Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. Mastering Ambivalence: Neil Smelser as a Sociologist of Synthesis 1
4. Part I: Self
5. Introduction 17
6. 2. The Sociological Eye and the Psychoanalytic Ear 21
7. 3. The Commodity Frontier 38
8. 4. The Glass Cage: Flexible Work, Fragmented Consumption, Fragile Selves 57
9. Part II: Social Structure
10. Introduction 77
11. 5. Rational Choice and Sociology 82
12. 6. Enlisting Smelser’s Theory of Ambivalence to Maintain Progress in Sociology of Religion’s New Paradigm 103
13. 7. Circuits of Commerce 122
14. 8. Trust as an Aspect of Social Structure 145
15. 9. The Organizational Foundations of University Capability: Differentiation and Competition in the Academic Sector of Society 168
16. Part III: Beliefs
17. Introduction 191
18. 10. Primordial Beliefs and Immigration Policy: The Case of Britain’s Patrials 195
19. 11. Causal Reasoning, Historical Logic, and Sociological Explanation 216
20. 12. Intellectual Cycles of Social Movement Research: From Psychoanalysis to Culture? 234
21. 13. Shaping Sociological Imagination: The Importance of Theory 254
22. List of Contributors 269
23. Index 273