Core Sociological Dichotomies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Jenks, Chris

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this sociology text the contributors provide an introduction to the subject without over-simplifying or `writing-down' to their audience. The book aims to furnish undergraduates with the knowledge that will help them to understand and practice sociology and also to develop a self-perpetuating sociological imagination to enable them to think through new issues and new problems.

It consists of a series of specially commissioned chapters around binary or dichotomous themes. Although many sociologists are critical of dichotomous models of sociological theory and research, the device crops up again and again in the history and practice of the subject. Jenks and his colleagues use the dichotomies to situate students in current sociological arguments and topical debates. For example, by examining contradictory pairs of concepts like structure/agency, local/global, continuity/change, students are introduced to alternative explanations for aspects of human conduct over a whole series of issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446225141
• Artikelnr.: 43418461

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chris Jenks Structure\Agency
David F Walsh Continuity\Change
Fran Tonkiss Fact\Value
Sue Stedman
Jones Local\Global
Les Back Qualitative\Quantitative
David Silverman Normal\Pathological
Clive Seale Culture\Nature
Helen Thomas Relativism\Absolutism
Sue Stedman
Jones Public\Private
Don Slater Sex\Gender
Joanne Entwhistle Race\Ethnicity
Jean Popeau Idealism\Materialism
David F Walsh Nationalism\Internationalism
Josep Llobera Theory\Practice
Paul Filmer Civil\Political
Fran Tonkiss Active\Passive
Chris Jenks Subject\Object
David F Walsh Image\Text
Paul Filmer Needs\Wants
Don Slater Life\Death
Clive Seale High\Mass
Paul Filmer Modernity\Postmodernity
Helen Thomas and David F Walsh Work\Leisure
Don Slater