The Blackwell companion to sociology / edited by Judith R. Blau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blau, Judith R., 1942-

Series:

Blackwell companions to sociology.

Blackwell companions to sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (634 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Blackwell Companion to Sociology is a milestone collection of new essays by renowned sociologists, covering both the traditions and strengths of the field as well as newer developments and directions. Authors from the US, the UK, Europe and elsewhere have contributed to this all-in-one reference work, highlighting the relevance of interdisciplinary and international perspectives, while at the same time representing the scope and quality of sociology in its current form.

Contents:

The Blackwell Companion to Sociology; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Part I Referencing Globalization; 1 The Sociology of Space and Place; 2 Media and Communications; 3 Modernity: One or Many?; 4 Emerging Trends in Environmental Sociology; 5 Bringing in Codependence; Part II Relationships and Meaning; 6 Civil Society: a Signifier of Plurality and Sense of Wholeness; 7 Human Rights; 8 Sociology of Religion; 9 Intimate Relationships; 10 Immigrant Families and Their Children: Adaptation and Identity Formation; Part III Economic Inequalities; 11 On Inequality

12 The Persistence of Poverty in a Changing World13 Racial Economic Inequality in the USA; 14 Rediscovering Rural America; Part IV Science, Knowledge, and Ideas; 15 The Sociology of Science and the Revolution in Molecular Biology; 16 Structures of Knowledge; 17 The New Sociology of Ideas; Part V Politics and Political Movements; 18 Political Sociology; 19 Why Social Movements Come into Being and Why People Join Them; 20 Social Movement Politics and Organization; Part VI Structures: Stratification, Networks, and Firms; 21 Occupations, Stratification, and Mobility; 22 Social Networks

23 Networks and OrganizationsPart VII Individuals and Their Weil-Being; 24 Social Inequality, Stress, and Health; 25 Two Research Traditions in the Sociology of Education; 26 Aging and Aging Policy in the USA; 27 Immigration and Ethnicity: the United States at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century; 28 Social Psychology; Part VIII Social Action; 29 Immigrant Women and Paid Domestic Work: Research, Theory, and Activism; 30 The Subject and Societal Movements; 31 The Myth of the Labor Movement; Appendix: Data Resources on the World Wide Web; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611309480

9781281309488

1281309486

9781780341750

178034175X

9780470693452

0470693452

9780470692738

0470692731

OCLC:

232611629