Charles H. Wood is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida.
Bryan R. Roberts is C. B. Smith Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations and Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas.

Contents
Acronyms
Figures and Tables
Preface
Introduction: Rethinking Development in Latin America
Bryan R. Roberts and Charles H. Wood
Part I Sociology in the Hemisphere: Old Issues and New Directions
1. Sociology in the Hemisphere: Past Convergencies and a New Middle-Range Agenda
Alejandro Portes
Part II: Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Social Policy
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Neoliberalism
Osvaldo Sunkel
3. Social Science and Academic Sociology in Brazil
Vilmar E. Faria
Part III Citizenship, Politics, and the State
4. Toward a Political Sociology of Social Mobilization in Latin America
Joe Foweraker
5. Citizenship, Rights, and Social Policy
Bryan R. Roberts
6. The State of the State in Latin American Sociology
Diane E. Davis
7. Human Rights and the Memory of Political Violence and Repression: Constructing a New Field in Social Science
Elizabeth Jelin
Part IV Work, Families, and Reproduction
8. Exclusion and Employability: The New Labor Force Dynamics in Latin America
Juan Pablo Pérez Sáinz
9. Families in Transition
Marian Ariza and Orlandina de Oliveira
10. Population and Development: Then and Now
Joseph E. Potter and Rodolfo A. Tuirán Gutiérrez
Part V Urban Settlements, Marginality, and Social Exclusion
11. The Lack of “Cursive Thinking” Within Social Theory and Public Policy: Four Decades of Marginality and Rationality in the So-called Slum
Peter M. Ward
12. Social Exclusion
Charles H. Wood
References
Contributors
Index