Sociology Today

Arnaud Sales holds a Doctorat d′État ès Lettres et Sciences Humaines, from Université de Paris 7-Denis Diderot. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Montreal, Canada. He is a specialist in economic sociology focusing on the interface of the economic and political fields. His research interests center on the relations between the public and private spheres, and the emergence of international private authorities; economic and administrative elites, and knowledge workers; the role of knowledge in social transformations. His publications include: La Bourgeoisie industrielle au Québec (PUM, 1979); Décideurs et gestionnaires (Éditeur officiel du Québec, 1985); He has edited or co-edited the following volumes: Développement national et économie mondialisée (Sociologie et Sociétés, 1979); La recomposition du politique (PUM/L’Harmattan, 1991); Québec, fin de siècle (Sociologie et Sociétés,1994); The International Handbook of Sociology (Sage, 2000); New Directions in the Study of Knowledge, Economy and Society (SSIS, Current Sociology, Sage, 2001) ; Knowledge, Communication and Creativity, (Sage, 2007). He was Vice-Dean of the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Graduate Studies (1987-1992) and has chaired the Department of Sociology (2000-2007). He is a former Vice-President, International, of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (1995-1998) where he founded the Knowledge, Economy and Society Network with R. Hollingsworth. After chairing the ISA Research Committee 02 on Economy and Society, he was elected Vice-President for Research (1998-2002) of the International Sociological Association and chaired ISA Research Council. In 2006, he was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques of France.

In a remarkable feat of collaboration, Arnaud Sales has persuaded several of the world′s leading sociologists to contribute to a truly student-friendly text that ranges over the often quite subtle transformations that today′s ′networked′ world have made to both the concepts and objects of the discipline. Overall the book manages a welcomed reassertion of the continuing need for a broadly institutionalist, macro-sociological perspective.Steve FullerAuguste Comte Professor of Social Epistemology, University of Warwick

• PART I: INTRODUCTIONChapter 1: Transformations in the Multiple Domains of a Turbulent World - Arnaud SalesPART II: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES FOR UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL CHANGEChapter 2: A Re-Appraisal of Agency-Structure Theories to Understand Social Change - Arnaud SalesChapter 3: Global Society and Polyarchic Governance - Alberto MartinelliChapter 4: Social Transformations and Knowledge - Nico Stehr & Bernd WeilerPART III: RECOMPOSITION OF THE POLITICAL DOMAIN AND CHALLENGES TO CIVIL SOCIETYChapter 5: Political Sociology Responds to Change - Kay Lawson, Mildred Schwartz & Eva Etzioni-HalevyChapter 6: Global Social Movements - Politics, Subjectivity and Human Rights - Pierre Hamel, Henri Lustiger-Thaler & Louis MaheuPART IV: THE TRANSFORMATION OF ORGANIZATIONS AND WORKChapter 7: Transforming Organizations - Stewart CleggChapter 8: Transformations of Work in a Global Context - Employment Systems, Autonomy and Work-life Articulation as Main Challenges - Diane-Gabrielle TremblayChapter 9: Reconnections - Labour Sociologies in a Globalizing Era - Carla Lipsig-Mummé & Edward WebsterChapter 10: Returning to Professions - Julia EvettsPART V: THE TRANSFORMATION OF LIFE WORLD AND CULTUREChapter 11: Challenging Women′s Domination and Striving for Equity and the Respect of Difference - Ann DenisChapter 12: Family Change and Lifecourse Development - Social Transformations on the Intimate Frontiers - Susan A. McDanielChapter 13: The Waning of Religious Beliefs in Thirty European Countries - Empirical Evidence - Mattei DoganChapter 14: The Culture Society - An Heuristic for Analyzing Cultural Change in the Global Age - Arturo Rodriguez MoratóChapter 15: Power and Global Sport - Zones of Prestige, Emulation and Resistance - Joseph MaguirePART VI: TRANSFORMATION OF FRAMES AND CONDITIONS OF SOCIAL EXISTENCEChapter 16: Comparative Social Transformations in Urban Regimes - Sophie Body-Gendrot, Marisol Garcia & Enzo MingioneChapter 17: Globalization and the Transformation of Disease and Health Care - William C. Cockerham & Geoffrey B. CockerhamChapter 18: The Dynamics of Migration and Social Transformations - Han Entzinger