Part 1. Theory and method. Quantitative research methods / Adrian E. Raftery -- Qualitative research traditions / Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont -- Sociology and philosophy / Randall Collins -- The diversity and insularity of sociological traditions / Charles Crothers -- Comparative sociology : some paradigms and their moments / David E. Apter -- Part 2. The axial processes of society. The culture of work / Richard Sennett -- The sociology of the family / Bryan Turner -- The social institution of money / Geoffrey Ingham -- The sociology of consumption and lifestyle / Don Slater -- The sociology of mediation and communication / Roger Silverstone -- An entirely different world? Challenges for the sociology of race and ethnicity / Patricia Hill Collins -- A sociology of information / David Lyon -- Class and stratification : current problems and revival prospects / Mike Savage -- The sociology of culture / Wendy Griswold -- The sociology of health and illness / Gary L. Albrecht-- The sociology of religion / Bryan Turner -- Leisure and tourism / Chris Rojek -- The sociology of the environment and nature / Steven Yearley -- Poverty and life chances : the conceptualization and study of the poor / Dalton Conley -- Globalization : sociology and cross-disciplinarity / Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White -- The sociology of gender relations / Sylvia Walby -- Population and society : historical trends and future prospects / Charles Hirschman -- Part 3. Primary debates. A new approach for theoretically integrating micro and macro analysis / Jonathan H. Turner -- Global inequality : bringing politics back in / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Sociology and the body / Nick Crossley -- The city : its return as a lens for social theory / Saskia Sassen -- Sociology of deviance : the disciplines of social exclusion / Heinz Steinert -- Globalizing business / Stewart R. Clegg -- Sex and power : capillaries, capabilities and capacities / Elspeth Probyn-- The sociology of the university and higher education : the consequences of globalization / Gerard Delanty -- Science, technology and their implications / Karin Knorr Cetina -- Citizenship, ethnicity and nation-states / Siniša Malešević and John A. Hall.