Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Anthony Giddens Издательство: Страниц: 376 ISBN: 9780745648835
Описание
The third edition of this best–selling introductory reader in sociology has been thoroughly restructured, and fully revised and updated to offer a stimulating and wide–ranging set of readings for students approaching sociology for the first time. A strong emphasis has been placed on creating a productive mixture of classic and contemporary readings which is highly readable and lively, yet remains challenging. Whilst particularly useful as a companion to the sixth edition of Giddens’s Sociology , the reader is designed for use independently or alongside other textbooks. The reader maintains the distinctive approach which Sociology pioneered: strongly comparative and historically informed, it stresses the influence of globalizing trends in social life. The carefully selected readings range from studies of face–to–face interaction through to the analysis of large–scale global systems, and cover sociological theories of society as well as research methods. Amongst...