CONTENTS:
Introduction: Public Sociology at Berkeley
Michael Burawoy and Jonathan VanAntwerpen
I. VARIETIES OF POLITICS
Margaret Weir
“The Collapse of Bill Clinton’s Third Way” (2000)
Irene Bloemraad
“The Limits of De Tocqueville: How Government Facilitates Organisational Capacity in Newcomer Communities” (2005)
Kristin Luker
“Dubious Conceptions: The Controversy Over Teen Pregnancy” (1991)
Dawne Moon
“A Hetero Haven in a Heartless World: Gay Pain and Church Politics” (2000)
Neil Fligstein
“Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions” (1996)
Jerome Karabel
“Towards a Theory of Intellectuals and Politics” (1996)
II. THE FATE OF GENDER
Arlie Hochschild
“The Commercial Spirit of Intimate Life and the Abduction of Feminism: Signs from Women’s Advice Books” (1994)
Trond Petersen and Laurie Morgan
“The Within-Job Gender Wage Gap” (1995)
Raka Ray
“Masculinity, Femininity, and Servitude: Domestic Workers In Calcutta In The Late Twentieth Century” (2000)
Victoria Bonnell
“Peasant Women in Political Posters of the 1930s” (1997)
Loïc Wacquant
“The Pugilistic Point of View: How Boxers Think and Feel About Their Trade” (1995)
III. DIVERSITY AND INEQUALITY
Michael Hout et al.
“Inequality by Design: Myths, Data and Politics” (1996)
Sandra Smith
“Mobilizing Social Resources: Race, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Social Capital and Persisting Wage Inequalities” (2000)
Claude Fischer
“Uncommon Values, Diversity, and Conflict in City Life” (1999)
Samuel Lucas
“Selective Attrition in a Newly Hostile Regime: The Case of 1980 Sophomores” (1996)
John Lie
“The Black-Asian Conflict” (2004)
Leo Goodman
“Latent Class Analysis: The Empirical Study of Latent Types, Latent Variables, and Latent Structures, and Some Notes on the History of This Subject” (1996)
IV. MOVEMENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Ann Swidler
“Cultural Power and Social Movements” (1995)
Cihan Tugal
“Islamism in Turkey: Beyond Instrument and Meaning” (2002)
Kim Voss and Rachel Sherman
“Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy: Union Revitalization in the American Labor Movement” (2000)
Martin Sanchez-Jankowski
“Gangs and the Structure of U.S. Society” (1997)
V. GREAT TRANSFORMATIONS
Dylan Riley
“Enigmas of Fascism” (2004)
Laura Enriquez
“The Varying Impact of Structural Adjustment on Nicaragua’s Small Farmers” (2000)
Michael Burawoy
“Transition Without Transformation: Russia’s Involutionary Road to Capitalism” (1999)
Tom Gold
“Autonomy Versus Authoritarianism” (1990)
VI. THE GLOBAL SOCIETY
Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas
“Politics, Institutional Structures and the Rise of Economics: A Comparative Study” (2001)
Barrie Thorne et al.
“Transnational Childhoods: The Participation of Children in Processes of Family Migration” (1999)
Peter Evans
“Counter-Hegemonic Globalization: Transnational Networks as Political Tools for Fighting Marginalization” (1999)