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