The sociology book
Subtitle: [big ideas simply explained]
By: contributors, Christopher Thorpe, consultant editor, Chris Yuill, consultant editor ; Mitchell Hobbs, Megan Todd, Sarah Tomley, Marcus Weeks
Edition: First American edition.
Series: Big ideas simply explained; Big ideas simply explained
Publisher: DK Publishing
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781465436504
Subjects: Sociology
Description: Profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their biggest ideas, including issues of equality, diversity, identity, and human rights; the effects of globalization; the role of institutions; and the rise of urban living in modern society.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foundations of sociology.; title: A physical defeat has never marked the end of a nation  -- Ibn Khaldun; title: Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarreled, in troops and companies  -- Adam Ferguson; title: Science can be used to build a better world  -- Auguste Comte; title: The Declaration of Independence bears no relation to half the human race  -- Harriet Martineau; title: The fall of the bourgeoisie and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable  -- Karl Marx; title: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft  -- Ferdinand Tönnies; title: Society, like the human body, has interrelated parts, needs, and functions  -- Émile Durkheim; title: The iron cage of rationality  -- Max Weber; title: Many personal troubles must be understood in terms of public issues  -- Charles Wright Mills; title: Pay to the most commonplace activities the attention accorded extraordinary events  -- Harold Garfinkel; title: Where there is power there is resistance  -- Michel Foucault; title: Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original  -- Judith Butler; title: Social inequalities. I broadly accuse the bourgeoisie of social murder  -- Friedrich Engels; title: The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line  -- W.E.B. DuBois; title: The poor are excluded from the ordinary living patterns, customs, and activities of life  -- Peter Townsend; title: There ain't no black in the Union Jack  -- Paul Gilroy; title: A sense of one's place  -- Pierre Bourdieu; title: The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined  -- Edward Said; title: The ghetto is where the black people live  -- Elijah Anderson; title: The tools of freedom become the sources of indignity  -- Richard Sennett; title: Men's interest in patriarchy is condensed in hegemonic masculinity  -- R.W. Connell; title: White women have been complicit in this imperialist, white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy  -- Bell Hooks; title: The concept of "patriarch" is indispensable for an analysis of gender inequality  -- Sylvia Walby -- Modern living.; title: Strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type  -- Georg Simmel; title: The freedom to remake our cities and ourselves  -- Henri Lefebvre; title: There must be eyes on the street  -- Jane Jacobs; title: Only communication can communicate  -- Niklas Luhmann; title: Society should articulate what is good  -- Amitai Etzioni; title: McDonaldization affects virtually every aspect of society  -- George Ritzer; title: The bonds of our communities have withered  -- Robert D. Putnam; title: Disneyization replaces mundane blandness with spectacular experiences  -- Alan Bryman; title: Living in a loft is like living in a showcase  -- Sharon Zukin -- Living in a global world.; title: Abandon all hope of totality, you who enter the world of fluid modernity  -- Zygmunt Bauman; title: The modern world-system  -- Immanuel Wallerstein; title: Global issues, local perspective  -- Roland Robertson; title: Climate change is a back-of-the-mind issue  -- Anthony Gidens; title: No social justice without global cognitive justice  -- Boaventura de Sousa Santos; title: The unleashing of productive capacity by the power of the mind  -- Manuel Castells; title: We are living in a world that is beyond controllability  -- Ulrich Beck; title: It sometimes seems as if the whole world is on the move  -- John Urry; title: Nations can be imagined and constructed with relatively little historical straw  -- David McCrone; title: Global cities are strategic sites for new types of operations  -- Saskia Sassen; title: Different societies appropriate the materials of modernity differently  -- Arjun Appadurai; title: Processes of change have altered the relations between peoples and communities  -- David Held -- Culture and identity.; title: The "I" and the "me"  -- G.H. Mead; title: The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned  -- Antonio Gramsci; title: The civilizing process is constantly moving "forward"  -- Norbert Elias; title: Mass culture reinforces political repression  -- Herbert Marcuse; title: The danger of the future is that men may become robots  -- Erich Fromm; title: Culture is ordinary  -- Raymond Williams; title: Stigma refers to an attribute that is deeply discrediting -- Erving Goffman; title: We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning  -- Jean Baudrillard; title: Modern identities are being decentered  -- Stuart Hall; title: All communities are imagined  -- Benedict Anderson; title: Throughout the world, culture has been doggedly pushing itself center stage  -- Jeffrey Alexander -- Work and consumerism.; title: Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure  -- Thorstein Veblen; title: The Puritan wanted to work in a calling-- we are forced to do so  -- Max Weber; title: Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination  -- Daniel Bell; title: The more sophisticated machines become, the less skill the worker has  -- Harry Braverman; title: Automation increases the worker's control over his work process  -- Robert Blauner; title: The Romantic ethic promotes the spirit of consumerism  -- Colin Campbell; title: In processing people, the product is a state of mind  -- Arlie Russell Hochschild; title: Spontaneous consent combines with coercion  -- Michael Burawoy; title: Things make us just as much as we make things  -- Daniel Miller; title: Feminization has had only a modest impact on reducing gender inequalities  -- Teri Lynn Caraway -- The role of institutions.; title: Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature  -- Karl Marx; title: The iron law of oligarchy  -- Robert Michels; title: Healthy people need no bureaucracy to mate, give birth, and die  -- Ivan Illich; title: Some commit crimes because they are responding to a social situation  -- Robert K. Merton; title: Total institutions strip people of their support systems and their sense of self  -- Erving Goffman; title: Government is the right disposition of things  -- Michel Foucault; title: Religion has lost its plausibility and social significance  -- Bryan Wilson; title: Our identity and behavior are determined by how we are described and classified  -- Howard S. Becker; title: Economic crisis is immediately transformed into social crisis  -- Jürgen Habermas; title: Schooling has been at once something done to the poor and for the poor  -- Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis; title: Societies are subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic  -- Stanley Cohen; title: The time of the tribes  -- Michel Maffesoli; title: How working-class kids get working-class jobs  -- Paul Willis -- Families and intimacies.; title: Differences between the sexes are cultural creations  -- Margaret Mead; title: Families are factories that produce human personalities  -- Talcott Parsons; title: Western man has become a confessing animal  -- Michel Foucault; title: Heterosexuality must be recognized and studied as an institution  -- Adrienne Rich; title: Western family arrangements are diverse, fluid, and unresolved  -- Judith Stacey; title: The marriage contract is a work contract  -- Christine Delphy; title: Housework is directly opposed to self-actualization  -- Ann Oakley; title: When love finally wins it has to face all kinds of defeat  -- Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim; title: Sexuality is as much about beliefs and ideologies as about the physical body  -- Jeffrey Weeks; title: Queer theory questions the very grounds of identity -- Steven Seidman-- Glossary.