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Informationen zum Autor Chris Rojek is Professor of Sociology and Culture at Brunel University, West London. He is a prolific and influential author in the field of Celebrity, Leisure Studies and Popular Culture. In 2003 he was awarded the Allen V. Sapora prize for outstanding achievement in the field of Leisure and Tourism Studies. Besides lecturing in the UK he has given lectures on leisure in Australia, Canada, the USA and the Netherlands. In 2009 he was Hood Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He also writes on celebrity culture, neat capitalism and myths and realities of national identity. His current research is on popular music and popular culture and the meaning of the celetoid in Reality TV. Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals. Klappentext Sociology has evolved greatly since its inception as an academic discipline. It has diverged into numerous strands often flowing in disparate directions. The SAGE Handbook of Sociology reflects upon the condition of sociology today and also looks to future developments in the discipline. Zusammenfassung Sociology has evolved greatly since its inception as an academic discipline. It has diverged into numerous strands often flowing in disparate directions. The SAGE Handbook of Sociology reflects upon the condition of sociology today and also looks to future developments in the discipline. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Craig Calhoun, Chris Rojek and Bryan Turner PART ONE: THEORY AND METHOD Quantitative Research Methods - Adrian E Raftery Qualitative Research Traditions - Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont Sociology and Philosophy - Randall Collins The Diversity and Insularity of Sociological Traditions - Charles Crothers Comparative Sociology - David A Apter Some Paradigms and their Moments PART TWO: THE AXIAL PROCESSES OF SOCIETY The Culture of Work - Richard Sennett The Sociology of the Family - Bryan Turner The Social Institution of Money - Geoffrey Ingham The Sociology of Consumption and Lifestyle - Don Slater The Sociology of Mediation and Communication - Roger Silverstone An Entirely Different World? Challenges for the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity - Patricia Hill Collins A Sociology of Information - David Lyon Class and Stratification - Mike Savage Current Problems and Revivial Prospects The Sociology of Culture - Wendy Griswold The Sociology of Health and Illness - Gary L Albrecht The Sociology of Religion - Bryan Turner Leisure and Tourism - Chris Rojek The Sociology of the Environment and Nature - Steven Yearley Poverty and Life Chances - Dalton Conley The Conceptualization and Study of the Poor Globalization - Roland Robertson and Kathleen E White Sociology and Cross-Disciplinarily The Sociology of Gender - Sylvia Walby Historical Trends and Future Prospects - Charles HirschmanPopulation and Society PART THREE: PRIMARY DEBATES A New Approach for Theoretically Integrating Micro and Macro Analysis - Jonathan H Turner Global Inequality - Jan Nederveen Pieterse Bringing Politics Back In Sociology and the Body - Nick Crossley The City - Saskia Sassen Its Return as a Lens for Social Theory Sociology of Devi...
