Imagining Society

The Case for Sociology
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5292-0487-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Re-examining C.Wright Mills’s legacy as a jumping off point, this original introduction to sociology illuminates global concepts, themes and practices that are fundamental to the discipline. It makes a case for the importance of developing a sociological imagination and provides the steps for how readers can do that. The unique text:

• Offers succinct and wide-ranging coverage of many of the most important themes and concepts taught in first year sociology courses;

• Has a global framework and case material which engages with decoloniality and critiques an overly white, western and developed world view of sociology;

• Is woven through with contemporary examples, from social media to social inequality, big data to the self-help industry;

• Rethinks and re-imagines what a critically committed, politically engaged and publicly relevant sociology should look like in the 21st century.

This is a lively, engaging and accessible overview of sociology for all its students, teachers and people who want to learn more about sociology today. It is a welcome clarion call for sociology’s importance in public life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nehring, Daniel

Kerrigan, Dylan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: How to read this book?

Making sense of society

The sociological imagination

What is 'the social'?

Seven key moments in Western sociology

Sociologies in a global world

Decolonising sociology

Structure, agency, power and conflict

Difference, stratification and inequalities

The social self

Sociology in the early 21st century

Über Autor(innen)

Nehring, Daniel
Daniel Nehring is Associate Professor of Sociology at East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai.

Kerrigan, Dylan
Dylan Kerrigan is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago and a Research Associate at the University of Leicester in the UK.

Daniel Nehring is Associate Professor of Sociology at East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai.

Dylan Kerrigan is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Leicester and a Visiting Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West Indies.