Read The Blackwell Companion to Sociology Online
Authors: Judith R Blau
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instrumental action, and affect 407, 417±19
interorganizational networks see networks,
instrumental rationality 32, 45
interorganizational
instrumentality 277
interpersonal interaction
and identity 446
and collective action 278
integration, and conflict 448
fictionalization of 29
intellectual history 236, 242, 245±6
and media 28±9
intellectual life, social basis of 237, 239
interpretative studies 235, 456
intellectual production, theory of 245
interstate system 227
intellectual property, and digital media
intersubjectivity 17
27±8
interviews, in-depth 425
intellectuals 237
intimacy 64, 114±27
as an objective social category 241±2
and equality 116
Bourdieu on 243
gendered conversational strategies to
debate on ``two cultures'' 227±9
create 123±4
revolutionary 443
home as metaphor for 11
Shils's definition 241
interactionist paradigm 118
as social critics 229±30
in marriage 119±24
struggles for position 245, 248±9
parent±child 114
and symbolic capital 459±60, 462
psychoanalytic paradigm 117
intentions, and behaviors 47
social exchange paradigm 117±18
interbreeding 224
Iran 100
interdependence 68, 69, 95
Islam 111, 112
economic global 63, 161
isolation, and choice 18
emotional and domestic 122, 127
see also codependence
job placement services 369
interest groups 50, 286, 335
joblessness 447
interests
joint ventures 338±9
organization of private 77, 78
judiciary, independence of the 96
particular and universal 74
just society 145±8
representation 269
justice 63, 74, 441
shared 63, 69
economic and social 68, 69
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
environmental 56
(IPPC) 43, 57
and self-interest 149±51
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kinship ties, voluntary 126
liberal democracies 261
knowledge
role of civil society in 76, 78
disciplinary organization of 231±2, 234
liberal ideology, and resistance to civil and
empirical-analytic approach to 40
political rights as human rights 94
and globalization 62±4
liberalism 229, 230, 441
media monopolies of 28
liberation theology movement, Latin
science and ideas 211±49
American 101, 108
scientization of 228±9, 230
life chances 297
sociology of 236, 238, 241±2
life course theory 376
structures of 227±35
Life Events and Difficulties Schedule 355
knowledge production, social organization
life expectancy
of 242±3
gender and race differences in USA 379±80
Kuznets curve 54, 152±3
and income inequality in developing
countries 353
labor, emotional 416, 420
and religiosity 105
labor market
and social class 348
black participation in USA 166
Life Experiences Survey 355
male participation rates in USA 187±8
life politics 263
and schooling 368±73
lifestyles 22, 267, 459
segments 62
lifeworld, and system 20±1
stratified 368±9
linearity 9, 228, 233
labor market discrimination, racial 181±2,
``linguistic turn'' 257
185±6, 189±90
linguistics 41
labor movement
literacy 62±3
foundational myth 453
literary criticism 232
the myth of the US 450±63
locales 64, 68
symbolic character 454±7
localism, defined 247
USA reform of 462±3
localness 13
labor rights, convention (1930) 89
log-linear modeling 309
Labour Party 259, 260
longitudinal surveys, in religion 109
laissez-faire 230
love
land reforms, and growth 155, 159
expectations of 115±16
land use change 54
Western view of romantic 116
landscapes, of power 11, 13
Lutheranism 109
language
Luxembourg Income Study 353
games 34
gendered differences 123
McCarran±Walter Act, US (1952) 396
and race 67
macro-sociology 31
Latin America
Malaysia 179
civil society 79
management schools 341
liberation theology movement 101, 108
manufacturing, eco-efficiency improvements
Protestantism 111
in 55
law
market 36, 38
effects of genetic technologies on forensics
mythology of the 59, 462
and 225±6
marriage
mythic status of the 452±3
communication in 123±4
laws, science and universal 228, 233
concept of à`good'' 115, 119
leadership 29, 456±7
decline in US 124±5, 165±6
left, Western 78, 233, 460
dual-earner and intimacy 119±21
legislation 80
equality in 116, 121±3
legitimacy
`ìncest taboo'' in friendly 122
civil society as basis for democratic 85
and intimacy 119±24
and labor movements 455±6
later 126
negotiation of 64
longevity and conflict styles 124
of protest rooted in the sacred 108±9, 453,
male breadwinner model 119
460
peer and intimacy 121±3
of social movements 286±8
Western vision of 116±17
and sociology 247, 248
Marx, Karl 4, 8, 16, 47, 62, 68, 153, 237, 238
Leninism 439
Marxism 7, 32, 78, 237±8, 239, 242, 443
lesbians 122, 124
masculinity, and the domestic sphere 119±21
level of analysis, organizational 328±9
mass communication 19, 306
Index
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mass media 17, 20, 116
and stratification in occupations 297±313
mastery, and autonomy 38±9, 40±1, 42
mobilization
materialism 59
ideological compared with societal
meaning
movements 443±4
constructed 68, 277, 281
repertoires of 264±5
lack of 449
social psychology of 285
and participation in social movements 277,
mobilization model, of participation in social
281
movements 277
relationships and 71±139
``modern society'' 31, 32, 35, 42
in social interaction 413±17
modernities, multiple 40
meaning systems, religious and stress 105
modernity
measurement error 305
and communication 16
mechanics 243
continuity or rupture 35±7
mediàèxtended'' or ``restricted'' liberal 37, 39
as agents of social integration 20
hierarchies of 68
analogue compared with digital 28
``late'' 37
changes in distribution ownership and
one or many 30±42
financing 28
`òrganized'' 35, 39
and communications 16±29
paths to 255
cultural accessibility and the 25±6, 27, 28
as a probleÂmatique 38, 40±2
discourse 29, 278±9
the project of 39, 41±2
do-it-yourself 26
selective resistance to 107
global 64, 84
use of term 32, 42
moral economy of 23±5
modernization 31, 32, 35±6
national frame for 20±2
Durkheim's thesis of 4
uses of term 17±18
and media 26
media audiences, sociology of 19±20
see also ecological modernization
media corporations 24, 26
molecular biology, revolution in 213±26
media flows
molecular genetics, and new conflation of race
and national culture 25±6
and forensics 233±6
regionalization of 25
money economy 5
media sociology 18±19
monoculture, fear of global 19±20
``median voter theorem'' 156
moral identity 102
mediated messages, power of 19
moral judgement, cross-cultural 98
Medicaid 381±2, 383
``moral majority'' 100
Medicare 380±1, 383
moral values, and personal Subject 440
memory, space transforms time to create
mortality
11±12
and income inequality 352±5
Merton, Robert K. 19, 29, 68, 237, 239, 241
social patterning of 346±55
meta-narrative 34
movement, networks of 14±15
metabolism, industrial 47, 54
movement organizations 273±4
Methodenstreit 230±1
alliance system 274
Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), growth
conflict system 274
study 188
legitimacy of 286±7
Mexican Americans 201±2
multiculturalism 67, 404, 405
microelectronic revolution 213
multilevel models
middle, law of the excluded 234
``degrees-of-freedom problem'' 311
middle class 255
for stratification 311±12
and new social movements 263±4
multiorganizational fields 273±4
vested interests 448
myths
voting 259±61, 266
of place 11±12
migration 64, 65
and the US labor movement 450±63
and new religious movements (NRMs) 111
return 209
nation, and welfare state 39
staggered 132
nation-state 3, 255
mind±body relations 345±6
displaced by group allegiances 65
minorities, ``disparaged'' 135
formation and whiteness 67
minority rights 443
and household 20±1
missionaries 112, 113
and inequality 257
mobility
national culture, and media flows 20±2,
forms of 6
25±6
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national income, and environmental values 48
non-metropolitan see rural America
national law, and incorporation of international
norms 91±2, 254
treaties 90
novelas 433±4
National Longitudinal Mortality Studies, US
novels 114
350
nucleotides 216±17
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
(NLSY) 190
objectivism 41
national social movements 291
objectivity 232±3
national sovereignty, and human rights
occupational attainment, and stratification
88±91, 94
research 368±73
National Woman's Party, US 291
occupational classes 301±4
nationalism 231
EGP scheme 301±2
Native Americans 179, 201±2, 225
occupational status, measurement of
natural laws 45, 228, 234
299±302
natural philosophy 227, 228
occupations
naturalization 394, 396
intergenerational mobility 299
nature
International Socioeconomic Index
and the irreversibility of time 234
(ISEI) 301
respect for 48, 50
International Standard Classification of
and secularization 227
Occupations (ILO) 302
Naturwissenschaften 231
prestige scales 299±300
Nazism 222, 443
Socioeconomic Index (SEI) 300±1
needs
stratification and mobility 297±313
hierarchy of 48, 50
Omnibus Crime Control Act, US (1994), and
urgency of human 146
DNA databanks 226
neo-communitarianism 443
`òne-dimensional society'' 32
neo-corporatism 275
ontological security, loss of 36
neo-Freudianism 246
ontology, critique of 34
neo-liberalism 40, 65, 442
openness of modernity 41, 42, 306, 335
neo-Marxism 45, 49, 255±6
opportunity structures 82, 199
``neo-modernization'' theories 36
order
neo-Weberianism 45
or anarchy 230±1
network, centrality 330, 336, 340
embedded 234
network analysis 314±26, 334±5
organicism 230
and organization studies 328
organization studies, and network
network organizations 337±40
analysis 328
network size, and social status 322
organizational ecology models 288
networked (N-form) organizations 330±3,
organizational networks 327±41
337±40
organizational population 328
networking, gender gap in competitive
organizational society 328
339±40
organizational sociology 283
networks 77, 295±341
organizational state theory 333
actor-centered 316, 320±6
organizations
core concepts 328±30
government 333
interorganizational and economic
networked (N-form) 330±3, 337±40
behavior 330±3
and networks 327±41
interorganizational and political action
peripheral 331
333±7
organs, grown from genetically engineered
interorganizational and social capital
animals 213±14
337±40
original position (Rawls) 150
and organizations 327±41
outsourcing 337
New Deal 257
``New History'' 246
paid domestic work
new religious movements (NRMs) 111
by immigrant women 423±36:
new social movements 49, 50, 74, 263±4
subcontracting 429, 434±5
newspapers 21
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) 191,
Nicaragua 108
199
non-conversion 280±1
``parasocial interaction'' 29