Sociology category: 22581 books
Sociology
Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, Brief Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
This new Brief Sixth Edition of David Newman’s text is the streamlined version of Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life with the same goal: to be a textbook that, in the author’s words, "reads like a real book."
Newman shows to see the “unfamiliar in the familiar”—to...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
What can Sociology tell us about our personal lives, families and intimate relationships? This book explains how key theoretical perspectives and relevant contemporary research in the discipline can shed new light on even the most familiar areas of our everyday worlds.
From friendships and...
by Sheldon Glueck, Eleanor Glueck
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The International Library of Sociology (ILS) is the most important series of books on sociology ever published. Founded in the 1940s by Karl Mannheim, the series became the forum for pioneering research and theory, marked by comparative approaches and analysis of new disciplines, such as the sociology...
Uncovering Social Life
Critical Perspectives from Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
In an era when rapid social change, the disappearance of traditional communities, the rise of political populism and the threat posed by radical religious movements makes it appear that ‘all that is solid melts into air’, the classical sociological problem of how peaceable societies can be created...
Sociology of Work
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The simple act of going to work every day is an integral part of all societies across the globe. It is an ingrained social contract: we all work to survive. But it goes beyond physical survival. Psychologists have equated losing a job with the trauma of divorce or a family death, and enormous issues...
by Scott R. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Unique in its approach, Invitation to the Sociology of Emotions treats neophytes as its primary audience, giving students a brief, but thorough, introduction to the sociology of emotions. Including research examples, exercises, and lists of further reading, this text explains as clearly as possible...
Getting Married
The Public Nature of Our Private Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In Getting Married, Carrie Yodanis and Sean Lauer examine the social rules and expectations that shape our most personal relationships. How do couples get together? How do people act when they’re married? What happens when they’re not? Public factors influence our private relationships. From getting...
British sociology today
Published in Sociologia n. 2/2017. Rivista quadrimestrale di Scienze Storiche e Sociali. Un contributo dell’Istituto Luigi Sturzo alla rinascita della Sociologia in Italia
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
British sociology was, as is well known, a rather backward child. To be more precise it was not so much a late starter as a slow developer. Its beginnings can be traced back a least to the 18th century, with the remarkable suveys directed by Eden and Sinclair, the original studies of social institutions...
The Word As Scalpel
A History of Medical Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
"A doctor can damage a patient as much with a misplaced word as with a slip of the scalpel." In this statement, from Lawrence J. Henderson, a famous physician whose name is part of the basic science of medicine, epitomizes the central theme of The Word as Scalpel. If words, the main substance of human...
The Faultline of Consciousness
A View of Interactionism in Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In this compendium of related and cross-referential essays, David R. Maines draws from pragmatist/symbolic interactionist assumptions to formulate a consistent new view of the entire field of sociology. Suitable for courses in social theory, qualitative methods, social psychology, and narrative inquiry,...
The Sociology Book
Big Ideas Simply Explained
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
The Sociology Book from DK is an introduction to the subject that tells you all about what society is and what makes it tick. With more than 100 ideas from the world's most renowned sociologists, covering topics as diverse as the effects of globalization; issues of equality, diversity, identity, and...
The Social Construction of Reality
A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review**).**
In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms...
by Alexander Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Teenage Sociology is about the changing society that we, as teenagers, are growing up in. The book describes how we are living in a society that is becoming increasingly narcissistic, and the affect this has on us. After reading this book you will see the root causes of our societies worst aspects. And you will find the solutions and gain the knowledge to change our world.
by David Beetham
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Max Weber's writings on the politics of Wilhelmine in Germany and the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 are much less well known than his contributions to historical and theoretical sociology, yet they are essential to any overall assessment of his thought. Drawing on these writings, still mostly...