Core Sociological Dichotomies

Couverture
Chris Jenks
SAGE, 24 août 1998 - 433 pages
In this sociology text the contributors provide an introduction to the subject without over-simplifying or `writing-down' to their audience. The book aims to furnish undergraduates with the knowledge that will help them to understand and practice sociology and also to develop a self-perpetuating sociological imagination to enable them to think through new issues and new problems.

It consists of a series of specially commissioned chapters around binary or dichotomous themes. Although many sociologists are critical of dichotomous models of sociological theory and research, the device crops up again and again in the history and practice of the subject. Jenks and his colleagues use the dichotomies to situate students in curren

 

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StructureAgency David F Walsh
8
ContinuityChange Fran Tonkiss
34
FactValue Sue StedmanJones
49
LocalGlobal Les Back
63
QualitativeQuantitative David Silverman
78
NormalPathological Clive Seale
96
CultureNature Helen Thomas
110
RelativismAbsolutism Sue StedmanJones
123
TheoryPractice Paul Filmer
227
CivilPolitical Fran Tonkiss
246
ActivePassive Chris Jenks
261
SubjectObject David F Walsh
275
ImageText Paul Filmer
299
NeedsWants Don Slater
315
LifeDeath Clive Seale
329
HighMass Paul Filmer
345

PublicPrivate Don Slater
138
SexGender Joanne Entwistle
151
RaceEthnicity Jean Popeau
166
IdealismMaterialism David F Walsh
179
NationalismInternationalism Josep R Llobera
208
ModernityPostmodernity Helen Thomas and David F Walsh
363
WorkLeisure Don Slater
391
References
405
Name index
427
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