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| Material Type: | Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles H Wood; Bryan R Roberts |
| ISBN: | 0271025158 9780271025155 |
| OCLC Number: | 56617192 |
| Notes: | 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. |
| Description: | xiv, 370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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 -- The 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 -- The 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 Pérez Sáinz -- Families in transition / Marian Ariza, Orlandina De Oliveira -- Population and development: then and now / Joseph E. Potter, Rondolfo A. Tuirán Gutiérrez -- PART V: URBAN SETTLEMENTS, MARGINALITY, AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION -- The 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Charles H. Wood and Bryan R. Roberts. |
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