| Description |
xiv, 370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Papers of a conference entitled "Latin American sociology and the sociology of Latin America" held in April 2001 at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-355) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Rethinking development in Latin America / Bryan R. Roberts, Charles H. Wood -- PART I: SOCIOLOGY IN THE HEMISPHERE : OLD ISSUES AND NEW DIRECTIONS -- Sociology in the hemisphere : past convergencies and a new middle-range agenda / Alejandro Portes -- PART II: GLOBALIZATION, NEOLIBERALISM, AND SOCIAL POLICY -- Unbearable lightness of neoliberalism / Osvaldo Sunkel -- Social science and academic sociology in Brazil / Vilmar E. Faria -- PART III: CITIZENSHIP, POLITICS, AND THE STATE -- Toward a political sociology of social mobilization in Latin America / Joe Foweraker -- Citizenship, rights, and social policy / Bryan R. Roberts -- State of the state in Latin American sociology / Diane E. Davis -- Human rights and the memory of political violence and repression : constructing a new field in social science / Elizabeth Jelin -- PART IV: WORK, FAMILIES, AND REPRODUCTION -- Exclusion and employability : the new labor dynamics in Latin America / Juan Pablo Perez Sainz -- Families in transition / Marian Ariza, Orlandina De Oliveira -- Population and development : then and now / Joseph E. Potter, Rondolfo A. Tuiran Gutierrez -- PART V: URBAN SETTLEMENTS, MARGINALITY, AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION -- Lack of "cursive thinking" within social theory and public policy : four decades of marginality and rationality in the so-called slum / Peter M. Ward -- Social exclusion / Charles H. Wood. |
| Subject |
Sociology -- Latin America -- Congresses.
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Latin America -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Political sociology -- Congresses.
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Latin America -- Economic conditions -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Wood, Charles H., 1945-
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Roberts, Bryan R., 1939-
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| ISBN |
0271025158 (clothbound : alk. paper) |
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