{"product_id":"self-social-structure-and-beliefs-9780520241374","title":"Self Social Structure and Beliefs","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The essays collected here are a fitting tribute precisely because they are intellectual, rich, diverse, thought-provoking, and unafraid of controversy.\" - Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council; \"If the legacy of scholars is measured by the work of their students, Neil Smelser has done very well indeed.\" - Michele Lamont, coeditor of Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Mastering Ambivalence: Neil Smelser as a Sociologist of Synthesis Jeffrey C. Alexander, Gary T. Marx, and Christine L. Williams  PART I: SELF Introduction: Christine L. Williams 2. The Sociological Eye and the Psychoanalytic Ear: Nancy J. Chodorow 3. The Commodity Frontier: Arlie Russell Hochschild 4. The Glass Cage: Flexible Work, Fragmented Consumption, Fragile Selves Yiannis Gabriel  PART II: SOCIAL STRUCTURE Introduction: Gary T. Marx 5. Rational Choice and Sociology: Alberto Martinelli 6. Enlisting Smelser's Theory of Ambivalence to Maintain Progress in Sociology of Religion's New Paradigm: R. Stephen Warner 7. Circuits of Commerce: Viviana A. Zelizer 8. Trust as an Aspect of Social Structure: Robert Wuthnow 9. The Organizational Foundations of University Capability: Differentiation and Competition in the Academic Sector of Society Burton R. Clark  PART III: BELIEFS Introduction: Jeffrey C. Alexander 10. Primordial Beliefs and Immigration Policy: The Case of Britain's Patrials Christian Joppke 11. Causal Reasoning, Historical Logic, and Sociological Explanation: Lyn Spillman 12. Intellectual Cycles of Social Movement Research: From Psychoanalysis to Culture? James M. Jasper 13. Shaping Sociological Imagination: The Importance of Theory Piotr Sztompka  List of Contributors Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402821214551,"sku":"9780520241374","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/self-social-structure-and-beliefs-9780520241374","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}