Sociology category: 22581 books
A Case of Neglect? (1996)
Children's Experiences and the Sociology of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Published in 1996, this book advocates and persuasively exemplifies a qualitative sociology of childhood, spoken repeatedly through children’s voices.
After a long period of dormancy, interest in the sociology of childhood became a focus of attention and scholarly interest. Developments in...
Forms of Life
The Method and Meaning of Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
A concise, accessible, and engaging guide for students and practitioners of sociology.
In Forms of Life, Harry Collins offers an introduction to social science methodology, drawing on his forty-plus years of conducting high-profile sociological research. In this concise, accessible, and engaging...
The First American School of Sociology
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This book offers an original and rounded examination of the origin and sociological contributions of one of the most significant, yet continuously ignored, programs of social science research ever established in the United States: the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory. Under the leadership of W.E.B....
by Christine Poolos
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Sociology, the study of human behavior in social groups, is a relatively recent discipline within the social sciences, which examine human behavior, culture, and society using scientific methodology in both research and analysis. This resource explains the rise of the social sciences, in particular...
Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids
Teenagers in an Era of Consumerism, Standardized Tests, and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
In Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: Teenagers in an Era of Consumerism, Standardized Tests, and Social Media, Second Edition, award-winning sociologist Murray Milner tries to understand why teenagers behave the way they do. The first edition drew upon two years of intensive fieldwork in one high school...
Israeli Sociology
Text in Context
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This book presents a comprehensive historical account of sociology in Israel the first history of sociology in Israel, from its beginnings in late 19th-century to the early 21st-century. It locates the ruptures and reorientations of the sociological text within its shifting historical context. Israeli...
Weber and Toennies
Comparative Sociology in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This collection of selected essays by Werner J. Cahnman brings together out of scattered dispersion his writings about Max Weber, Ferdinand Toennies, and historical sociology. The great theoretical range and depth of his intellect and mastery of sociological thinking is apparent as he discusses the...
The Politics of Crowds
An Alternative History of Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
When sociology emerged as a discipline in the late nineteenth century, the problem of crowds constituted one of its key concerns. It was argued that crowds shook the foundations of society and led individuals into all sorts of irrational behaviour. Yet crowds were not just something to be fought in...
by Little Green Apples Publishing, LLC ™
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Sociology is the scientific study of social behavior and human groups. This Sociology Study Brief provides a concise, conceptual overview of the subject, including its history and methods of research. This compact guide is the ideal orientation for a student enrolled in an introductory Sociology course....
by Elisabeth S. Clemens
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
With an entire discipline devoted to political science, what is distinctive about political sociology? This concise book explains what a sociological perspective brings to our understanding of the emergence, reproduction, and transformation of different forms of political order. Crucially, political...
Public Sociology
Research, Action, and Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
This timely resource, written by a team of authors who are working at the forefront of the public sociology movement, provides a contemporary analysis of public sociology. The book highlights a variety of ways in which sociology brings about social change in community settings, assists nonprofit and...
by Ken Plummer
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
A lively, accessible and comprehensive introduction to the diverse ways of thinking about social life, Sociology: The Basics (second edition) examines:
The scope, history and purpose of sociology.
Ways of understanding society and ‘the social’.
The state of the world we live in today.
Suffering...
by Karl Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
These revision notes have been designed to cover the theory aspect of the AQA's sociology A-Level syllabus, the new 2015 Specification onward. The content should also be suitable for other exam boards.Contents:Topic 0 - Sociological theories – an overviewTopic 1 – Positivism and InterpretivismTopic...
by W. E. B. DuBois
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Historian, journalist, educator, and civil rights advocate W. E. B. Du Bois was perhaps most accomplished as a sociologist of race relations and of the black community in the United States. This volume collects his most important sociological writings from 1898 to 1910. The eighteen selections include...