Core Sociological Dichotomies

Chris Jenks

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 1998
• Print ISBN: 9780803979796, 9780803979789
• eBook ISBN: 9781446225141
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

In this sociology text the contributors provide an introduction to the subject without over-simplifying or `writing-down? to their audience. The book aims to furnish undergraduates with the knowledge that will help them to understand and practice sociology and also to develop a self-perpetuating sociological imagination to enable them to think through new issues and new problems.

It consists of a series of specially commissioned chapters around binary or dichotomous themes. Although many sociologists are critical of dichotomous models of sociological theory and research, the device crops up again and again in the history and practice of the subject. Jenks and his colleagues use the dichotomies to situate students in current sociological arguments and topical debates. For example, by examining contradictory pairs of concepts like structure/agency, local/global, continuity/change, students are introduced to alternative explanations for aspects of human conduct over a whole series of issues.

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Structure/Agency
• Continuity/Change
• Fact/Value
• Local/Global
• Qualitative/Quantitative
• Normal/Pathological
• Culture/Nature
• Relativism/Absolutism
• Public/Private
• Sex/Gender
• Race/Ethnicity
• Idealism/Materialism
• Nationalism/Internationalism
• Theory/Practice
• Civil/Political
• Active/Passive
• Subject/Object
• Image/Text
• Needs/Wants
• Life/Death
• High/Mass
• Modernity/Postmodernity
• Work/Leisure
• References
• Name index
• Subject index