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Key concepts in sociology / Peter Braham.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: London : SAGE, 2013.Description: xiv, 210 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781849203050 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 301 23
Contents:
Alienation ; Anomie -- Bureaucracy -- Capitalism ; Celebrity ; Citizenship ; Class ; Community ; Consumption ; Culture -- Development ; Deviance ; Discourse ; Division of Labour -- Economic Sociology ; Equality ; Everyday Life -- Family ; Feminism -- Gender ; Globalization -- Identity ; Ideology -- Modernity and Postmodernity -- Orientalism -- Positivism ; Public Sociology -- Qualitative and Quantitative Research -- Race ; Rational Choice ; Risk -- Social Exclusion ; Social Justice ; Social Mobility ; Social Movements ; Social Stratification ; Society -- The Body.
Summary: "Sociology consists of a myriad of frequently confusing concepts. Key Concepts in Sociology provides a comprehensive, lively and clearly-written guide to the most important concepts in the subject. It includes both what might be regarded as 'classic' sociological concepts, such as 'class', 'bureaucracy' and 'community', as well as subjects that have become increasingly prominent in recent times, such as 'celebrity', 'risk' and 'the body'."--pub. desc.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Available at Centre for Social Science Research 301 B8136k 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Not For Loan 022961
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-204) and index.

Alienation ; Anomie -- Bureaucracy -- Capitalism ; Celebrity ; Citizenship ; Class ; Community ; Consumption ; Culture -- Development ; Deviance ; Discourse ; Division of Labour -- Economic Sociology ; Equality ; Everyday Life -- Family ; Feminism -- Gender ; Globalization -- Identity ; Ideology -- Modernity and Postmodernity -- Orientalism -- Positivism ; Public Sociology -- Qualitative and Quantitative Research -- Race ; Rational Choice ; Risk -- Social Exclusion ; Social Justice ; Social Mobility ; Social Movements ; Social Stratification ; Society -- The Body.

"Sociology consists of a myriad of frequently confusing concepts. Key Concepts in Sociology provides a comprehensive, lively and clearly-written guide to the most important concepts in the subject. It includes both what might be regarded as 'classic' sociological concepts, such as 'class', 'bureaucracy' and 'community', as well as subjects that have become increasingly prominent in recent times, such as 'celebrity', 'risk' and 'the body'."--pub. desc.