Sociology: Introductory Readings, 4th Edition by Anthony Giddens

Description: Anthony Giddens is the former Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science and is now a member of the UK House of Lords. Philip W. Sutton is an independent researcher, formerly of the University of Leeds and Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. Introduction: The Sociological Perspective 1. Sociology as the Science of Social Life - W.E.B. Du Bois 2. The Promise of Sociology - C. Wright Mills 3. Sociology as the Study of Figurations: Beyond Individual and Society? - Norbert Elias 4. Decolonizing Sociology - Raewyn Connell 5. Understanding Ourselves and Others - Zygmunt Bauman & Tim May Further Reading PART 1 Thinking Sociologically 6. The Capitalist Revolution - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels 7. Tastes, Distinctions and Social Structure - Pierre Bourdieu 8. Learning from the Outsiders Within - Patricia Hill Collins 9. The Consequences of Modernity - Anthony Giddens 10. Sociology after the Postcolonial Turn - Gurminder K. Bhambra Further Reading PART 2 Doing Sociology 11. Treat Social Facts as Things - Émile Durkheim 12. Sociology's Historical Imagination - Philip Abrams 13. Mixing Methods in Empirical Research - Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson & Michael Silk 14. Digital Sociology: Opportunities and Dangers - Noortje Marres 15. What is Feminist Research? - Patricia Leavy & Anne Harris Further Reading PART 3 Environment and Urbanism 16. The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel 17. A Sociology of Climate Change - John Urry 18. Navigating the 'White Space' - Elijah Anderson 19. Urban Transitions in the Global South - AbdouMaliq Simone & Edgar Pieterse 20. Entering an Anthropocene Era? - Rolf Lidskog & Claire Waterton Further Reading PART 4 Structures of Society 21. Religion and the Origins of Capitalism - Max Weber 22. The Feminization of Work - Teri L. Caraway 23. Families and Personal Life - Deborah Chambers & Pablo Gracia 24. Schools: Challenging or Reproducing Social Inequalities? - Christy Kulz 25. Capitalism and the Digital Revolution - Shoshana Zuboff Further Reading PART 5 Social Inequalities 26. Intersectionality: Structural and Political - Kimberlé Crenshaw 27. Producing Disability and Abledness - Fiona Kumari Campbell 28. Wealth Concentration and Inequality - Thomas Piketty 29. Racial Distinctions and Social Structures - Michael Banton 30. 'Doing Gender' via Domestic Labour - Clare Lyonette & Rosemary Crompton Further Reading PART 6 Relationships and the Life Course 31. I, Me and the Social Self - George Herbert Mead 32. Towards a Sociology of Personal Life - Carol Smart 33. Love as a Sociological Problem - Eva Illouz 34. From the Life Cycle to the Life Course - Stephen J. Hunt 35. The Significance of Generational Experience - Lorraine Green Further Reading PART 7 Interaction and Communication 36. Self Presentation and Impression Management - Erving Goffman 37. Violence in Sociological Perspective - Randall Collins 38. Misogyny, Beauty and Body Modification - Sheila Jeffreys 39. Constructing and Negotiating Social Identity - Susie Scott 40. Knowledge Production in a Post-Truth World - Dominic Malcolm Further Reading PART 8 Health, Illness and the Body 41. The Medical Re-definition of Social Life - Peter Conrad 42. Does Inequality Cause Poor Health Outcomes? - Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett 43. Challenging the Dominance of Biomedicine - Sarah Nettleton 44. Health and Illness in Sociological Perspective - William C. Cockerham 45. The Exceptional and the Normal After COVID-19 - Jens O. Zinn Further Reading PART 9 Crime and Social Control 46. The Social Construction of Outsiders - Howard S. Becker 47. The Shifting Politics of Punishment - David Garland 48. Race, Blackness and Exclusion in the USA - Loïc Wacquant 49. The Digital Transformation of Criminality - David S. Wall 50. Back to the Future: The Return of Banishment - Katherine Beckett & Steve Herbert Further Reading PART 10 Political Sociology 51. Conceptualizing Power in Sociological Theory - Steven Lukes 52. Ethnic Cleansing and the Dark Side of Democracy - Michael Mann 53. Populist Politics and Mobilization - Bart Bonikowski 54. Representations of British Muslims During the Covid-19 Pandemic - Elizabeth Poole & Milly Williamson 55. Social Media Use in Black Lives Matter Activism - Marcia Mundt, Karen Ross & Charla M. Burnett Further Reading

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