Sociology a global introduction - Macionis, John J.; Plummer, Kenneth (Essex, England Pearson Education Limited, 2012)
Introducing sociology : The sociological imagination -- Thinking sociologically, thinking globally -- Studying the social: an introduction to sociological method -- The foundations of society : from macro to micro : Societies -- Culture -- Groups, organisations, and the rise of the network society -- Micro-sociology : the social construction of everyday life -- The unequal world: difference, division, and social stratification : Inequality, social divisions, and social stratification -- Global poverty/global inequality -- Class, poverty and welfare: the case of the UK -- Racism, ethnicities, and migration -- The gender order and sexualities -- Age stratification, children and later life -- Disabilities, care and the humanitarian society -- Social structures, social practices, and social institutions : Economies, work, and consumption -- Power, governance and social movements -- Control, crime, and deviance -- Families, personal life, and living together -- Religion and belief -- Education -- Health, medicine, and well-being -- Communication and the new media -- Science, cyberspace and the risk society -- Social change and the twenty-first century : Populations, cities, and the space of things to come -- Social change and the environment -- Living in the twenty-first century -- Web resources for critical thinking: creating sociological imaginations : Films -- Novels -- Art and sociology -- Time and space -- Websites -- YouTube -- Thinkers and theory -- World statistics -- Big debates of our time -- Abbreviations and acronyms.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [967]-998) and indexes.
Keywords: Sociology