An introduction to sociology:
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | XVII, 564 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 26 cm |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
by Laurie Taylor
xi
Introduction to the Fourth Edition
xii
Acknowledgements
xiii
How to Use this Book
xiv
Useful Websites
xv
1
Studying Society
(1).
Introducing Sociology: Key Ideas and
Concepts
What is sociology?
4
Social structure
10
Social processes
10
Social issues, social problems and social policy
36
Different views of society
39
Chapter summary
41
Key terms
41
2
Studying Society
(2).
Doing Sociological Research
Key issues in social research
46
Quantitative and qualitative data
47
Primary and secondary sources
49
Social surveys
52
Longitudinal studies
70
Observation
72
Planning your own research project
76
Chapter summary
78
Key terms
79
3
Families
Social issues, social problems and families
84
What is the family?
85
What is a household?
85
Consensus and conflict approaches to the family
86
Different forms of the family, marriage and households
87
Demographic change and families
95
Other changes in families and households in Britain
104
Family diversity and the myth of cereal packet families
135
Other forms of family and household diversity
137
Critical views of the family
144
Alternatives to the family
152
Politics, social policy and families
154
Are marriage and families declining social institutions?
158
Chapter summary
160
Key terms
161
4
Education
Education as a social and political issue
165
The role of education in society
166
Education in Britain before the
1970s 175
Comprehensive schools and selection
176
Education from
1988
onwards: the free market in education
180
School diversity
190
Vocational education
195
Equality of educational opportunity and helping the most
disadvantaged groups
197
Inequality in education
197
Private education: the independent schools
225
Is equality of educational opportunity possible to achieve?
229
Chapter summary
230
Key terms
230
5
Crime and Deviance
Social control, deviance and crime
233
The difficulty of defining deviance
234
Why are some deviant acts defined as criminal while others
are not?
238
Crime as a social issue
-
the social significance of criminal and
deviant behaviour
240
The pattern of crime
243
What s wrong with official crime statistics?
262
Is the crime rate increasing?
270
Explaining crime and deviance
273
The victims of crime
281
Government initiatives and policy solutions to crime
282
Deviance, crime and social change
284
Chapter summary
285
Key terms
286
6
The Mass Media
What are the mass media?
The traditional and the new media
Who uses the new media, and what for?
The significance of the new media in contemporary society
The mass media and socialization
Media regulation: formal controls on the media
Ownership of the mass media
The mass media, public opinion and social control
Bias in the media: what affects the content of the media?
The mass media, power and democracy
Crime, deviance and the media
The effects of the mass media on audiences
Violence and the media
Into the future
Chapter summary
Key terms
7
Power
What is power? What is politics?
Power in everyday life
Types of political system
Citizenship
Political participation
Influencing decision-making in a democracy
Political parties in Britain
Influences on voting behaviour
Why do people abstain in elections?
Opinion polls and elections
Is Britain a democracy?
Social problems and the role of the state
The welfare state
Chapter summary
Key terms
8
Social Inequality
The significance of social inequality
Social inequality as a social issue
Social stratification
Systems of stratification
Four views of social class
The class structure of Britain
Social class inequalities
289
289
293
294
298
306
308
311
315
323
327
330
334
336
337
338
341
343
345
347
348
352
362
364
373
374
377
380
383
388
388
391
392
393
395
399
408
409
Poverty
419
Social mobility
443
Changes in the class structure
448
Gender and inequality
453
Ethnicity and inequality
472
Age and inequality
484
Chapter summary
490
Key terms
491
9
Health and illness
What is meant by health, illness and disease?
497
The medical and social models of health
498
Becoming a health statistic
499
Medicine and social control: the sick role
501
How society influences health
503
The food industry
507
Inequalities in health
509
Chapter summary
522
Key terms
522
Appendix: Reading Statistical Data
523
Statistical tables
523
Describing a trend
525
Graphs
526
Bar charts
528
Pie charts
530
Glossary
532
Picture credits
546
Index
549
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