Overview
- Editors:
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Geoff Payne
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Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK
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Malcolm Cross
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European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-viii
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- Geoff Payne, Malcolm Cross
Pages 1-21
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- Ian Glover, Michael Kelly
Pages 69-90
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- Terry Chivers, Jill Sharp
Pages 119-137
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- E. Stina Lyon, Kate Murray
Pages 196-224
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Back Matter
Pages 243-248
About this book
In the last decade of this century, sociology has grown into a major contributor to public debate and social policy. After a period of introspection and uncertainty, sociologists are becoming more self-confident about their subject's potential to influence events in the world at large. Here a collection of well known sociologists debate what this means for the way sociology is professionally practised in areas as diverse as regulating medicine, combating racism, managing manufacturing, evaluating wealth and poverty, and structuring education. The issues and opportunities they identify will interest both sociologists and other social scientists concerned with moving ideas into a framework for social action.
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK
Geoff Payne
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European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Malcolm Cross
About the editors
Geoff Payne, a former British Sociological Association President and Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, teaches Social Divisions, and Research Methods, at Newcastle University, UK. Joint winner of the 2012 BSA/HEA National Award for Excellence in Teaching Sociology, he has worked in England and Scotland, and writes on class and social mobility.
