TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thorpe,Christopher
AU  - Yuill,Chris
AU  - Hobbs,Mitchell
AU  - Todd,Megan
AU  - Tomley,Sarah
AU  - Weeks,Marcus
TI  - The sociology book : Big ideas simply explained
T2  - Big ideas simply explained
SN  - 9780241182291
U1  - 301 SOC 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - DK Publishing
KW  - Sociology
KW  - fast
KW  - sears
N1  - Includes index; Foundations of sociology; A physical defeat has never marked the end of a nation; Ibn Khaldun --; Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarreled, in troops and companies; Adam Ferguson --; Science can be used to build a better world; Auguste Comte --; The Declaration of Independence bears no relation to half the human race; Harriet Martineau --; The fall of the bourgeoisie and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable; Karl Marx --; Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft; Ferdinand Tönnies --; Society, like the human body, has interrelated parts, needs, and functions; Émile Durkheim --; The iron cage of rationality; Max Weber --; Many personal troubles must be understood in terms of public issues; Charles Wright Mills --; Pay to the most commonplace activities the attention accorded extraordinary events; Harold Garfinkel --; Where there is power there is resistance; Michel Foucault --; Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; Judith Butler --; Social inequalities. I broadly accuse the bourgeoisie of social murder; Friedrich Engels --; The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line; W.E.B. DuBois --; The poor are excluded from the ordinary living patterns, customs, and activities of life; Peter Townsend --; There ain't no black in the Union Jack; Paul Gilroy --; A sense of one's place; Pierre Bourdieu --; The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined; Edward Said --; The ghetto is where the black people live; Elijah Anderson --; The tools of freedom become the sources of indignity; Richard Sennett --; Men's interest in patriarchy is condensed in hegemonic masculinity; R.W. Connell --; White women have been complicit in this imperialist, white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy; Bell Hooks --; The concept of "patriarch" is indispensable for an analysis of gender inequality; Sylvia Walby --; Modern living; Strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type; Georg Simmel --; The freedom to remake our cities and ourselves; Henri Lefebvre --; There must be eyes on the street; Jane Jacobs --; Only communication can communicate; Niklas Luhmann --; Society should articulate what is good; Amitai Etzioni --; McDonaldization affects virtually every aspect of society; George Ritzer --; The bonds of our communities have withered; Robert D. Putnam --; Disneyization replaces mundane blandness with spectacular experiences; Alan Bryman --; Living in a loft is like living in a showcase; Sharon Zukin --; Living in a global world; Abandon all hope of totality, you who enter the world of fluid modernity; Zygmunt Bauman --; The modern world-system; Immanuel Wallerstein --; Global issues, local perspective; Roland Robertson --; Climate change is a back-of-the-mind issue; Anthony Gidens --; No social justice without global cognitive justice; Boaventura de Sousa Santos --; The unleashing of productive capacity by the power of the mind; Manuel Castells --; We are living in a world that is beyond controllability; Ulrich Beck --; It sometimes seems as if the whole world is on the move; John Urry --; Nations can be imagined and constructed with relatively little historical straw; David McCrone --; Global cities are strategic sites for new types of operations; Saskia Sassen --; Different societies appropriate the materials of modernity differently; Arjun Appadurai --; Processes of change have altered the relations between peoples and communities; David Held --; Culture and identity; The "I" and the "me"; G.H. Mead --; The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned; Antonio Gramsci --; The civilizing process is constantly moving "forward"; Norbert Elias --; Mass culture reinforces political repression; Herbert Marcuse --; The danger of the future is that men may become robots; Erich Fromm --; Culture is ordinary; Raymond Williams --; Stigma refers to an attribute that is deeply discrediting; Erving Goffman --; We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning; Jean Baudrillard --; Modern identities are being decentered; Stuart Hall --; All communities are imagined; Benedict Anderson --; Throughout the world, culture has been doggedly pushing itself center stage; Jeffrey Alexander --; Work and consumerism; Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure; Thorstein Veblen --; The Puritan wanted to work in a calling-- we are forced to do so; Max Weber --; Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination; Daniel Bell --; The more sophisticated machines become, the less skill the worker has; Harry Braverman --; Automation increases the worker's control over his work process; Robert Blauner --; The Romantic ethic promotes the spirit of consumerism; Colin Campbell --; In processing people, the product is a state of mind; Arlie Russell Hochschild --; Spontaneous consent combines with coercion; Michael Burawoy --; Things make us just as much as we make things; Daniel Miller --; Feminization has had only a modest impact on reducing gender inequalities; Teri Lynn Caraway --; The role of institutions; Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature; Karl Marx --; The iron law of oligarchy; Robert Michels --; Healthy people need no bureaucracy to mate, give birth, and die; Ivan Illich --; Some commit crimes because they are responding to a social situation; Robert K. Merton --; Total institutions strip people of their support systems and their sense of self; Erving Goffman --; Government is the right disposition of things; Michel Foucault --; Religion has lost its plausibility and social significance; Bryan Wilson --; Our identity and behavior are determined by how we are described and classified; Howard S. Becker --; Economic crisis is immediately transformed into social crisis; Jürgen Habermas --; Schooling has been at once something done to the poor and for the poor; Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis --; Societies are subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic; Stanley Cohen --; The time of the tribes; Michel Maffesoli --; How working-class kids get working-class jobs; Paul Willis --; Families and intimacies; Differences between the sexes are cultural creations; Margaret Mead --; Families are factories that produce human personalities; Talcott Parsons --; Western man has become a confessing animal; Michel Foucault --; Heterosexuality must be recognized and studied as an institution; Adrienne Rich --; Western family arrangements are diverse, fluid, and unresolved; Judith Stacey --; The marriage contract is a work contract; Christine Delphy --; Housework is directly opposed to self-actualization; Ann Oakley --; When love finally wins it has to face all kinds of defeat; Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim --; Sexuality is as much about beliefs and ideologies as about the physical body; Jeffrey Weeks --; Queer theory questions the very grounds of identity; Steven Seidman --; Glossary
N2  - Profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their biggest ideas, including issues of equality, diversity, identity, and human rights; the effects of globalization; the role of institutions; and the rise of urban living in modern society
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