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Authors: Judith R Blau
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) 62,
parent±child relationships
175, 333
effects of immigration on 131±2
human rights 97±8
intimacy 114
Index
603
parenting
environmental 47±8
definitions of ``good'' 119
of increased blood donation from
non-marital 116, 125
blacks 220
shared 118, 121, 123
racialized 173
single 116
political, and social 254, 261, 439
parents
political action, and interorganizational
immigrant 130±2
networks 333±7
socioeconomic status of 303±4, 306
political alignments
participant observation 425
and middle-class voters 255
participation
and party cleavages 256
of citizens and globalization 161
social bases of 253
conventional repertoire of 286
political authority, and state versus civil
democratic 17, 68, 81
society 76±7
levels of political 35, 262
political capital 396
public and individual difference 83±4
political economy 254
reasons for social movement 276±81
and the elderly 376
particularism, and universality 63±4, 77
political field, new 263±6
path analysis 302±3
political independence, as means to achieving
peace movements 101, 108
human rights 93
peer group, influences on student
political leaders, personalization of 29
outcomes 365±6
political movements 251±94
pensions
political opportunities, structural and
employer-based 383±5
conjunctural 274±5
gender and racial differences 384±5
political parties 253, 259, 275, 333
Pentecostalism 101, 106, 111
cleavages and political alignments 256
performance expectations 411±13
political process model 284
periphery, center versus 68, 270±1, 318±19
political rights 35, 95
perquisites 297
political science 215
personal experience, and social structure 98,
political sociology 31, 253±67, 448
118
classical ``social base'' paradigm 254±60
personal networks, and social structure 325
new directions 260±3
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
and social movements 263±6
Reconciliation Act, US (1996) 206
political stability, and legal protection of human
personality, ``copyright of' 27
rights 96
phenomenology 254
political will, role of civil society and social
Philippines 108
movements in upholding of human
philosophes 229
rights 89±90, 95
philosophy
politicization 7, 233
and psychologism 245
politics
and theology 248
consumerist and reflexive approach 259
Pilluseri, asset building strategy for poverty
gender-focused approach 257
reduction for women of 174±6
and globalization 64±6, 257
place
institutionalist approaches 256±7
and ethnicity 13
and political movements 251±94
myths of 11±12
state-centered accounts 256±7
and search for roots 8±9
urban 7
sociology of 9±15
poor, age composition of the 164±5
places
population pyramid 377±8
gendered 13
positivism 230, 231, 449
``third'' (Oldenburg) 14
post traumatic stress disorder, in
planned behavior, theory of 277
immigrants 129
pluralism 39±40, 42, 145
postcolonial world 92±5, 96
American 395, 398, 403±6
postcommunist societies 80, 81
and individualism 83
post-Fordism 8, 50, 258
and wholeness in civil society 73±85
post-industrial society 33, 441
Poland 83
post-Marxism 9, 81
Solidarity 101, 108, 438, 456
postmaterialism 47±8, 50, 57
police, and use of DNA testing 226
postmodern condition 34
policy
postmodern sociology 34
changes in family structure and social 126
postmodernism 13, 50, 442
domain 333±6
postmodernity 31, 34
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Index
poststructuralism 233, 242
social psychology of 276±7
poverty 61, 166, 447
violence in 290
culture of 165±6
Protestantism
defining and measuring 161, 162±3, 169
differentiation of groups in 109
in developing regions and countries 167±71
in Latin America 111
and the elderly 164±5, 381, 383
liberal 112
incidence of extreme 167±9 Table 12.1
see also conservative Protestantism (CPs)
income 171
psychological capital 193
life expectancy and relative 353±4
psychologism 245
long-term rural in the USA 199±200
psychology
persistence of 161±77, 201±2
discipline invented 114
relative and absolute 162±3
German empirical and psychologism 245
in rural America 196±210
psychosomatic medicine 345±6
in the USA 163±7
public assistance, in rural America 206±7
women in 163, 388
public discourse 29, 272
poverty level, net financial assets (NFA) 173
public opinion 84, 109
poverty reduction
public provisioning, and inequality 152
asset building strategy for 171±6
public schools, funding in rural America 205,
policies in the USA 166
209
power 68, 329, 333, 448
public sphere 68±70
absolute 444
debates in the 77, 291, 443
and dependence relationships 408±11
discursive (Habermas) 84
in dyadic exchange 117±18
and diversity 68±70
gendered strategies 123±4
framing of environmental knowledges 53±4
hierarchies of 232, 411
participation 81
measurement of 297
and private sphere 74±5
and perceptions of fairness 417±19
state withdrawal from 80
relations in academia 248±9
see also civil society
relations and cultural values 91±5
public±private dichotomy, inadequacy of 84
relations and human rights 87, 98
Puerto Ricans, in USA 179
relations and organizational networks
341
qualitative research, in religion 110±11
praxis 443, 444
quality of life 48, 50
prejudice, and tolerance 107±8
quantitative research, in religion 110±11
prestige 297±8
quantum physics 10±11
privacy 82, 94
quantum society 10
and genetic databases 215
private sphere, and public sphere 74±5
race
privatization 21, 65
American Anthropological Association
privilege 297±8
statement on 222±3
pro-choice movement 290
authentication of typologies via forensic
probleÂmatiques 37, 39, 40±2
DNA testing 225±6
production
biological and social aspects 220±2
collectivization of 59
and codependence 66±7
and consumption 27
and forensics 225±6, 233±6
Professional Assistance for Professional Action
and inequalities 66±7
(PRADAN) 175±6
phenotypical stereotypes via blood
professional associations 333
groups 218±20, 223
progress
and rural poverty 201±2, 207±9
assumptions about the inevitability of 44
as a social construction 222±3
without moralism (Huxley) 230
and stratification studies 234
property
taxonomy 220
enforcement of rights 158
racial earnings gap
justness and equality 147±9
and residential segregation thesis 192
recognition of rights necessary for
skills mismatch thesis 191±2
democracy 81
spatial mismatch hypothesis 191
social relations of 448
unmeasured effort effect 193
protest
racial prejudice see racism
movements (1960s) 33
racialization 66, 173
and organization 289±90
racism 66±7, 134±5
policing of 286
institutionalized 173, 194
Index
605
persistence of 66±7
relationships 425±7
and religiosity 107±8
research and development, cooperative
radicalism 229
networks 332
radio 21, 23, 27
``reservations'' 90
rational action, within social structures
resistance
408±13
against global monopolies 59
rational choice theory 277
cultures of 14, 104, 443
and church attendance 102
selective to modernity 107
rationality 229, 233, 239
to the state 78±9
``reading'' the social text 232
resource dependence theory 332
realism, sociological and civil society 79±84
resource mobilization theory 272±4, 281,
rebellions 438
438
reciprocity 60, 73
resources 297, 329, 333
the ethics of 426±8
access to basic 169±70, 174±6
and research 424, 425±6, 436
responsibility
recording industry 26, 28
ethics of 59, 69, 70, 438
reference group theory 102
sharing domestic and financial 122
reflection 442
retirement
reflexive modernization 36, 50, 55
income 383±5
Reformation 31
programs and elderly poverty 164±5
refugees 108, 132, 395, 397±8
and work 386±8
Convention (1951) 89
revolution 230, 257, 442±3
regression analysis 159
marginalist 231
Regulation School 258
and social change 253
relational approach 234, 319, 407, 448
rewards 297
relational spaces 58±9
right to work 93±4
relative deprivation theory 270, 271
rights
relativism 233
of children 89, 94
and universality in human rights 91±5, 98
of Man 229
religion
social construction of 89
adaptations of 100, 102±3, 112
of women 98
freedom of 98, 108
see also civil rights; collective rights; human
globalizing 111±13
rights; immigrant rights; political rights;
and health 105±6
social rights
measures of 109±11
risk society 50
pluralization 102±5
risk-taking 58, 59, 65
religious economies theory (Finke) 102
romanticism 115, 228, 229
and social justice 108±9
rule of law 96
sociology of 100±13
rural America 196±210
subcultural identity theory 102
economic development strategies 209±10
religions
women, children and families 202±7
`ìmported'' 112
rural poverty
indigenous 112
distinctive character of 207±8
see also new religious movements (NRMs)
explanations 199±200
religiosity
legacy of race 201±2, 207±9
American 107±8, 110
in the South 197±210
effects of immigration on 103±5
rural±urban contrasts 5±6, 68, 271
and health 105
and racial prejudice 107±8
sacred 108, 113, 453, 460
religious congregational studies 103, 111
salon, eighteenth-century French 239
immigrants 104±5
salvation, theology of universal 112
religious groups, gender roles in
same-sex relationships, conflation of gender
immigrant 104
and power 124
religious identification, national survey 104
Sanctuary movement 108
religious traditions, diversity within 109,
savings
110±11
and poverty 153±4
representative democracy 440
rate by color 180
repression, and facilitation 275
and women's poverty reduction
research
strategies 175±6
activism and theory 433±5
skepticism 229, 241
and reciprocity 425±6
Schedule of Recent Experiences 355
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Index
school
skepticism 229, 241
conceptual models of organization 361±3
skills mismatch hypothesis 190, 191±2
effects of climate on student outcomes
slavery 108, 201, 389
367±8
Convention (1956) 89
effects of organizational context on
small group theories of social action 317±18,
outcomes 363±5, 366±7, 373±4
328, 412
enrollments 62±3
smoking, and stress 355±6
models of effects 362
SNiPs 216±18, 226
organizational analysis of 361±8
sociability 18, 83±4, 85
peer group influences on student
and citizenship 77
outcomes 365±6
social
transition from to work 368±73
the economic and the 254
schooling, and fertility decisions 157
erosion of the idea of the 258
science
the political and the 254, 261, 439
credibility in 243±4, 247, 248
social capital 74, 80, 82, 171±2, 176, 307±8
historical development of 233
Bourdieu on 262, 266
knowledge and ideas 211±49
disadvantageous 193
male hegemony in 232
and organizational networks 337±40, 341
sociology of 213±26, 236, 237, 239±40,
Putnam's definition 261
242
and social networks 324
and universal laws 228
social change 30±42