Sociology
Subtitle: a global introduction
By: John J. Macionis, Ken Plummer
Contributors: Plummer, Kenneth
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1040
ISBN-13: 9780273727910
Subjects: Sociology
Table of contents: title: Introducing sociology; title: The sociological imagination; title: Thinking sociologically, thinking globally; title: Studying the social: an introduction to sociological method; title: Interlude 1: researching sport; title: The foundations of society : from macro to micro; title: Societies; title: Culture; title: Groups, organisations, and the rise of the network society; title: Micro-sociology : the social construction of everyday life; title: Interlude 2: researching food; title: The unequal world : difference, division, and social stratification; title: Inequality, social divisions, and social stratification; title: Global poverty/global inequality; title: Class, poverty and welfare: the case of the UK; title: Racism, ethnicities, and migration; title: The gender order and sexualities; title: Age stratification, children and later life; title: Disabilities, care and the humanitarian society; title: Interlude 3: researching music and inequalities; title: Social structures, social practices, and social institutions; title: Economies, work, and consumption; title: Power, governance and social movements; title: Control, crime, and deviance; title: Families, personal life, and living together; title: Religion and belief; title: Education; title: Health, medicine, and well-being; title: Communication and the new media; title: Science, cyberspace and the risk society; title: Interlude 4: researching our generational biographies; title: Social change and the twenty-first century; title: Populations, cities, and the space of things to come; title: Social change and the environment; title: Living in the twenty-first century; title: Resources for critical thinking : creating sociological imaginations; title: Films; title: Novels; title: Art and sociology; title: Time and space; title: Websites; title: YouTube; title: Key social thinkers; title: World statistics; title: Big debates of our time; title: Abbreviations and acronyms.