An edition of The sociology book
(2015)
The sociology book
[big ideas simply explained]
First American edition.
by Christopher Thorpe, Chris Yuill, Mitchell Hobbs, Megan Todd, Sarah Tomley, and Marcus Weeks
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Profiles the world's most renowned sociologists and more than 100 of their biggest ideas, including issues of equality, diversity, identity, and human rights; the effects of globalization; the role of institutions; and the rise of urban living in modern society.
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Table of Contents
Foundations of sociology.
A physical defeat has never marked the end of a nation -- Ibn Khaldun
Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarreled, in troops and companies -- Adam Ferguson
Science can be used to build a better world -- Auguste Comte
The Declaration of Independence bears no relation to half the human race -- Harriet Martineau
The fall of the bourgeoisie and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable -- Karl Marx
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft -- Ferdinand Tönnies
Society, like the human body, has interrelated parts, needs, and functions -- Émile Durkheim
The iron cage of rationality -- Max Weber
Many personal troubles must be understood in terms of public issues -- Charles Wright Mills
Pay to the most commonplace activities the attention accorded extraordinary events -- Harold Garfinkel
Where there is power there is resistance -- Michel Foucault
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original -- Judith Butler
Social inequalities. I broadly accuse the bourgeoisie of social murder -- Friedrich Engels
The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line -- W.E.B. DuBois
The poor are excluded from the ordinary living patterns, customs, and activities of life -- Peter Townsend
There ain't no black in the Union Jack -- Paul Gilroy
A sense of one's place -- Pierre Bourdieu
The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined -- Edward Said
The ghetto is where the black people live -- Elijah Anderson
The tools of freedom become the sources of indignity -- Richard Sennett
Men's interest in patriarchy is condensed in hegemonic masculinity -- R.W. Connell
White women have been complicit in this imperialist, white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy -- Bell Hooks
The concept of "patriarch" is indispensable for an analysis of gender inequality -- Sylvia Walby -- Modern living.
Strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type -- Georg Simmel
The freedom to remake our cities and ourselves -- Henri Lefebvre
There must be eyes on the street -- Jane Jacobs
Only communication can communicate -- Niklas Luhmann
Society should articulate what is good -- Amitai Etzioni
McDonaldization affects virtually every aspect of society -- George Ritzer
The bonds of our communities have withered -- Robert D. Putnam
Disneyization replaces mundane blandness with spectacular experiences -- Alan Bryman
Living in a loft is like living in a showcase -- Sharon Zukin -- Living in a global world.
Abandon all hope of totality, you who enter the world of fluid modernity -- Zygmunt Bauman
The modern world-system -- Immanuel Wallerstein
Global issues, local perspective -- Roland Robertson
Climate change is a back-of-the-mind issue -- Anthony Gidens
No social justice without global cognitive justice -- Boaventura de Sousa Santos
The unleashing of productive capacity by the power of the mind -- Manuel Castells
We are living in a world that is beyond controllability -- Ulrich Beck
It sometimes seems as if the whole world is on the move -- John Urry
Nations can be imagined and constructed with relatively little historical straw -- David McCrone
Global cities are strategic sites for new types of operations -- Saskia Sassen
Different societies appropriate the materials of modernity differently -- Arjun Appadurai
Processes of change have altered the relations between peoples and communities -- David Held -- Culture and identity.
The "I" and the "me" -- G.H. Mead
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned -- Antonio Gramsci
The civilizing process is constantly moving "forward" -- Norbert Elias
Mass culture reinforces political repression -- Herbert Marcuse
The danger of the future is that men may become robots -- Erich Fromm
Culture is ordinary -- Raymond Williams
Stigma refers to an attribute that is deeply discrediting -- Erving Goffman
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning -- Jean Baudrillard
Modern identities are being decentered -- Stuart Hall
All communities are imagined -- Benedict Anderson
Throughout the world, culture has been doggedly pushing itself center stage -- Jeffrey Alexander -- Work and consumerism.
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure -- Thorstein Veblen
The Puritan wanted to work in a calling-- we are forced to do so -- Max Weber
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination -- Daniel Bell
The more sophisticated machines become, the less skill the worker has -- Harry Braverman
Automation increases the worker's control over his work process -- Robert Blauner
The Romantic ethic promotes the spirit of consumerism -- Colin Campbell
In processing people, the product is a state of mind -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
Spontaneous consent combines with coercion -- Michael Burawoy
Things make us just as much as we make things -- Daniel Miller
Feminization has had only a modest impact on reducing gender inequalities -- Teri Lynn Caraway -- The role of institutions.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature -- Karl Marx
The iron law of oligarchy -- Robert Michels
Healthy people need no bureaucracy to mate, give birth, and die -- Ivan Illich
Some commit crimes because they are responding to a social situation -- Robert K. Merton
Total institutions strip people of their support systems and their sense of self -- Erving Goffman
Government is the right disposition of things -- Michel Foucault
Religion has lost its plausibility and social significance -- Bryan Wilson
Our identity and behavior are determined by how we are described and classified -- Howard S. Becker
Economic crisis is immediately transformed into social crisis -- Jürgen Habermas
Schooling has been at once something done to the poor and for the poor -- Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
Societies are subject, every now and then, to periods of moral panic -- Stanley Cohen
The time of the tribes -- Michel Maffesoli
How working-class kids get working-class jobs -- Paul Willis -- Families and intimacies.
Differences between the sexes are cultural creations -- Margaret Mead
Families are factories that produce human personalities -- Talcott Parsons
Western man has become a confessing animal -- Michel Foucault
Heterosexuality must be recognized and studied as an institution -- Adrienne Rich
Western family arrangements are diverse, fluid, and unresolved -- Judith Stacey
The marriage contract is a work contract -- Christine Delphy
Housework is directly opposed to self-actualization -- Ann Oakley
When love finally wins it has to face all kinds of defeat -- Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Sexuality is as much about beliefs and ideologies as about the physical body -- Jeffrey Weeks
Queer theory questions the very grounds of identity -- Steven Seidman-- Glossary.
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