What is Sociology?The Scope of Sociology Anthony Giddens The Sociological Imagination and the Promise of Sociology C. Wright Mills Thinking Sociologically Zygmunt Bauman 2. Culture and Society What is Culture? Rosamund BillingtonThe Proper Study of Mankind The Economist The Internet in the Middle East and North Africa Human Rights Watch 3. A Changing WorldThe McDonaldization of Society George RitzerBeyond the Information Revolution Peter F. DruckerGlobalization David Held, Tony McGrew & Jonathan Perraton 4. Social Interaction and Everyday LifeThe Structure of Face Engagements Erving Goffman Social Interaction and Everyday Life Erving Goffman Embarrassment and Interactional Organization Christian Heath Time, Habit and Repetition in Day-to-Day Life Michael Young 5. Gender and SexualityExplaining Gender and Gender Inequalities Jane Pilcher Lesbians at home Gillian A. Dunne What do we mean when we talk about the body and Sexuality? Jeffrey WeeksA Self-Made Man Paul Hewitt & Jane Warren The Male Dodo: Are Men Necessary? The Economist6. Sociology of the Body: Health, Illness and AgeingA Sociology of 'Fringe' Medicine: A Healthy Alternative Stephen Hunt & Nikki Lightly The Sociology of Health and Illness Sarah Nettleton Patenting Life Jeremy Rifkin Sickness and Health in Pre-Modern England Roy and Dorothy Porter 7. FamiliesConstructing Post-divorce childhoods Carol Smart & Bren Neale The Normal Chaos of Love Ulrich Beck & Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim Home Sweet Home The EconomistOn Friendship Ray Pahl 8. Crime and DevianceA Sociology of Hackers Tim Jordan & Paul Taylor Electronic Policing Richard Ericson & Kevin Haggerty Gang Babes Love to Kill Ruaridh Nicoll Surviving in a Women's Prison Josie O'Dwyer & Pat Carlen 9. Race, Ethnicity and MigrationIn Defence of the Nation Anthony D. Smith The Development of Ethnic Awareness and Identification Frances Aboud There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack Paul Gilroy Europe Needs More Immigrants The Economist 10. Class, Stratification and InequalityAre Social classes dying? Terry Nicholls Clark & Seymour Martin Lipset Marx and Weber on Class Anthony Giddens Capitalism without Classes Andy Furlong & Fred Cartmel Haves and Have-Nots: How to Overcome the Digital Divide The Economist 11. Poverty, Welfare and Social ExclusionRethinking Poverty in Globalized Conditions Laura Buffoni When Work Disappears: new implications for race and urban poverty in the global economy William Julius Wilson Privatising Peace of Mind The Economist Global Inequality Martin Dickson 12. Modern OrganizationsThough Upbeat on the Economy, People Still Fear For Their Jobs Steve Lohr The Virtual Organization William H. Dutton 13. Work and Economic LifeNew Ways of Working and Living Nick Jewson & Alan Felstead You've Got to Go With the Flow: The Changing Nature of Jobs Chris Brewster Information Technology and the 'Information Society' David Lyon 14. Government and PoliticsWhat is Democracy? David Beetham & Kevin Boyle Nations and Nationalism Ernest Gellner Are Political Parties Empty Vessels? The Economist Globalizing Democracy Benjamin R. Barber 15. Mass Media and CommunicationsTune in, Log on: Soaps, Fandom and Online Community Nancy K. Baym The Internet and Society James Slevin Mass Communication, Symbolic Goods and Media Products John B Thompson 16. EducationGender Differences in Education Eirene Mitsos & Ken Browne Dossing Blagging and Wagging: Countercultural Groups in the School Environment Paul E. Willis Globalization and Concurrent Challenges for Higher Education Jan Sadlak 17. ReligionSecularisation: Now You See It, Now You Don't Malcolm Hamilton Islam in the age of postmodernity Akbar Ahmed & Hastings Donnan And the World Was All Male Andrew Brown 18. Cities and Urban SpacesUrban Disasters and Megacities in a Risk Society Tom Horlick-Jones Poor Areas and Social Exclusion Anne Power 19. Population Growth and Ecological CrisisRisk Environment and Modernity Scott Lash & Bronislaw Szerszynski & Brian Wynne Factor Four: Doubling Wealth - Halving Resource Use Ernst von Weizsacker & Amory B. Lovins & L Hunter LovinsThe Effects of Migrants in the Labour Market The Economist 20. Sociological Research MethodsSociologists in White Coats: Experiments in Sociology Mike Moores The Value of the Survey Method Catherine Marsh The Human Element in Field Work Robert A. Georges & Michael O. Jones Absolute and Relative Poverty in Britain Joanna Mack & Stewart Lansley Conversation Analysis John Heritage 21. Theoretical Thinking in SociologySociology and the Explanation of Human Behaviour Anthony Giddens Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity Ulrich Beck Introduction to Habermas David HeldAcknowledgementsIndex
