Craig Calhoun & Chris Rojek 
The SAGE Handbook of Sociology 

Sociology has evolved greatly since it′s inception as an academic discipline. It has diverged into numerous strands often flowing in disparate directions – so much so that today the notion of canonical sociology has become widely disputed. The field of sociology at present approximates to one of multi-paradigmatic complexity in which many approaches to theory must be distinguished and situated. In addition, the discipline has had to confront new challenges from globalization, the shift of interest from production to consumption, the rise of new social movements, the challenge of bio-engineering, the collapse of a ′presently existing socialist alternative′ and much else besides.

The new SAGE Handbook of Sociology aims to address these new developments, while at the same time providing an authoritative guide to theory and method, the key sub-disciplines and the primary debates of today. To undertake this ambitious project three leading figures in the field of sociology were selected as editors to bring together the foremost exponents of the different strands that contribute towards the make up modern sociology. Drawn from both sides of the Atlantic the contributors have been commissioned to utilise the most up to date research available to provide a critical, international analysis of their area of expertise.

The result is this essential resource collection that not just reflects upon the condition of sociology today but also looks to future developments in the discipline. The Handbook is invaluable not just all sociologists but to a wide variety of students and researchers across the social sciences.

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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 Hirschman Population 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 Deviance – Heinz Steinert

The Disciplines of Social Exclusion

Globalizing Business – Stewart R Clegg

Sex and Power – Elspeth Probyn

Capillaries, Capabilities and Capacities

The Sociology of the University and Higher Education – Gerard Delanty

The Consequences of Globalization

Science, Technology and their Implications – Karin Knorr Cettina

Citizenship, Ethnicity and Nation-States – Sinisa Malesevic and John A Hall

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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.