List of contributors. <p>Preface.</p> <p><b>Part I: Referencing Globalization:</b> .</p> <p>1. The Sociology of Space and Place: John Urry (Lancaster University).</p> <p>2. Media and Communications: John Durham Peters (University of Iowa).</p> <p>3. Modernity - One or Many?: Peter Wagner (University of Warwick).</p> <p>4. Emerging Trends in Environmental Sociology Frederick H. Buttel (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and August Gijswijt (International Sociological Association).</p> <p>5. Bringing in Codependence: Judith R. Blau (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).</p> <p><b>Part II: Relationships and Meaning:</b>.</p> <p>6. Civil Society: A Signifier of Plurality and Sense of Wholeness: Barbara A. Misztal (Griffith University, Brisbane).</p> <p>7. Human Rights: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im (Emory University).</p> <p>8. Sociology of Religion: Christian Smith (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Robert D. Woodberry (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).</p> <p>9. Intimate Relationships: Raine Dozier (University of Washington) and Pepper Schwartz (University of Washington).</p> <p>10. Immigrant Families and Their Children: Adaptation and Identity Formation: Carola Sußrez-Orozco (Harvard Immigration Projects).</p> <p><b>Part III: Economic Inequalities:</b> .</p> <p>11. On Inequality: Siddiqur Rahman Osmani (University of Ulster).</p> <p>12. The Persistence of Poverty in a Changing World: Melvin L. Oliver (Ford Foundation) and David M. Grant (Cleveland State University).</p> <p>13. Racial Economic Inequality in the USA: William A. Darity, Jr. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Samuel L. Myers, Jr. (University of Minnesota).</p> <p>14. Rediscovering Rural America: Bonnie Thornton Dill (University of Maryland, College Park).</p> <p><b>Part IV: Science, Knowledge, and Ideas:</b>.</p> <p>15. The Sociology of Science and the Revolution in Molecular Biology: Troy Duster (University of California, Berkeley).</p> <p>16. Structures of Knowledge: Richard E. Lee (State University of New York at Binghamton ) and Immanuel Wallerstein (Binghamton University).</p> <p>17. The New Sociology of Ideas: Charles Camic (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Neil Gross (University of Wisconsin-Madison).</p> <p><b>Part V: Politics and Political Movements:</b>.</p> <p>18. Political Sociology: Mike Savage (University of Manchester).</p> <p>19. Why Social Movements Come into Being and Why People Join Them: Bert Klandermans (Free University, Amsterdam).</p> <p>20. Social Movement Politics and Organization: Debra C. Minkoff (Yale University).</p> <p><b>Part VI: Structures: Stratification, Networks, and Firms:</b>.</p> <p>21. Occupations, Stratification, and Mobility: Donald J. Treiman (University of California at Los Angeles).</p> <p>22. Social Networks: Bonnie Erickson (University of Toronto).</p> <p>23. Networks and Organizations: David Knoke (University of Minnesota).</p> <p><b>Part VII: Individuals and Their Well Being:</b>.</p> <p>24. Social Inequality, Stress, and Health: Joseph E. Schwartz (State University of New York at Stony Brook).</p> <p>25. Two Research Traditions in the Sociology of Education: Maureen T. Hallinan (University of Notre Dame).</p> <p>26. Aging and Aging Policy in the US: Madonna Harrington Meyer (Syracuse University) and Pamela Herd (Syracuse University).</p> <p>27. Immigration and Ethnicity: The United States at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: RubÚn G. Rumbaut (Michigan State University).</p> <p>28. Social Psychology: Lynn Smith-Lovin (University of Arizona).</p> <p><b>Part VIII: Social Action:</b> .</p> <p>29. Immigrant Women and Paid Domestic Work: Research, Theory, and Activism: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (University of Southern California).</p> <p>30. The Subject and Societal Movements: Alain Touraine (École des Hautes Études).</p> <p>31. The Myth of the Labor Movement: Rick Fantasia (Smith College).</p> <p>Appendix: Data Resources on the World Wide-Web: Compiled by Kathryn Harker (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).</p> <p>Bibliography.</p> <p>Index.</p>