a Record control number 015734076

a ISBN 978-02-73727910 (pbk.-)

a ISBN 0-273-727915 (pbk.-)

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number HM586

b Item number .M34 2012

a Dewey Classification 301

a Personal name Macionis, John J.

a Title Sociology :

b Remainder of title a global introduction /

c Statement of responsibility, etc John J. Macionis & Ken Plummer.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Harlow, England ;

a Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Pearson/Prentice Hall,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2012.

a Extent xxi, 1040 p. :

b Other physical details ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ;

c Dimensions 27 cm.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. [967]-998) and indexes.

a Formatted contents note Introducing sociology -- The sociological imagination -- Thinking sociologically, thinking globally -- Studying the social: an introduction to sociological method -- Interlude 1: researching sport -- The foundations of society : from macro to micro -- Societies -- Culture -- Groups, organisations, and the rise of the network society -- Micro-sociology : the social construction of everyday life -- Interlude 2: researching food -- The unequal world : difference, division, and social stratification -- Inequality, social divisions, and social stratification -- Global poverty/global inequality -- Class, poverty and welfare: the case of the UK -- Racism, ethnicities, and migration -- The gender order and sexualities -- Age stratification, children and later life -- Disabilities, care and the humanitarian society -- Interlude 3: researching music and inequalities -- Social structures, social practices, and social institutions -- Economies, work, and consumption -- Power, governance and social movements -- Control, crime, and deviance -- Families, personal life, and living together -- Religion and belief -- Education -- Health, medicine, and well-being -- Communication and the new media -- Science, cyberspace and the risk society -- Interlude 4: researching our generational biographies -- Social change and the twenty-first century -- Populations, cities, and the space of things to come -- Social change and the environment -- Living in the twenty-first century -- Resources for critical thinking : creating sociological imaginations -- Films -- Novels -- Art and sociology -- Time and space -- Websites -- YouTube -- Key social thinkers -- World statistics -- Big debates of our time -- Abbreviations and acronyms.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sociology.

a Personal name Plummer, Kenneth.