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.
| Main Authors: | Thorpe, Christopher (Author), Yuill, Chris (Author), Hobbs, Mitchell (Author), Todd, Megan (Author), Tomley, Sarah (Author), Weeks, Marcus (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| 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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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.