Overview
- Follows a clear and easy structure covering core topics in the discipline
States the aims of each chapter for ease of referenceLists key words and concepts
Contains chapter-by-chapter annotated reading lists and a comprehensive glossary
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About this book
Written by a star cast of contributors, this introductory undergraduate text provides students with a rich, stimulating and authoritative account of key debates and issues in sociology today. Carefully structured and edited to take account of the undergraduate student reader's needs, the essays explore sociological understandings of a range of core topics and critically examines what key issues have emerged for debate from past and current research.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
DR STEVE TAYLOR is based in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics. His publications include Durkheim and the Study of Suicide (Macmillan), Suicide (Addison Wesley Longman) and, with David Field, Sociology of Health and Health Care and Sociological Perspectives of Health, Illness and Health Care (both Blackwell Science).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sociology
Book Subtitle: Issues and Debates
Editors: Steve Taylor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27552-6
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-67619-6Due: 11 June 1999
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 398
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Sociology, general