Sociology : introductory readings / edited by Anthony Giddens and Philip W. Sutton.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Polity, c2010.Edition: 3rd edDescription: x, 347 p. ; 25 cm. ; pbkISBN: - 9780745648835
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- 0745648843 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
[PART 1: Theories of society] Private Troubles, Public Issues / C. Wright-Mills -- The Scope of Sociology / Anthony Giddens -- What is Sociology For? / Richard Jenkins -- Human History as Class Conflict / Karl Marx -- From Mechanical to Organic Solidarity / Emile Durkheim -- Structuring Patriarchal Societies / Sylvia Walby -- Intimations of Postmodernity / Zygmunt Bauman -- Riding the Juggernaut of Modernity Further Reading / Anthony Giddens.
[PART 2: Research methods] Quantitative versus Qualitative Methods? / Alan Bryman -- What is a Social Survey? / Alan Buckingham & Peter Saunders -- Researching Individual Lives /Barbara Merrill & Linden West -- Sociology's Historical Imagination / Philip Abrams -- Participant Observation / Observant Participation Further Reading / Loic Wacquant.
[PART 3: Natural and urban environments] Individuality in the Modern City / Georg Simmel -- Creating Humane Cities / Richard Sennett -- The Global City / Saskia Sassen -- A New Ecological Paradigm for Sociology / Anthony Dunlap -- A Politics for Global Warming / Anthony Giddens.
[PART 4: Institutions and organizations] The Spirit of Capitalism / Max Weber -- The Essence of Religion / Emile Durkheim -- Families in Global Perspective / Goran Therborn -- The Hidden Curriculum -- A Teacher's View / John Taylor Gatto -- Work in the Next Industrial Revolution / Alan S. Blinder.
[PART 5: Social inequalities] What is Social Stratification? / Wendy Bottero -- Woman -- The Second Sex? / Simone De Beauvoir -- Intersecting Inequalities / Patricia Hill Collins -- The Rise, Fall and Rise of Social Class / Rosemary Crompton -- The Social Model of Disability / Colin Barnes, Geof Mercer & Tom Shakespeare.
[PART 6: Relationships and the life-course] Life Cycle or Life Course? / Stephen Hunt -- Social Constructions of Sexuality / Jeffrey Weeks -- The Normal Chaos of Love / Ulrich Beck & Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim -- Ageing and Ageism / Bill Bytheway -- The Loneliness of the Dying / Norbert Elias.
[PART 7: Interaction and communication] Presenting the Self in Social Life / Erving Goffman -- Throwing Like a Girl / Iris Marion Young -- Hollywood's Misrepresentation of Arabs / Jack G. Shaheen -- The Internet Galaxy / James Slevin -- Building Virtual Communities / Howard Rheingold.
[PART 8: Health and the body] Defending Parsons' Sick Role / Bryan S. Turner -- What Makes Women Sick? / Lesley Doyal -- The Experience of Illness and Recovery / Mike Bury -- The Problem with Medicine / Ivan Illich -- Sociology and the Body / Chris Shilling.
[PART 9: Crime and deviance] The Normality of Deviance / Emile Durkheim --- 45. Crime as a Deviant Adaptation / Robert Merton --- 46. The Birth of the Prison / Michel Foucault -- Principles of Restorative Justice / John Braithwaite -- How Serious are 'Cybercrimes'? / David S. Wall.
[PART 10: Political sociology] Defining Power / Steven Lukes -- New Wars in a Global Age / Mary Kaldor -- The Social Movement Society? / David S. Meyer and Sidney Tarrow -- The New Terrorism / Walter Laqueur -- Cosmopolitan Democracy / Daniele Archibugi.
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