Current Sociology

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Volume 50 Number 1 January 2002
Special issue on: Latin American Sociology
Guest Editor: Roberto Briceño-León

Introduction: Latin America- A Challenge for Sociology
Roberto Briceño-León

Violence and Globalization in Latin America
Roberto Briceño-León and Verónica Zubillaga

Economic Thinking, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ethnoeconomics
Clóvis Cavalcanti

Trade Unionism and Globalization: Thoughts from Latin America
Consuelo Iranzo and Thanalí Patruyo

The Return of the Future and Questions about Knowledge
Aníbal Quijano

Social Exclusion and Knowledge
Raquel Sosa Elízaga

From Seattle to Porto Alegre: The Anti-Neoliberal Globalization Movement
José Seoane and Emilio Taddei

The Worldization of Violence and Injustice
José Vicente Tavares-dos-Santos

Ethical Challenges for the Social Sciences on the Threshold of the 21st Century
Hebe Vessuri

Volume 50 Number 2 Monograph 1 March 2002

Filiation and Identity: Towards a Sociology of Intergenerational Relations
Edited by Bernadette Bawin-Legros

Introduction- Filiation and Identity: Towards a Sociology of Intergenerational Relations
Bernadette Bawin-Legros

The Place of Fatherhood and the Parental Role: Tensions, Ambivalence and Contradictions
Christine Castelain-Meunier

Professional Trajectory and Family Patrimony
Jean-François Guillaume

Kinships Cultures and Identity Transmissions
Jean Kellerhals, Cristina Ferreira and David Perrenoud

Paradoxes of Affiliation in the Contemporary Family
Jean-Hugues Déchaux

Intergenerational Solidarity: Between the Family and the State
Bernadette Bawin-Legros and Jean-François Stassen

The Elderly and their Families, 1979-94: Changing Networks and Relationships
Nathalie Vollenwyder, Jean-François Bickel, Christian Lalive d'Epinay and Carole Maystre

The Construction of Grandparenthood
Claudine Attias-Donfut and Martin Segalen

The role of Grandparents
Anne Gauthier

Women's "Family Speech": A Trigenerational Study of Family Memory
Evelyne Favart-Jardon

Volume 50 Number 3 May 2002

Special Issue on: The Social World in the 21st Century: Ambivalent Legacies and Rising Challenges of Technologies
Guest Editor: Judy Wajcman
Prepared for the XV World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, Australia, 7-13 July 2002

Preface to Special Issue
Sussan A. McDaniel
Editor, Current Sociology

Guest Editor's Introduction
Judy Wajcman

Addressing Technological Change: The Challenge to Social Theory
Judy Wajcman

Towards a Sociology of Information Technology
Saskia Sassen

Inhabiting Technology: The Global Life form of Financial Markets
Karin Knorr Cetina and Urs Bruegger

From Digital Divides to Digital Entitlements in Knowledge Societies
Robin Mansell

Gender Relations and Technological Change in Asia
Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan

Innovative Health Technologies and the Social: Redefining Health, Medicine and the Body
Andrew Webster

Risk and Environment as Legitimatory. Discourses of Technology: Reflexivity Inside Out?
Brian Wynne

Volume 50 Number 4 July 2002

Poor Chic: The Rational Consumption of Poverty
Karen Bettez Halnon

Quantitative Cross-National Analysis as a Research Tool in the Sociology of Developing Countries: A Critical Examination
Mark Herkenrath

Social Class and Health Status in Ghana
Kwame Boadu

Measuring the Social Capital of Laid-off Chinese Workers
Yandong Zhao

Income Inequality and Economic Growth in Rich Countries: A Reconsideration of the Evidence
Michael R. Smith

Volume 50 Number 5 Monograph 2 September 2002

Women in the Armed Forces of the World: Recent Trends and Explanations
Edited by Gerhard Kümmel

When Boy Meets Girl: The "Feminization" of the Military. An Introduction Also to be Read as a Postscript
Gerhard Kümmel

Women in the Canadian Forces: Between Legal and Social Integration
Donna Winslow and Jason Dunn

The Gender Perspective of Civil-Military Relations in Israeli Society
Uta Klein

Women in the Portuguese Armed Forces: From Visibility to "Eclipse"
Helena Carreiras

Affirming Gender Equality: The Challenges Facing the South African Armed Forces
Lindy Heinecken

Women in the South Korean Military
Doo-Seung Hong

Women in Extended Roles in the Military: Legal Issues
Gwyn Harries-Jenkins

Women's Participation in Armed Forces Cross-Nationally: Expanding Segal's Model
Darlene Iskra, Stephen Trainor, Marcia Leithauser and Mady Wechsler Segal

Volume 50 Number 6 November 2002

Book Review Essays

About the Authors

Child Poverty, Maternal Health and Social Benefits
Maureen Baker

Rethinking Postmodern Maladies
Belinda Clayton

Surname Endogamy among the Brahmin of India
Suhasini Bhatnagar and Suraksha Agrawal

Back to Norms: On the Scope and Dynamics of Norms and Normative Action
Göran Therborn

Abstracts/ Résumés/ Resúmenes

Thank You

Books Received

Index to Volume 50, 2002