Over fifty authors from two dozen countries and from across the full spectrum of sociology tackle the pertinent issues of our time.
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Adloff, Costa, Kerner, Vetter: Conviviality
Conviviality sets a concrete utopia against dystopia—an awareness of the possibility of cooperation.
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Lauren Langman: Psychoanalysis
What is the influence of psychoanalysis on American sociology? How does it shape its diagnosis of society and its outlook on social change?
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Todd Gitlin: Convulsive Climate Change
How shall sociology contend with collective uncertainty and the radical change in the human time horizon? – Some philosophical and sociological challenges
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Andreas Bieler: EU Referendum
What Position for the Labour Movement on the EU Referendum?
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Devorah Kalekin-Fishman: Alienation
Alienation is a pervasive mal-condition of human beings. Once its meaning and its range become clear, it becomes an inescapable key to understanding the contemporary human condition.
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John Foran: Climate Justice
With climate change, we are facing a perfect storm of suffering, a crisis of humanity. What is to be done to achieve radical social change?
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Michael Brie: Twofold Transformation
The ambivalent nature of capitalism poses the task of a twofold transformation. Five possible scenarios are emerging …
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Leslie Sklair: The Icon Project
Icons of global capitalism emerge at the meeting point of power, meaning, aesthetics, and taste. What do they disguise, and reveal?
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William I. Robinson: Savage Inequalities
Sociologists would do well to take a critical approach to the hype around Piketty and the mainstream discourse on social inequalities that it reflects.
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Jaime Ríos Burga: Transcultural Sociology
Sociology as a science and profession is entering in Peru a stage of development and consolidation within a framework of greater specialization and integration with other sciences.
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Salas-Porras & Murray: Think-Tanks
How do think-tanks operate? How do they exert power? How are they funded?
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Stephan Lessenich: Externalization Society
With the rise of neoliberalism in the advanced capitalist societies since the 1970s, it has become commonplace for politicians, economists, and employer’s representatives to urge people not to ‘live beyond their means.’ …
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