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Author(s): Sarah Tomley, Mitchell Hobbes
ISBN(s): 9781465436504, 1465436502
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Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1465436502
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Author: Sarah Tomley, Mitchell Hobbes

Learn about how we organize our society in The Sociology Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sociology in this overview guide to the subject, great for beginners looking to learn and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Sociology Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Sociology, with: – More than 80 ideas from the world’s most renowned sociologists – Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts – A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout – Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding The Sociology Book is the perfect introduction to a range of societal issues, ranging from government and gender identity to inequalities and globalization, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. Here you’ll find biographies of key sociologists and social activists that give a historical context to each idea. Your Sociology Questions, Simply Explained This book explores the similar issues that affect us all; the tension between the needs of the individual and society, the changing workplace, and the role of everything from government to mass culture in our lives. If you thought it was difficult to learn about social theory, The Sociology Book presents key information in a clear layout. Learn about issues of equality, diversity, identity, and human rights; the role of institutions; and the rise of urban living in modern society, with fantastic mind maps and step-by-step summaries. The Big Ideas Series With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Sociology Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.

The Sociology Book Big Ideas Simply Explained 1st Table of contents:

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

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