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Response to financial meltdown is entangled with basic challenges to global governance. Environment, global security and ethnicity and nationalism are all global issues today. Focusing on the political and social dimensions of the crisis, contributors examine changes in relationships between the world's richer and poorer countries, efforts to strengthen global institutions, and difficulties facing states trying to create stability for their citizens.

Though the word sociology was coined in Europe, the field of sociology grew most dramatically in America. Despite that disproportionate influence, American sociology has never been the subject of an extended historical examination. To remedy that situation and to celebrate the centennial of the American Sociological Association Craig Calhoun assembled a team of leading sociologists to produce "Sociology in ""America"."
"Rather than a story of great sociologists or departments, "Sociology in America" is a true history of an often disparate field and a deeply considered look at the ways...

Upon realizing the inability of his education to make sense of this wartime reality, Bourdieu immediately undertook the creation of a new...

Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit. Much more basic than the result of a few financial traders cheating the system, this is a potential historical turning point. In original essays, the contributors establish why the system was ripe for crisis of the past, and yet why this meltdown was different. The volume concludes by asking whether as...

Mit analytischer Schärfe zeichnen Craig Calhoun, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar und Charles Taylor in diesem Buch aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven die Aushöhlung unserer Demokratie nach. Sie beleuchten, wie die herrschenden Eliten versuchen, ihre Privilegien zu sichern, und wie individuelle Freiheit zum Feind von Gleichheit und Solidarität wurde. Aber sie zeigen auch Wege einer möglichen demokratischen Erneuerung auf: Zum einen gilt es, die Idee des Gemeinwohls wiederzuentdecken und an republikanische Traditionen anzuschließen, zum anderen könnten soziale Bewegungen wie Black Lives...

Practicing Culture seeks to revitalize the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical research. Culture is not just products and representations but practices. It is made and remade in countless small ways and occasional bursts of innovation. It is something people do - and do in rich variety and distinctive contexts as engaging case studies from the book reveal. For example:

• in Russia's most Western city, Kaliningrad, residents dig for artifacts symbolizing a...

Practicing Culture seeks to revitalize the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical research. Culture is not just products and representations but practices. It is made and remade in countless small ways and occasional bursts of innovation. It is something people do - and do in rich variety and distinctive contexts as engaging case studies from the book reveal. For example:

• in Russia's most Western city, Kaliningrad, residents dig for artifacts symbolizing a...