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Sociology for the twenty-first century : continuities and cutting edges
- Title
- Sociology for the twenty-first century : continuities and cutting edges / edited by Janet L. Abu-Lughod ; with a foreword by Felice Levine and an afterword by Immanuel Wallerstein.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
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- Description
- xvii, 265 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- These original essays by eminent sociologists probe issues of central importance to North American societies in the twenty-first century. The chapters in part 1 revise theory and methods to comprehend the economic and political institutions that increasingly dominate the lives of individuals and groups, arguing that these giants must be made more democratically accountable. Part 2 explores the social effects that growing globalization, transnationalization, and information technologies are having on politics, economics, and the environment. The final chapters compare how new immigrants from increasingly diversified backgrounds are being absorbed in Canada and the United States, exploring the impact that immigrants are having on preexisting ethnic minorities and on the dominant political culture. While it is a major attempt to refocus the discipline of sociology, the book's clear, nontechnical style and its attention to issues of central concern to all citizens make it also highly accessible to nonspecialists.
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- Note
- "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.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- The heritage and future of sociology in North America / Janet L. Abu-Lughod -- The European sociological tradition and twenty-first-century world sociology / Randall Collins -- Some observations on bureaucratic capitalism : knowledge about what and why? / Gideon Sjoberg -- From women's standpoint to a sociology for people / Dorothy E. Smith -- We can count, but what do the numbers mean? / Joel H. Levine -- From little boxes to loosely bounded networks : the privatization and domestication of community / Barry Wellman -- Globalization and historical macrosociology / Giovanni Arrighi -- Cracked casings : notes toward an analytics for studying transnational processes / Saskia Sassen -- The social terrain : the history and future of sociology's object / Harriet Friedmann -- Is there a role for social movements? / Pierre Hamel, Henri Lustiger-Thaler, and Louis Maheu -- Erosion of the nation-state and the transformation of national identities in Canada / Gilles Bourque and Jules Duchastel -- The future of U.S. society in an era of racism, group segregation, and demographic revolution / Joe R. Feagin -- The enduring ambiguities of race in the United States / Tomás Almaguer and Moon-Kie Jung -- Second generations : past, present, future / Roger Waldinger and Joel Perlmann.
- ISBN
- 0226001911
- 9780226001913
- 0226001938
- 9780226001937
- LCCN
- 99022434
- OCLC
- ocm40891115
- 40891115
- SCSB-8795466
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library