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The SAGE Handbook of Sociology
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The SAGE Handbook of Sociology
About this book
Sociology has evolved greatly since it?s inception as an academic discipline. It has diverged into numerous strands often flowing in disparate directions - so much so that today the notion of canonical sociology has become widely disputed. The field of sociology at present approximates to one of multi-paradigmatic complexity in which many approaches to theory must be distinguished and situated. In addition, the discipline has had to confront new challenges from globalization, the shift of interest from production to consumption, the rise of new social movements, the challenge of bio-engineering, the collapse of a ?presently existing socialist alternative? and much else besides.
The new SAGE Handbook of Sociology aims to address these new developments, while at the same time providing an authoritative guide to theory and method, the key sub-disciplines and the primary debates of today. To undertake this ambitious project three leading figures in the field of sociology were selected as editors to bring together the foremost exponents of the different strands that contribute towards the make up modern sociology. Drawn from both sides of the Atlantic the contributors have been commissioned to utilise the most up to date research available to provide a critical, international analysis of their area of expertise.
The result is this essential resource collection that not just reflects upon the condition of sociology today but also looks to future developments in the discipline. The Handbook is invaluable not just all sociologists but to a wide variety of students and researchers across the social sciences.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1: Theory and Method
- 1 - Quantitative Research Methods
- 2 - Qualitative Research Traditions
- 3 - Sociology and Philosophy
- 4 - The Diversity and Insularity of Sociological Traditions
- 5 - Comparative Sociology: Some Paradigms and their Moments
- 6 - The Culture of Work
- 7 - The Sociology of the Family
- 8 - The Social Institution of Money
- 9 - The Sociology of Consumption and Lifestyle
- 10 - The Sociology of Mediation and Communication
- 11 - An Entirely Different World? Challenges for the Sociology of Raceand Ethnicity
- 12 - A Sociology of Information
- 13 - Class and Stratification: Current Problems and Revival Prospects
- 14 - The Sociology of Culture
- 15 - The Sociology of Health and Illness
- 16 - The Sociology of Religion
- 17 - Leisure and Tourism
- 18 - The Sociology of the Environment and Nature
- 19 - Poverty and Life Chances:The Conceptualization and Study of the Poor
- 20 - Globalization: Sociology and Cross-Disciplinarity
- 21 - The Sociology of Gender Relations
- 22 - Population and Society: Historical Trends and Future Prospects
- Part 3: Primary Debates
- 23 - A New Approach for Theoretically Integrating Micro and Macro Analysis
- 24 - Global Inequality: Bringing Politics Back In
- 25 - Sociology and the Body
- 26 - The City: Its Return as a Lens for Social Theory
- 27 - Sociology of Deviance: the Disciplines of Social Exclusion
- 28 - Globalizing Business
- 29 - Sex and Power: Capillaries, Capabilities and Capacities
- 30 - The Sociology of the University and Higher Education: The Consequences of Globalization
- 31 - Science, Technology and their Implications
- 32 - Citizenship, Ethnicity and Nation-States