Introductory sociology/
Tony Bilton, Kevin Bonnett, Pip Jones, Tony Lawson, David Skinner, Michelle Stanworth, Andrew Webster
- 4th ed.
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
- xxxiii, 596 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
PART 1 CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS.- Studying Society Today.- Living in Modernity.- Globalization and Modernity.- PART 2 SOCIAL DIVISIONS AND POWER.- Social Divisions.- The Significance of Social Class.- Gender Relations.- Race and Ethnicity.- Power, Politics and the State.- PART 3 DIMENSIONS OF MODERN SOCIAL LIFE.- Family Life.- Education.- Work and Employment.- The Mass Media.- Health, Illness and Medicine.- Crime.- Knowledge, Belief and Religion.- PART 4 SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND METHOD.- Principles of Sociological Research.- Foundations of Social Theory .- Making Social Life: Theories of Action and Meaning.- Modernity, Postmodernity and Social Theory.