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9780631199489

The Student's Companion to Sociology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780631199489

  • ISBN10:

    0631199489

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-07-07
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This superlative Companion provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the discipline of sociology. Written by an international team of leading academics and teachers, many of whose names will be familiar to the reader, this volume provides succinct summaries of the state of knowledge in each of the subfields. The volume is divided into parts broadly characterizable as: approaches, subject matter, methods, current debates, resources (books, journals and archives) and opportunities (intellectual, research-based and career). Taken in total, the chapters convey the tremendous dynamism and diversity of the field.The Companion sets out to realize several objectives:- To stimulate interest in sociology by emphasizing the discipline's engagement with the "real world".- To help orient students within a complex and varied discipline.- To enthuse the reader with the possibilities for sociological engagements with contemporary problems and issues.- To introduce the full range of approaches within the discipline.- To encourage the development of transferable skills.The Student's Companion to Sociology is an essential resource for all students of sociology.

Author Biography

Chet Ballard is Professor of Sociology at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia. He has served as president of the Georgia Sociological Association, vice-president of the Association for Humanist Sociology, and has produced over 20 scholarly articles and research reports. His most recent research describes how rural public school systems in Georgia are employing technology in efforts to prevent school violence.

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.

Table of Contents

Sociology: Engaging with the Social World
Discovering Sociology Personal Accounts
Discovering Sociology Personal Accounts
Discovering Sociology Personal Accounts
The Sociological Imagination
From Personal Troubles to Public Issues
From Public Issues to Private Troubles
The Public Impact of Sociology
The Black Report and the Politics of Health in Britain
The Public Impact of Sociology: Public Broadcasting and the Public Interest
Sociology and its Traditions: The Distinctive Character of Sociology
Founders and Classics
Everything From Crabs to Islam: On the Relation Between Sociologists and Their Intellectual Neighbours
Sociology as both Humanist and Scientific
Values and Diversity in Sociology
Conservatism and Sociology: The Problem of Social Order
Social Reform, Revolution and Sociology
The Feminist Challenge
Mr. Faust Meets Mr. Bateman: Mapping Postmodernity
Putting Sociology in its Place
Focal Themes of Sociology
Social Divisions
Power: Concepts and Research
Social Identity and the Life-Course
The Language of Sociology
A Brief Guide to 'Difficult' Sociological Jargon and Some Resolutions
Contemporary Sociological Engagement: Social Issues
Higher Education and Employment in A Post-Industrial Society
Inequality and Affirmative Action: Sociological Perspectives
Up Against Nature: Sociological Thoughts on Sexuality
Wither Welfare?
Mcdonaldization and Globalisation
Green Futures?
Sociology to Fire the Imagination
Leaving Home
Fashion
The Managed Heart
Crime and the American Dream
Civil War
From Reproduction to Production
Doing Sociology: Study and Research: Active Reading
How to Read Sociological Texts
Deciphering Research Reports
Demystifying Theory: How the Theories of Georg Simmel (and Others) Help us to Make Sense of Modern Life
Doing Sociological Research
How to Formulate a Student Research Project
Society as Text: Documents, Artefacts and Social Practices
The Researcher's Craft: Observing, Listening and Note-taking
Team Research
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