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Authors: Judith R Blau
Cold War 37, 395, 397
citizenship
collective action 268±81, 334, 455
and human rights 88
degree of violence 442
and immigration 396, 405
and thè`labor metaphysic'' 453
and sociability 77, 85
motivation to participate in 276±7, 279±80
citizenship rights 83, 255, 261
and societal movements 438±40
civil liberties, constitutional protection of
strategies for 280±1
93
types of 437
civil rights 86, 430
see also activism; social movements
legislation 183, 190
collective conscience (Durkheim) 16, 254
negative 95
collective responsibility, ethics of 438
civil rights movement 108, 273
collective rights 94
and feminism 288, 289±90
collectivism, and individualism 39
civil servants, Whitehall I and II studies 349,
collectivity, procedural and substantive
357
interpretations of 39
civil society 73±85
colonialism 66, 67, 92, 95±6, 97±8, 396
associations in 76±7
communication
and codependence 58
gendered 123±4
and liberation of the individual 78
interorganizational networks 331, 335
normative approach to 74, 85
marital 123±4
open spaces 109
national frame 20±2
and social movements 293
persuasive 272, 278
and sociological imagination 73±6
problems for immigrant families 131, 133
Index
593
Ross's definition 17
and competition 338±40, 366±7
standardization and localization 18±20
institutionalization of 69, 70
and transportation 9, 18±19
coping strategies 417
communications
religious 105
and media 16±29
core, and periphery 68, 318±19
switch 28±9
corporations
Communications Decency Act,
abusive practices 65
Telecommunications Act (US 1996) 24
alliances of small producers against 65
communism 4, 80, 255, 397, 443, 444±5
and new employment contracts 337
communitarianism 36, 82, 441, 446
strategic alliances 330±3, 338±9, 341
community 6, 67, 253±4
corporatism 77
empowerment 62±3
cosmopolitan democracy 64
imagined 14
couples, dual career 120
politics and class 255
creativity 234, 235
compensation schemes, incentive-based 337
crime rates, US 166
competition
crimes against humanity 89
or cooperation 338±40, 366±7
critical race theory 66
and psychosocial stress 355
critical theory 20, 32
complexity theory 10, 75, 233±5, 234
crowd psychology 18
computers 27±8
cults 443
and SNiPs 217±18, 226
cultural capital 171±2, 262, 263, 266, 307
conditions of possibility 41±2
family 301
conflict
wives as 121±3
cultural 440
cultural change, and religion 112
intergroup 102
cultural conditioning 94, 147
political 448±9
cultural differences 64
styles and marital longevity 124
and social dislocation 138
conformity pressures 316, 317
cultural imperialism 25
conscience 438, 442
cultural studies 232, 233
consciousness-raising 272
and media audiences 20
consensus 36, 83, 95
``cultural turn'', social constructivism and
and collective action 271, 278
global change 49, 51±4
consent 91
cultural values 91±5, 440
consequentialism 147, 149±50
culture
conservatism 229±30, 238
human rights as the product of 91±5
theological 106
sociology of 236, 242
Conservative Party 259, 260
culture industry 20, 26
conservative Protestantism in the USA 106±7,
cultures, scientific and humanist 227±9,
107±8, 110
232±3
constitutional rights 86, 90
constructionism 51±4
data resources, on the World Wide Web
consumer groups 65
464±523
consumption
dating culture 115
access to 35, 459
daycare, need for 126
behaviors 33, 47
debate 77, 227±9, 291, 443
collective and towns and cities 7
decision-making
postmodern 13
monopoly of collective 227
and production 27
styles with powerful symbolic
contextualism 234, 242, 245±6
connotations 292
contingency 234, 235
deCODE 215
control
decolonization 30, 390
and stress 357
deconstruction 233
theories of identity 413±16
deduction 228
convergencè`deference entitlements'' 297
digital 27±8
dehumanization 447
or diversity 37±40
deindustrialization 13
conversation, gendered interactional
impact on rural areas 200
styles 123±4
democracy 229, 230
conversational analysis 29
and autonomy 38, 85
conversion 280±1
and choice 18
cooperation 65, 77
as a condition for development 444±5
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Index
democracy (cont)
social patterning of 346±55
and freedom 80
``disease genes'' 215, 217±18
and group rights 69
disembedding mechanisms 9
Italian 80
distribution
pluralistic conception of 40, 82±3
of education, occupation and income
prerequisites of 80
298
and societal movements 442±4
of income and fiscal policy 155±6
see also cosmopolitan democracy;
inequalities of 60, 61
representative democracy
of ``social primary goods'' (Rawls) 150±1
democratic leveling (Tocqueville) 18
unequal of income 144±5, 148
democratic revolution 31, 255
diversity
democratization 74
affirmation of 66
discursive ethic in 84
or convergence 37±40
and religion 108±9
cultural 67, 70, 95
state and civil society 80, 82
and identities 65±6
demodernization 447
and the public sphere 68±70
demography
and social groupings, SNiPs 218
factors in disease and mortality 346±7
and solidarity 74, 82±4
transformation of the USA via
division of labor 4
immigration 391±5
core±periphery 227
US 376±80
domestic 119±21, 122±3
demonstrations, participants in 455
new international 8
denominations 109±10
and stratification 298
dependency ratios 378±9
divorce
child 379
prediction and analysis of conflict
elderly 379
styles 124
depoliticization 237±8
prediction and cohabitation 125±6
deprivation, levels of and crime and
rates 116, 120±1, 126
mortality 354
DNA
determinism 41, 228, 233
and allele frequency distributions 223±5
developed countries, and human rights 92±3
databanks 225±6
developing countries
sequence 216±17
human rights dilemma 92
testing 224±5
inequalities in 61
domain 242, 333
poverty in 167±71
domestic work
development 31, 32, 56
power and class 119±21
and societal movements 444±5
see also paid domestic work
devolution 65
dominant culture, ethos of hostility to
Dewey, John 17
immigrants 134±5
Diagnostic Related Groupings (DRGs) 382
dominant groups 67
dialectical methods 248
dominant social paradigm (DSP) 49±50
dialogue, distortion and difficulty of 29
domination 333, 448
diasporas 14±15
race as rationale for 222
dictatorships, religion and overthrow of 108
dropouts, high-school in cohabitation 125
difference, hierarchies of 232±3
dualism, Cartesian 228, 233
digital texts, editing within the frame 27
Durkheim, Emile 4, 16, 68, 74, 237, 254,
digitalization 22, 27±8
361
disciplinary boundaries, organizational
dyadic exchange, power in 117±18
rethinking 234
dynamical-systems research 233±4
discrimination
Conventions for the Elimination of All Forms
e-mail 29
of: on grounds of gender (1979) 89; on
earnings, returns to skills by color 181±2
grounds of race (1965) 89
earnings-gap
freedom from 86
black±white convergence dispute 182±90
and immigrant families 133±5
racial in USA 190±2
organizational 173
East Asian miracle economies 155, 159
positive 147
Eastern Europe 78, 167, 276
racial 189±90, 194±5, 201
social stratification study 310
disease
ecological modernization 54±7
biological model of 345
ecological movements 49
biopsychological model (Engel) 345
ecology 49±50, 51, 234
Index
595
economic behavior, and interorganizational
and economic security 383±8
networks 330±3
and poverty 164±5, 381, 383
economic capital 262, 263, 266
and religiosity 105
economic globalization 33, 60±2, 70
elites 253, 320
economic inequality 141±210
appropriation of collective voice 94
and egalitarianism 59, 70
political and social classes 255
global 60±2
transnational capitalist 62
racial in USA 178±95: causes and
embedded autonomy theory 56
trends 179±90
embourgeoisement thesis 459
social costs of 354
emotion, in social interaction 413±17
economic interests 238, 257
emotion management 420
economic model, postwar 33
emotion work 416
economic policy, deficit reduction 447, 458
emotional experience, and social structural
economic resources, and race 67
positions 416±17
economic restructuring, and poverty 166
empathy 69
economic security
employment
the elderly and 383±8
new contracts 337±40
social cohesion and collective 354±5
schooling and 368±73
economics
empowerment, and poverty 171±7
``historical school'' 231
engagement 69, 84, 129
neoclassical 231
Enlightenment 114, 229
economy
`ènterprise culture'' 36
global 161
entitlement
government regulation of the 33
as a human right 93
market-led 40
theory of 147±8
`ècoregulatory practices'' 46
entrepreneurs, cultural 59
education
environment
and children of immigrant families 137
attitudes and orientations 47±8
differences achieved rather than
cultural sociology of 51±2
ascribed 312
defining the 46
in fight against poverty in developing
environmental degradation 44, 46, 49, 55
countries 170±1
environmental improvement 46, 55
immigrant attitudes to 138±9
environmental management, strategic 55
and missionaries 113
environmental movements 46, 48±51, 56, 108
and occupational allocation 304
environmental protection legislation 47±8
odds of continuing from one level to the
environmental sociology 43±57
next 308±9
environmental movements and
in rural America 204±5, 209±10
environmentalism 48±51
sociology of, research traditions 361±74
of global change 51±2
UNESCO view 63
materialist core 44±7
World Bank view 63
environmental state, role of the 56
see also bilingual education
environmentalism 48±51, 57
educational achievement
radical 55, 56
inequality in 160
Third World 50±1
private versus public school 367±8
epidemiology, descriptive 346
educational attainment
epistemic certainty 32, 36
and forms of capital 306±9
epistemology 231
and race 67
critique of 34
and social mobility 304
nomothetic and idiographic 230
of US immigrants 403
equality 143±4
educational opportunity
and intimacy 116
equality of 362
object of 145±52
quality of 308±9
as promoting growth 155±8
egalitarianism
equilibrium 233
and cross-country data 158±9
equity, growth versus debate 144, 152±60
and economic inequalities 59, 70
equity joint ventures 332
ego-network dynamics 339±40
equity-based contracts 331
egocentrism 329±30, 338, 339
eroticism 122
El Salvador 100, 108
ethical and social concerns, with genetic
elderly
databases 215
costs of long-term care 382±3
ethnic conflict, and poverty 169
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Index
ethnicity 98
downsizing 62
and immigration 389±406
fiscal policy, and distribution of income
and place 13
155±6
and theories of difference 232±3
flexibility 36, 37
ethno-nationalisms 67
flexible accumulation 8
ethnographic research 247, 416, 425±36