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

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