Product details
- ISBN 9781849203746
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 170 x 242mm
- Publication Date: 22 Mar 2010
- Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This is an accessible, enlivening introductory book that provides a shot in the arm for all those who maintain the relevance of sociology for understanding the modern world.
It will inspire discussion in classes, and provide teachers with an opportunity to discuss the big questions in theory, history, social order and social change.
Turner provides a wealth of concrete examples which demonstrate what a sociological perspective can do to unpack and illuminate everyday life. The book allows students to understand sociological theory from the inside. It moves effortlessly beyond the mere parade of great names and core ideas to introduce concepts that can be used to understand the social world in which we live, where this world has come from and where it might be heading.
Original, informed, and deftly written with the needs of students in mind this book is an antidote to arid theorising and the dull recitation of the grand sociological tradition.