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040 _aMUL
_beng.
_eAACR
082 _a301 INT
245 _aIntroductory sociology
_c/ Tony Bilton.. [et al..]
250 _a4th ed.
260 _aBasingstoke, Hampshire :
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2002.
300 _axxxiii, 596 p. :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes references and index
505 _aPt. 1. Introduction: studying modern society. 1. Studying society today. 2. Living in modernity. 3. Globalisation and modernity pt. 2. Social divisions and power. 4. Social divisions. 5. Social class. 6. Gender relations. 7. Race and ethnicity. 8. Power, politics and the state pt. 3. Dimensions of modern social life. 9. Family life. 10. Education. 11. Work and non-work. 12. Mass media. 13. Health, illness and medicine. 14. Crime. 15. Knowledge, religion and belief pt. 4. Sociological theory and method. 16. Principles of sociological research. 17. Classical social theory, feminism and modernity. 18. Making social life: theories of action and meaning. 19. Modernity, postmodernity and social theory
520 _aSuitable for undergraduates and A Level students, this is a completely revised, updated edition of a highly-regarded text. Contemporary in feel, it contains references to debates at the forefront of social theory
546 _aeng.
650 _aSociology
942 _cBK
999 _c9200
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