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• Contents
• Case studies
• World in focus
• Contributors
• Preface
• Guided tour
• How to use this book
• Acknowledgements
• Part 1 Introduction to the sociological imagination
• Chapter 1 Sociological thinking
• Key issues
• Introduction
• The sociological perspective
• The sociological perspective in practice
• Using sociology
• The origins of sociology
• Contemporary sociology
• The individual and society
• The power of culture
• A sociological look at celebrity culture
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal and journal articles
• Websites
• Activities
• Chapter 2 Sociological theories
• Key issues
• Introduction
• Sociological perspectives
• Classical sociological theories
• Contemporary sociological theories
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal
• Websites
• Activities
• Chapter 3 Sociological research
• Key issues
• Introduction
• Why do sociologists do research?
• Defining sociological research
• The foundations of sociological research
• Methodologies: how to produce sociological knowledge
• Methods of research
• A multi-method approach
• Feminist research
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal and journal articles
• Websites
• Activities
• Part 2 Introduction to socialdivisions
• Chapter 4 Social stratification and class
• Key issues
• Introduction
• Systems of stratification
• Explanations of stratification
• Theoretical concepts of class
• Operationalizing the concept of class
• The class structure in modern society
• ‘Class is dead; long live class’
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal and journal articles
• Websites
• Activities
• Chapter 5 Gender
• Key issues
• Introduction
• Explaining gender differences
• Sex and sexuality
• Representing gender: mass media and popular culture
• Gender and the body
• Gendered labour
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal and journal articles
• Websites
• Activities
• Chapter 6 ‘Race’, ethnicity and nationalism
• Key issues
• Introduction
• Unpacking ‘race’, ethnicity and nationalism
• Concepts and theories
• From theory to the ‘real world’
• Nationalism
• Migration, settlement and multiculturalism
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal and journal articles
• Websites
• Activities
• Chapter 7 Age
• Key issues
• Introduction
• Age and social relationships
• Age and social stratification
• Age and discrimination
• Ways of understanding age
• The life course perspective
• Age as a cultural construction
• Social construction of childhood
• Cultural construction of childhood
• Social construction of old age
• Cultural construction of old age
• Old age and childhood in Britain
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal and journal articles
• Websites
• Activities
• Chapter 8 Disability
• Key issues
• Introduction
• Explanations for our views
• Towards a sociology of impairment or disability
• Identity and disability
• Disability and social exclusion
• Challenges to the social model of disability
• Understanding disability in the context of welfare policy
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal and journal articles
• Websites
• Activities
• Chapter 9 Global divisions
• Key issues
• Introduction
• Definitions: the majority and minority worlds
• Global inequalities
• Sociology of development
• Globalization
• Gender relations in the majority world
• Childhoods in the majority world
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal and journal articles
• Websites
• Activities
• Part 3 Introduction to understanding social life
• Chapter 10 Environment
• Key issues
• Introduction
• What is environmental sociology?
• Historical views of nature
• Modern environmentalism
• Climate change
• Environmental sociology: an ‘absent presence’?
• Environmental sociology: new beginnings
• Risk society
• Ecological modernization
• The social construction of environmental issues
• Challenges from the grass roots
• The way forward? Sustainable development and environmental justice
• Environmental sociology: beyond an ‘absent presence’
• Mobilities and the environment
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal and journal articles
• Websites
• Activities
• Chapter 11 Families and relationships
• Key issues
• Introduction
• Defining families and households
• Changes in family structure
• Intimate relationships
• Families and social problems
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal and journal articles
• Websites
• Activities
• Chapter 12 Work
• Key issues
• Introduction
• Marx and the labour process within capitalism
• Braverman and Labour and Monopoly Capital
• The organization of work
• Industrialism and de-industrialization
• The coming of post-industrial society?
• Fordism and mass production
• Post-Fordism and flexibility
• The labour market
• Unemployment
• Trade unions
• Working at home?
• The globalization of economic life
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal and journal articles
• Websites
• Activities
• Chapter 13 Health, illness and the body
• Key issues
• Introduction
• The social construction of medical knowledge
• Sectors of health care
• Experiencing illness
• The body, technology and change
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal and journal articles
• Websites
• Activities
• Chapter 14 Crime and punishment
• Key issues
• Introduction
• The sociology of crime
• The sociology of punishment
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal and journal article
• Websites
• Activities
• Part 4 Introduction to knowledge and power
• Chapter 15 Education
• Key issues
• Introduction
• Education systems
• Sociological explanations and theories about education
• Sociological approaches to education policy
• Social groups and education
• Gender inequalities ineducation
• Ethnicity and education
• Special educational needs
• Multiple disadvantages in education
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal and journal articles
• Websites
• Activities
• Chapter 16 Religion
• Key issues
• Introduction
• The development of the sociology of religion
• Religion today: back on the agenda
• Methods for studying religion
• Religion in classical sociology
• Secularization
• Understanding religious organizations
• Fundamentalism
• Alternative New Age spiritualities
• Gender and religion
• Conclusion
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal and journal articles
• Websites
• Activities
• Chapter 17 The mass media
• Key issues
• Introduction
• The development of the mass media
• External influences on media content
• Internal influences on media content
• Perspectives on the mass media
• Effects of the mass media
• Summary
• Links
• Further reading
• Key journal and journal articles
• Websites
• Activities
• Glossary
• References
• Index