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Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Alternate Table of Contents (by Tradition or Theorist) -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Section I Emergence Through Convergence: The Puzzles of Social Order -- Introductory Essay: The Virus That Changed Our World -- Classical Connections: Emile Durkheim -- 1. The Rules of Sociological Method -- 2. The Division of Labour in Society -- 3. Suicide -- 4. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life -- Contemporary Extensions: Social Order Re-Wired -- 5. Studies in Ethnomethodology -- 6. Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of a Door-Closer -- 7. The Strength of Weak Ties -- 8. The Social Construction of Reality -- System Update: Manuel Castells -- 9. Materials for an Exploratory Theory of the Network Society -- Section II Networks of Capital: Dimensions of Global Capitalism -- Introductory Essay: The Redditors Who Took Down a Giant (Sort Of) -- Classical Connections: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- 10. The German Ideology -- 11. Manifesto of the Communist Party -- 12. Capital -- 13. Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 -- Contemporary Extensions: Capital Re-Wired -- 14. The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System -- 15. Black Marxism -- 16. The Forms of Capital -- 17. Distinction -- 18. Cultures of Servitude -- System Update: Shoshana Zuboff -- 19. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism -- Section III Pathway to Meltdown: Theorizing the Dark Side of Modernity -- Introductory Essay: Do You Ever Get the Feeling You're Being Watched? -- Classical Connections: Max Weber -- 20. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism -- 21. Basic Sociological Terms -- 22. The Types of Legitimate Domination -- 23. Bureaucracy -- Contemporary Extensions: The Rational Society Re-Wired -- 24. One-Dimensional Man -- 25. Toward a Rational Society.

"This third edition of Social Theory Re-Wired is significantly revised and its unique web learning interactive programs that "allow us to go farther into theory and to build student skills than ever before," according to many teachers. Vital political and social updates are reflected both in the text and the online supplements"--

We examine the origins of voluntary associations devoted to environmental protection, focusing on the divergent trajectories of industrialized versus developing countries. We consider a wide range of domestic economic, political, and institutional dynamics that give rise to environmental associations. Developing and extending neo-institutional world polity arguments, we characterize domestic association in the developing world as the product of global cultural models, legitimation, and resources. Using event history and dynamic panel models, we analyze the formation of domestic environmental associations for a large sample of countries in the contemporary period. Among highly industrialized countries, domestic factors—resources and political institutions that afford favorable opportunities—largely explain the prevalence of environmental associations. In contrast, global forces are a powerful catalyst for environmental organizing in the developing world. The environmental movement, which had domestic origins in the West, became institutionalized in the world polity, generating new associations on a global scale. We also find positive effects of democratic institutions and philanthropic foundations. Environmental degradation and societal affluence are not primary drivers of environmental association. We conclude by reflecting on the implications of globally-sponsored voluntary associations, which appear to be common in the developing world.

In the spring of 2007, someone moved to a city. The move was a momentous one in terms of its demographic implications—it marked the tipping point of a new urban century in which more than half the world's population now lives in cities.

"Power plants are the lifeblood and bane of modern society. Electrification has revolutionized transportation and communication, dramatically improved medical care, spurred the rise of the metropolis, and enabled the global population to grow by over four billion during the past century. But because fossil fueled power plants are the largest source of human caused greenhouse gases, they also pose the single greatest threat to humans' life support system. Despite their pivotal role in society and projections that electricity generation will increase by 60% over the next two decades, however, there is little analysis of the causes and possible abatement of power plants' carbon pollution. Fortunately, as more scientists address the intersection of societies and their environments, especially in the context of climate change, they raise important questions about the distribution of pollution within sectors like electricity and have identified factors that may explain why certain actors within them do more environmental harm than others. These factors include technology, size, and age, but also their nation's position in the world economy, embeddedness in global environmental norms, political-legal systems, and the policies of their local governments. With Super Polluters, Don Grant, Andrew Jorgenson, and Wesley Longhofer present a novel data set on the CO2 emissions and structural attributes of nearly 20,000 fossil fuel power plants in 148 countries and information from the Environmental Protection Agency's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. They illustrate how social scientists can advance our understanding of the determinants and mitigation of individual power plants' carbon pollution"--

A little over a decade ago, ASA past-president Herbert Gans embarked upon an intriguing and, to our knowledge, unprecedented study of bestselling books written by professional sociologists. On the heels of his presidential campaign tomake sociologymore visible and influential to the lay public, Gans believed such a study would help us better understand the general reading public's interest in and understanding of sociology's knowledge, information, and insights.

We examine changes in the effectiveness of local civic action in relation to changes over time in racial diversity and income inequality. Local civic action comprises situations in which community members come together—typically with support from local organizations—to address common issues. The collective orientation of local civic action makes it sensitive to changes in local social conditions. As these changes unfold, local organizations become differentially able to support civic action. Here, our core argument features the process through which community members associate with different local organizations and how mandated versus voluntary association results in distinct responses to increased social and economic heterogeneity. We test this argument using three decades of data describing local campaigns of the annual Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF program. A baseline model shows that within-county increases in racial diversity and income inequality are associated with diminished campaign effectiveness. Subsequent models that separate out campaigns organized by schools, churches, and clubs show that schools are relatively more effective mobilizers as racial diversity and income inequality increase, arguably due to the greater demographic matching that is induced by mandated school participation.