An edition of A contemporary introduction to sociology
(2008)
A contemporary introduction to sociology
culture and society in transition
by Jeffrey C. Alexander
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A contemporary introduction to sociology: culture and society in transition
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Table of Contents
Sociological stories
The individual and the social
The sociological imagination
Society today: so what's new?
How do we understand today's social world?
Avoiding easy answers: theory and evidence?
Conclusion
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading
Research methods
Introduction
Some key research terms
Concepts and theories
Methodology and methods
Postmodernism, relativism, and research methods
Research in the future
Conclusion
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading
Culture
Introduction
An individual or a social story?
Thinking sociologically about culture
Postmodernity, globalization, and the cultural turn
Conclusion
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading.
Media and communication
Introduction
An individual or a social story?
The importance of the mass media
The mass media-concepts and history
Conclusion
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading
Socialization and the life cycle
Introduction
An individual or a sociological story?
The paradox of socialization
The "self" in history
Creating the self
Primary socialization: the family
Secondary socialization
Life stages and the life cycle
Emotion work in postmodern life
Conclusion
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading
Sexuality
An individual or a social story?
Naturalism versus constructivism
Sexuality before modernity
Modern sexuality
Polluting non-procreative sex
Underground sexual practices
Sexuality in the postmodern transition
Historical developments
Sex today
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading.
Marriage and the family
Introduction
An individual or a sociological story?
Marriage and family: the social forces of change
Marriage from modern to postmodern society
The modern family
The postmodern family: emerging possibilities
The conservative backlash
A new consanguinity?
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading
Inequality
Introduction
An individual or a social story?
Social stratification
Social mobility
Beliefs and attitudes
Inequality: past, present and future
Conclusion
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading
Gender
Introduction
An individual or sociological story?
Gender at work
Exploitation and violence
Everyday culture and mass media
Looking to the future - changing times
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading.
Race and ethnicity
Introduction
An individual or a social story?
The social construction of ?race? and ?ethnicity?
Minority group theory
The great debate: origins of the racial underclass in america
Conclusion
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading
Crime and deviance
Introduction
An individual or a social story?
Defining and describing deviance and crime
Theories of crime and deviance
The future of crime and deviance in postmodern society
Conclusion
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading
Work and the economy
Introduction
An individual or a social story?
Structural and cultural dimensions of work and the economy
Organization of work
Conflict and control
From modernity to postmodernity
Conclusion
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading
Education
Introduction
An individual or a social story?
Education and modernity
Different perspectives on education
Education in a multicultural, postmodern society
Conclusion
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading.
Health and medicine
Introduction
An individual or a social story?
Medicine, structure, and organization
Social and cultural construction of health and medicine
Social structure and inequalities
Race, ethnicity, and gender
Health and medicine in the twenty-first century
Conclusion
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading
Religion
Introduction
An individual or a social story?
What is religion?
Religion, modernity and the secularization thesis
Religion and cultural change
Personal stories and ethnographies
New age
Public religion
Cassie's story and the future of religion
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading
Urbanism and population
Introduction
An individual or a social story?
The growth of cities
Urban sociology in the twentieth century
The city of the future-postmodern urbanism
Population trends and the future
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading
Politics, publics, and the state
An individual or a social story?
States and impersonal power
Pre-political societies
Personal rule in traditional societies
The origins of impersonal authority in modernity
The rise of absolutist states
States as bureaucracies
States as servants of the collectivity
States and domination
The autonomy of the state
Politics and personal power
What is politics?
Authority and legitimation
Postmodern authority: charisma and culture
Social power and politics
The power behind the throne: the power elite?
Does the economic elite control politics?
Citizenship, publics, and the civil sphere
Solidarity and public life
Presidents and publics
The struggle for full citizenship
Political parties
The discourse of decline
The deepening of the civil sphere
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading
Social change, collective action and social movements
Introduction
An individual or a social story?
Analyzing social change
Defining and analyzing social change
Industrial society
Post-industrial society
Information society, globalization, and social movements
Globalization
Conclusion
Exercises
Study questions
Further reading
Bibliography
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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