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From gender and identity to welfare and consumerism, sociology is the study of how societies are organized and what helps them function or go wrong. Questions posed include: What is my "tribe"? Why do people commit crimes? Who decides if someone has a mental illness? What's work for? Does aid do any good? Heads Up Sociology explores these fascinating questions and more.

Table of Contents

What Is Sociology? 6 (2)

What Do Sociologists Do? 8 (2)

Research methods 10 (4)

Who AM I?

 

What is my Identity?

14 (2)

GIRLS and BOYS

16 (2)

WOMEN and work

18 (2)

Biography: Judith Butler

20 (2)

What's my Tribe?

22 (2)

Does RACE matter?

24 (2)

Biography: Elijah Anderson

26 (2)

Who do you LOVE?

28 (2)

AGE and society

30 (2)

What does FAMILY mean?

32 (2)

Are we all MIDDLE CLASS now?

34 (2)

Biography: KARL MARX

36 (2)

Identity: In Context

38 (4)

Does society Exist?

 

What do schools TEACH?

42 (2)

Are Institutions a good thing?

44 (2)

Biography: CHARLES WRIGHT MILLS

46 (2)

Who holds the POWER?

48 (2)

What role does RELIGION I play in society?

50 (2)

Does RELIGION still MATTER?

52 (2)

RURAL life versus URBAN life

54 (2)

A sense of COMMUNITY

56 (2)

Biography: MAX WEBER

58 (2)

WHY do we Work?

60 (2)

How is work Changing?

62 (2)

Biography: Arlie R. Hochschild

64 (2)

Watching the workers

66 (2)

Social institutions: In Context

68 (4)

When it all goes Wrong

 

Why do people commit Crimes?

72 (2)

Biography: Emile Durkheim

74 (2)

BREAKING society's RULES

76 (2)

White-collar Crime

78 (2)

Are we all on Camera?

80 (2)

Whodunnit?

82 (2)

Biography: Howard Becker

84 (2)

HEALTH and equality

86 (2)

Not Fitting in

88 (2)

Crime and health: In Context

90 (4)

Why is the world so Unfair?

 

SuperRICH!

94 (2)

Wealth and Status

96 (2)

The Poverty trap

98 (2)

Who's to Blame?

100 (2)

Where did Racism come from?

102 (2)

Why haven't developing countries Developed yet?

104 (2)

Biography: Boaventura De Sousa Santos

106 (2)

Is Globalization a good thing?

108 (2)

Glocalization

110 (2)

Biography: Saskia Sassen

112 (2)

What's our IMPACT on the PLANET?

114 (2)

Biography: Anthony Giddens

116 (2)

Wealth and development: In Context

118 (4)

Modern Culture

 

I SHOP therefore I am?

122 (2)

What is Culture?

124 (2)

Biography: Pierre Bourdieu

126 (2)

Leisure time

128 (2)

We are living in Uncertain times

130 (2)

Biography: Zygmunt Bauman

132 (2)

Does the MASS Media affect You?

134 (2)

Who owns the Media?

136 (2)

Who Decides what's news?

138 (2)

Where do you get your News from?

140 (2)

What does the Internet DO for us?

142 (2)

Do you live Online?

144 (2)

Culture and the media: In Context

146 (2)

Directory of sociologists 148 (4)

Glossary 152 (4)

Index and acknowledgments 156