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Summaries
At-a-glance summaries of the scope and main arguments of each chapter, written with teaching needs specifically in mind.

Extension Activities
Suggestions for activities (e.g. class debates, mini research projects, group tasks) suitable for seminars and small-group teaching formats.

Essay Questions
Questions suitable for formal assessment purposes. These are NOT replicated anywhere in our textbook.

Key Themes
Highlights of some of the important themes developed in particular chapters, indicating how these are picked up in selected related chapters.

Discussion Questions
Questions for use as preparation for seminars or to focus small-group discussions/presentations.

Further Reading and Weblinks
Annotated further reading lists to supplement the guidance given in our textbook, along with links to a range of sites pertinent to particular chapter topics.

1 Studying Society Today
2 Living in Modernity
3 Globalisation and Modernity

4 Social Divisions
5 Social Class
6 Gender Relations
7 Race and Ethnicity
8 Power, Politics and the State

9  Family Life
10 Education
11 Work and Non-Work
12 Mass Media
13 Health, Illness and Medicine
14 Crime
15 Knowledge, Religion and Belief

16 Principles of Sociological Research
17 Classical Social Theory, Feminism and Modernity
18 Making Social Life; Theories of Action and Meaning
19 Modernity, Postmodernity and Social Theory