Sociology : a global introduction / John J. Macionis, Ken Plummer.

Previous ed.: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 716-764) and index.

1.The sociological imagination -- 2 .Thinking sociologically, thinking globally -- 3.Doing social science: an introduction to method -- 4.Societies -- 5.Culture -- 6.Groups, organisations and the rise of the network society -- 7.Micro-sociology: the social construction of everyday life -- 8.Social divisions and stratification -- 9.Global inequalities and poverty -- 10.Class, poverty and welfare in the UK -- 11.Racism, ethnicities and migration -- 12.The gender order and sexualities -- 13.Age stratification: children and later life -- 14.Economies, work and consumption -- 15.Power, governance and social movements -- 16.Control, crime and deviance -- 17.Families, households and personal cultures -- 18.Religion and belief -- 19.Education -- 20.Health and medicine -- 21.The mass media -- 22.Science, cyberspace and the risk society -- 23.Populations, cities and the shape of things to come -- 24.Social change and the environment -- 25.Futures: the challenges for sociology in the twenty-first century.

This volume provides a fresh approach to the study of introductory sociology. It looks at the social world from a global perspective, recognising that it is increasingly difficult to understand one country in isolation from another.