The Sociology Book

90 White women have been
complicit in this
imperialist, white-
supremacist capitalist
patriarchy bell hooks

96 The concept of
“patriarchy” is
indispensable for an
analysis of gender
inequality Sylvia Walby

MODERN LIVING

104 Strangers are not really
conceived as individuals,
but as strangers of a
particular type
Georg Simmel

106 The freedom to remake
our cities and ourselves
Henri Lefebvre

108 There must be eyes on
the street Jane Jacobs

110 Only communication can
communicate
Niklas Luhmann

112 Society should articulate
what is good
Amitai Etzioni

120 McDonaldization affects
virtually every aspect of
society George Ritzer

124 The bonds of our

communities have

withered Robert D. Putnam

126 Disneyization replaces

mundane blandness with

spectacular experiences

Alan Bryman

128 Living in a loft is like

living in a showcase

Sharon Zukin

LIVING IN A GLOBAL

WORLD

136 Abandon all hope of

totality, you who enter

the world of fluid

modernity

Zygmunt Bauman

144 The modern world-

system

Immanuel Wallerstein

146 Global issues, local

perspectives

Roland Robertson

148 Climate change is a

back-of-the-mind issue

Anthony Giddens

150 No social justice without

global cognitive justice

Boaventura de Sousa Santos

152 The unleashing of

productive capacity by

the power of the mind

Manuel Castells

156 We are living in a

world that is beyond

controllability Ulrich Beck

162 It sometimes seems as

if the whole world is on

the move John Urry

163 Nations can be imagined

and constructed with

relatively little historical

straw David McCrone

164 Global cities are strategic

sites for new types of

operations Saskia Sassen

166 Different societies

appropriate the materials

of modernity differently

Arjun Appadurai

170 Processes of change have

altered the relations

between peoples and

communities

David Held

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