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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| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
DK Publishing,
2015.
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| 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]. |
| 250 | |a First American edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, New York : |b DK Publishing, |c 2015. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2015 | |
| 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. | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Big ideas simply explained. | |
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