Discovering Sociology, 2nd Edition
- Length: 425 pages
- Edition: 2
- Language: English
- Publisher: Red Globe Press
- Publication Date: 2021-02-14
- ISBN-10: 1352011441
- ISBN-13: 9781352011449
- Sales Rank: #880104 (See Top 100 Books)
This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted pedagogical features to both introduce Sociology as a discipline and to help students realize how deeply sociological issues impact on their own lives. Over the book’s twelve chapters, students discover what Sociology is, alongside its historical development and emergent new concerns. They will be led through the theories that underpin the discipline and familiarized with what it takes to undertake good sociological research. Ultimately students will be led and inspired to develop their own sociological imagination – learning to question their own assumptions about the society, the culture and the world around them today.
Historically, the majority of introductory Sociology textbooks have run to many hundreds of pages, discouraging students from further reading. By contrast, Discovering Sociology has been carefully designed and developed as a true introduction, covering the key ideas and topics that first year undergraduate students need to engage with without sacrificing intellectual rigour.
Contents List of Illustrative Material LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES PROVOCATIONS VOX POPS GOOD SOCIOLOGY BAD SOCIOLOGY About the companion website Tour of the Book INTRODUCTION Text boxes PROVOCATION VOX POP PAUSE FOR REFLECTION HOW WOULD…? STRUCTURED FURTHER READING Author Acknowledgements About the Authors MARK McCORMACK ERIC ANDERSON KIM JAMIE MATTHEW DAVID Preface INVOKING COGNITIVE DISSONANCE OUTLINE OF THE BOOK Chapter 1 What is Sociology? INTRODUCTION PROVOCATION 1 DEFINING SOCIOLOGY Further distinguishing sociology WHAT IS SOCIETY AND WHY SHOULD WE STUDY IT? APPROACHING SOCIOLOGY Sociology as critical inquiry GOOD SOCIOLOGY Sociology as a mode of thought PAUSE FOR REFLECTION Sociology as a discipline Sociology as personal PAUSE FOR REFLECTION The use of sociology VOX POP Final-year Sociology Student CONCLUSION HOW WOULD…? STRUCTURED FURTHER READING Chapter 2 A Brief History INTRODUCTION THE ORIGINS OF SOCIOLOGY Thinking critically Sociology in a changing society FOUNDATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL THINKERS Karl Marx and a social theory of society PROVOCATION 2 Auguste Comte and a science of society Emile Durkheim and becoming a discipline Max Weber and becoming a dialogue EXPANSION AND CONSOLIDATION OF SOCIOLOGY The Chicago School PAUSE FOR REFLECTION CRITIQUING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY Women’s contributions to early sociology VOX POP Professor Betsy Ettorre Lesbian Feminist Sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois and theorizing ‘race’ Recognizing exclusionary practice in the history of sociology Sociology in a global context CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY PAUSE FOR REFLECTION CONCLUSION HOW WOULD…? STRUCTURED FURTHER READING Chapter 3 Sociological Theory INTRODUCTION WHAT IS THEORY AND WHY DO WE NEED IT? Theory, concepts and hypotheses GOOD SOCIOLOGY Levels of theory BAD SOCIOLOGY PROVOCATION 3 Connecting the micro and the macro: the strength of weak ties How is theory developed? PAUSE FOR REFLECTION THREE CORE APPROACHES TO SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY The Frankfurt School and critical theory VOX POP Professor Maggie O’Neill Professor of Sociology BAD SOCIOLOGY GOOD SOCIOLOGY THEORY IN PRACTICE How do we theorize ‘people’? Theorizing people at play Theorizing power PAUSE FOR REFLECTION CONCLUSION HOW WOULD…? STRUCTURED FURTHER READING Chapter 4 The Method of Sociology INTRODUCTION THE METHOD OF SOCIOLOGY BEFORE CHOOSING A METHOD What is a research question? Searching the literature, doing a literature review PAUSE FOR REFLECTION Methods and what it means to be human Causality and correlation BAD SOCIOLOGY PROVOCATION 4 RESEARCH DESIGN TYPES OF METHOD Observation by experiment Observing people in their own worlds Asking questions Individual or focus groups VOX POP Researching the Experiences of Menopausal Iranian Women Using archival data and/or secondary data Evolving methods: digital sociology and mixed methods What happens when sampling goes wrong? DATA COLLECTION Populations and samples Sampling theory, myths and reality Sample size BAD SOCIOLOGY What happens when sampling goes wrong? DATA ANALYSIS Qualitative data analysis Coding Qualitative content analysis Discourse analysis Quantitative data analysis Levels of measurement Bivariate analysis Association Significance Regression PAUSE FOR REFLECTION CONCLUSION HOW WOULD…? STRUCTURED FURTHER READING Chapter 5 Ethical Sociology INTRODUCTION ETHICS IN SOCIOLOGY CONCEIVING, CONDUCTING AND DISSEMINATING ETHICAL RESEARCH Ethical considerations in choosing a research topic Ethical considerations in choosing a research method Ethical considerations in conducting research Ethical considerations related to the researcher Ethical considerations in writing research PAUSE FOR REFLECTION Researching crime and criminality GOOD SOCIOLOGY VOX POP Member of a University Ethics Committee EXAMINING ETHICAL DILEMMAS Case 1: Laud Humphreys and PAUSE FOR REFLECTION Discussing the ethics of Tearoom Trade Case 2: Philip Zimbardo and the prison experiment PAUSE FOR REFLECTION Case 3: Stanley Milgram and his behavioural study of obedience PAUSE FOR REFLECTION Discussing the ethics of Milgram Beyond the unethical canon Case 4: Alice Goffman and PAUSE FOR REFLECTION PROVOCATION 5 CONCLUSION HOW WOULD…? STRUCTURED FURTHER READING Chapter 6 Making Modern Societies INTRODUCTION THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND MODERNITY Modernity and the city UNDERSTANDING MODERNITY The standardization of time PAUSE FOR REFLECTION The disembedding of social systems The questioning and analysis of social relations by individuals Bureaucracy Rehabilitating bureaucracy PROVOCATION 6 Modernity as catastrophe GOOD SOCIOLOGY UNDERSTANDING LATE MODERN SOCIETIES The rise of therapy culture The impact of new technologies PAUSE FOR REFLECTION VOX POP EU and Global Portfolio Manager for Innovate UK CONCLUSION HOW WOULD…? STRUCTURED FURTHER READING Chapter 7 Structures and Institutions INTRODUCTION THE STRUCTURES OF SOCIETY What is an institution? FAMILY Functionalism and the family Children, families and emotion VOX POP Social Psychologist and Agony Aunt Reflection VOX POP Reflection Policy debates and the family EDUCATION Theorizing education Education and social mobility PROVOCATION 7 MEDIA Political economy approaches to the media Representation in the media GOOD SOCIOLOGY Social media PAUSE FOR REFLECTION WORK What is work? Why do we work? The changing nature of work PAUSE FOR REFLECTION Employability THINKING SOCIOLOGICALLY ABOUT STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONS CONCLUSION HOW WOULD…? STRUCTURED FURTHER READING Chapter 8 Social Divisions INTRODUCTION SOCIETIES DIVIDED Class, race, gender and sexuality CLASS The social elements of class Pierre Bourdieu and capitals Sociological thinking about class today PAUSE FOR REFLECTION RACIAL DIVISIONS Sociological theories of race and racism VOX POP Professor of Education and Social Justice Decolonizing sociology and thinking more broadly about race GENDER Gender at the individual and cultural level PROVOCATION 8 Feminism First-wave feminism Second-wave feminism Third-wave feminism Men and masculinities SEXUALITY Sexual prejudice CONCLUSION HOW WOULD…? STRUCTURED FURTHER READING Chapter 9 Transgressions INTRODUCTION RULES, LAWS AND TRANSGRESSING THEM PAUSE FOR REFLECTION Criminalization, decriminalization and legalization THINKING SOCIOLOGICALLY ABOUT TRANSGRESSION Monkey fighting: biological and psychological approaches to deviance Policy/administrative approaches: uncritical criminology BAD SOCIOLOGY STRUCTURE, CULTURE AND CRIME Durkheim, Lombroso and the positivist criminalists Urban ecologies and subcultures of crime SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM, LABELLING AND THE NEW DEVIANCY The anti-psychiatry movement What do prisons do and are there better ways to make people better? Multiple moral panics and the ‘new’ deviancy DEMOGRAPHICS OF CRIME Class and crime Gender and crime PAUSE FOR REFLECTION Race, ethnicity and criminalization PROVOCATION 9 CONSUMPTION AND TRANSGRESSION Drugs Criminalizing consumption PAUSE FOR REFLECTION VOX POP Professor of Criminology and Director of The Loop Why does criminalization often fail to stop consumption? CONCLUSION HOW WOULD…? STRUCTURED FURTHER READING Chapter 10 Personal Life INTRODUCTION THE PERSONAL From the personal to personal life SOCIOLOGY AND THE BODY Women and the body Tattoos VOX POP Scientist aged 27, from Liverpool, England PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Friends Lovers Marriage and cohabitation Living apart together Monogamy as a social construction PAUSE FOR REFLECTION PROVOCATION 10 Considering sex Hierarchies of sex PAUSE FOR REFLECTION Moral panics about sex CONCLUSION HOW WOULD…? STRUCTURED FURTHER READING Chapter 11 Social Transformations INTRODUCTION CHANGE AND CRISIS IN SOCIETIES Considering change Considering crisis A crisis of response to coronavirus Gender and crisis PAUSE FOR REFLECTION CHANGE THROUGH SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Collective action as a vehicle for social change Collective action on concussion PROVOCATION 11 The politics of identity No platforming as political action VOX POP Drag Performer The rise of populism Sociological analysis of Trump and Brexit SOCIETIES BEYOND MODERNITY The globalization of the world The importance of the environment Capitalism, globalization and technology CONCLUSION HOW WOULD…? STRUCTURED FURTHER READING Chapter 12 Sociology Discovered INTRODUCTION THE VALUE OF SOCIOLOGY SOCIOLOGY IN THE WORLD The impact of sociology on the individual PROVOCATION 12 SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL POLICY The politics of evidence A sociology of social problems VOX POP Associate Professor of Sociology, Monash University THE CONSUMPTION OF SOCIOLOGY Thinking about the media and bias Fake news The changing nature of news and what it means for sociology GOOD SOCIOLOGY But what about fake sociology? Being a good sociology student GOOD SOCIOLOGY Taking sociology into the world CONCLUSION HOW WOULD…? STRUCTURED FURTHER READING Glossary References Index
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