The Blackwell Companion to Sociology

Preface.

Part I: Referencing Globalization: .

1. The Sociology of Space and Place: John Urry (Lancaster University).

2. Media and Communications: John Durham Peters (University of Iowa).

3. Modernity - One or Many?: Peter Wagner (University of Warwick).

4. Emerging Trends in Environmental Sociology Frederick H. Buttel (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and August Gijswijt (International Sociological Association).

5. Bringing in Codependence: Judith R. Blau (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

Part II: Relationships and Meaning:.

6. Civil Society: A Signifier of Plurality and Sense of Wholeness: Barbara A. Misztal (Griffith University, Brisbane).

7. Human Rights: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im (Emory University).

8. Sociology of Religion: Christian Smith (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Robert D. Woodberry (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

9. Intimate Relationships: Raine Dozier (University of Washington) and Pepper Schwartz (University of Washington).

10. Immigrant Families and Their Children: Adaptation and Identity Formation: Carola Sußrez-Orozco (Harvard Immigration Projects).

Part III: Economic Inequalities: .

11. On Inequality: Siddiqur Rahman Osmani (University of Ulster).

12. The Persistence of Poverty in a Changing World: Melvin L. Oliver (Ford Foundation) and David M. Grant (Cleveland State University).

13. Racial Economic Inequality in the USA: William A. Darity, Jr. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Samuel L. Myers, Jr. (University of Minnesota).

14. Rediscovering Rural America: Bonnie Thornton Dill (University of Maryland, College Park).

Part IV: Science, Knowledge, and Ideas:.

15. The Sociology of Science and the Revolution in Molecular Biology: Troy Duster (University of California, Berkeley).

16. Structures of Knowledge: Richard E. Lee (State University of New York at Binghamton ) and Immanuel Wallerstein (Binghamton University).

17. The New Sociology of Ideas: Charles Camic (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Neil Gross (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Part V: Politics and Political Movements:.

18. Political Sociology: Mike Savage (University of Manchester).

19. Why Social Movements Come into Being and Why People Join Them: Bert Klandermans (Free University, Amsterdam).

20. Social Movement Politics and Organization: Debra C. Minkoff (Yale University).

Part VI: Structures: Stratification, Networks, and Firms:.

21. Occupations, Stratification, and Mobility: Donald J. Treiman (University of California at Los Angeles).

22. Social Networks: Bonnie Erickson (University of Toronto).

23. Networks and Organizations: David Knoke (University of Minnesota).

Part VII: Individuals and Their Well Being:.

24. Social Inequality, Stress, and Health: Joseph E. Schwartz (State University of New York at Stony Brook).

25. Two Research Traditions in the Sociology of Education: Maureen T. Hallinan (University of Notre Dame).

26. Aging and Aging Policy in the US: Madonna Harrington Meyer (Syracuse University) and Pamela Herd (Syracuse University).

27. Immigration and Ethnicity: The United States at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: RubÚn G. Rumbaut (Michigan State University).

28. Social Psychology: Lynn Smith-Lovin (University of Arizona).

Part VIII: Social Action: .

29. Immigrant Women and Paid Domestic Work: Research, Theory, and Activism: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (University of Southern California).

30. The Subject and Societal Movements: Alain Touraine (École des Hautes Études).

31. The Myth of the Labor Movement: Rick Fantasia (Smith College).

Appendix: Data Resources on the World Wide-Web: Compiled by Kathryn Harker (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

Bibliography.

Index.