(P/B)THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO SOCIOLOGY

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Sociology, like other fields, is undergoing rapid transformation owing to enhanced global interdependencies and changes in the underpinnings of social and economic life. The intensification of the global economy, the rapid development of new communications technology, and the declining robustness of modernity's structures and institutions pose new puzzles for inquiry. As Agnes Heller describes modern social arrangements, "nothing here fits perfectly with anything else. There are relatively separate spheres, many major discrepancies, several discourses, panels, fragments, and niches." Building on this premise, I want to suggest that modern social arrangements exhibit few solidities, as well as little specificity about accountability, organization, structure, and norms. Yet, paradoxically, there is more basis for solidarities as emergent global formations reveal important communalities. [...] (From the publisher)

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Preface
List of contributors
REFERENCING GLOBALIZATION
John Urry, John Durham Peters, Peter Wagner, Frederick H. Buttel, August Gijswijt, Judith R. Blau
RELATIONSHIPS AND MEANING
Barbara A. Misztal, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Christian Smith, Robert D. Woodberry, Raine Dozier, Pepper Schwartz, Carola Suarez-Orozco
ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES
Siddiqur Rahman Osmani, Melvin L. Oliver, David M. Granrt, William A. Darity, Jr and Samuel L. Myers, Jr, Bonnie Thornton Dill
SCIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, AND IDEAS
Troy Duster, Richard E. Lee, Immanuel Wallerstein, Charles Camic, Neil Gross
POLITICS AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS
Mikes Savage, Bert Klandermans, Debra C. Minkoff
STRUCTURES: STRATIFICATION, NETWORKS, AND FIRMS
Donald J. Treiman, Bonnie Erickson, David Knoke
INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR WELL-BEING
Joseph E. Schwartz, Maureen T. Hallinan, Madonna Harrington Meyer, Pamela Herd, Ruben G. Rumbaut, Lynn Smith-Lovin
SOCIAL ACTION
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Alain Touraine, Rick Fantasia
Bibliography
Index