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Sociology for the twenty-first century : continuities and cutting edges
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- Creator
- edited by Janet L. Abu-Lughod ; with a foreword by Felice Levine ; and an afterword by Immanuel Wallerstein
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 265 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226001913, 0226001911, 9780226001937, 0226001938
- OCLC
- ocm40891115
- "A joint project of the American Sociological Association and the International Sociological Association."
- "Preliminary versions of almost all of the chapters in this book were presented at a small closed working conference held in Toronto during ... August 1997"--Acknowledgments.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Foreword / Felice J. Levine -- Pt. 1. Theory(ies) and Method(s). 1. The Heritage and Future of Sociology in North America / Janet L. Abu-Lughod. 2. The European Sociological Tradition and Twenty-First-Century World Sociology / Randall Collins. 3. Some Observations on Bureaucratic Capitalism: Knowledge about What and Why? / Gideon Sjoberg. 4. From Women's Standpoint to a Sociology for People / Dorothy E. Smith. 5. We Can Count, but What Do the Numbers Mean? / Joel H. Levine. 6. From Little Boxes to Loosely Bounded Networks: The Privatization and Domestication of Community / Barry Wellman -- Pt. 2. The New Realities of Scale. 7. Globalization and Historical Macrosociology / Giovanni Arrighi. 8. Cracked Casings: Notes toward an Analytics for Studying Transnational Processes / Saskia Sassen. 9. The Social Terrain: The History and Future of Sociology's Object / Harriet Friedmann. 10. Is There a Role for Social Movements? / Pierre Hamel, Henri Lustiger-Thaler and Louis Maheu -- Pt. 3. The New Realities of Race/Ethnicity. 11. Erosion of the Nation-State and the Transformation of National Identities in Canada / Gilles Bourque and Jules Duchastel. 12. The Future of U.S. Society in an Era of Racism, Group Segregation, and Demographic Revolution / Joe R. Feagin. 13. The Enduring Ambiguities of Race in the United States / Tomas Almaguer and Moon-Kie Jung. 14. Second Generations: Past, Present, Future / Roger Waldinger and Joel Perlmann -- Afterword / Immanuel Wallerstein