The Sociology Book

BIG IDEAS SIMPLY EXPLAINED SOCIOLOGY THE BOOK A SENSE OF ONE’S PLACE THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT IS A WORK CONTRACT LOCAL PERSPECTIVES ...

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DK LONDON SENIOR EDITOR Sam Atkinson SENIOR ART EDITOR Amy Child EDITORS Alexandra Beeden Miezan van Zyl US EDITORS Christy Lusi ...

CHRISTOPHER THORPE, CONSULTANT EDITOR Our co-consultant and contributor Christopher Thorpe is a sociologist with an interest in ...

10 INTRODUCTION FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIOLOGY 20 A physical defeat has never marked the end of a nation Ibn Khaldun 21 Mankind have a ...

90 White women have been complicit in this imperialist, white- supremacist capitalist patriarchy bell hooks 96 The concept of “p ...

CULTURE AND IDENTITY 176 The “I” and the “me” G.H. Mead 178 The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without ...

THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS 254 Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature Karl Marx 260 The iron law of oligarchy Robert Miche ...

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H umans are social creatures. Throughout our evolution, from our days of foraging and hunting animals, we have tended to live an ...

bemoaned the erosion of traditional forms of social cohesion, such as the family ties and community spirit found within small, r ...

maintained that social research should be more qualitative. Weber especially advocated an interpretive approach, examining what ...

popular interest, in the second half of the 20th century, and as more thinkers turned their attention to social issues, so the s ...

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S ociology did not establish its credentials as a discipline until the 20th century, but its many strands of thought, approaches ...