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Introduction: The Sociological Perspective?

1. Sociology as the Science of Social Life - W.E.B. Du Bois

2. The Promise of Sociology - C. Wright Mills

3. Sociology as the Study of Figurations: Beyond Individual and Society? - Norbert Elias

4. Decolonizing Sociology - Raewyn Connell

5. Understanding Ourselves and Others - Zygmunt Bauman & Tim May

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PART 1 Thinking Sociologically

6. The Capitalist Revolution - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

7. Tastes, Distinctions and Social Structure - Pierre Bourdieu

8. Learning from the Outsiders Within - Patricia Hill Collins

9. The Consequences of Modernity - Anthony Giddens

10. Sociology after the Postcolonial Turn - Gurminder K. Bhambra

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?PART 2 Doing Sociology

11. Treat Social Facts as Things - ?mile Durkheim

12. Sociology's Historical Imagination - Philip Abrams

13. Mixing Methods in Empirical Research - Emma Pullen, Daniel Jackson & Michael Silk

14. Digital Sociology: Opportunities and Dangers - Noortje Marres

15. What is Feminist Research? - Patricia Leavy & Anne Harris

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PART 3 Environment and Urbanism

16. The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel

17. A Sociology of Climate Change - John Urry

18. Navigating the 'White Space' - Elijah Anderson

19. Urban Transitions in the Global South - AbdouMaliq Simone & Edgar Pieterse

20. Entering an Anthropocene Era? - Rolf Lidskog & Claire Waterton

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PART 4 Structures of Society

21. Religion and the Origins of Capitalism - Max Weber

22. The Feminization of Work - Teri L. Caraway

23. Families and Personal Life - Deborah Chambers & Pablo Gracia

24. Schools: Challenging or Reproducing Social Inequalities? - Christy Kulz

25. Capitalism and the Digital Revolution - Shoshana Zuboff

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PART 5 Social Inequalities

26. Intersectionality: Structural and Political - Kimberl? Crenshaw

27. Producing Disability and Abledness - Fiona Kumari Campbell

28. Wealth Concentration and Inequality - Thomas Piketty

29. Racial Distinctions and Social Structures - Michael Banton

30. 'Doing Gender' via Domestic Labour - Clare Lyonette & Rosemary Crompton

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PART 6 Relationships and the Life Course

31. I, Me and the Social Self - George Herbert Mead

32. Towards a Sociology of Personal Life - Carol Smart

33. Love as a Sociological Problem - Eva Illouz

34. From the Life Cycle to the Life Course - Stephen J. Hunt

35. The Significance of Generational Experience - Lorraine Green

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PART 7 Interaction and Communication

36. Self Presentation and Impression Management - Erving Goffman

37. Violence in Sociological Perspective - Randall Collins

38. Misogyny, Beauty and Body Modification - Sheila Jeffreys

39. Constructing and Negotiating Social Identity - Susie Scott

40. Knowledge Production in a Post-Truth World - Dominic Malcolm

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PART 8 Health, Illness and the Body

41. The Medical Re-definition of Social Life - Peter Conrad

42. Does Inequality Cause Poor Health Outcomes? - Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett

43. Challenging the Dominance of Biomedicine - Sarah Nettleton

44. Health and Illness in Sociological Perspective - William C. Cockerham

45. The Exceptional and the Normal After COVID-19 - Jens O. Zinn

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Sommaire:

The fourth edition of this best-selling introductory reader has been thoroughly revised and updated to offer a stimulating and wide-ranging set of readings for anyone who wishes to engage with the scope of sociological thought and practice today.

The book delivers a productive mix of classic, contemporary and provocative readings that are highly readable and lively, while retaining their critical bite.? ?Ideal as a companion to the ninth edition of Giddens and Sutton's Sociology, the reader can equally be used independently or alongside other textbooks.

Readings are grouped around ten key sociological themes, with a sustained emphasis on comparative, globally and historically informed work. The carefully curated collection ranges from studies of face-to-face interaction through to the analysis of large-scale global systems, covering both the theory and the practice of sociology. Among the new selections in this volume are readings on the decolonial turn...