| Description |
xvii, 265 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Notes |
"Preliminary versions of almost all of the chapters in this book were presented at a small closed working conference held in Toronto during two extended (8 a.m. to 10 p.m.!) but exciting days of August 1997"--Acknowledgments |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Sociology -- North America.
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Sociology.
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| Author |
Abu-Lughod, Janet L.
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American Sociological Association.
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International Sociological Association.
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| LC no. |
99022434 |
| ISBN |
0226001911 cloth alkaline paper |
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0226001938 pb alkaline paper |
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