Foreword-- A.Honneth Introduction: A Recognition-Theoretic Research Programme for the Social Sciences-- N.H.Smith PART I: RECOGNITION AS A CATEGORY OF SOCIAL RESEARCH Is Recognition a Basis for Social or Political Thought?-- T.Pinkard Hegelian Recognition, Critical Theory and the Social Sciences-- J-P.Deranty PART II: CRITICAL ASSESSMENTS OF PATTERNS OF MISRECOGNITION IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES Misrecognition, Marriage, and Derecognition-- C.F.Zurn Work as a Sphere of Norms, Paradoxes and Ideologies of Recognition-- N.H.Smith Recognition Theory as the Grounds of a General Theory of Crime as Social Harm?-- M.Yar Recognition and Religious Diversity: the Case of Legal Exemptions-- J.Seglow PART III: CHALLENGING THE RECOGNITION ORDER IN THE STATE AND BEYOND The Politics of Ethno-National Conflict Transformation: A Recognition-Theoretical Reading of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland-- S.O'Neill Recognition as Statecraft? Contexts of Recognition and Transformations of State Membership Regimes-- D.Owen Recognition and Immigration-- R.Cox The Global Politics of Recognition-- V.Heins.