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Unraveling Ties
From Social Cohesion to New Practices of Connectedness
Unraveling Ties is a unique addition to current debates in sociology—a compilation of essays mapping the creation of community life in a modern world that often appears alienating, cold, and even threatening. Topics range from family life and friendship to the integral role of the deviant in society. The result is a thoughtful, meticulously researched volume that will be useful to sociologists, economists, and anyone interested in the creation of community in a decentralized and rapidly globalizing world.
370 pages | 6 x 8 | © 2002
Economics and Business: Economics--General Theory and Principles
Psychology: Social Psychology
Sociology: Formal and Complex Organizations
Table of Contents
Preface
Yehuda Elkana
Unraveling Ties: Disciplinary Legacies and Changing Cartographies
Elísio S. Macamo, Ivan Krastev, Shalini Randeria
Part I: Notions
Bindung - Exploring the Issues
Franz-Xaver Kaufmann
Cohesion, Attachment, Commitment
Eberhard Ortland
Part II: Confessions - Friendship, Blat, Networks
The Politics of Friendship: Classic and Contemporary Concerns
Oleg Kharkhordin
A Moral Economy of Anti-Corruption Sentiments in Eastern Europe
Ivan Krastev
Ties that Might Heal: Testimonials, Solidarity, and Antiretrovirals in West Africa
Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Biographical Knots
Elísio Macamo
Lonely Ever More: Kinship, Consumption and the Formation of Social Ties
Elizabeth C. Dunn
Part III: Memories
From Ties that Bind to Ties that Relieve. Eigensinn and Bindung Among Industrial Workers in 20th Century Germany
Alf Lüdtke
Entangled Memories. Bindung and Identity
Heike Schmidt
Comment: The Cohesive Force of Forgetting - When Can We Forget and On What Terms?
Jennifer Balint
Part IV: Inventions - Citizenship/Work
Bindung and Unemployment in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
Bénédicte Zimmerman
The Discrete Charm of Dual Citizenship: Citizenship Ties, Trust and the >>Pink Card<<
Ayse S. Çaglar
Why Do Megamergers Fail? The Ties that Bind or the Sometimes Unwanted Cohesive Force of Corporate Identity
Cord Jakobeit
Part V: Visions
Value Pluralism and Moral Universalism
Hans Joas
Entangled Histories of Uneven Modernities: Civil Society, Caste Solidarities and Legal Pluralism in Post-Colonial India
Shalini Randeria
Bindung: A Processual Approach
Sally Humphreys
Intuitions
The Inevitable Weakening of Social Bonds (Bindung)
Alain Touraine
Post-script
Re-connecting Ties
Helga Nowotny
Editors
Contributors