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R.W. Connell's 'Masculinities' analyses the works on gender over one decade and provides a framework for it. It focuses on the social processes in the interviewees' lives and as such makes use of interviews as a source of oral history. The book has an epistemological approach and thus may appear inconsistent since gender practice is linked both with the materiality of the body and the dynamics of social structure. Moreover, it hardly represents male power but only argues for the perception of power as a prime structure of gender relations.

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Charting futures for sociology: sociology and world market society

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Issues concerning the history and future of sociology as an academic discipline and a profession are discussed, with focus on the potential of sociology to initiate the development of a new world culture.

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Simplicity, uncertainty, and the power of generative theories

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Issues concerning the aims and principles of sociology and its future direction are discussed, with focus on the goal of simplicity, the uncertainty of theory and the need for generative theory.

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