Originally published: 2001.

"Data resources on the World Wide Web": p. [464]-525.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [526]-589) and index.

Part I. REFERENCING GLOBALIZATION. -- 1. The Sociology of Space and Place / John Urry -- 2. Media and Communications / John Durham Peters -- 3. Modernity: One or Many? / Peter Wagner -- 4. Emerging Trends in Environmental Sociology / Frederick H. Buttel and August Gijswijt -- 5. Bringing in Codependence / Judith R. Blau -- Part II. RELATIONSHIPS AND MEANING. -- 6. Civil Society: a Signifier of Plurality and Sense of Wholeness / Barbara A. Misztal -- 7. Human Rights / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im -- 8. Sociology of Religion / Christian Smith and Robert D. Woodberry -- 9. Intimate Relationships / Raine Dozier and Pepper Schwartz -- 10. Immigrant Families and Their Children: Adaptation and Identity Formation / Carola Sudrez-Orozco. Part III. ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES. -- 11. On Inequality / Siddiqur Rahman Osmani -- 12. The Persistence of Poverty in a Changing World / Melvin L. Oliver and David M. Grant -- 13. Racial Economic Inequality in the USA -- William A. Darity, Jr. and Samuel L. Myers, Jr. -- 14. Rediscovering Rural America / Bonnie Thornton Dill -- Part IV. SCIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, AND IDEAS. -- 15. The Sociology of Science and the Revolution in Molecular Biology / Troy Duster -- 16. Structures of Knowledge / Richard E. Lee and Immanuel Wallerstein -- 17. The New Sociology of Ideas / Charles Camic and Neil Gross.
Part V. POLITICS AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS. --18. Political Sociology / Mike Savage -- 19. Why Social Movements Come into Being and Why People Join Them / Bert Klandermans -- 20. Social Movement Politics and Organization / Debra C. Minkoff -- Part VI. STRUCTURES, STRATIFICATION, NETWORKS, AND FIRMS. -- 21. Occupations, Stratification, and Mobility / Donald J. Treiman -- 22. Social Networks / Bonnie Erickson -- 23. Networks and Organizations / David Knoke -- Part VII. INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR WELL-BEING. -- 24. Social Inequality, Stress, and Health / Joseph E. Schwartz -- 25. Two Research Traditions in the Sociology of Education / Maureen Hallinan -- 26. Aging and Aging Policy in the USA / Madonna Harrington Meyer and Pamela Herd -- 27. Immigration and Ethnicity: the United States at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century / Ruben G. Rumbaut -- 28. Social Psychology / Lynn Smith-Lovin -- Part VIII. SOCIAL ACTION. -- 29. Immigrant Women and Paid Domestic Work: Research, Theory, and Activism / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo -- 30. The Subject and Societal Movements / Alain Touraine -- 31. The Myth of the Labor Movement / Rick Fantasia -- Appendix: Data Resources on the World Wide Web / Compiled by Kathryn Harker.