Perspectives in Sociology provide generations of undergraduates with a clear, reassuring introduction to the complications of sociological theory.
New features include :
- A thoroughly revised text including particular attention to the linking and cross-referencing of chapters
- A new chapter reviewing the rise of British sociology, with particular reference to the political context and the changing role of ‘class’ in sociological thinking
- A new chapter describing the attempts of sociological theorists to explain current concerns, problems and issues in the areas of gender, (homo)sexuality and ethnicity in the context of the postcolonial world, and to show the similarities in these approaches.
- A completely rewritten chapter on the ‘synthesisers’- Bourdieu, Habermas and Giddens- and their attempts to generate a consensus from the apparently conflicting theories predecessors : Marx, Weber and Durkheim