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- Identifies the bedrock concepts and questions that distinguish and unify the discipline
Offers a bracing and persuasive vision of the future of sociology
Written with the clarity, wit and rigour and designed to appeal at a number of levels
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This book argues that the foundations of sociology - key concepts which are necessary to all sociology, from whatever perspective - have become taken-for-granted and require re-assessment. Focusing on society, culture, the individual, and collectivity, the author builds a powerful case for an overhaul of these basic concepts, offering a unified model of the subject matter of sociology as 'the human world' - understood as individual, interactional and institutional orders - which is part of the 'natural world'. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, this is a powerful restatement of the value of sociological sense as a necessary critique of common sense, and its relevance to an audience far beyond academia.
About the author
RICHARD JENKINS is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield. He has done field research in Northern Ireland, England, Wales and Denmark. His previous books include Lads, Citizens and Ordinary Kids (1983), Racism and Recruitment (1986), Pierre Bourdieu (1992), Social Identity (1996) and Rethinking Ethnicity (1997).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Foundations of Sociology
Book Subtitle: Towards a Better Understanding of the Human World
Authors: Richard Jenkins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-87835-2
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2002
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 179
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Sociology, general