The SAGE Handbook of Sociology

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Craig Calhoun, Chris Rojek, Bryan S Turner
SAGE, 18‏/06‏/2005 - 608 من الصفحات
Sociology has evolved greatly since it′s inception as an academic discipline. It has diverged into numerous strands often flowing in disparate directions - so much so that today the notion of canonical sociology has become widely disputed. The field of sociology at present approximates to one of multi-paradigmatic complexity in which many approaches to theory must be distinguished and situated. In addition, the discipline has had to confront new challenges from globalization, the shift of interest from production to consumption, the rise of new social movements, the challenge of bio-engineering, the collapse of a ′presently existing socialist alternative′ and much else besides.

The new SAGE Handbook of Sociology aims to address these new developments, while at the same time providing an authoritative guide to theory and method, the key sub-disciplines and the primary debates of today. To undertake this ambitious project three leading figures in the field of sociology were selected as editors to bring together the foremost exponents of the different strands that contribute towards the make up modern sociology. Drawn from both sides of the Atlantic the contributors have been commissioned to utilise the most up to date research available to provide a critical, international analysis of their area of expertise.

The result is this essential resource collection that not just reflects upon the condition of sociology today but also looks to future developments in the discipline. The Handbook is invaluable not just all sociologists but to a wide variety of students and researchers across the social sciences.

Click on ′Sample Chapters & Resources′ to download the introduction.

 

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Introduction
1
Theory and Method
13
1 Quantitative Research Methods
15
2 Qualitative Research Traditions
40
3 Sociology and Philosophy
61
4 The Diversity and Insularity of Sociological Traditions
79
Some Paradigms and their Moments
103
6 The Culture of Work
129
17 Leisure and Tourism
302
18 The Sociology of the Environment and Nature
314
The Conceptualization and Study of the Poor
327
Sociology and CrossDisciplinarity
345
21 The Sociology of Gender Relations
367
Historical Trends and Future Prospects
381
Primary Debates
403
23 A New Approach for Theoretically Integrating Micro and Macro Analysis
405

7 The Sociology of the Family
135
8 The Social Institution of Money
154
9 The Sociology of Consumption and Lifestyle
174
10 The Sociology of Mediation and Communication
188
11 An Entirely Different World? Challenges for the Sociology of Raceand Ethnicity
208
12 A Sociology of Information
223
Current Problems and Revival Prospects
236
14 The Sociology of Culture
254
15 The Sociology of Health and Illness
267
16 The Sociology of Religion
284
Bringing Politics Back In
423
25 Sociology and the Body
442
Its Return as a Lens for Social Theory
457
the Disciplines of Social Exclusion
471
28 Globalizing Business
492
Capillaries Capabilities and Capacities
516
The Consequences of Globalization
530
31 Science Technology and their Implications
546
32 Citizenship Ethnicity and NationStates
561
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Chris Rojek is Professor of Sociology and Culture at Brunel University, West London. He is a prolific and influential author in the field of Celebrity, Leisure Studies and Popular Culture. In 2003 he was awarded the Allen V. Sapora prize for outstanding achievement in the field of Leisure and Tourism Studies. Besides lecturing in the UK he has given lectures on leisure in Australia, Canada, the USA and the Netherlands. In 2009 he was Hood Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He also writes on celebrity culture, neat capitalism and myths and realities of national identity. His current research is on popular music and popular culture and the meaning of the celetoid in Reality TV.

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.

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