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The Sage handbook of sociology

Providing an authoritative guide to theory and method, the key sub-disciplines and the primary debates in contemporary sociology, this work brings together the leading authors to reflect on the condition of the discipline
eBook, English, 2005
Sage Publications, London, 2005
1 online resource (xv, 590 pages)
9781446266052, 9780761968214, 9781283879569, 1446266052, 0761968210, 1283879565
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Part 1. Theory and method. Quantitative research methods / Adrian E. Raftery
Qualitative research traditions / Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont
Sociology and philosophy / Randall Collins
The diversity and insularity of sociological traditions / Charles Crothers
Comparative sociology : some paradigms and their moments / David E. Apter
Part 2. The axial processes of society. The culture of work / Richard Sennett
The sociology of the family / Bryan Turner
The social institution of money / Geoffrey Ingham
The sociology of consumption and lifestyle / Don Slater
The sociology of mediation and communication / Roger Silverstone
An entirely different world? Challenges for the sociology of race and ethnicity / Patricia Hill Collins
A sociology of information / David Lyon
Class and stratification : current problems and revival prospects / Mike Savage
The sociology of culture / Wendy Griswold
The sociology of health and illness / Gary L. Albrecht
The sociology of religion / Bryan Turner
Leisure and tourism / Chris Rojek
The sociology of the environment and nature / Steven Yearley
Poverty and life chances : the conceptualization and study of the poor / Dalton Conley
Globalization : sociology and cross-disciplinarity / Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White
The sociology of gender relations / Sylvia Walby
Population and society : historical trends and future prospects / Charles Hirschman
Part 3. Primary debates. A new approach for theoretically integrating micro and macro analysis / Jonathan H. Turner
Global inequality : bringing politics back in / Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Sociology and the body / Nick Crossley
The city : its return as a lens for social theory / Saskia Sassen
Sociology of deviance : the disciplines of social exclusion / Heinz Steinert
Globalizing business / Stewart R. Clegg
Sex and power : capillaries, capabilities and capacities / Elspeth Probyn
The sociology of the university and higher education : the consequences of globalization / Gerard Delanty
Science, technology and their implications / Karin Knorr Cetina
Citizenship, ethnicity and nation-states / Siniša Malešević and John A. Hall
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