Current Sociology

List of Published Issues

 

Vol. 49, No. 1, January 2001

Social Theories of Risk Perception: At Once Indispensable and Insufficient.
Iain Wilkinson

Reflexivity, Risk and Collective Action Over Waste Management: A Constructive Proposal.
Enrique Laraña

The Face of Nature: Environmental Ethics and the Boundaries of Contemporary Social Theory.
Mick Smith

Economy and Ecology in an Era of Knowledge-Based Economies
Nico Stehr

‘Save the Earth' or ‘Manage the Earth'? The Politics of Environmental Globality in High Modernity.
Fernanda de Paiva Duarte

The Re-Naturalization of Society? Environmental Challenges for Sociology.
Rolf Lidskog


Vol. 49, No. 2, March 2001

The Study of Social Sciences in Developing Societies: Towards an Adequate Conceptualization of Relevance.
Syed Farid Alatas

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Life Course: Innovations and Challenges for Social Research.
Walter R. Heinz and Helga Krüger

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A Dimensional Approach to Measuring Social Capital: Development and Validation of a Social Capital Inventory.
Deepa Narayan and Michael F. Cassidy

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Vol. 49, No. 3, Monograph 1, May 2001

The Sociology of Health and Illness
Edited by Eugene B. Gallagher and Elianne Riska

Introduction
Eugene B. Gallagher and Elianne Riska

Gender, Age and Health

Gender Biases Underlying the Social Construction of Illness States: The Case of Chronic Fatigue Syndrom.
Judith A. Richman and Leonard A. Jason

The Myth of Gender Differences in Health: Social Structural Determinants across Adult Ages in Britain and Finland.
Eero Lahelma, Sara Arber, Pekka Martikainen, Ossi Rahkonen and Karri Silventoinen

‘The First Thing I did When I Came Back from the Clinic Last Week Was Change the Sheets on the Bed': Contamination, Penetration and Resistance - Male Clients in the VD Clinic.
Anthony Pryce

Health Policy and the Health Professions

Determinants of Medical Employment in Urban Mexico: Ascription, Achievement and Context.
Julio Frenk, Felicia Knaul, Luis A. Vázquez-Segovia and Gustavo Nigenda

To Diagnose, Prescribe and Dispense: Whose Right Is It? The Ongoing Struggle between Pharmacy and Medicine in South Africa.
Leah Gilbert

Alternative Medicine and the Health Care Division of Labour: Present Trends and Future Prospects.
Mike Saks

Financing to Foster Community Health Care: A Comparative Analysis of Singapore, Europe, North America and Australia.
John Duff

Culture and Medicine

Family at the Bedside: Strength of the Chinese Family or Weakness of Hospital Care?
Ly-yun Chang

Restructuring Care for the Elderly in Germany.
Eldon L. Wegner

A Tale of Treatment: Tuberculosis Control in a Low Income Neighborhood in the United State.
Paul Draus

Medicine, Disability and Family in an Affluent Arab Society: The Case of Zahira Qetub.
Eugene B. Gallagher and Terry Stratton

Vol. 49, No. 4, Monograph 2 July 2001

New Directions in the Study of Knowledge, Economy and Society
Edited by Kamini Adhikari and Arnaud Sales

About the Authors

Introduction: New Directions in the Study of  Knowledge, Economy and Society
KAMINI ADHIKARI AND ARNAUD SALES

The Creation and Incorporation of Knowledge in Economic Activities

The Epistemization of Economic Transactions
KARIN KNORR CETINA AND ALEX PREDA

Adaptive Costs: A New Institutional Paradigm of Rules for the Competitive Game
JERALD HAGE

Institutionalist Theories and Inter-Firm Alliances: The Transaction Cost, Competence and Evolutionary Debate Revisited
BERTRAND BELLON AND JORGE NIOSI

How the Law Works:  Exploring the Implications of  Emerging Intellectual Property Regimes for Knowledge, Economy and Society
CLAIRE POLSTER

Knowledge Society and the Professions

Professionals and the “Knowledge Economy”: Rethinking the Theory of Postindustrial Society
STEVEN BRINT

The Professionalization of Knowledge in European Markets: Engineering in the UK and Poland
JULIA EVETTS AND ANNA BUCHNER-JEZIORSKA

Professional Group Power in Developing Societies
ELLIOT A. KRAUSE

Critical Perspectives on Knowledge Society

A Critical Guide to Knowledge Society Newspeak: Or, How Not to Take the Great Leap Backward
STEVE FULLER

Is Knowledge-Based Society a Relevant Strategy for Civil Society?
MARJA HÄYRINEN-ALESTALO

Vol. 49, No. 5, September 2001

About the Authors

Gambling against the State: The State and the Legitimation of Gambling
Jim Cosgrave and Thomas R. Klassen

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Towards an Analysis of Institutional Cultures: Bulgaria, Germany and Taiwan
Hansjürgen Daheim, Chang Wei-an and Tanya Chavdarova

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Families in Europe: A Private and Political Stake- Intimacy and Solidarity
Bernadette Bawin-Legros

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Vol. 49, No. 6, November 2001

Plagues and Viruses
Human and Cyber - What Role for Sociology?

About the Authors

J'accuse!
Stephen Lewis

Microbes and Us
Ellen M. Gee

Twenty Years in the AIDS Pandemic: A Place for Sociology
Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale

Gender and HIV/AIDS: What Do Men Have to Do with It?
Purnima Mane and Peter Aggleton

A Plague of Viruses: Biological, Computer and Marketing
Jeffrey Boase and Barry Wellman

Managing a Plague: Channelling the ASpread@ of AIDS Research
Karl M. Van Meter


Vol. 48, No. 1, January 2000

ROBERT A. STEBBINS
The Extra-Professional Life: Leisure, Retirement and Unemployment

LYNNE GOULIQUER
Pandora's Box: The Paradox of Flexibility in Today's Workplace

ABRAM DE SWAAN, JAMES MANOR, ELSE OYEN AND ELISA P. REIS
Elite Perceptions of the Poor: Reflections for a Comparative Research Project

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Vol. 48, No. 2, April 2000

SONGÜL SALLAN GÜL AND HÜSEYIN GÜL
The Question of Women in Islamic Revivalism in Turkey: A Review of the Islamic Press

RICARDO LIONEL COSTA AND DANUTA TERESA MOZEJKO
Constructing/Becoming History

WANDA RUSHING
Cold War Racial Politics and Global Impression Management: North Carolina Economic Development as a Case Study

HAMMED SHAHIDIAN
Sociology and Exile: Banishment and Tensional Loyalties

Vol. 48, No. 3, July 2000

Modernity: Sociological Categories and Identities
Sujeta Patel

Categorization: Identity, Social Process and Epistemology
Richard Jenkins

Negotiating the Constraints of Gender Binarism: Intersexuals' Challenge to Gender Categorization
Sharon Elaine Preves

Race and Nation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Kogila Moodley and Heribert Adam

Recognition Through Pleasure, Recognition Through Violence: Gendered Coloured Subjectivities in South Africa
Zimitri Erasmus

Race and Ethnicity and the Controversy over US Census
Margo Anderson and Stephen E.Fienberg

Caste as Census Category: Implications for Sociology
Nandini Sundar

Vol. 48, No. 4, October 2000

Special Issue on: The Muslim Family in Europe

Muslim Communities in Europe: Reconstruction and Transformation
Fatima Husain and Margaret O'Brien

Muslim Women and Nationalism: The Power of the Image
Christiane Timmerman

Muslim Presence in Europe: The British Dimension -Identity, Integration and Community Activism
Safar Khan

Altruism and Intergenerational Relations among Muslims in Britain
Saeed Zokaei and David Phillips

‘Dutch Islam': Young People. Learning and Integration
Edien Bartels

Muslim Families from Morocco in the Netherlands: Gender Dynamics and Fathers' Roles in a context of Change Trees Pels

Islam, Media and Minorities in Denmark
Mustafa Hussain