Author: Chris Jenks
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446264637
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
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 current sociological arguments and topical debates. For example, by examining contradictory pairs of concepts like structure/agency, local/global, continuity/change, students are introduced to alternative explanations for aspects of human conduct over a whole series of issues.
Core Sociological Dichotomies
Author: Chris Jenks
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446264637
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
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 current sociological arguments and topical debates. For example, by examining contradictory pairs of concepts like structure/agency, local/global, continuity/change, students are introduced to alternative explanations for aspects of human conduct over a whole series of issues.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446264637
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
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 current sociological arguments and topical debates. For example, by examining contradictory pairs of concepts like structure/agency, local/global, continuity/change, students are introduced to alternative explanations for aspects of human conduct over a whole series of issues.
Core Sociological Dichotomies
Author: Chris Jenks
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780803979796
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
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
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780803979796
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
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
ICSSR Journal of Abstracts and Reviews
Author: Indian Council of Social Science Research
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Childhood
Author: Chris Jenks
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000142841
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves. After a general discussion of the social construction of childhood, the book is structured around three examples of the way the image of the child is played out in society: the history of childhood from medieval times through the enlightenment 'discovery' of childhood to the present the mythology and reality of child abuse and society's response to it the 'death' of childhood in cases such as the James Bulger murder in which the child itself becomes the perpetrator of evil. Part of the highly successful Key Ideas series, this book gives students a concise, provocative insight into some of the controlling concepts of our culture.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000142841
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves. After a general discussion of the social construction of childhood, the book is structured around three examples of the way the image of the child is played out in society: the history of childhood from medieval times through the enlightenment 'discovery' of childhood to the present the mythology and reality of child abuse and society's response to it the 'death' of childhood in cases such as the James Bulger murder in which the child itself becomes the perpetrator of evil. Part of the highly successful Key Ideas series, this book gives students a concise, provocative insight into some of the controlling concepts of our culture.
Sociology After Postmodernism
Author: David Owen
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9781446236833
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Postmodernism is frequently described as dealing a death-blow to sociology. This book, however, argues that it is a mistake to conceive postmodernism in terms of a fatal attack upon what sociologists do. The contributors locate the identity of sociology after' postmodernism as a contested site which opens up the possibility of re-imagining the enterprise of sociology. They show how this re-imagination might be conducted and trace some of the key potential consequences.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9781446236833
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Postmodernism is frequently described as dealing a death-blow to sociology. This book, however, argues that it is a mistake to conceive postmodernism in terms of a fatal attack upon what sociologists do. The contributors locate the identity of sociology after' postmodernism as a contested site which opens up the possibility of re-imagining the enterprise of sociology. They show how this re-imagination might be conducted and trace some of the key potential consequences.
Sociology
Childhood
Author: Chris Jenks
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415341677
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
In this fascinating book Chris Jenks thoroughly examines the concept of childhood. He focuses on the way the image of the child is played out in society, looking specifically at its image through history and the reality of child abuse.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415341677
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
In this fascinating book Chris Jenks thoroughly examines the concept of childhood. He focuses on the way the image of the child is played out in society, looking specifically at its image through history and the reality of child abuse.
Sociology
Author: James Wilfrid Vander Zanden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780394341095
Category : Sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780394341095
Category : Sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The Eastern Anthropologist
The Sociology of Education in Canada
Author: Terry Wotherspoon
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In this revised and updated second edition of The Sociology of Education in Canada, Terry Wotherspoon traces the historical development and organization of Canadian education, and describes sociological theories and analysis of education.
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In this revised and updated second edition of The Sociology of Education in Canada, Terry Wotherspoon traces the historical development and organization of Canadian education, and describes sociological theories and analysis of education.