Sociological Landscape - Theories, Realities and Trends

00 preface_ Sociological Landscape – Theories, Realities and Trends......Page 1
00a_Part 1_Theories......Page 13
01_Biopolitics:
Biodiversity as Discourse of Claims......Page 15
02_Analysing Social Structures......Page 27
03_The Nature-Society Controversy in France:
Epistemological and Political Implications......Page 53
04_Contingency Theoretical Functionalism and the
Problem of Functional Differentiation......Page 67
05_Economic Sociology:
Bringing Back Social Factors......Page 89
06_What is Economic Sociology?......Page 113
07_A Meta-Analysis Framework and Its
Application for Exploring the Driving
Causes to Social Vulnerability......Page 139
08_Can Sociology Help Us to Live a Better Life ?
A Phenomenological Approach
to Clinical Sociology......Page 155
09_Sociology’s Neglect of Ecological Context......Page 175
10_Zoological Collections and the Effects of
Scientific Territorialism......Page 187
10a_Part 2_ Realities......Page 207
11_The American Dream and
Corporate Executive Fraud......Page 209
12_Education and the Reproduction of Inequalities......Page 219
13_Small-Scale Entrepreneurship in
Modern Italy – An Ethnographic
Analysis of Social Embeddedness
in the Access to Capital and Credit......Page 249
14_Labour Relations and
Social Movements in the 21st Century......Page 269
15_Exploring the Sociology of Agriculture:
Family Farmers in Norway –
Future or Past Food Producers?......Page 295
16_Climate Change and Shifting
Technoscientific Agendas......Page 317
17_Religious Participation and Educational
Attainment: An Empirical Investigation......Page 329
17a_Part 3_ Trends......Page 351
18_Symbiosis and Exploitation in Sports-Media
Interrelations: The Israeli Case of Maccabi
Tel-Aviv Basketball Club and the Public Channel......Page 353
19_Fulfilling the Promise of Sociology: Some Steps
for Generating Reflexivity in Organizations......Page 369
20_Food Policy Beyond Neo-Liberalism......Page 387
21_History and Sociology:
What is Historical Sociology?......Page 415