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PART TWO: TRENDS IN CONCEPTUALIZING CONFLICT, COMPETITION,
AND COOPERATION IN SUBFIELDS OF SOCIOLOGY 107
8 Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation in the Sociology of
Development and Social Transformations 109
Ulrike Schuerkens
9 Health Sociology: Conflict, Competition, Cooperation 124
Elianne Riska, Ellen Annandale and Robert Dingwall

10 Sociological Theories of Professions: Conflict, Competition
and Cooperation 140
Julia Evetts, Charles Gadea, Mariano Sánchez and Juan Sáez

11 Competition, Conflict and Cooperation, and the Naturalization
of Social Difference in Sport 155
Fabien Ohl

12 Controversies as Sites of Conflict and Collaboration: Insights
from the Sociology of the Arts 170
Jan Marontate

13 Rethinking the Sociology of Childhood: Conflict, Competition
and Cooperation in Children’s Lives 185
Robert van Krieken and Doris Bühler-Niederberger

14 The Lifecourse of the Social Mobility Paradigm 201
Stéphane Moulin and Paul Bernard

PART THREE: RESEARCH ON SOCIAL ISSUES – INTERWEAVING
PROCESSES 221

15 Health, Illness, and Mortality in Less Developed Countries: Convergence,
Divergence, and Stagnation 223
Bali Ram and Shefali S. Ram

16 Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation in Twenty-First Century Military
Peacekeeping Operations 236
David R. Segal, Christopher Dandeker, and Yuko K. Whitestone

17 Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation in the Social Division of Health Care 250
Paul Leduc Browne
18 Markets Against Society: Labour’s Predicament in the Second
Great Transformation 265
Edward Webster and Robert Lambert
19 Political Consumerism: An Extension of Social Conflict or a Renewed
Form of Economic Collaboration? 278
Marco Silvestro