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Armed with methodological skills and a healthy sociological imagination, a quarter of advanced-degree holding sociologists find work outside of the ivory tower. Sociology, as a whole, can benefit from increasing support and dialog across the academic/applied divide.

Sociologist Karen Sternheimer considers the opportunities and challenges of presenting sociological concepts in the news media, particularly when our ideas are edited or interpreted by others.

Controversy about the process of secularization has consituted the centrepiece of the sociology of religion in recent years. It is argued that this controversy is a particularly important and illuminating site upon which the redirection of the sociological enterprise is being wrought. The major sections of the paper are concerned with the explication of the terms in which the secularization controversy has developed among sociologists and sociologically-inclined theologians. Various relationships between sociological and religious perspectives are explored, the discussion of these being linked in the concluding section with the development of critical sociology and the sociology of the possible.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the Transaction Edition -- Introduction -- Sociologists and Music -- The Influence of Wilhelm Dilthey -- Some Blindspots -- Musicological Sociology -- Marxian Approaches to the Sociology of Music -- Ernest Hermann Meyer -- The Czech School -- Georg Simmel -- Max Weber -- Kurt Blaukopf -- Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno -- Pitirim A. Sorokin -- Alphons Silbermann -- Comparative Ethnomusicology -- The Work of Paul Honigsheim -- Future Prospects -- Major Themes and Variations -- Growing Interest in Cultural Sociology -- Empirical and Evaluative Studies -- General Sociological Approaches -- Sociological Aesthetics -- Sociology and The New Media -- Music Education and Age Groups -- Musical Communities -- Post-Adorno Sociomusicology in the United States -- European Trends and Themes -- Finis -- The Later Writings of Paul Honigsheim -- On the Uses of Music in Society -- On Various Occasions for the Performance of Music -- Ceremonial Occasions -- Music for Entertainment -- Garden Music -- Music for Work -- House Music -- Theater Music -- Concert Music -- Oratorios -- On the Variety of Persons and Activities Involved in Making Music -- Musical Specialists and Activities -- Persons Linked with Performance of Music -- Persons Connected with the Planning of Music -- Persons Involved in the Transfer of Music Traditions -- Persons Connected with Technical Dimensions of Music Performances -- Combinations of Musical Specializations -- Combinations of Musical with Nonmusical Occupations -- The Itinerant Musician -- The Foreign Musician -- The Amateur Musician -- Women and Men in Music -- Age and Musical Activities -- Associations for Music Making -- Professional Associations -- Itinerant Associations -- Foreign Associations of Music Producers -- Amateur Organizations.