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Thorpe, Christopher. Yuill, Chris. Hobbs, Mitchell.

The sociology book / [contributors, Christopher Thorpe consultant editor ; Chris Yuill, consultant editor ; Mitchell Hobbs ... [et al.]].

New York, New York :   DK Publishing,   2015.  

352 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.

Big ideas simply explained

9781465436504 (hardcover) 1465436502 (hardcover)

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.

Includes index.  

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 --

Sociology.