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Author | : Steve Matthewman |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 663 |
Release | : 2020-11-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1350314315 |
Being Sociological considers the lived experience of sociology, stressing the active nature of social life and highlighting the role that students can play in enacting social change. Fully reworked in this third edition, with five brand new chapter topics and a diverse roster of new contributors, this textbook presents a fresh take on society today. The book encourages readers to examine both enduring challenges and their potential solutions. Dynamic learning features help students unpack key ideas from sociological theory and apply them to today's problems to cultivate their own sociological imagination. An inspiring read, this textbook will empower students to engage with sociology outside the classroom and embed it in their everyday lives. With new contributors, fresh organisation and a vibrant student-centric focus, this third edition brings Being Sociological fully up to date and reaffirms its place as an invaluable introduction to sociology for students new to the field. New to this Edition: - All chapters completely rewritten to provide a fresh overview of sociology today - Coverage of five new chapter subjects : including social movements, urbanization, migration and sport and leisure, reflecting their centrality in modern life and in introductory sociology courses - A focus on the SHiP framework, moving away from social categories to consider instead society's structural composition, its historical patterns and power inequalities and their interplay in individual lives - A forward-looking, optimistic orientation, bolstered by new pedagogical features inviting students to consider pathways for change
Author | : Peter L. Berger |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2011-04-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1453215468 |
A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.
Author | : Muriel Darmon |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317175840 |
Anorexia tends to be studied within health disciplines, such as medicine, psychoanalysis or psychology. When the condition is discussed in relation to society more broadly, focus is commonly restricted to considerations about the demise of the traditional family meal or the all-pervading obsession with thinness and media representations of ‘size zero’ models. But what can sociology tell us about anorexia and how a person becomes anorexic? This book draws on empirical research – both interviews and observation – conducted in and outside medical settings with anorexic girls, medical staff, teachers and other teenagers of the same age. As such, it offers the first fully sociological treatment of the condition, taking the reader closer to the actual experiences of people living with anorexia. It retraces the behaviours, practices and processes that create what is patterned as an anorexic ‘career’ and reveals the cultural and social characteristics of the people who engage on this path taking them from a simple diet to hospitalization or recovery. Richly illustrated with qualitative research, Becoming Anorexic: A Sociological Approach demonstrates that anorexia can be viewed as a very particular work of self-transformation, which requires specific – and social – ‘dispositions’. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology with an interest in health and illness, the body, social class and gender.
Author | : Nathan J. Keirns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2015-03-17 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : 9781938168413 |
"This text is intended for a one-semester introductory course."--Page 1.
Author | : Robert Morrison MacIver |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Communities |
ISBN | : 0714615811 |
First Published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Charles Wright Mills |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
This highly acclaimed study of the social sciences critiques the ascendant "schools" of sociology in this country and reassesses the tradition of classic sociological analysis.
Author | : Ori Schwarz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Information society |
ISBN | : 9781509542963 |
"How to rethink social theory in our digital times"--
Author | : Deborah Carr |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 2017-09-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0393911586 |
Written by a team of internationally renowned sociologists with experience in both the field and the classroom, The Art and Science of Social Research offers authoritative and balanced coverage of the full range of methods used to study the social world. The authors highlight the challenges of investigating the unpredictable topic of human lives while providing insights into what really happens in the field, the laboratory, and the survey call center.
Author | : Bill Bytheway |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications Limited |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : |
Based on papers from the British Sociological Association conference : Sociology of the life cycle : Loughborough : 1986.
Author | : Steve Fuller |
Publisher | : Pine Forge Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2006-02-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1446228436 |
C. Wright Mills′ classic The Sociological Imagination has inspired generations of students to study Sociology. However, the book is nearly half a century old. What would a book address, aiming to attract and inform students in the 21st century? This is the task that Steve Fuller sets himself in this major new invitation to study Sociology. The book: Critically examines the history of the social sciences to discover what the key contributions of sociology have been and how relevant they remain. Demonstrates how biological and sociological themes have been intertwined from the beginning of both disciplines, from the 19th century to the present day. Covers virtually all of sociology′s classic theorists and themes. Provides a glossary of key thinkers and concepts. This book sets the agenda for imagining sociology in the 21st century and will attract students and professionals alike.