Summary

The book Sociology: A Global Introduction has fast become one of the more prominent sociology texts in many countries, and this third edition aims to consolidate some of its past achievements. Its key goals are:

to introduce all the main areas of study, the key concepts, the historical debates and basic approaches to the discipline. It assumes you know nothing about sociology; and thus it is not an advanced text. It sets its goals as opening up the field of enquiry for the very first time. If you wish to go further, there are suggestions at the end of each chapter for doing this, as well as a website which has been designed to give you further links, readings, questions and food for thought.
to tell a story about the parallel rise of sociology and the modern world and how its is persistently shaped by both technologies and inequalities. This is not a text which just summarises vast streams of sociological studies. It aims, rather, to tell a narrative which suggests how the modern world developed from more traditional ones, and how now in ther twenty first century it may well be moving into yet another new phase.
to recognise that sociology these days must be global. Many textbooks focus upon one country. Whilst this textbook does often focus on UK, Europe and North America, it also takes its orbit to be the world. We suggest that increasingly it is impossible to understand one country in isolation from others. Indeed, a recurrent theme through this book is that the modern world is becoming progressively globalised.

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INTRODUCING SOCIOLOGY

The Sociological Imagination
Thinking Sociologically, Thinking Globally
Doing Social Science: an Introduction to Method

PART 2 THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIETY: FROM MACRO TO MICRO

Societies
Culture
Groups, Organisations and the Rise of the NetworkSociety
Micro-sociology: the Social Construction of Everyday Life

PART 3 SOCIAL DIVISIONS AND SOCIAL INEQUALITIES

Social Divisions and Stratification
Global Inequalities and Poverty
Class, Poverty and Welfare in the UK
Racism, Ethnicities and Migration
The Gender Order and Sexualities
Age Stratification: Children and Later Life

PART 4 SOCIAL STRUCTURES, SOCIAL. PRACTICES AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Economies, Work and Consumption
Power, Governance and Social Movements
Control, Crime and Deviance
Families, Households and Personal Cultures
Religion and Belief
Education
Health and Medicine
The Mass Media
Science, Cyberspace and the Risk Society

PART 5 SOCIAL CHANGE

Populations, Cities and the Shape of Things to Come
Social Change and the Environment
Futures: the Challenges for Sociology in the
Twenty-First Century

Extract

What is sociology?

We can start by saying that sociology is the systematic study of human society. At the heart of sociology we may say there is a distinctive point of view. It should be more than you find in a good documentary on a social issue. It is certainly more than listings of facts and figures about society. Instead it becomes a form of consciousness, a way of thinking, a critical way of seeing the social. It takes a while, sometimes years, for this ‘consciousness’ to become clear.

In this section, and subsequently in the whole book, we ask what is distinctive about this way of seeing? The box below gives a few standard definitions which you may like to consider.

Autor

John J. Macionis is Professor of Sociology at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, having graduated from Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania. At Kenyon, he has chaired the Anthropology-Sociology Department, directed the multidisciplinary programme in Humane Studies and presided over the College’s Faculty. He has also been active in academic programmes in many other countries.

His publications are wide-ranging, focusing on community life in the US, interpersonal intimacy in families, effective teaching, humour and the importance of global education. He is co-editor of Seeing Ourselves: Classic, Contemporary and Cross-Cultural Readings in Sociology, co-author of Cities and Urban Life and author of the concise introductory text, Society: The Basics.

Ken Plummer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, and has been actively involved in teaching introductory sociology for the past thirty years. He has been a Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University, and a visiting Professor at the University of California (Santa Barbara) and the University of New York (Stony Brook), as well as giving lectures in many countries around the world.

Apart from an interest in introductory teaching, his major research interests lie in the fields of sexuality, stigma, methodology and symbolic interactionist theory. He is the author of Sexual Stigma (1975), Telling Sexual Stories (1995) and Documents of Life-2 (2001) as well as the editor of The Making of the Modern Homosexual (1981), Symbolic Interactionism (1991, 2 vols), Modern Homosexualities (1992), The Chicago School (1997, 4 vols) and Sexualities: Critical Assessments (2001, 4 vols). He is also the editor of the journal Sexualities.

Book Details

Title	Sociology
Subtitle	A Global Introduction
Autor	John Macionis y Kenneth Plummer
Publisher	Pearson Prentice Hall
Year	2005
Pages	786
Country	United Kingdom
ISBN	013128746X
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