02522cam a22002654a 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007101600180008802000180010604000080012404200080013205000210014008200230016110000220018424500740020625000120028026000650029230000610035750400680041850517340048665000140222070000220223416775805OSt20240705145744.0110512s2012    enkab    b    001 0 eng    a  20110203697 a0157340762Uk  a9789332517417  cAEF  apcc00aHM586b.M34 201200a301223rd ed.bMAC1 aMacionis, John J.10aSociology :ba global introduction /cJohn J. Macionis & Ken Plummer.  a5th ed.  aHarlow, England ;aNew York :bPearson/Prentice Hall,c2014.  axxi, 1040 p. :bill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ;c27 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [967]-998) and indexes.0 aIntroducing 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. 0aSociology1 aPlummer, Kenneth.