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082 0 4 _a301 SOC
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245 0 4 _aThe sociology book : Big ideas simply explained /
_c[contributors, Christopher Thorpe, consultant editor, Chris Yuill, consultant editor ; Mitchell Hobbs, Megan Todd, Sarah Tomley, Marcus Weeks].
250 _aFirst American edition.
264 1 _aNew York, New York :
_bDK Publishing,
_c2015.
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a352 pages :
_billustrations (chiefly color) ;
_c24 cm
490 1 _aBig ideas simply explained
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 0 _gFoundations of sociology.
_tA physical defeat has never marked the end of a nation /
_rIbn Khaldun --
_tMankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarreled, in troops and companies /
_rAdam Ferguson --
_tScience can be used to build a better world /
_rAuguste Comte --
_tThe Declaration of Independence bears no relation to half the human race /
_rHarriet Martineau --
_tThe fall of the bourgeoisie and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable /
_rKarl Marx --
_tGemeinschaft and Gesellschaft /
_rFerdinand Tönnies --
_tSociety, like the human body, has interrelated parts, needs, and functions /
_rÉmile Durkheim --
_tThe iron cage of rationality /
_rMax Weber --
_tMany personal troubles must be understood in terms of public issues /
_rCharles Wright Mills --
_tPay to the most commonplace activities the attention accorded extraordinary events /
_rHarold Garfinkel --
_tWhere there is power there is resistance /
_rMichel Foucault --
_tGender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original /
_rJudith Butler --
_tSocial inequalities. I broadly accuse the bourgeoisie of social murder /
_rFriedrich Engels --
_tThe problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line /
_rW.E.B. DuBois --
_tThe poor are excluded from the ordinary living patterns, customs, and activities of life /
_rPeter Townsend --
_tThere ain't no black in the Union Jack /
_rPaul Gilroy --
_tA sense of one's place /
_rPierre Bourdieu --
_tThe Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined /
_rEdward Said --
_tThe ghetto is where the black people live /
_rElijah Anderson --
_tThe tools of freedom become the sources of indignity /
_rRichard Sennett --
_tMen's interest in patriarchy is condensed in hegemonic masculinity /
_rR.W. Connell --
_tWhite women have been complicit in this imperialist, white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy /
_rBell Hooks --
_tThe concept of "patriarch" is indispensable for an analysis of gender inequality /
_rSylvia Walby --
_gModern living.
_tStrangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type /
_rGeorg Simmel --
_tThe freedom to remake our cities and ourselves /
_rHenri Lefebvre --
_tThere must be eyes on the street /
_rJane Jacobs --
_tOnly communication can communicate /
_rNiklas Luhmann --
_tSociety should articulate what is good /
_rAmitai Etzioni --
_tMcDonaldization affects virtually every aspect of society /
_rGeorge Ritzer --
_tThe bonds of our communities have withered /
_rRobert D. Putnam --
_tDisneyization replaces mundane blandness with spectacular experiences /
_rAlan Bryman --
_tLiving in a loft is like living in a showcase /
_rSharon Zukin --
_gLiving in a global world.
_tAbandon all hope of totality, you who enter the world of fluid modernity /
_rZygmunt Bauman --
_tThe modern world-system /
_rImmanuel Wallerstein --
_tGlobal issues, local perspective /
_rRoland Robertson --
_tClimate change is a back-of-the-mind issue /
_rAnthony Gidens --
_tNo social justice without global cognitive justice /
_rBoaventura de Sousa Santos --
_tThe unleashing of productive capacity by the power of the mind /
_rManuel Castells --
_tWe are living in a world that is beyond controllability /
_rUlrich Beck --
_tIt sometimes seems as if the whole world is on the move /
_rJohn Urry --
_tNations can be imagined and constructed with relatively little historical straw /
_rDavid McCrone --
_tGlobal cities are strategic sites for new types of operations /
_rSaskia Sassen --
_tDifferent societies appropriate the materials of modernity differently /
_rArjun Appadurai --
_tProcesses of change have altered the relations between peoples and communities /
_rDavid Held --
_gCulture and identity.
_tThe "I" and the "me" /
_rG.H. Mead --
_tThe challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned /
_rAntonio Gramsci --
_tThe civilizing process is constantly moving "forward" /
_rNorbert Elias --
_tMass culture reinforces political repression /
_rHerbert Marcuse --
_tThe danger of the future is that men may become robots /
_rErich Fromm --
_tCulture is ordinary /
_rRaymond Williams --
_tStigma refers to an attribute that is deeply discrediting /
_rErving Goffman --
505 0 0 _tWe live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning /
_rJean Baudrillard --
_tModern identities are being decentered /
_rStuart Hall --
_tAll communities are imagined /
_rBenedict Anderson --
_tThroughout the world, culture has been doggedly pushing itself center stage /
_rJeffrey Alexander --
_gWork and consumerism.
_tConspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure /
_rThorstein Veblen --
_tThe Puritan wanted to work in a calling-- we are forced to do so /
_rMax Weber --
_tTechnology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination /
_rDaniel Bell --
_tThe more sophisticated machines become, the less skill the worker has /
_rHarry Braverman --
_tAutomation increases the worker's control over his work process /
_rRobert Blauner --
_tThe Romantic ethic promotes the spirit of consumerism /
_rColin Campbell --
_tIn processing people, the product is a state of mind /
_rArlie Russell Hochschild --
_tSpontaneous consent combines with coercion /
_rMichael Burawoy --
_tThings make us just as much as we make things /
_rDaniel Miller --
_tFeminization has had only a modest impact on reducing gender inequalities /
_rTeri Lynn Caraway --
_gThe role of institutions.
_tReligion is the sigh of the oppressed creature /
_rKarl Marx --
_tThe iron law of oligarchy /
_rRobert Michels --
_tHealthy people need no bureaucracy to mate, give birth, and die /
_rIvan Illich --
_tSome commit crimes because they are responding to a social situation /
_rRobert K. Merton --
_tTotal institutions strip people of their support systems and their sense of self /
_rErving Goffman --
_tGovernment is the right disposition of things /
_rMichel Foucault --
_tReligion has lost its plausibility and social significance /
_rBryan Wilson --
_tOur identity and behavior are determined by how we are described and classified /
_rHoward S. Becker --
_tEconomic crisis is immediately transformed into social crisis /
_rJürgen Habermas --
_tSchooling has been at once something done to the poor and for the poor /
_rSamuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis --
_tSocieties are subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic /
_rStanley Cohen --
_tThe time of the tribes /
_rMichel Maffesoli --
_tHow working-class kids get working-class jobs /
_rPaul Willis --
_gFamilies and intimacies.
_tDifferences between the sexes are cultural creations /
_rMargaret Mead --
_tFamilies are factories that produce human personalities /
_rTalcott Parsons --
_tWestern man has become a confessing animal /
_rMichel Foucault --
_tHeterosexuality must be recognized and studied as an institution /
_rAdrienne Rich --
_tWestern family arrangements are diverse, fluid, and unresolved /
_rJudith Stacey --
_tThe marriage contract is a work contract /
_rChristine Delphy --
_tHousework is directly opposed to self-actualization /
_rAnn Oakley --
_tWhen love finally wins it has to face all kinds of defeat /
_rUlrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim --
_tSexuality is as much about beliefs and ideologies as about the physical body /
_rJeffrey Weeks --
_tQueer theory questions the very grounds of identity /
_rSteven Seidman --
_gGlossary.
520 _aProfiles 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.
650 0 _aSociology.
650 7 _aSociology.
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650 7 _aSociology.
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700 1 _aThorpe, Christopher,
_eauthor.
700 1 _aYuill, Chris,
_eauthor.
700 1 _aHobbs, Mitchell,
_eauthor.
700 1 _aTodd, Megan,
_eauthor.
700 1 _aTomley, Sarah,
_eauthor.
700 1 _aWeeks, Marcus,
_eauthor.
830 0 _aBig ideas simply explained.
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