Published Issues
2004. Volume 19. Editor: Saďd Amir Arjomad
Incoming editors: Jeanne de Bruijn, Melinda Mills, Gerhard van de Bunt
Vol. 19, No. 1, March 2004. Abstracts
A Comparative Study of the Successful Management of Religious Diversity:
Melbourne and Hong Kong
Gary D. Bouma and Andrew Singleton
Institutional Transition and Cultural Inheritance: Network Ownership and
Corporate Control of Business Groups in Taiwan, 1970s-1990s
Chi-Nien Chung
The Saussurean Influence in Pierre Bourdieu's Relational Sociology
Willem Schinkel and Jacques Tacq
Conceptualizing Hybridization: On the Diffusion of Asian Medical Knowledge
to Germany
Robert Frank and Gunnar Stollberg
Building Environmental States: Legitimacy and Rationalization in Sustainability
Governance
Scott Frickel and Debra J. Davidson
BOOK REVIEWS
Michael G. Peletz, Islamic Modern: Religious Courts and Cultural Politics
in Malaysia
Armando Salvatore, ed., Muslim Traditions and Modern Techniques of Power
Muhammad Qasim Zaman, The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change
Reviewed by Peter Mandaville
Almut Höfert and Armando Salvatore, eds, Between Europe and Islam:
Shaping Modernity in a Transcultural Space
Amin Saikal, Islam and the West: Conflict or Cooperation?
Reviewed by Babak Rahimi
Sara Shalev, The Altruistic Dialogue: Ethics, Women, and Politics
Reviewed by Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
Vivien A. Schmidt, The Futures of European Capitalism
Reviewed by Ann Vogel
Résumés / Resúmenes
Vol. 19, No. 2, June 2004. Abstracts
International Perspectives on Surveillance: Technology
and Management of Risk
Guest Editors: David Lyon and Sean P. Hier
Introduction
Sean P.Hier and David Lyon
Globalizing Surveillance: Comparative and Sociological
Perspectives
David Lyon
From ‘Common Observation' to Behavioural Risk Management: Workplace
Surveillance and Employee Assistance 1914-2003
Susan Hansen
Targeted! Population Segmentation, Electronic Surveillance
and Governing the Unemployed in Australia
Paul Henman
Surveillance Technology, Privacy and Social Control: With
Reference to the Case of the Electronic National Identification Card in
South Korea
Mun-Cho Kim
Everyday Policing in Japan: Surveillance, Media, Government
and Public Opinion
Kiyoshi Abe
BOOK REVIEWS
Toshiaki Tachibanaki, Nihon no Keizai Kakusa (Economic
Inequality in Japan)
Toshiki Sato, Fubyodo Shakai Nihon (The Inequality of Opportunity in Contemporary
Japan)
Reviewed by Hiroshi Ono
Giuseppe Caforio, ed., Handbook of the Sociology of the
Military
Reviewed by John Allen Williams
John D. Brewer, C. Wright Mills and the Ending of Violence
John Darby and Roger Mac Ginty, eds, Contemporary Peacemaking: Conflict,
Violence and Peace Processes
Reviewed by Wolfgang Knöbl
David Gordon and Peter Townsend, eds, Breadline Europe:
The Measurement of Poverty
Chiara Saraceno (ed.), Social Assistance Dynamics in Europe: National
and Local Poverty Regimes
Reviewed by Bertil Tungodden
Max Kaase, Vera Sparschuh and Agnieszka Wenninger, eds,
Three Social Sciences Disciplines in Central and Eastern Europe
Reviewed by Mateus Tomsic
Résumés / Resúmenes
Vol. 19, No. 3, September 2004. Abstracts
Nathalia Rogers
The Making of Differences
Michel Wieviorka
SYMPOSIUM OF SOCIAL THEORY
Preface
Saďd Amir Arjomand
The Changing Role of the Social Sciences: An Action-Theoretical
Perspective
Hans Joas
The Actor in the Social Sciences: A Reply to Hans Joas
Immanuel Wallerstein
Social Theory and the Changing World: Mass Democracy, Development,
Modernization and Globalization
Saďd Amir Arjomand
EXCHANGE ON THE TRANSNATIONAL BUSINESS COMMUNITY
Yes, There is a (Growing) Transnational Business Community:
A Study of Global Interlocking Directorates 1983-98
Jeffrey Kentor and Yong Suk Jang
Problems in the Study of the Transnational Business Community:
A Reply to Kentor and Jang
William K. Carroll and Meindert Fennema
BOOK REVIEWS
Wilma A. Dunaway, ed., Emerging Issues in the 21st Century
World-System. Vol. 1: Crises and Resistance in the 21st Century World-System;
Vol. 2: New Theoretical Directions for the 21st Century World-System
Reviewed by Göran Therborn
Karl M. Van Meter, ed., Interrelation between Type of Analysis and Type
of Interpretation
Reviewed by Raymond M. Lee
Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, Cross-Cultural Research
Methods
Michael Burawoy et al., Global Ethnography
Jürgen H.P. Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik and Christof Wolf, eds, Advances in
Cross-National Comparison: A European Working Book for Demographic and
Socio-Economic Variables
James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds, Comparative Historical Analysis
in Social Sciences
Reviewed by Jennifer Platt
Peter Fairbrother and Gerard Griffin, eds, Changing Prospects
for Trade Unionism: Comparisons between Six Countries
A.V. Jose ed., Organised Labour in the 21st Century
Reviewed by Kevin McCormick
Résumés / Resúmenes
Vol. 19, No. 4, December 2004. Abstracts
Emilio J. Castilla
The Myth of Marketization: An Evaluation of the Persistence
of Non-Market Activities in Advanced Economies
Colin C. Williams
Bureaucratic Rationality and Nodal Agency in a Developmental
State: The Case of State-Led Biotechnology Development in Singapore
Lai Si Tsui-Auch
Early Modernities and Contentious Politics in Mid-Qing
China, c. 1740-1839
Ho-fung Hung
Contentious Public Religion: Two Conceptions of Islam in
Revolutionary Iran: Ali Shariŕti and Abdolkarim Soroush
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
BOOK REVIEWS
Robert Kloosterman and Jan Rath, eds, Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Venturing
Abroad in the Age of Globalization
Reviewed by Yen-Fen Tseng
Carlos Albert Torres and Ari Antikainen, The International
Handbook on the Sociology of Education: An International Assessment of
New Research and Theory
Reviewed by William K. Cummings
William K. Cummings, The Institutions of Education
Reviewed by Joseph Zajda
Jennifer Platt, The British Sociological Association: A
Sociological History
Reviewed by Charles Camic
Resúmés / Resúmenes
Annual Index
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