their Well-Being	p. 343
Social Inequality, Stress, and Health	p. 345
Two Research Traditions in the Sociology of Education	p. 361
Aging and Aging Policy in the USA	p. 375
Immigration and Ethnicity: the United States at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century	p. 389
Social Psychology	p. 407
Social Action	p. 421
Immigrant Women and Paid Domestic Work: Research, Theory, and Activism	p. 423
The Subject and Societal Movements	p. 437
The Myth of the Labor Movement	p. 450
Data Resources on the World Wide Web	p. 464
Bibliography	p. 524
Index	p. 588
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