Titlebook: Introductory Sociology; Tony Bilton,Kevin Bonnett,Andrew Webster Textbook 1998Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998 Design.educ

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Health, Illness and Medicineeir medical management are part of wider cultural systems and as such are closely associated with processes of social control, by both professions and the state. The sociology of medicine has strong links here to recent analyses in the sociology of the body.

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Introductionicipate that the student new to sociology will be more readily inclined towards other explanations of why societies operate and human beings behave in the way they do. While acknowledging that non-social influences are not without importance, the chapter aims to show that the world in which we live

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Living in Modernityes important background for the discussions of globalisation in Chapter 3, the history of sociological theorising in Chapter 4 and, indeed, the themes of modernity and self-identity that run throughout the book. The chapter deliberately avoids direct engagement with theoretical discussions about mod

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Principles of Sociological Researchve shaped sociological inquiry. After reading this chapter, students should understand the relationship between, and assumptions lying behind, methodologies and methods. They should understand how conventional research approaches in the discipline are challenged by feminism and postmodernism.

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The New Dynamics of Classe, nationally determined labour market. It goes on to suggest how this reproduction is weakened through the impact of global processes at the national level. The implications these changes have for established jobs, new recruits to the labour market and social mobility are discussed, as are the effe

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Gender Relationsmany forms of masculinity and femininity. It describes and assesses two major accounts of the individual acquisition of gendered identity, and argues for the necessity of viewing gender as a property of social institutions and of culture as much as of individuals. Therefore, the chapter examines in

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Race and Ethnicity: Inequalities and Identitieshat these divisions should be studied as ongoing, social and political constructions rather than fixed, naturally occurring phenomena. Understanding something as a socially construction is not, however, to imply that it is of no importance. On the contrary, as the chapter shows, racial and ethnic di

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