class conflict 28–31
community and society 32–33
ethnomethodology 50–51
feminism and social justice 26–27
French Revolution, effects of 24–25
functionalism 34–37, 267
gender performativity 56–61
industrialization and division of
labor 33, 36–37, 293, 300, 301
positivism 22–25
power/resistance 52–55
rational modernity 38–45
science of society 24–25, 35–36
social solidarity (asabiyyah) 20
sociological imagination 46–49
verifiability of observation 24
solidarity (asabiyyah) 20
sovereignty, and nationalism 203
Spencer, Herbert 18, 19, 34, 35–36,
334
Spencer-Brown, George 111
Stacey, Judith 297, 310–11
stigma 190–95
strain theory 262–63
Strauss, Anselm L. 335
structuration theory 195
surveillance techniques 273–74, 275
symbolic interactionism 192, 239, 335T
Taylor, Laurie 266
technocrats, and post-industrialism 225
technological innovation 15
and alienation 232–33
and alienation of self 188
class conflict, disappearance of 187
and de-skilling 226–31
and global cities 164
and globalization 168
hierarchies of exclusion 151
information excess 199
and memory 334
mobilities 162
online communities 117
post-industrialism 224–25Seeman, Melvin 188
Seidman, Steven 297, 326–31
self-identity
alienation of 188
and consumerism 142, 143, 201
cultural identity 200–01
development of 176 –77
and globalization 147
and institutionalization 267–69
looking-glass self 334
self-respect and class inequality 84–86
sexuality symbols 330
self-interest, and capitalism 21, 30–31
semiotics 235, 335–36
Sennett, Richard 64, 84–87, 119, 141
service industries, and post-
industrialism 225
sexuality
compulsory heterosexuality 304–09
and confession 302–03
feminism and social justice 26–27
gender performativity 56–61
gender roles across different cultures
298–99
hegemonic masculinity 88–89
and industrialization 329
lesbianism, political 308–09
masculinity and queer theory 331
and patriarchy 98–99
and power 55
queer theory 58, 61, 297, 309, 310,
311, 317, 326–31
same-sex relationships 311
self-identification symbols 330
social construction of 324–25
women’s liberation movement 299
see also feminism; gender
Shakespeare, Tom 339
Siisiäinen, Martti 124
Silva, Elizabeth B. 247
Simmel, Georg 102, 104–05
simulacra 196–99
Skeggs, Beverley 339
Skocpol, Theda 338–39
slavery 27, 71–72
Smart, Carol 309, 320
Smith, Dorothy E. 336
social acceleration theory 339
social capital 124–25
and class habitus 78–79
decline 116
social change, and dehumanized
society 47–48
social Darwinism 334
social inequalities
abortion 317
class consciousness 64
class exploitation 66–67
class habitus 76–79
class inequality 84–87
double-consciousness of African-
Americans 71
education and the hidden curriculum
288–89
education of working classes, effects
of 86–87
feminism see feminism
and gentrification 130–31
global patterns of wealth 145
hegemonic masculinity 88–89
iconic ghetto 82–83
immigration and unskilled labor
85–86
and liquid modernity 142–43
Orientalism 80–81
patriarchy 96–99
patriarchy and gender equality 65
poverty, relative 74
public space in cities, loss of 107
race and ethnicity 68–73
racism see racism
and religion 257–58, 259
and risk society 160
self-respect and class inequality
84–86
social mobility, and cultural capital 79
social movements 49, 160
social science, sociology as 13–14,
18–19
social solidarity 20, 26
society
communitarianism 112–19
development as historical process
29–30
and modernity 12–13
risk 156–61
sociological imagination 46–49
sociology of difference 339
sociology foundations
civic spirit 21INDEX 349