Sociology: A Global Introduction, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (August 24, 2011) © 2012
  • John J. Macionis
  • Ken Plummer

Title overview

Sociology: a global introduction represents a uniquely co-ordinated and complete learning resource for sociology students worldwide. International in outlook and culturally wide-ranging, it also reminds us that sociology is valuable. Unrivalled in breadth, it is a text of passion and sophistication helping you become an active, connected and critical learner.

  • Global, cultural and ‘digital’ turns highlighted throughout. Images, film, DVD and novels are linked online, which constantly illustrate, illuminate and underpin the theory
  • Informative maps, graphical representations of data, and thought-provoking photographs make the text visually appealing
  • My Task List sections for each chapter provide guidance on websites to investigate, DVDs to watch, reading to do, questions, and the big debates in sociology ranging from whether religion is in decline or crime is inevitable
  • Part 6 Resources for Critical Thinking is an extensive and unique resource bringing together key words, video lists, a major webliography, reading lists, YouTube links and key organisations all directly linked from the website
  • Extensive Website Resources at www.pearsoned.co.uk/plummer – for lecturers and students include:
    -Podcasts from the authors and students around the world
    -'Big Vote' online with other students on key sociological debates
    -Interactive questions
    -Key sociological concepts explored
    -Web and Videography links
    -Revision flashcards

  • All major statistics, maps, web sites, data and references updated to reflect the latest thinking
  • New sections on theory along with new theorist boxes on Patricia Hill Collins, Judith Butler, Raewyn Connell, John Urry, and Norman Denzin
  • Significant new sections on music, social inequalities and mental health
  • New material on subjects ranging from the sociological citizen and digital methods to celebrities and the sociology of happiness
  • New coverage on theocracy in Iran, poverty in Afghanistan, drugs and the narco state and the Human Millennium Development Goals
  • Author blog with material on current and 'hot' topics (written by Ken Plummer)

Table of contents

Part One: Introducing Sociology
1 The Sociological Imagination
2 Thinking Sociologically, Thinking Globally
3 Studying the Social: An Introduction to Sociological Method

Part Two: The Foundations of Society: From Macro to Micro
4 Societies
5 Culture
6 Groups, Organisations and the Rise of the Network Society
7 Micro-sociology: The Social Construction of Everyday Life

Part Three: The Unequal World: Difference, Division and Social Stratification
8 Inequality, Social Divisions and Social Stratification
9 Global Poverty/Global Inequality
10   Class, Poverty and Welfare: The Case of the UK
11   Racism, Ethnicities and Migration
12   The Gender Order and Sexualities
13   Age Stratification, Children and Later Life
14   Disabilities, Care and the Humanitarian Society

Part Four: Social Structures, Social Practices and Social Institutions
15   Economies, Work and Consumption
16   Power, Governance and Social Movements
17   Control, Crime and Deviance
18   Families, Personal Life and Living Together
19   Religion and belief
20   Education
21   Health, Medicine and Well-being
22   Communication and the New Media
23   Science, Cyberspace and the Risk Society

Part Five: Social Change and the Twenty-First Century
24   Populations, Cities and the Space of Things to Come
25   Social Change and the Environment
26   Living in the Twenty-First Century

Part Six: Resources for Critical Thinking: Creating Sociological Imaginations
1 Films
2 Novels
3 Art and sociology
4 Time and space
5 Websites
6 YouTube
7 Key social thinkers
8 World statistics
9 Big debates of our time
10 Abbreviations and acronyms
11 Glossary
12 References   

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