Arnaud Sales 
Sociology Today [EPUB ebook] 
Social Transformations in a Globalizing World

We are living in a turbulent world marked by fast, continuous social changes that affect the lives of individuals, families, communities, organizations, businesses, nation-states, and international networks. This fundamentally commits contemporary sociology to being a science of change.

This collection effectively mirrors this diversity and variety of transformations underway in today′s societies and transnational spaces. Written by a group of internationally renowned sociologists, it offers a cutting edge understanding of what is happening in our life worlds, work lives and frames of social existence. Bringing up issues such as political turbulence, cultural and artistic dynamics, family changes, gender roles, migration flows and social movements, it is a timely contribution that discusses transformation and globalization and their consequences in both theoretical and substansive terms.

Illuminating and comprehensive, this book will be of immense use for sociology students on all levels, as well as lecturers, researchers and others who are interested in social life and the consequences of human action.

Arnaud Sales is Emeritus Proessor of Sociology at the University of Montreal, Canada.

Tabella dei contenuti

PART I: INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: Transformations in the Multiple Domains of a Turbulent World – Arnaud Sales

PART II: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES FOR UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL CHANGE

Chapter 2: A Re-Appraisal of Agency-Structure Theories to Understand Social Change – Arnaud Sales

Chapter 3: Global Society and Polyarchic Governance – Alberto Martinelli

Chapter 4: Social Transformations and Knowledge – Nico Stehr & Bernd Weiler

PART III: RECOMPOSITION OF THE POLITICAL DOMAIN AND CHALLENGES TO CIVIL SOCIETY

Chapter 5: Political Sociology Responds to Change – Kay Lawson, Mildred Schwartz & Eva Etzioni-Halevy

Chapter 6: Global Social Movements – Politics, Subjectivity and Human Rights – Pierre Hamel, Henri Lustiger-Thaler & Louis Maheu

PART IV: THE TRANSFORMATION OF ORGANIZATIONS AND WORK

Chapter 7: Transforming Organizations – Stewart Clegg

Chapter 8: Transformations of Work in a Global Context – Employment Systems, Autonomy and Work-life Articulation as Main Challenges – Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay

Chapter 9: Reconnections – Labour Sociologies in a Globalizing Era – Carla Lipsig-Mummé & Edward Webster

Chapter 10: Returning to Professions – Julia Evetts

PART V: THE TRANSFORMATION OF LIFE WORLD AND CULTURE

Chapter 11: Challenging Women′s Domination and Striving for Equity and the Respect of Difference – Ann Denis

Chapter 12: Family Change and Lifecourse Development – Social Transformations on the Intimate Frontiers – Susan A. Mc Daniel

Chapter 13: The Waning of Religious Beliefs in Thirty European Countries – Empirical Evidence – Mattei Dogan

Chapter 14: The Culture Society – An Heuristic for Analyzing Cultural Change in the Global Age – Arturo Rodriguez Morató

Chapter 15: Power and Global Sport – Zones of Prestige, Emulation and Resistance – Joseph Maguire

PART VI: TRANSFORMATION OF FRAMES AND CONDITIONS OF SOCIAL EXISTENCE

Chapter 16: Comparative Social Transformations in Urban Regimes – Sophie Body-Gendrot, Marisol Garcia & Enzo Mingione

Chapter 17: Globalization and the Transformation of Disease and Health Care – William C. Cockerham & Geoffrey B. Cockerham

Chapter 18: The Dynamics of Migration and Social Transformations – Han Entzinger

Circa l’autore

Arnaud Sales holds a Doctorat d′État ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines, from Université de Paris 7-Denis Diderot. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Montreal, Canada. He is a specialist in economic sociology focusing on the interface of the economic and political fields. His research interests center on the relations between the public and private spheres, and the emergence of international private authorities; economic and administrative elites, and knowledge workers; the role of knowledge in social transformations.

His publications include: La Bourgeoisie industrielle au Québec (PUM, 1979); Décideurs et gestionnaires (Éditeur officiel du Québec, 1985); He has edited or co-edited the following volumes: Développement national et économie mondialisée (Sociologie et Sociétés, 1979); La recomposition du politique (PUM/L’Harmattan, 1991); Québec, fin de siècle (Sociologie et Sociétés, 1994); The International Handbook of Sociology (Sage, 2000); New Directions in the Study of Knowledge, Economy and Society (SSIS, Current Sociology, Sage, 2001) ; Knowledge, Communication and Creativity, (Sage, 2007).

He was Vice-Dean of the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Graduate Studies (1987-1992) and has chaired the Department of Sociology (2000-2007). He is a former Vice-President, International, of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (1995-1998) where he founded the Knowledge, Economy and Society Network with R. Hollingsworth. After chairing the ISA Research Committee 02 on Economy and Society, he was elected Vice-President for Research (1998-2002) of the International Sociological Association and chaired ISA Research Council.

In 2006, he was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques of France.