The sociology book

Profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their biggest ideas, including issues of equality, diversity, identity, and human rights; the effects of globalization; the role of institutions; and the rise of urban living in modern society.

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Main Authors: Thorpe, Christopher (Author), Yuill, Chris (Author), Hobbs, Mitchell (Author), Todd, Megan (Author), Tomley, Sarah (Author), Weeks, Marcus (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : DK Publishing, 2015.
Edition:First American edition.
Series:Big ideas simply explained.
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245 0 4 |a The sociology book /  |c [contributors, Christopher Thorpe, consultant editor, Chris Yuill, consultant editor ; Mitchell Hobbs, Megan Todd, Sarah Tomley, Marcus Weeks]. 
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300 |a 352 pages :  |b illustrations (chiefly color) ;  |c 24 cm 
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490 1 |a Big ideas simply explained 
500 |a Includes index. 
505 0 0 |t Foundations of sociology :  |t A physical defeat has never marked the end of a nation /  |r Ibn Khaldun --  |t Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarreled, in troops and companies /  |r Adam Ferguson --  |t Science can be used to build a better world /  |r Auguste Comte --  |t The Declaration of Independence bears no relation to half the human race /  |r Harriet Martineau --  |t The fall of the bourgeoisie and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable /  |r Karl Marx --  |t Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft /  |r Ferdinand Tönnies --  |t Society, like the human body, has interrelated parts, needs, and functions /  |r Émile Durkheim --  |t The iron cage of rationality /  |r Max Weber --  |t Many personal troubles must be understood in terms of public issues /  |r Charles Wright Mills --  |t Pay to the most commonplace activities the attention accorded extraordinary events /  |r Harold Garfinkel --  |t Where there is power there is resistance /  |r Michel Foucault --  |t Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original /  |r Judith Butler --  |t Social inequalities : I broadly accuse the bourgeoisie of social murder /  |r Friedrich Engels --  |t The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line /  |r W.E.B. DuBois --  |t The poor are excluded from the ordinary living patterns, customs, and activities of life /  |r Peter Townsend --  |t There ain't no black in the Union Jack /  |r Paul Gilroy --  |t A sense of one's place /  |r Pierre Bourdieu --  |t The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined /  |r Edward Said --  |t The ghetto is where the black people live /  |r Elijah Anderson --  |t The tools of freedom become the sources of indignity /  |r Richard Sennett --  |t Men's interest in patriarchy is condensed in hegemonic masculinity /  |r R.W. Connell --  |t White women have been complicit in this imperialist, white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy /  |r bell hooks --  |t The concept of "patriarch" is indispensable for an analysis of gender inequality /  |r Sylvia Walby --  |t Modern living :  |t Strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type /  |r Georg Simmel --  |t The freedom to remake our cities and ourselves /  |r Henri Lefebvre --  |t There must be eyes on the street /  |r Jane Jacobs --  |t Only communication can communicate /  |r Niklas Luhmann --  |t Society should articulate what is good /  |r Amitai Etzioni --  |t McDonaldization affects virtually every aspect of society /  |r George Ritzer --  |t The bonds of our communities have withered /  |r Robert D. Putnam --  |t Disneyization replaces mundane blandness with spectacular experiences /  |r Alan Bryman --  |t Living in a loft is like living in a showcase /  |r Sharon Zukin --  |t Living in a global world :  |t Abandon all hope of totality, you who enter the world of fluid modernity /  |r Zygmunt Bauman --  |t The modern world-system /  |r Immanuel Wallerstein --  |t Global issues, local perspective /  |r Roland Robertson --  |t Climate change is a back-of-the-mind issue /  |r Anthony Gidens --  |t No social justice without global cognitive justice /  |r Boaventura de Sousa Santos --  |t The unleashing of productive capacity by the power of the mind /  |r Manuel Castells --  |t We are living in a world that is beyond controllability /  |r Ulrich Beck --  |t It sometimes seems as if the whole world is on the move /  |r John Urry --  |t Nations can be imagined and constructed with relatively little historical straw /  |r David McCrone --  |t Global cities are strategic sites for new types of operations /  |r Saskia Sassen --  |t Different societies appropriate the materials of modernity differently /  |r Arjun Appadurai --  |t Processes of change have altered the relations between peoples and communities /  |r David Held. 
505 0 0 |t Culture and identity :  |t The "I" and the "me" /  |r G.H. Mead --  |t The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned /  |r Antonio Gramsci --  |t The civilizing process is constantly moving "forward" /  |r Norbert Elias --  |t Mass culture reinforces political repression /  |r Herbert Marcuse --  |t The danger of the future is that men may become robots /  |r Erich Fromm --  |t Culture is ordinary /  |r Raymond Williams --  |t Stigma refers to an attribute that is deeply discrediting /  |r Erving Goffman --  |t We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning /  |r Jean Baudrillard --  |t Modern identities are being decentered /  |r Stuart Hall --  |t All communities are imagined /  |r Benedict Anderson --  |t Throughout the world, culture has been doggedly pushing itself center stage /  |r Jeffrey Alexander --  |t Work and consumerism :  |t Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure /  |r Thorstein Veblen --  |t The Puritan wanted to work in a calling: we are forced to do so /  |r Max Weber --  |t Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination /  |r Daniel Bell --  |t The more sophisticated machines become, the less skill the worker has /  |r Harry Braverman --  |t Automation increases the worker's control over his work process /  |r Robert Blauner --  |t The Romantic ethic promotes the spirit of consumerism /  |r Colin Campbell --  |t In processing people, the product is a state of mind /  |r Arlie Russell Hochschild --  |t Spontaneous consent combines with coercion /  |r Michael Burawoy --  |t Things make us just as much as we make things /  |r Daniel Miller --  |t Feminization has had only a modest impact on reducing gender inequalities /  |r Teri Lynn Caraway --  |t The role of institutions :  |t Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature /  |r Karl Marx --  |t The iron law of oligarchy /  |r Robert Michels --  |t Healthy people need no bureaucracy to mate, give birth, and die /  |r Ivan Illich --  |t Some commit crimes because they are responding to a social situation /  |r Robert K. Merton --  |t Total institutions strip people of their support systems and their sense of self /  |r Erving Goffman --  |t Government is the right disposition of things /  |r Michel Foucault --  |t Religion has lost its plausibility and social significance /  |r Bryan Wilson --  |t Our identity and behavior are determined by how we are described and classified /  |r Howard S. Becker --  |t Economic crisis is immediately transformed into social crisis /  |r Jürgen Habermas --  |t Schooling has been at once something done to the poor and for the poor /  |r Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis --  |t Societies are subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic /  |r Stanley Cohen --  |t The time of the tribes /  |r Michel Maffesoli --  |t How working-class kids get working-class jobs /  |r Paul Willis --  |t Families and intimacies :  |t Differences between the sexes are cultural creations /  |r Margaret Mead --  |t Families are factories that produce human personalities /  |r Talcott Parsons --  |t Western man has become a confessing animal /  |r Michel Foucault --  |t Heterosexuality must be recognized and studied as an institution /  |r Adrienne Rich --  |t Western family arrangements are diverse, fluid, and unresolved /  |r Judith Stacey --  |t The marriage contract is a work contract /  |r Christine Delphy --  |t Housework is directly opposed to self-actualization /  |r Ann Oakley --  |t When love finally wins it has to face all kinds of defeat /  |r Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim --  |t Sexuality is as much about beliefs and ideologies as about the physical body /  |r Jeffrey Weeks --  |t Queer theory questions the very grounds of identity /  |r Steven Seidman --  |g Glossary. 
520 |a Profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their biggest ideas, including issues of equality, diversity, identity, and human rights; the effects of globalization; the role of institutions; and the rise of urban living in modern society. 
650 0 |a Sociology. 
655 7 |a Biographies.  |2 lcgft 
700 1 |a Thorpe, Christopher,  |e author. 
700 1 |a Yuill, Chris,  |e author. 
700 1 |a Hobbs, Mitchell,  |e author. 
700 1 |a Todd, Megan,  |e author. 
700 1 |a Tomley, Sarah,  |e author. 
700 1 |a Weeks, Marcus,  |e author. 
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