Current Sociology

List of Published Issues

Volume 52 Number 1, January 2004, abstracts

About the Authors

Editorial: Beneath the Surface
Dennis Smith

Glocommodification: How the Global Consumes the Local- McDonald's in Israel
Uri Ram

Making Agreements and Managing Conflicts: Swedish Dual-Earner Couples in Theory and Practice
Ulla Björnberg

Welfare Regimes and the Norms of Social Exchange
Steffen Mau

Mechanistic Explanations in the Social Sciences
Diego Rios

Review Essay: Art, Self and Society
Maria Gornostaeva

Review Essay: Youth, Families and Global Transformations
Jean-Charles Lagrée

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Volume 52 Number 2, March 2004, abstracts

Special Issue:
Beyond the Conventional Family: Intimacy, Care and Community in the 21st Century

About the Authors

Editors' Introduction: Beyond the Conventional Family
Shelley Budgeon and Sasha Roseneil

Cultures of Intimacy and Care Beyond 'the Family': Personal Life and Social Change in the Early 21st Century
Sasha Roseneil and Shelly Budgeon

Peer-Shared Households, Quasi-Communes and Neo-Tribes
Sue Heath

Cruising to Familyland: Gay Hypergamy and Rainbow Kinship
Judith Stacey

Personal Communities: Not Simply Families of 'Fate' or 'Choice'
Ray Pahl and Liz Spencer

Intimacy and the New Sentimental Order
Bernadette Bawin-Legros

The Precariousness of Choice in the New Sentimental Order:
A Response to Bawin-Legros
Mary Holmes

Care, Intimacy and Same-Sex Partnership in the 21st Century
Barry D. Adam

Review Essay: Theatres without Footlights: Deliberative Democracy and Creative Engagement
Graham Murdock

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Volume 52 Number 3 Monograph 1, May 2004, abstracts

Women and Men in Political and Business Elites: A Comparative Study in the Industrialized World

About the Authors

Foreword
Eva Etzioni-Halevy

Introduction

Description of the Sample and Research Design
Silvia Sansonetti

Demographic Characteristics and Family Life
Giovanna Di Stefano and Antonella Pinnelli

Career Paths
Brigitte Liebig and Silvia Sansonetti

Business Leaders' Work Environment and Leadership Styles
Litsa Nicolaou-Smokoviti

Values
Renata Siemiénska

Social Capital: Mentors and Contacts
Michal Palgi and Gwen Moore

Networks: An Application of Multidimensional Scaling Analysis
Rosanna Memoli

Gender Differences in Access to and Exercise of Power
Mino Vianello

Conclusions

Acknowledgements and History of the Research

Bibliography

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Volume 52 Number 4, July 2004, abstracts

A Subject Centred Sociology of Social Movements

About the Authors

Introduction
François Dubet and Henri Lustiger Thaler , Université 'Victor Segalen', Bordeaux, France;Ramapo College, New Jersey, USA

Oneself as Another: From Social Movement to Experience Movement
Kevin McDonald , University of Melbourne, Australia

Social Movements in the Renegotiation of the Bases for Citizenship in West Africa
Ebrima Sall , CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal

The Rift in the Subject: A Late Global Modernist Dilemma
Henri Lustiger Thaler , Ramapo College, New Jersey, USA

Actors, Conflicts and the Globalization Movement
Antimo L. Farro , Università di Roma 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy

Local Actors in Global Politics
Saskia Sassen , University of Chicago, USA

Collective Subjectivity, Democracy and Domination: The MJVA in Marathwada, India
Shruti Tambe , University of Pune, India

Between a Defence of Society and a Politics of the Subject: The Specificity of Today's Social Movements
François Dubet , Université 'Victor Segalen', Bordeaux, France

On the Frontier of Social Movements
Alain Touraine , CADIS, EHESS, Paris, France

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Volume 52 Number 5, September 2004, abstracts

Special Issue: Tenth Anniversary of Democracy in South Africa

About the Authors

Editorial: South Africa's Past in the Present
Abebe Zegeye and Nthabiseng Motsemme

Democratic Transition and Consolidation in South Africa: The Advice of ‘the Experts'
Raymond Suttner

Human Capital and Credentialism: The Sociological Explanation of Racial Inequalities in South Africa
Idris Mgobozi

‘As Unremarkable as the Air They Breathe'? Reforming Police Management in South Africa
Monique Marks and Jenny Fleming

South Africa and the Rest of the Continent: Towards a Critique of the Political Economy of NEPAD
Ishmael Lesufi

Thirty Years Since the Durban Strikes: Black Working-Class Leadership and the South African Transition
Ari Sitas

Of Struggles and Whistles: Mamelodi's Black Youth Culture
Abebe Zegeye

Living in ‘Jan Bom': Making and Imagining Lives after Apartheid in a Council Housing Scheme in Johannesburg
Irma du Plessis

The Mute Always Speak: On Women's Silences at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Nthabiseng Motsemme

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Volume 52 Number 6, November 2004, abstracts

Globalization and International Tourism in Developing Countries: Marginality as a Commercial Commodity
Victor Azarya

Models of Health Care Rationing
Volker H. Schmidt

Status Inconsistency as Predictor of Public Action Attitudes in Romania
Dumitru Sandu

The Impact of Corporate Culture on Company Performance
José A. Garmendia

Review Essay: A Multi-Paradigm Discipline Meets Multiethnic States: Three Perspectives on Heterogeneous Societies
Devorah Kalekin-Fishman

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Index to Volume 52, 2004

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