Showing papers in "Canadian Journal of Sociology-cahiers Canadiens De Sociologie in 2006"

Shared beginnings, divergent lives : delinquent boys to age 70

Abstract: This text analyses newly collected data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were remanded to reform school in the 1940s. Born in Boston in the late 1920s and early 1930s, these men were the subjects of the classic study "Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency" by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck (1950). Updating their lives at the close of the twentieth century, and connecting their adult experience to childhood, this book is arguably the longest longitudinal study of age, crime and the life course to date. John Laub and Robert Sampson's long-term data, combined with in-depth interviews, defy the conventional wisdom that links individual traits such as poor verbal skills, limited self-control and difficult temperament to long-term trajectories of offending. The authors reject the idea of categorizing offenders to reveal etiologies of offending - rather, they connect variability in behaviour to social context. They find that men who desisted from crime were rooted in structural routines and had strong social ties to family and community. By uniting life-history narratives with rigorous data analysis, the authors shed new light on long-term trajectories of crime and current policies of crime control.

Democracy, Society and the Governance of Security

Abstract: Introduction: understanding the governance of security Jennifer Wood and Benoit Dupont 1. Reflections on the refusal to acknowledge private governments Clifford Shearing 2. Transnational security governance Les Johnston 3. Two case studies of American anti-terrorism Peter K. Manning 4. Power struggles in the field of security: implications for democratic transformation Benoit Dupont 5. Policing and security as 'club goods': the new enclosures? Adam Crawford 6. The state, the people and democratic policing: the case of South Africa Monique Marks and Andrew Goldsmith 7. Necessary virtues: the legitimate place of the state in the production of security Ian Loader and Neil Walker 8. From security to health Scott Burris 9. Research and innovation in the field of security: a nodal governance view Jennifer Wood Conclusion: the future of democracy Benoit Dupont and Jennifer Wood.

Frontiers of capital: Ethnographic reflections on the new economy

Abstract: Acknowledgments vii Introduction: The Anthropology of Capital and the Frontiers of Ethnography / Greg Downey and Melissa S. Fisher 1 I. Circuits of Knowledge Fast Capitalism: Para-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic Analyst / Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus 33 Trading on Numbers / Caitlin Zaloom 58 Real Time: Unwinding Technocratic and Anthropological Knowledge / Annelise Riles 86 The Information Economy in No-Holds-Barred Fighting / Greg Downey 108 Intersecting Geographies? ICTS and Other Virtualities in Urban Africa / AbdouMaliq Simone 133 II. New Subjects, Novel Socialities Corporate Players, New Cosmopolitans, and Guanxi in Shanghai / Aihwa Ong 163 Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban "Regeneration" as Global Urban Strategy / Neil Smith 191 Navigating Wall Street Women's Gendered Networks in the New Economy / Melissa S. Fisher 209 Developing Community Software in a Commodity World / Siobhan O'Mahony 237 Reflections on Youth, from the Past to the Postcolony / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff 267 Guerilla Capitalism and Ghettocentric Cosmopolitanism on the French Urban Periphery / Paul A. Silverstein 282 Afterword: Knowledge Practices and Subject Making at the Edge / Saskia Sassen 305 Bibliography 317 Contributors 357 Index 361

Rethinking civilizational analysis

Abstract: Introduction - Sa[um]id Amir Arjomand and Edward A Tiryakian PART ONE: THE INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND Civilization in an Historical and Global Perspective - Bruce Mazlish Civilizational Forms - Marcel Mauss (edited and translated by Diane Barthel-Bouchier) PART TWO: THEORETICAL ESSAYS Civilizational Analysis - Edward A Tiryakian The Civilizational Dimensions of Modernity - Shmuel N Eisenstadt Notes on the Concept of an Axial Turning in Human History - Donald N Levine Global Civilization and Local Cultures - Wolf Sch[um]afer Civilization and Its Sources - Arpad Szakolczai Civilizational Patterns and Civilizing Processes - Johann P Arnason Rationalization, Transformations of Consciousness and Intercivilizational Encounters - Donald A Nielsen Civilizations as Zones of Prestige and Social Contact - Randall Collins PART THREE: HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE ESSAYS Chinese Encounters with Other Civilizations - Cho-Yun Hsu Perso-Indian Statecraft, Greek Political Science and the Muslim Idea of Government - Sa[um]id Amir Arjomand The Comparison of Civilizations - T N Madan Confessions of a Eurocentric - John A Hall PART FOUR: CRITICAL ESSAYS From Indigenous Civilization to Indigenous Modernities - John Rundell A Clash of Civilizations or of Paradigms? - Daniel Chirot The Clash of Civilizations - Gregory Melleuish A Model of Development? For the Last Time - Hamid Dabashi