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Introductory sociology / Tony Bilton ... [et al.] with Liz Bradbury, James Stanyer and Paul Stephens.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.Edition: 4th edDescription: xxxiii, 596 p. : ill., facsim., map, ports. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780333945711 (pbk.) :
  • 9780333945728 (hbk.) :
  • 0333945719
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301 BIL
LOC classification:
  • HM585
Contents:
Part1: Introduction: Studying Modern Society. 1.Studying Society Today -- 2.Living in Modernity -- 3.Globalisation and Modernity. Part 2: Social Divisions and Power. 4.Social Divisions -- 5.Social Class -- 6.Gender Relations -- 7.Race and Ethnicity -- 8.Power, Politics and the State. Part 3: Dimensions of Modern Social Life. Part 3: Dimensions of Modern Social Life. 9.Family Life -- 10.Education -- 11.Work and Non-Work -- 12.Mass Media -- 13.Health, illness and medicine -- 14.Crime. Part 4: Sociological Theory and Method. 16.Principles of Sociological Research -- 17.Classical Social Theory, Feminism and Modernity -- 18.Making Social Life: Theories of Action and Meaning --19.Modernity, Postmodernity and Social Theory.
Summary: Suitable for undergraduates and A Level students, this is a completely revised, updated edition of a highly-regarded text. Contemporary in feel, it contains references to debates at the forefront of social theory.
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Previous ed.: Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part1: Introduction: Studying Modern Society. 1.Studying Society Today -- 2.Living in Modernity -- 3.Globalisation and Modernity. Part 2: Social Divisions and Power. 4.Social Divisions -- 5.Social Class -- 6.Gender Relations -- 7.Race and Ethnicity -- 8.Power, Politics and the State. Part 3: Dimensions of Modern Social Life. Part 3: Dimensions of Modern Social Life. 9.Family Life -- 10.Education -- 11.Work and Non-Work -- 12.Mass Media -- 13.Health, illness and medicine -- 14.Crime. Part 4: Sociological Theory and Method. 16.Principles of Sociological Research -- 17.Classical Social Theory, Feminism and Modernity -- 18.Making Social Life: Theories of Action and Meaning --19.Modernity, Postmodernity and Social Theory.

Suitable for undergraduates and A Level students, this is a completely revised, updated edition of a highly-regarded text. Contemporary in feel, it contains references to debates at the forefront of social theory.

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