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Jon Gubbay is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of East Anglia. He has a wide range of research interests including the sociology of higher education curricula, housing satisfaction, research methods and class analysis. He is the author, with Rosemary Crompton, of Economy and Class Structure.
Chris Middleton lectures in sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has written widely on the sociological history of class and gender and, more recently, on teaching in higher education.He is the principal editor of The Sociology Teaching Handbook, a sourcebook produced collaboratively by and for university teachers with the support of the British Sociological Association.
Preface | ix | (1) | |||
Acknowledgements | x | (1) | |||
List of Contributors | xi | ||||
Part I Sociology: Engaging with the Social World | 1 | (60) | |||
Discovering Sociology - Personal Accounts | 3 | (20) | |||
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The Sociological Imagination | 23 | (16) | |||
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The Public Impact of Sociology | 39 | (22) | |||
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Part II Sociology and its Traditions | 61 | (122) | |||
The Distinctive Character of Sociology | 63 | (32) | |||
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Values and Diversity in Sociology | 95 | (46) | |||
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Focal Themes of Sociology | 141 | (32) | |||
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The Language of Sociology | 173 | (10) | |||
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Part III Contemporary Sociological Engagement | 183 | (68) | |||
Social Issues | 185 | (52) | |||
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Sociology to Fire the Imagination | 237 | (14) | |||
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Part IV Doing Sociology: Study and Research | 251 | (64) | |||
Active Reading | 253 | (21) | |||
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Doing Sociological Research | 274 | (41) | |||
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Part V Directory and Resources | 315 | (24) | |||
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Part VI What Next? | 339 | (44) | |||
Advice on Employment and Further Study | 341 | (30) | |||
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From Sociological Study to Employment | 371 | (12) | |||
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Postscript: Potentials and Predicaments The Editors | 383 | (4) | |||
Index | 387 |
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