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Sociology: a global introduction represents a uniquely co-ordinated and complete learning resource for sociology students worldwide. International in outlook and culturally wide-ranging, it also reminds us that sociology is not entirely value free. Unrivalled in breadth, it is a text of pedagogic passion and sophistication helping you become an active, connected and critical learner.
Product Description
Sociology: a global introduction represents a uniquely co-ordinated and complete learning resource for sociology students worldwide. International in outlook and culturally wide-ranging, it also reminds us that sociology is valuable. Unrivalled in breadth, it is a text of passion and sophistication helping you become an active, connected and critical learner.
Features + Benefits
Global, cultural and digital turns highlighted throughout. Images, film, DVD and novels are linked online, which constantly illustrate, illuminate and underpin the theory
Informative maps, graphical representations of data, and thought-provoking photographs make the text visually appealing
My Task List sections for each chapter provide guidance on websites to investigate, DVDs to watch, reading to do, questions, and the big debates in sociology ranging from whether religion is in decline or crime is inevitable
Part 6 Resources for Critical Thinking is an extensive and unique resource bringing together key words, video lists, a major webliography, reading lists, YouTube links and key organisations all directly linked from the website
Extensive Website Resources at www.pearsoned.co.uk/plummer for lecturers and students include:
-Podcasts from the authors and students around the world
-'Big Vote' online with other students on key sociological debates
-Interactive questions
-Key sociological concepts explored
-Web and Videography links
-Revision flashcards
Backcover
Sociology: a global introduction represents a unique, lively and complete learning resource for sociology students worldwide. International in outlook and culturally wide-ranging, it is unrivalled in breadth. It helps you to develop a critical sociological imagination and a better understanding of the challenges and joys of living in the 21st century.
5th edition highlights include:
a story of how societies change runs throughout the book.
increased coverage and active, integrated engagement with theory and theorists throughout.
a key focus on the recent global, cultural and digital ‘turns’ in social analysis.
a link to the humanities concerned with art, history, film and literature.
an explicit link to the core debates over values and politics in sociology in the modern world.
fully updated statistics, maps, references and text throughout.
thought-provoking images and maps to foster a sense of the developing ‘visual sociology’.
new ‘hot’ topics including digital methods, celebrities, citizenship and the sociology of happiness.
Critical engagement
This is an active book that helps you do sociology and think creatively. It is packed full of tips and resources to work with. Four features stress this:
My Task List ends each chapter with ten things to do: questions to ask, web sites to investigate, films and DVDs to watch, major debates to engage with.
Project Interludes link sections and integrate the parts through specific suggestions for students to research sport, food, music and biography.
Critical Thinking (Part 6) is a detailed closing section which integrates the book to the web site and brings together a major webliography, films, YouTube, artwork, key statistics and glossary - a major support for all students.
A wide range of discussion boxes on new developments in the twenty first century, social theory and research methods – encourage broad and critical engagement with the issues.
The Website
This major supporting website resource is closely integrated with Part 6 (Critical Thinking) of the book – use them independently or (for best results!) together. You’ll find:
major links to key websites, art, novels and films – all will enhance your research and sociological thinking
interactive self-test exercises, additional readings and podcasts from author and students around the world
key sociological concepts explored
power points and revision cards
Go to: www.pearsoned.co.uk/plummer
The key resource to help you do sociology – thinking, studying, investigating and interacting as a sociologist.
John J. Macionis is Professor of Sociology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
Ken Plummer is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex.
Part One: Introducing Sociology
1 The Sociological Imagination
2 Thinking Sociologically, Thinking Globally
3 Studying the Social: An Introduction to Sociological Method
Part Two: The Foundations of Society: From Macro to Micro
4 Societies
5 Culture
6 Groups, Organisations and the Rise of the Network Society
7 Micro-sociology: The Social Construction of Everyday Life
Part Three: The Unequal World: Difference, Division and Social Stratification
8 Inequality, Social Divisions and Social Stratification
9 Global Poverty/Global Inequality
10 Class, Poverty and Welfare: The Case of the UK
11 Racism, Ethnicities and Migration
12 The Gender Order and Sexualities
13 Age Stratification, Children and Later Life
14 Disabilities, Care and the Humanitarian Society
Part Four: Social Structures, Social Practices and Social Institutions
15 Economies, Work and Consumption
16 Power, Governance and Social Movements
17 Control, Crime and Deviance
18 Families, Personal Life and Living Together
19 Religion and belief
20 Education
21 Health, Medicine and Well-being
22 Communication and the New Media
23 Science, Cyberspace and the Risk Society
Part Five: Social Change and the Twenty-First Century
24 Populations, Cities and the Space of Things to Come
25 Social Change and the Environment
26 Living in the Twenty-First Century
Part Six: Resources for Critical Thinking: Creating Sociological Imaginations
1 Films
2 Novels
3 Art and sociology
4 Time and space
5 Websites
6 YouTube
7 Key social thinkers
8 World statistics
9 Big debates of our time
10 Abbreviations and acronyms
11 Glossary
12 References
Sociology: a global introduction represents a uniquely co-ordinated and complete learning resource for sociology students worldwide. International in outlook and culturally wide-ranging, it also reminds us that sociology is valuable. Unrivalled in breadth, it is a text of passion and sophistication helping you become an active, connected and critical learner.
Product Description
Sociology: a global introduction represents a uniquely co-ordinated and complete learning resource for sociology students worldwide. International in outlook and culturally wide-ranging, it also reminds us that sociology is valuable. Unrivalled in breadth, it is a text of passion and sophistication helping you become an active, connected and critical learner.
Features + Benefits
Global, cultural and digital turns highlighted throughout. Images, film, DVD and novels are linked online, which constantly illustrate, illuminate and underpin the theory
Informative maps, graphical representations of data, and thought-provoking photographs make the text visually appealing
My Task List sections for each chapter provide guidance on websites to investigate, DVDs to watch, reading to do, questions, and the big debates in sociology ranging from whether religion is in decline or crime is inevitable
Part 6 Resources for Critical Thinking is an extensive and unique resource bringing together key words, video lists, a major webliography, reading lists, YouTube links and key organisations all directly linked from the website
Extensive Website Resources at www.pearsoned.co.uk/plummer for lecturers and students include:
-Podcasts from the authors and students around the world
-'Big Vote' online with other students on key sociological debates
-Interactive questions
-Key sociological concepts explored
-Web and Videography links
-Revision flashcards
Backcover
Sociology: a global introduction represents a unique, lively and complete learning resource for sociology students worldwide. International in outlook and culturally wide-ranging, it is unrivalled in breadth. It helps you to develop a critical sociological imagination and a better understanding of the challenges and joys of living in the 21st century.
5th edition highlights include:
a story of how societies change runs throughout the book.
increased coverage and active, integrated engagement with theory and theorists throughout.
a key focus on the recent global, cultural and digital ‘turns’ in social analysis.
a link to the humanities concerned with art, history, film and literature.
an explicit link to the core debates over values and politics in sociology in the modern world.
fully updated statistics, maps, references and text throughout.
thought-provoking images and maps to foster a sense of the developing ‘visual sociology’.
new ‘hot’ topics including digital methods, celebrities, citizenship and the sociology of happiness.
Critical engagement
This is an active book that helps you do sociology and think creatively. It is packed full of tips and resources to work with. Four features stress this:
My Task List ends each chapter with ten things to do: questions to ask, web sites to investigate, films and DVDs to watch, major debates to engage with.
Project Interludes link sections and integrate the parts through specific suggestions for students to research sport, food, music and biography.
Critical Thinking (Part 6) is a detailed closing section which integrates the book to the web site and brings together a major webliography, films, YouTube, artwork, key statistics and glossary - a major support for all students.
A wide range of discussion boxes on new developments in the twenty first century, social theory and research methods – encourage broad and critical engagement with the issues.
The Website
This major supporting website resource is closely integrated with Part 6 (Critical Thinking) of the book – use them independently or (for best results!) together. You’ll find:
major links to key websites, art, novels and films – all will enhance your research and sociological thinking
interactive self-test exercises, additional readings and podcasts from author and students around the world
key sociological concepts explored
power points and revision cards
Go to: www.pearsoned.co.uk/plummer
The key resource to help you do sociology – thinking, studying, investigating and interacting as a sociologist.
John J. Macionis is Professor of Sociology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
Ken Plummer is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex.
Part One: Introducing Sociology
1 The Sociological Imagination
2 Thinking Sociologically, Thinking Globally
3 Studying the Social: An Introduction to Sociological Method
Part Two: The Foundations of Society: From Macro to Micro
4 Societies
5 Culture
6 Groups, Organisations and the Rise of the Network Society
7 Micro-sociology: The Social Construction of Everyday Life
Part Three: The Unequal World: Difference, Division and Social Stratification
8 Inequality, Social Divisions and Social Stratification
9 Global Poverty/Global Inequality
10 Class, Poverty and Welfare: The Case of the UK
11 Racism, Ethnicities and Migration
12 The Gender Order and Sexualities
13 Age Stratification, Children and Later Life
14 Disabilities, Care and the Humanitarian Society
Part Four: Social Structures, Social Practices and Social Institutions
15 Economies, Work and Consumption
16 Power, Governance and Social Movements
17 Control, Crime and Deviance
18 Families, Personal Life and Living Together
19 Religion and belief
20 Education
21 Health, Medicine and Well-being
22 Communication and the New Media
23 Science, Cyberspace and the Risk Society
Part Five: Social Change and the Twenty-First Century
24 Populations, Cities and the Space of Things to Come
25 Social Change and the Environment
26 Living in the Twenty-First Century
Part Six: Resources for Critical Thinking: Creating Sociological Imaginations
1 Films
2 Novels
3 Art and sociology
4 Time and space
5 Websites
6 YouTube
7 Key social thinkers
8 World statistics
9 Big debates of our time
10 Abbreviations and acronyms
11 Glossary
12 References
Sociology: a global introduction represents a uniquely co-ordinated and complete learning resource for sociology students worldwide. International in outlook and culturally wide-ranging, it also reminds us that sociology is valuable. Unrivalled in breadth, it is a text of passion and sophistication helping you become an active, connected and critical learner.