Current volume

March 2012

Contents

BJS Annual Lecture: Citizenship, immigration and the European Social Project

• Citizenship, immigration and the European Social Project: rights and obligations of individuality  Yasemin Soysal

Comments

• The post-nationalization of immigrant rights: a theory in search of evidence  Ruud Koopman
• Citizenship and human rights: ideal and actualities  Lydia Morris
• Commodifying migration: excluding migrants in Europe's emerging social model  Oliver Schmidtke
• Individuality, sociological institutionalism, and continuing inequalities: a response to commentator  Yasemin Soysal

Making sense

• Who do you think they were? How family historians make sense of social position and inequality in the past  Wendy Bottero
• War-making and sense-making: some technical reflections on an instance of 'friendly fire' Michael Mair, Patrick G. Watson, Chris Elsey, Paul Vincent  Smith

Life and death

• Culture, state and varieties of capitalism: a comparative study of life insurance markets in Hong Kong and Taiwan  Cheris Shun-ching Chan
• Why different countries manage death differently: a comparative analysis of modern urban societies  Tony Walter

Diversity and toleration

• The relationship between education and levels of trust and tolerance in Europe  Francesca Borgonovi
• Contemporary Anglo-Jewish community and leadership: coping with multiculturalism   Ben Gidley and Keith Kahn-Harris

Book reviews

Please follow section link tolist of books reviewed| June 2012

 

June 2012

Contents

Special Issue: Olympic and world sport: making transnational society?
Editors:  Richard Giulianotti and Susan BrownellIntroduction: Olympic and world sport: making transnational society?   Richard Giulianotti and Susan Brownell

• Mapping the global football field: a sociological model of transnational forces within the world game  Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson
• Planning for the worst: risk, uncertainty and the Olympic Games  Philip Boyle and Kevin D. Haggerty
• The regeneration games: purity and security int he Olympic city  Pete Fussey, Jon Coaffee, Gary Armstrong and Dick Hobbs
• The bid, the lead -up, the event and the legacy  David Rowe
• Human rights and the Beijing Olympics: imagined global community and the transnational public sphere  Susan Brownell
• 'Our struggles are bigger than the World Cup': civic activism, state-society relations and the socio-political legacies of the 2010 FIFA World Cup   Scarlett Cornelissen

Watching football

• Football's coming home?: Digital reterritorialization contradictions in the transnational coverage of sport and the sociology of alternative football broadcasts  Matthew David and Peter Millward
• Fans, homophobia and masculinities in association football: evidence of a more inclusive environment  Ellis Cashmore and Jamie Cleland