Håkon Leiulfsrud, Ph.D. (1991), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), is Professor in sociology at that university. He has published widely with a special interest in social inequality, class and social stratification, labour market and welfare state issues, and teaches sociological theory, social inequality and the welfare state, and research methods.Peter Sohlberg, Ph.D. (1997), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), is Professor in philosophy of social science at that university. He has published in a wide spectrum, covering philosophy of science, sociology and social psychology, and teaches social theory and philosophy of social science since the early 1990s.

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• PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Conceptual Constructionism: An IntroductionPeter Sohlberg and Håkon Leiulfsrud2 On the Near Disappearance of Concepts in Mainstream SociologyRichard SwedbergPart 1: Methodological Programs and Applications3 What Do We Do with Norms—Conform, Break, Understand or Explain?Peter Sohlberg4 ColligationRichard Swedberg5 Sensitizing Concepts in Action: Expanding the FrameworkAnne Britt FlemmenPart 2: Culture, Nature and Consumption6 Culture as a Sociological ConceptWilly Martinussen7 Bringing Nature Back InWilly Guneriussen8 The Study of Consumption in Sociology—Beyond Utility TheoryPål StrandbakkenPart 3: Social Structure, Organizations and Institutions9 Social StructureJohn Scott10 The Organization of ActionGöran Ahrne11 About Actors: An Institutional PerspectiveRaimund Hasse12 The Family and Interwoven ConceptsHåkon Leiulfsrud13 Collective Action: Why is it so Difficult for the Social Sciences to Grasp the Rational Aspects of Collective Action?Roar HagenPart 4: Class, Gender, Race and Social Recognition14 The Status of the Political in the Concept of Class StructureErik Olin Wright15 Gender as Analytic, Political and Interdisciplinary ConceptHarriet Bjerrum Nielsen16 Race: A Contested and Travelling ConceptMette Andersson17 Recognition: Conceptualization and ContextAntje GimmlerIndex