Current Sociology

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Volume 53 Number 1, January 2005

About the Authors

Changing Fashions, Norms and Rationales

The Return of the Fur Coat: A Commodity Chain Perspective
Lise Skov

Normalizing the Workplace Nap: Blurring the Boundaries between Public and Private Space and Time
Vern Baxter and Steve Kroll-Smith

In Bed with the Enemy: Some Ideas on the Connections between Neoliberalism and the Welfare State
Yvonne Hartman

War against the Family: Domestic Violence and Human Rights in Russia - A View from the Bashkortostan Republic
Venera Zakirova

Transnationality and Cosmopolitanism

The Global and the Local
Bruce Mazlish

Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Glocalization
Victor Roudometof

Roudometof: A Dialogue
Bruce Mazlish

Response: The Moral Conundrums of the Global Age
Victor Roudometof

Transnationality and the Trans-Siberian Express: Comments on a Dialogue
Dennis Smith

Review Essay: Discourses on Abortion, Discourses on Politics: Two Studies in the Politics of Discourse
Geraldo Tadeu Moreira Monteiro

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Volume 53 Number 2, Monograph 1 March 2005

Bodily Order. Mind, Emotion and Social Memory

About the Authors

Preface
Roberto Cipriani

Introduction: The Ethics of Complexity
Bianca Maria Pirani and Ivan Varga

Part One: The Body in Action - A New Frontier for the Social Sciences?

The Body - The New Sacred? The Body in Hypermodernity
Ivan Varga

Body Rhythms, Social Rhythms in Digital Societies
Bianca Maria Pirani

Trance States and Accessing Implicit Memories: A Psychosocial Genomic Approach
to Reconstituting Social Memory during Religious Rituals.
Sidney M. Greenfield

Body Trance and Word Trance in Brazilian Religion
Roberto Motta

Part Two: Biological Body and Cognitive Processes

The Robot and the Forest
Pierre Sonigo

The Integration of the Body and Mind
Nico M. van Gelder

Banking on Immortality? Exploring the Stem Cell Supply Chain from Embryo
to Therapeutic Application
Peter Glasner

Cloning/Stem Cells and the Meaning of Life
Matthew David and Jamieson Kirkhope

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Volume 53 Number 3, May 2005

About the Authors

Ruminations on Smell as Sociocultural Phenomenon
Kelvin E.Y. Low

Transnational Publics: New Spaces of Social Movement Activism and the Problem of Global Long-Sightedness
Thomas Olesen

Alienation Incorporated: ´F*** the Mainstream Music` in the Mainstream
Karen Bettez Halnon

The Rise of Alevism as a Public Religion
Sehriban Sahin

The Work-Care Balance: Is it Possible to Identify Typologies for Cross-National Comparisons?
Barbara Haas

Review Essay: Current and Future
Perspectives on Migration
Navid Ghani

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