Core Sociological DichotomiesChris 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 |
Table des matières
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 |
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