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The new introducing sociology

[edited by] Peter Worsley ; [contributions by] Frank Bechhofer ... [et al.]

(Penguin books, social sciences)

Penguin, 1992

Rev. ed., Rev. 3rd ed

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First published as: Introducing sociology, 1970

Third edition, published as: The new introducing sociology, 1987

Includes bibliographical references (p. [460]-504) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This edition draws upon recent findings of sociological research about a rapidly changing society, upon both classical and contemporary theoretical debates and upon public controversies over social policy in fields ranging from the health service to the future of industry. The book begins with an assessment of sociology as a discipline, which is then set against the background of the history of global development and of contemporary divisions in the world, especially the Third World. Successive chapters introduce the reader to the special problems involved in researching society: the issues of sex, gender and the family, especially those raised by the women's movement; changing patterns of health and illness and of medical therapy; the explosive growth of the world's cities and changes in community life; the transformations of industry and of the nature of work in an epoch of mass unemployment; ethnic and racial conflicts both at world level and within our own society; the persistence of social order despite deep inequalities; and the many ways in which people deviate from respectable models of behaviour. The book ends with an overview of the main varieties of sociological theory.

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  • NCID
    BA22000744
  • ISBN
    • 0140135944
  • LCCN
    92244569
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 509 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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