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Introduction: The Foreseeable Future of Sociology - Devorah Kalekin-Fishman and Ann Denis
PART ONE: THEORIZING SOCIOLOGY: FROM PAST TO FUTURE
Recent Changes in Sociology - Michel Wieviorka
On Inter-Human Space: Toward a Third Sociology - Piotr Sztompka
From Modernity to Globality: The Route within Sociology - Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
Integrating the Analysis of Complex Inequalities and Globalization into the Heart of Social Theory Using Complexity Theory - Sylvia Walby
PART TWO: SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Beyond Three Constitutive Ideas of Classical Sociology: Globalization, Post-Modernity and Reflexivity - Emilio Lamo de Espinosa
The Shape of Sociology: Looking at the History of our Present - Elisa P. Reis
Dimensions of World-Making: Thoughts from the Caspian Sea - Dennis Smith
PART THREE: FOCUS ON CONCEPTS
Identity in the Global Age: Hegemony, Resistance and Social Transformation - Lauren Langman
Community as Social Metaphor: The Need for a Genealogy of Social Collectivities - Michael Humphrey
Professions and Professionalism: Perspectives from the Sociology of Professional Groups - Julia Evetts
PART FOUR: UNCONSCIOUS AND CONSCIOUS DIFFERENTIATION IN SOCIOLOGY
Sociology's Narratives of Global Change: History, Place, and Formations of Knowledge in the Discipline's Past and Future - Raewyn Connell
A Plea for a More Interpretive, More Empirical and More Historical Sociology - Gabriele Rosenthal
Post-Soviet Sociology as a Pattern of 'Another Sociology' - Larissa Titarenko
PART FIVE: UNRESOLVED CHALLENGES
Including Sociological Practice: A Global Perspective and the US Case - Jan Marie Fritz
A Cultural Transformation: The Design of Alienation in the Guise of Creativity - Pirkkoliisa Ahponen
'Bystander Sociology' and the Sonderbehandlung of the Social - Marvin Prosono
Precarious Disciplinary Intersections and Inconvenient Truths: Sociology in Search - Susan A. McDaniel
Policy-Driven Research, Audit Culture, and Power: Transforming Sociological Practices in the Philippines - Emma Porio
PART SIX: LOOKING AHEAD
Sociology in the Twenty-First Century: Embracing Complexity, Diversity and a Global Perspective - Ann Denis
The Shape of Sociology for the 21st Century : Tradition and Renewal. ISBN 9781473903265. Published by SAGE in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.