The Shape of Sociology for the 21st Century

Devorah Kalekin-Fishman teaches Sociology at the University of Haifa.  Ann Denis teaches Sociology at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Sociology, itself a moment of the self-reflexive nature of modernity, periodically makes itself an object of reflection. This collection of papers, artfully brought together by Devorah Kalekin and Anne Dennis, by many of the leading sociologists of the ISA, covers a wide range of topics and perspectives that are crucial for understanding our time and how sociology shows both greater specialization of interests and at the same time, more interdisciplinary approaches - all of which are contextualized by the ever growing globality of our age - which includes the growing interests in sociology. It is mandatory reading for those concerned with where international sociology is and where it its going. And given the range of topics - it is a very enjoyable read.

• Introduction: The Foreseeable Future of Sociology - Devorah Kalekin-Fishman and Ann DenisPART I: THEORIZING SOCIOLOGY: FROM PAST TO FUTUREChapter 2: Recent Changes in Sociology - Michel WieviorkaChapter 3: On Inter-Human Space - Piotr SztompkaChapter 4: From Modernity to Globality - Devorah Kalekin-FishmanChapter 5: Integrating the Analysis of Complex Inequalities and Globalization into the Heart of Social Theory Using Complexity Theory - Sylvia WalbyPART II: SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGEChapter 6: Beyond Three Constitutive Ideas of Classical Sociology - Globalization, Post-Modernity and Reflexivity - Emilio Lamo de EspinosaChapter 7: The Shape of Sociology - Looking at the History of our Present - Elisa P. ReisChapter 8: Dimensions of World-Making - Thoughts from the Caspian Sea - Dennis SmithPART III: FOCUS ON CONCEPTSChapter 9: Identity in the Global Age - Hegemony, Resistance and Social Transformation - Lauren LangmanChapter 10: Community as Social Metaphor - The Need for a Genealogy of Social Collectivities - Michael HumphreyChapter 11: Professions and Professionalism - Perspectives from the Sociology of Professional Groups - Julia EvettsPART IV: UNCONSCIOUS AND CONSCIOUS DIFFERENTIATION IN SOCIOLOGYChapter 12: Sociology′s Narratives of Global Change - Raewyn ConnellChapter 13: A Plea for a More Interpretive, More Empirical and More Historical Sociology - Gabriele RosenthalChapter 14: Post-Soviet Sociology as a Pattern of ′Another Sociology′ - Larissa TitarenkoPART V: UNRESOLVED CHALLENGESChapter 15: Including Sociological Practice - A Global Perspective and the US Case - Jan Marie FritzChapter 16: A Cultural Transformation - The Design of Alienation in the Guise of Creativity - Pirkkoliisa AhponenChapter 17: ′Bystander Sociology′ and the Sonderbehandlung of the Social - Marvin ProsonoChapter 18: Precarious Disciplinary Intersections and Inconvenient Truths - Susan A. McDanielChapter 19: Policy-Driven Research, Audit Culture, and Power - Transforming Sociological Practices in the Philippines - Emma PorioPART VI: LOOKING AHEADChapter 20: Sociology in the 21st Century - Embracing Complexity, Diversity and a Global Perspective - Ann Denis