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Authors: Judith R Blau
versus humanities 228, 230±3
and revolution 253
scientific knowledge 33, 233, 242, 243±5
social class see class
scientific method 230, 233
social constructivism, and global change
scientific revolutions 31, 213, 240
51±4, 57
Scottish Enlightenment 77
social democracy 439, 440
sects 443
social exchange theory 315, 408±11
secularity, crisis of 100, 232±5
``social facts'' 44, 45
secularization 100±2, 227
social history 257
self
social imagination 452, 461
emergence of 114, 116
social inequality
immigrant children's sense of 137±9
modules 310
pluralistic relation to society 68
stress and health 345±60
and religion 106, 109
social interaction, meaning and emotion
sense of 33, 37, 407
in 413±17
self-determination 59
social interests, and political mobilization 253
right of nations to and human rights
social justice 17, 99
paradigm 89±91
and religion 108±9
self-employment, racial differences in 180
social mirroring, and immigrant families
self-help books 123
134±5, 138±9
self-interest
social mobility 298±9
and justice 149±51
and educational attainment 304
and risk-taking 58
intergenerational 302±6
self-organizing systems 234
and status attainment 302±6
self-presentation, management of 416
social movement organizations (SMOs), and
serology, and racial groups 220
`ìssue entrepreneurs'' 283, 292
service sector 33, 61
``social movement society'' 283, 286, 289, 293
politicization of 7
social movements 33, 81, 268±81, 282±94
and rural areas 198, 200
culture of 292±3
sex
defined 269±70
expectations of 116
and democracy 442±4
premarital 115±16
the distinctiveness of 438±40, 448
sexual relations, power and friendship 122
emergence of 270±6
sexual revolution 115
framing processes within 52, 271±2, 277,
sexuality, female 115, 232
278±9
sickle cell anemia, transfusion therapy
grievance theory 270±2, 281
for 219±20
identity formation and meaning
similarity, interpersonal 316
construction 281
``single gene disorders'' 217
institutionalization 286±9
``single nucleotide polymorphisms'' see SNiPs
mobilization theories 278±81
situatedness of historical texts 246
motivation theories 276±81
Index
607
nationalization of 286, 291
sociograms 319
in a non-democratic situation 444±6
sociological imagination, and concept of civil
organization in a global world 293±4
society 73±6
and political opportunity theory 274±5,
sociology
281
and history 246
and political sociology 253, 263±6
history of discipline 32±5, 246±7, 254
politics and organization 289±92
and human rights issues 97
resource mobilization theory 272±4, 281,
mainstream 44, 45, 51, 53
282, 283±6
and modernity 30±2
role of emotions in 285
``theory groups'' in American 240±1
role in human rights issues 97±8
see also feminist sociology
and the Subject 437±49
solidarity 59, 82, 448, 459, 463
transnational 293±4
decline of 74
urban 7
and diversity 82±4
see also new social movements
mechanical and organic 4
social networks 314±26
mythic 452, 453, 455±6
and collective action 280±1
post-national 59
social order
and selfishness 77
and broadcasting 21
Somalia 94
and political probleÂmatique 39
somatic nuclear cell transfer 213±14
social psychology 407±20
sophism 241
and participation in social movements 269
South Africa 179, 276, 305, 438
social rights 441
anti-apartheid movement 101, 108
social sciences
Soviet Union, former 167, 444±5
as a discipline 231±2
space
restructuring 229±32
annihilation by time 4, 8
social security, and the elderly 385±6
and the classics 4±6
Social Security Act, US (1935) 385, 386±7
collective experiences of 11
Social Security Amendment Act, US
comparisons of 275±6
(1985) 382
Durkheim's social theory of 4
social spatialization 11
in human rights 87, 97±8
social stratification see stratification
representations of 11
social structure 314
sociology of 3±15
morphology of 318±19
spatial differentiation 7±8
and personal experience 118
spatial forms, Simmel's 5
and personal networks 325
spatial practices 11
and personality 407, 408
specialization 4, 237
positions and emotional experience
flexible 33
416±17
spirituality 102±3, 453
rational action within 408±13
spokesperson, invocation 455±6
social support 321
Staatswissenschaften 230±1
for immigrant families 133
standard human subjects protocol 428
social theory 40±1
standard of living
communication and 16±18
measures 163, 169
Marxist 32
right to an adequate 93
social vacancies 316
standardization 20, 35
socialism 33, 37, 229, 230
state
sociality, and scientific process 244
discretion in application of human rights
socialization
system 95
and close ties 321
institutional channeling of social
and collective action 278
movements 287
emotional 420
limitations on sovereignty 90±1
gender 118
resistance to the 78±9
schools and 365
role in civil society 80±1
societal movements see social movements
sociology of 253
Socioeconomic Index (SEI), of
strength 275
occupations 300±1
universalization of European models of
socioeconomic status (SES) 297, 300±1
97±8
health and 348±52
state intervention
of parents 303±4, 306
and inequality 152
of US immigrants 399±403
in the media 25
608
Index
state theory, systems-based 257±8
subversion, of refusing to have an opinion 267
state±society synergy theory 56
Survey of Income and Program Participation
statecraft 254
(SIPP), USA 179±80
status
surveys 320, 407
declining significance of 64
in religion 110±11
identity and power 417±19
symbolic capital 459±60
intergenerational reproduction 298±9
symbolic interactionism 17, 407, 408, 413±17
and network size 322
structural 413±14, 420
as a relational concept 411±13
syncretism, religious 102±3
see also socioeconomic status
system, and lifeworld 20±1
status attainment 298±9
systemic transition, secular crisis and 232±5
and school socialization 365
and social mobility 302±6
technological change
status value theory 413, 417
and globalization 161
stem cells, and genetic disorders 214
growth and 154
``stereotype anxiety'' 308
and racial gap in youth employment 192
STIRPAT (STochastic Impacts by Regression on
television
Population, Affluence and
audience sociology 19±20, 22
Technology) 54
content control 23, 24
strategic alliances 330±3, 338±9, 341
proliferation of channels 22, 23±4, 25
stratification 234, 295±341
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
analysis 298, 310
(TANF) 206
cross-national comparison 310±11
test scores, as proxies for race 192±3
methodological developments in
Thatcherism 258, 263
research 309±12
theocratic society 443
and mobility in occupations 297±313
theological indicators 109
and occupational attainment 368±73
theology 227
statistical techniques 309
modification of traditional concepts 103
stress
and philosophy 248
animal models of 358±60
of universal salvation 112
health and social inequality 345±60
therapy, sexual and marital 116
and illness 355±60
third party (Simmel) 315, 316
management skill 358
``third way'' 36, 75
physiological effects 356
``thought signs'' 238±9
and religious meaning systems 105
threshold effect 159
stressors 355±6, 358
Tiananmen uprising 438
structural action theory 327±8
time
structural approaches 316±26
comparisons of 275±6
actor-centered approaches 316, 320±6
irreversibility of 10, 234
whole network approaches 316±20
time±space compression (Harvey) 8
structural equation modeling 106, 302±3, 309
time±space distanciation (Giddens) 9
structural equivalence 318
times series, and test scores 192
structural functionalism, Parsonian 36, 254
tokens, symbolic 9
structural hole theory (Burt) 323, 339
tolerance 68±9, 107±8
structuralism 248, 257±8
torture 89, 93
student outcomes
total quality management (TQM) 337
effects of school climate on 367±8
totalitarianism, new 442±4
peer group influences on 365±6
tourism 13, 15
sub-Saharan Africa, poverty in 167, 170
towns and cities see cities
subcultures
tracking 363
adolescent 367
tradition 39, 230
formation 107
transaction costs 331, 332
structural approaches to deviant 102
transformation
Subject
of national politics 65
construction of the 441
religious 102±3, 111±13
``fragmented'' 437, 441, 449
social 30, 42
liberty of the 448
transition from school to work 368±73
and societal movements 437±49
cross-national comparison 371±3
will to become a 437, 438
in USA 369±71
subsystems, organizational 329
translatability 34
suburban areas 6
translation, and missionaries 113
Index
609
transport, and communications 9, 18±19
value-neutrality 230
travel 14±15
values 254
treaties, international law of 88±90
and equality 145±52
true, and good 227±8
plurality of 145
trust 74, 80, 82, 329, 331, 341, 418
shared 74, 79
Tuskegee syphilis experiment 215, 221
video on demand 24±5
violence
UK
and inequality 163
national law and incorporation of
in protests 290, 442, 455
international treaties 90
vocational education 369, 372
politics 258±9
voluntary associations 32, 78, 80, 324
social movements 264±5
religious 112±13
uncertainty, and global warming 52±3
and social capital 261±2
UNDP 89
voting 258, 259±61
human development indices 167, 169
unemployment 166, 457, 461
war crimes 89
UNESCO 62±3
wave/particle effect 10±11
statement on race 222
wealth 62, 68, 148
unions, labor 61, 264±5, 333, 335, 336,
and power 297±8
450
racial differentials 173, 179±80, 193±4
United Nations (UN)
welfare
Charter (1945) 88
and culture of poverty paradigm 165±6
`èxtreme poverty'' construct 162±3
and income poverty 171
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
welfare state, and nation 39
(1948) 88±9, 91, 93, 97
welfarism 146±7, 148±9, 257
universalism 228±9, 231±3
well-being
and relativity in human rights 91±5, 98
individuals and 343±420
versus particularism 63±4, 77
relational aspects of group 60
universities 248
and religiosity 105
Urban Institute 189
Western Europe
urban personality 5
civil society 79
urban sociology 5±6, 7
and the USA 39
urban±rural differences see rural/urban
Westernization 40
contrasts
whiteness 66±7
urbanization 35, 306
and economic inequality in the USA 178±9
USA
whole network approaches 316±20, 330
aging and aging policy in 375±88
boundaries problem 317
DNA testing 225±6
degrees of centrality 319±20
global hegemony 25, 398
problem of responsible portraiture 319
and human rights treaties 90, 94
small groups in 317±19
immigrant women and paid domestic
wholeness, and plurality in civil society 73±85
work 423±36
``Wobblies'' see Industrial Workers of the
immigration and ethnicity 66, 389±406
World (IWW)
labor movement myth 450±63
womanhood, romanticization of 115
poverty in 163±7
women
racial economic inequality 178±95, 390