Read The Blackwell Companion to Sociology Online
Authors: Judith R Blau
food insecurity 167, 169
ethnomethodology 254
forensics, and race 233±6
eurocentrism 56, 243
fossil fuels, colonization by the West 44
Europe, human rights system, doctrine of the
foundation funding, ``radical flank effect'' 287
``margin of appreciation'' 95
fractal geometry 234
European Union, common currency 458
fragmentation 22, 437, 441, 449
evangelicals 106
framing 52, 456±7, 460
event history see hazard rate models
collective action 271±2, 277, 278±9
exchange networks 408±11
Frankfurt School 20, 32
negotiated 408±9
free-rider dilemma 80, 281, 438
reciprocal 409
freedom 84, 441
exchange relations, emancipation of 64
and civil society 76±7
exclusion 74, 82
democracy and 80
awareness of 446, 447
or equality 144, 148
and immigrant families 134±5
negative and positive 149, 150
racial 66, 389
Freedom and Tolerance Survey (1987) 107±8
executive, compliance with judiciary 96
French public services strike (1995) 447,
existential basis of thought 238, 239
457±63
expectation states theory 411±13
French Revolution 228, 446
expert systems 9
French student movement (1968) 438±9, 441
expression, freedom of 93
friendship, in marriage 122±3
expressiveness 447
fundamentalism 59, 100, 106, 116, 443
future 37, 42, 235
fact±values divide, challenged 234
family
gay men, communication styles 124
black±white income ratios 186±7
gay rights movement 115
change in structure and patterns of
Gemeinschaft 6
intimacy 126
gender 98, 117, 118
destabilizing effects of migration 129±32
and power 123±4
single parent 126
and race 67
sociology and the 115
roles and dating 115
see also black families; immigrant families
and stratification studies 118, 120, 234
famines 149
gender empowerment measure, UNDP 169
far-from-equilibrium systems 234±5
gene therapy
fascism 255, 442
funding of in utero 214
fathers, single 118
germ-line 213, 214
feedback loops, genetic 218±22
General Social Survey (GSS), US 106, 310
feeling rules 416
general sociological theory 236, 242
feminism 232, 242, 243
genetic database, ethnic purity of
and civil rights movement 288, 289±90
Icelandic 214±16
and media audiences 20
genetic determinism 221±2
feminist sociology, and activism 424, 435±6
genetic engineering, affecting somatic
fertility
cells 214
decisions and schooling 157
genetic revolution 213±26
decline in US rates 377±8
genetics, `ìnformed'' opinion on 215
feudalism, and the emergence of the medieval
Geneva Conventions (1949) 89
city 5
genocide 89
field
convention (1948) 89, 94
importance of intellectual 248±9
Germany
organizational 328
anti-communist movement in East 101,
political 260±2
108
field research, ethics in 426±8
intellectual debates 230±1
film 21±2, 23
gerontology, social 375±88
digital projection in 28
Gesellschaft 6, 16
financial capital 171±2, 307
ghettos
firms 62, 295±341
immigrant 6, 13
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597
spatial mismatch hypothesis 191
hierarchy 68, 407
Giddens, Anthony 9, 29, 36, 41, 55, 253, 263
substituted by codependence 68±70
global change
values and gender and race 234
`ènvironmental Kuznets curve'' model 54
Hinduism 111
environmental sociology of 51±2
Hispanic Americans, poverty 163±4, 165, 385
and social constructivism 51±4
historical sociology 33
STIRPAT model 54
historicity 442, 444
Global Change Initiative, Economic and Social
history 228, 231
Research Council (UK) 54
ritualization of 453
global warming 51±3
and sociology 246
globalization 1±70
HIV/AIDS crisis 169, 170
communication and media 25±6
holism 230±1
discourse 36, 37, 40
home 11, 15
domination through 98, 447
homelessness 206, 461
and international protection of human rights
homogenization 18±20, 22, 59
in domestic contexts 97±8
homophily 321
and knowledge 62±4, 243
hope, role in societal movements 438, 446±9
myths of neoliberal 462
house, as site for daydreaming 11±12
and persistence of poverty 161±2
household styles, intimacy studies of 126
of politics 257
households
and societal movements 443±4
black female headed 180±1, 187
see also economic globalization
black in poverty 172±3
good, and true 227±8
female-headed 170, 200, 202
government, versus church 271
income and opportunity costs 157
governmental actors 334±5
and nation-state 20±1
grievance theory, and social movements
rural median income in USA 198
270±2, 281
white earnings in USA 172, 181
group formation, as social
housing, in rural America 205±6
representation 455±7
human capital 171±2
group identity, social psychology of 102
black 183, 185, 190, 192, 194
group interaction, dynamics of 412±13
formation 159±60
group processes 66, 407, 408
resources in rural areas 199±200
groups, boundaries of 94
human development index, UNDP 169
growth
Human Genetic Diversity Project 221
assumptions about the desirability of 44±5
Human Genome Project 216, 221
and environmental degradation 49
human poverty index, UNDP 169
versus equity debate 144, 152±60
human resource management 337
``growth accounting'' 154
human rights 63, 86±99, 443
economic, social and cultural rights as
Habermas, JuÈrgen 17, 20, 79, 84, 441
93±5
``habitus'' (Bourdieu) 248±9
implementation of 95±8
happiness 151, 417
infusion of ethos into states 91
Hassles and Uplifts Scale 355
legal approaches 95±7
hazard rate models 309
and national sovereignty 88±91
Headstart 204±5
and non-citizens 88
health
paradigm 87±91
and aging 380±3
procedural sense 87, 98
and children of immigrant families 136±7
social science approaches 97±8
and poverty in developing countries 169±70
substantive sense 87, 98
religion and 105±6
universality of 91
and social inequality 345±60
humanitarian law 89
health care, in rural America 204
humanitarian organizations 87, 447
Health Care Financing Administration,
humanities 228, 230±3, 234
US 381
hybridization 59
health insurance 380±1
religious 103
health psychology 345±6
hypertension 346±7, 357
hegemony 25, 78, 398
hypothesis formation and testing 244
hematology 218±20
hemolytic reactions, in blacks 219
Iceland, as a potential genetic goldmine
hemophilia 216
214±16
hermeneutic approach 230, 238
ideal types (Weber) 231
598
Index
idealism
new groups in the USA 103±5, 395±8
German 248
and occupational skills 395, 402
role in societal movements 438
quota laws 390±1
ideas
size, composition and concentration of
knowledge and science 211±49
US 128, 391±5
transparency of 240±1, 245±6
spouse-immigrant flows 397
ideas, sociology of
stresses of 129±32
as an end in itself 243±4
waves of 403
contextualism 245±6
immigration laws, US 395±6
internal/external distinction 238±40, 244±5
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
localism 246±7
(US) 105, 398±9
macrosocial factors 241
immune system, memory cells for
as a means 237±8
antigens 219
new 236±7, 242±9
impression formation 414
old 237±42
income
identity
equality of 143±4, 146, 148
and collective action framing 271±2
inequality and mortality 352±5
and conflict in social movements 442
mean per capita in the USA 178: by
control theories of 413±16
race 180
ethno-nationalistic 67
mean ratios by race 183, 186
and locale 64
in retirement 383±5
morally oriented collective 102
returns to skills 190±1
and participation 68, 277, 281
unequal distribution 61, 152±3
politics 22, 403±6, 446
income gap, urban±rural in USA (1980s) 198
shared religious transnational 83, 107, 109,
incorporation, of US immigrants 399, 405
110
India, poverty in 167, 174±6
transient and fluid 35
indigenous people 69, 98
transnational social movements and
individual 36, 114
collective 293±4
and well-being 343±420
identity formation
individual development accounts (IDAs)
by immigrant families 65, 128±39, 403±6
173±4
and sociability 84
individual rights
ideology 229, 242
and civil society 76±7
revolutionary 442±3
universal and citizenship rights 83
and social movements 441, 442±3
individualism 69, 125±6, 325
illness
and collectivism 39
recovery from and religiosity 105
conceptions of 441
and stress 355±60
``new'' 33, 36
imaginary signification, double 38±9, 42
and pluralism 83
immigrant families 128±39
individuality, through creativity and
exclusion and social mirroring 134±5
difference 229
negotiating identities 137±9, 403±6
individualization 36, 37, 40
new patterns of assimilation 136±7
exchange-oriented 37
potential for miscommunication 131,
of politics 261
133
induction 228, 231
sending and receiving contexts 132±4
industrial ecology 55
see also children of immigrant families
industrial location, theory of 4
immigrant rights 430, 443
industrial revolution 31
immigrant women
industrial society 31, 49
labor rights 430
`àdvanced'' 32
and paid domestic work 423±36
and intimacy 114
immigrants
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
documented or undocumented 134
(``Wobblies'') 453±4
religious affiliation 103±5
industrialism, thè`logic'' of 33
immigration
industrialization 4, 35, 55, 115, 306
causes and contexts of contemporary
industrialized nations
US 395±8
costs of globalization to 61
and ethnicity 389±406
education and status attainment in 304
and family reunification 395, 398
and transition from school to work 371±2
geopolitical factors 397
inequality 143±60
high rates of 63
global and migration pressures 396
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and incentive argument 154±5, 156
international community
and nation-state 257
conditions of membership of 92
reproduction of 325, 439
and violations of human rights 87
and socio-political instability 157±8
International Covenants (1966) 89
and violence 163
International Labor Organization (ILO) 89
see also economic inequality; social
international law 88±90
inequality
international non-governmental organizations
infant mortality rates 377
(INGOs), religious 112
influence 19, 333
international order 64, 88
information
and state sovereignty 90±1
access to 62±3
international relations, and human rights
exchange 333±5
paradigm 89
packaging 28
International Social Justice Project 310
transmission 329
International Social Mobility and Politics
inheritance, capital via 180
File 310±11
injustice 271±2
International Social Survey Program
inner cities
(ISSP) 310
black underclass debate 13, 191
International Socioeconomic Index (ISEI), of
and unemployment 166
occupations 301
innovations, diffusion of 315
International Sociological Association (ISA)
institutionalism, new 256±7, 258
intergenerational occupational mobility
institutionalization (1950s) 35
studies 299
institutions
Madrid Congress (1994) 43
civil-state and civic virtues 82
International Standard Classification of
``creolization'' of 63
Occupations (ILO) 302
differentiated 32, 36, 37±8
International Survey of Economic
justness of 149±51
Attitudes 310
stability of 35, 40, 233