"This is a comprehensive and critically engaged review of the discipline written by two passionate authors wishing to remind us all of the beauty of questioning and engaging with the ultimate purpose of sociological debates: to reshape, re-establish and ultimately reignite the reveal of the sociological imagination!" Athanasia Chalari, University of Northampton

"The authors critically reflect on sociology's place in the world and persuasively argue that the 'sociological imagination' is more relevant than ever in this comprehensive account." Jenny van Hooff, Manchester Metropolitan University

"Kerrigan and Nehring help us critically re-imagine society in this provoking and engaging publication which spans Western, global, and decolonising approaches." Adam Baird, Coventry University

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"This is an innovative, thoroughly researched and well-written 21st Century introductory sociology text. Your students will love it!" Rhoda Reddock, The University of the West Indies

Re-examining C.Wright Mills’ legacy as a jumping off point, this original introduction to sociology illuminates global concepts, themes and practices that are fundamental to the discipline. It makes a case for the importance of developing a sociological imagination and provides the steps for how readers can do that. With a global outlook and examples drawn from everything from social inequality to social media, this is a lively, engaging and accessible overview of sociology for all its students and teachers.
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Re-examining C.Wright Mills’ legacy as a jumping off point, this original introduction to sociology illuminates global concepts, themes and practices that are fundamental to the discipline and rethinks and re-imagines what a critically committed, politically engaged and publicly relevant sociology should look like in the 21st century.
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Preface: How to read this book? Making sense of society The sociological imagination What is the social? Seven Key Moments in Western sociology Sociologies in a Global World Decolonising Sociology Structure, Agency, Power and Conflict Difference, Stratification and Inequalities The Social Self Sociology in the Early 21st Century
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ISBN
9781529204872
Publisert
2020-02-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Bristol University Press
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
172 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Om bidragsyterne

Daniel Nehring is Associate Professor of Sociology at East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai. Dylan Kerrigan is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Leicester and a Visiting Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West Indies.