Published in association with International Sociological Association (ISA), this edited work is a timely collection from an international set of authors.

PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Transformations in the Multiple Domains of a Turbulent World - Arnaud Sales
PART II: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES FOR UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL CHANGE
Chapter 2: A Re-Appraisal of Agency-Structure Theories to Understand Social Change - Arnaud Sales
Chapter 3: Global Society and Polyarchic Governance - Alberto Martinelli
Chapter 4: Social Transformations and Knowledge - Nico Stehr & Bernd Weiler
PART III: RECOMPOSITION OF THE POLITICAL DOMAIN AND CHALLENGES TO CIVIL SOCIETY
Chapter 5: Political Sociology Responds to Change - Kay Lawson, Mildred Schwartz & Eva Etzioni-Halevy
Chapter 6: Global Social Movements - Politics, Subjectivity and Human Rights - Pierre Hamel, Henri Lustiger-Thaler & Louis Maheu
PART IV: THE TRANSFORMATION OF ORGANIZATIONS AND WORK
Chapter 7: Transforming Organizations - Stewart Clegg
Chapter 8: Transformations of Work in a Global Context - Employment Systems, Autonomy and Work-life Articulation as Main Challenges - Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
Chapter 9: Reconnections - Labour Sociologies in a Globalizing Era - Carla Lipsig-Mummé & Edward Webster
Chapter 10: Returning to Professions - Julia Evetts
PART V: THE TRANSFORMATION OF LIFE WORLD AND CULTURE
Chapter 11: Challenging Women¿s Domination and Striving for Equity and the Respect of Difference - Ann Denis
Chapter 12: Family Change and Lifecourse Development - Social Transformations on the Intimate Frontiers - Susan A. McDaniel
Chapter 13: The Waning of Religious Beliefs in Thirty European Countries - Empirical Evidence - Mattei Dogan
Chapter 14: The Culture Society - An Heuristic for Analyzing Cultural Change in the Global Age - Arturo Rodriguez Morató
Chapter 15: Power and Global Sport - Zones of Prestige, Emulation and Resistance - Joseph Maguire
PART VI: TRANSFORMATION OF FRAMES AND CONDITIONS OF SOCIAL EXISTENCE
Chapter 16: Comparative Social Transformations in Urban Regimes - Sophie Body-Gendrot, Marisol Garcia & Enzo Mingione
Chapter 17: Globalization and the Transformation of Disease and Health Care - William C. Cockerham & Geoffrey B. Cockerham
Chapter 18: The Dynamics of Migration and Social Transformations - Han Entzinger