Research Catalog

Title

The Sage handbook of sociology / edited by Craig Calhoun, Chris Rojek, and Bryan Turner.

Publication

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Calhoun, Craig J., 1952-
• Rojek, Chris.
• Turner, Bryan S.
• Sage Publications.

Description

xv, 590; 26 cm

Summary

Providing an authoritative guide to theory and method, the key sub-disciplines and the primary debates in contemporary sociology, this work brings together the leading authors to reflect on the condition of the discipline.

Subject

• Sociology
• Sociology
• sociology
• Sociologie
• Sociologia

Genre/Form

• Reference works
• Reference works.
• Ouvrages de référence.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1. Theory and method. Quantitative research methods / Adrian E. Raftery -- Qualitative research traditions / Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont -- Sociology and philosophy / Randall Collins -- The diversity and insularity of sociological traditions / Charles Crothers -- Comparative sociology : some paradigms and their moments / David E. Apter -- Part 2. The axial processes of society. The culture of work / Richard Sennett -- The sociology of the family / Bryan Turner -- The social institution of money / Geoffrey Ingham -- The sociology of consumption and lifestyle / Don Slater -- The sociology of mediation and communication / Roger Silverstone -- An entirely different world? Challenges for the sociology of race and ethnicity / Patricia Hill Collins -- A sociology of information / David Lyon -- Class and stratification : current problems and revival prospects / Mike Savage -- The sociology of culture / Wendy Griswold -- The sociology of health and illness / Gary L. Albrecht -- The sociology of religion / Bryan Turner -- Leisure and tourism / Chris Rojek -- The sociology of the environment and nature / Steven Yearley -- Poverty and life chances : the conceptualization and study of the poor / Dalton Conley -- Globalization : sociology and cross-disciplinarity / Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White -- The sociology of gender relations / Sylvia Walby -- Population and society : historical trends and future prospects / Charles Hirschman -- Part 3. Primary debates. A new approach for theoretically integrating micro and macro analysis / Jonathan H. Turner -- Global inequality : bringing politics back in / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Sociology and the body / Nick Crossley -- The city : its return as a lens for social theory / Saskia Sassen -- Sociology of deviance : the disciplines of social exclusion / Heinz Steinert -- Globalizing business / Stewart R. Clegg -- Sex and power : capillaries, capabilities and capacities / Elspeth Probyn -- The sociology of the university and higher education : the consequences of globalization / Gerard Delanty -- Science, technology and their implications / Karin Knorr Cetina -- Citizenship, ethnicity and nation-states / Siniša Malešević and John A. Hall.

ISBN

• 0761968210
• 9780761968214

LCCN

• 2004447943
• 9780761968214

OCLC

• ocm58053635
• 58053635
• SCSB-8801927

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library