The SAGE Handbook of Sociology

Chris Rojek is Professor of Sociology and Culture at Brunel University, West London. He is a prolific and influential author in the field of Celebrity, Leisure Studies and Popular Culture. In 2003 he was awarded the Allen V. Sapora prize for outstanding achievement in the field of Leisure and Tourism Studies. Besides lecturing in the UK he has given lectures on leisure in Australia, Canada, the USA and the Netherlands. In 2009 he was Hood Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He also writes on celebrity culture, neat capitalism and myths and realities of national identity. His current research is on popular music and popular culture and the meaning of the celetoid in Reality TV. Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.

• Introduction - Craig Calhoun, Chris Rojek and Bryan TurnerPART ONE: THEORY AND METHODQuantitative Research Methods - Adrian E RafteryQualitative Research Traditions - Paul Atkinson and Sara DelamontSociology and Philosophy - Randall CollinsThe Diversity and Insularity of Sociological Traditions - Charles CrothersComparative Sociology - David A ApterSome Paradigms and their MomentsPART TWO: THE AXIAL PROCESSES OF SOCIETYThe Culture of Work - Richard SennettThe Sociology of the Family - Bryan TurnerThe Social Institution of Money - Geoffrey InghamThe Sociology of Consumption and Lifestyle - Don SlaterThe Sociology of Mediation and Communication - Roger SilverstoneAn Entirely Different World? Challenges for the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity - Patricia Hill CollinsA Sociology of Information - David LyonClass and Stratification - Mike SavageCurrent Problems and Revivial ProspectsThe Sociology of Culture - Wendy GriswoldThe Sociology of Health and Illness - Gary L AlbrechtThe Sociology of Religion - Bryan TurnerLeisure and Tourism - Chris RojekThe Sociology of the Environment and Nature - Steven YearleyPoverty and Life Chances - Dalton ConleyThe Conceptualization and Study of the PoorGlobalization - Roland Robertson and Kathleen E WhiteSociology and Cross-DisciplinarilyThe Sociology of Gender - Sylvia WalbyHistorical Trends and Future Prospects - Charles HirschmanPopulation and SocietyPART THREE: PRIMARY DEBATESA New Approach for Theoretically Integrating Micro and Macro Analysis - Jonathan H TurnerGlobal Inequality - Jan Nederveen PieterseBringing Politics Back InSociology and the Body - Nick CrossleyThe City - Saskia SassenIts Return as a Lens for Social TheorySociology of Deviance - Heinz SteinertThe Disciplines of Social ExclusionGlobalizing Business - Stewart R CleggSex and Power - Elspeth ProbynCapillaries, Capabilities and CapacitiesThe Sociology of the University and Higher Education - Gerard DelantyThe Consequences of GlobalizationScience, Technology and their Implications - Karin Knorr CettinaCitizenship, Ethnicity and Nation-States - Sinisa Malesevic and John A Hall

...an eclectic, essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduatestudents and those with an avid interest in the contemporary, greatly evolving, scienceof sociology, who need instruction and enlightenment in the cutting edge oftheoretical discourses of society as a whole. RecommendedJournal of SociologyThis is a wide-ranging and authoritative analysis of sociology′s ′state-of-the-art′. It will set the terms of debate for the next decadeJohn UrryLancaster University of Life The profession of sociology was blessed by abundance of excellent handbooks. The one edited by Craig Calhoun, Christ Rojek and Bryan Turner was preceded by outstanding sociology handbooks, the most eminent ones by Robert Farris and E Lee published in 1964 and a more recent one by Neil Smelser in1988. The volume by Farris and Lee not only served as an introductory text to the discipline, but contained many innovative papers, which re-oriented social research for years to come. Smelser brought together the best possible and most polished overview of the contributions professional sociology at his time. The Calhoun-Rojek-Turner Handbook combines the best of these traditions. It gives a comprehensive overview of our field, much like Smelser′s book did, but it is also daringly innovative - reminiscent to some of the by now classical chapters of the Farris-Lee treatise - in terms of giving voice to new areas of investigations, inviting contributions not only from established figures but also from younger talented scholars. This new Handbook of Sociology bravely confronts the epochal changes of our times, the new problems of the new global world order, it avoids the temptations to impose on the discipline any over-arching paradigm or methodology and forcefully combines professional or scientific approaches to sociology with politically engaged public sociologies. The book will recruit socially committed and scientifically ambitious students to major in sociology if used in introductory undergraduate courses but even graduate students will benefit reading it in trying to identify where the cutting edges of their professions might be Ivan SzelenyiYale University This Handbook of Sociology breaks new grounds by bringing together top European and American sociologists. The contributions provide a fresh perspective on many of the most recent developments in the field of sociology. This volume will prove to be a very useful tool for researchers and students across the social sciences. It will set the agenda for a more integrated, yet plural, sociology Michele LamontHarvard University