Key Ideas in Sociology
Martin Slattery(Author)
Nelson Thornes Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 17. April 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-7487-6565-2 (ISBN)
Description
Written to be extremely accessible each book provides: Quick and easy-to-read summaries of key ideas and key thinkers enabling students to attain and assimilate knowledge quickly. This title features that track the history of each idea, the idea in action today, the debate that surrounds it and its practical application It is an essential reference resource for AS/A2 Level courses, and students progressing to further study. It is an invaluable 'extra feather to the revision bow!' It demonstrates how the thinker/s ideas can or have had practical applications, outlining recent research relevant to the ideas and provides suggestions for further reading. It is suitable for AS/A Level courses and AVCE courses for all awarding bodies, and is also relevant for undergraduate and BTEC National and HNC/D courses.
Written to be extremely accessible each book provides: Quick and easy-to-read summaries of key ideas and key thinkers enabling students to attain and assimilate knowledge quickly. This title features that track the history of each idea, the idea in action today, the debate that surrounds it and its practical application It is an essential reference resource for AS/A2 Level courses, and students progressing to further study. It is an invaluable 'extra feather to the revision bow!' It demonstrates how the thinker/s ideas can or have had practical applications, outlining recent research relevant to the ideas and provides suggestions for further reading. It is suitable for AS/A Level courses and AVCE courses for all awarding bodies, and is also relevant for undergraduate and BTEC National and HNC/D courses.
Written to be extremely accessible each book provides: Quick and easy-to-read summaries of key ideas and key thinkers enabling students to attain and assimilate knowledge quickly. This title features that track the history of each idea, the idea in action today, the debate that surrounds it and its practical application It is an essential reference resource for AS/A2 Level courses, and students progressing to further study. It is an invaluable 'extra feather to the revision bow!' It demonstrates how the thinker/s ideas can or have had practical applications, outlining recent research relevant to the ideas and provides suggestions for further reading. It is suitable for AS/A Level courses and AVCE courses for all awarding bodies, and is also relevant for undergraduate and BTEC National and HNC/D courses.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
bibliog , index
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7487-6565-2 (9780748765652)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
The classical - the founding fathers and their contemporaries: alienation, Karl Marx; Anomie, Emile Durkheim; bureaucracy, Max Weber; formal sociology, George Simmel; Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft, Ferdinand Tonnies; historical materialism, Karl Marx; the iron law of oligarchy, Robert Michels; positivism, Auguste Comte; the Protestant ethic, Max Weber; social Darwinism, Herbert Spencer; social solidarity, Emile Burkheim. Modern: conflict theory, Ralf Dahrendorf; critical theory, Frankfurt school; dependency theory, Andre Gunder Frank, deskilling, Harry Braverman; ethnomethodology, Harry Garfinkel; falsification and conjecture, Karl Popper; gender, feminism; hegemony, Antonio Gamsci; human relations theory, Karl Mannheim; labelling theory, Howard Becker; linguistic codes, Basil Bernstein; modernization theroy, W.W. Rostwow; paradigma, Thomas Kuhn; petriarcht, feminism; phenomology, Husserl and Schutz, power elite, C.W. Mills; scientific management, F.W. Taylor; secularisation, Bryan Wilson; stigma, Erving Goffman; structural functionalism, Talcott Parsons; symbolic interactionalsim, G.H. Mead; urbanism, Louis Wirth. Post-modern/late modern: cultural studies, Stuart Hall; discourse, Michael Foucault; globalization, Anthony Giddens; information(al) society, Manuel Castells; Legitimation Crisis, Jurgen Habermas; post-Fordism, Michael Piore; post-industrial society, Daniel Bell; post-modernism/post-modernity, Jean-Francois Lyotard; relative autonomy, Nicos Poulantzas; risk society, Ulrich Beck; simulations, Jean Baudrillard; structural Marxism, Louis Althusser; structuration.